The Dynamic Dashboard shows what matters right now and filters out the rest.
Everything that matters, always in view.
Wallflower turns an iPad or iPhone into a dynamic dashboard for your smart home — a control panel on the wall, for everyone in your home. It shows what matters right now and filters out the rest.
A DYNAMIC DASHBOARD
Lights that are on. Scenes that are active. Cameras when there’s movement. Air quality when it’s bad. Calendar events until shortly after they end. Wallflower shows only what’s relevant right now — active devices, sensors outside their normal range, cameras with motion — plus anything you’ve pinned. And everything that is not shown is one tap away.
A lamp that’s off stays out of your way — the moment it’s on, it’s right there.
The interface follows the same rule: buttons and controls stay out of the way until you actually use the display. With attention sensing enabled, Wallflower notices you approaching and brings them back before you even touch the screen. It uses camera metadata only; images are discarded immediately, never recorded or sent — and the feature is strictly opt-in.
SMART HOME FOR EVERYONE
You set up your smart home; everyone else lives in it. Wallflower makes it available to everyone in the house — no app to install, no credentials to share, no phrase to shout at Siri.
Smart home data belongs on your wall, not in your pocket. Temperature, air quality, humidity — finally somewhere everyone can see it. Are the windows closed? Is the upstairs light on? One look at the wall.
EASY TO START, FLEXIBLE TO MAKE IT YOURS
If you have an Apple Home, just tell Wallflower which room or zone it’s in, and it configures a dashboard for you — always up to date, ready to use.
From there you make it yours: pin a sensor so it’s never hidden, hide what you never want to see, add a device from another room or a camera from the holiday home. Or create a custom dashboard: it starts empty and shows only what you add — from any of your homes.
AND THERE’S MORE
• Custom-drawn symbols for lamps and devices, and detail views for lights, thermostats, fans, cameras, TVs and more
• A proper wall clock: extremely accurate, with the date
• Weather at a glance — and severe weather alerts when they matter
• The family calendar, where the whole household actually looks
• Guest Wi-Fi by QR code: guests scan, and they’re in
• Issues surfaced: unreachable devices, low batteries, network trouble
• Optimized for the dark: when the room gets dark, the display dims with it
• Settings protected with Face ID, Touch ID or a passcode
• Full VoiceOver and accessibility support
Built on HomeKit, Wallflower works with your whole Apple Home: Philips Hue, IKEA, Eve, Aqara — plus Matter devices, KNX bridges, Home Assistant and Homebridge. And because HomeKit runs locally, Wallflower controls your home even when the internet is down.
NOBODY’S BUSINESS BUT YOURS
There is no tracking, no phoning home, no invasive third-party frameworks. We don’t want your data. Your home is yours, and yours alone. You pay for the app, and that’s the whole business model.
Behind Wallflower is not a VC-funded growth operation, but a small company in Berlin that has made this app since 2019, funded by the people who use it. No ads, no data business, no lock-in — an app you see and use every day, made by people you can email.
WHAT DOES IT COST?
Viewing and controlling your Apple Home is free, with no limit on the number of devices — as are the wall clock and guest Wi-Fi. Any purchase unlocks customization: pin, hide, arrange, and custom dashboards. Wallflower Premium adds weather and the calendar — yearly with a two-week free trial and Family Sharing, or monthly. And if subscriptions aren’t for you, Home, Sweet Home unlocks the home features with a one-time purchase.
Wallflower is on all day, every day. No app in your home runs longer. To keep developing it, as we have since 2019, we charge a subscription.
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I searched for just such an app which I would gladly pay $10, a subscription not so much. A clock yep for a nightstand and preferably a clock that gives way when touched to larger buttons to control scenes or other HomeKit features instead of tiny icons or letters that are a bit hard to locate half asleep or at an angle. Good concept, maybe somebody will complete it.
Developer Response
Version 2 took a long time to develop but is now available. It's a complete rewrite of the app, try it!
Vulnerability With Home Alarms
Mopac01
I wanted to use this to repurpose my old iPhone 12 Pro Max as a home dashboard mounted on the wall. Which means you’d use its great functionality to allow interaction without authentication. But this allows anyone INCLUDING A BURGLAR to turn a home alarm you’ve bridged into HomeKit off with no authentication. The developer could fix this easily enough as they already have an option to require a passcode to change app settings. They could require that passcode to turn off a home alarm. (Apple lets you voice command Siri to arm a connected home alarm. But if you tell Siri to turn off the alarm it will require you to continue on an iPhone that presumably is locked or wouldn’t be there for a burglar to begin with. So Wallflower as is defeats the protection Apple intended for the way they expect someone to use an iPhone. But Wallflower developers could fix this security hole easily enough.)
Camera access
J. Tanski
I like the app but it would be perfect if we could access the cameras and or doorbell video
Developer Response
Good news: I’m working on that for 2.1!
Attention to detail
Zac Schellhardt
From a design perspective, this app is wonderful (even if I may have tweaked some of their decisions). I understand the reasoning for making the screen default to a single room, but really appreciate that they allowed zones to also be used as default — in an open concept home it’s essential to see the kitchen alongside dining, etc. Beyond being “just a skin” on HomeKit (which is a ridiculous statement— I’ve been keeping the default Home app open on an iPad for the last year, and Wallflower blows it away), there are a couple additional features I like, the coolest of which is how the app uses the camera to detect light and faces, in order to brighten or change colors. It’s also convenient that the app itself forces the screen to stay on (so people don’t have to fiddle with any auto sleep settings), and I realize it’s silly, but having a clock there is actually useful. I also like the subtle error indication that shows if devices can’t be updated. People moaning about the price is to be expected. If you want to see what happens to apps with a one time fee, just take a look at Status Board by Panic (a very well respected and award-winning app maker) — the app cost $15 or $20, was beautiful, and was nonexistent a year or two after launch, because there wasn’t enough incoming cash. Seems to me that if you’re spending half a grand on an iPad and a nice wall mount (not to mention thousands on hubs, bulbs, etc), then $48/year is a steal. Even the previously-free tile board apps for SmartThings now charge a monthly fee. Leaving a 1-star review because you [incorrectly] disagree with a business model is the epitome of bad karma. In summary, the app is beautiful, the first version is already great for my use case (a wall mounted iPad using HomeKit as a front-end for Home Assistant), and I’m looking forward to seeing what the developers add to it. To the developers: consider split screen support on iPads in lieu of some modularity. I’d hate for you to invest in, say, Sonos support when I could just as easily run the Sonos app side by side with yours! Keep up the good work!
Developer Response
Hi Zac,thanks for the great review, we really appreciate it! That's why we make the app.As Wallflower supports a huge amount of devices and screen sizes (yes, even split screen!) and people have extremely different smart home setups, we'd love to hear more about how our design is looking for users. If you want, send us a screenshot via mail, and we can see if we can "tweak the design" a bit. We're having no tracking in the app, so we rely 100% on user feedback.As for the split screen: It's supported, but some older iPad models don't support split screens at all. Maybe that's the issue here?
Wallflower supports three iOS versions again: iOS 26 is joined by the new iOS 27, and by iOS 18 for older devices.
Nine new languages: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish and Turkish.
On iPhone in landscape, the dashboard makes better use of the screen.
Version 3.1
The developer, nxtbgthng GmbH, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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