Control your HomeKit home faster with fully customizable widgets for your Home Screen, Lock Screen and Apple Watch. Home Widget brings accessories, scenes, groups, sensors, cameras and shortcuts together in panels built around your routines.
LAUNCH HOMEKIT ACTIONS FROM YOUR LOCK SCREEN
Open a compatible gate or garage when you arrive, turn on an accessory or run your Welcome Home scene with one tap on your configured widget.
BUILD YOUR OWN HOME SCREEN CONTROL PANEL
Create a panel, add accessories, scenes, sensors and shortcuts, then place the widget: your dashboard is ready in minutes. Turn a room's lights on or off together, run a shortcut or control several HomeKit homes.
OPEN A CAMERA WITH ONE TAP
See who is at the front door, check the driveway or look in on your pets. A Home Screen or Lock Screen widget opens the selected HomeKit camera or video doorbell in Home Widget. Audio options depend on your camera.
OPEN YOUR CAMERA MOSAIC WITH ONE TAP
Check several cameras on one screen instead of opening them individually. Launch the mosaic from your Home Screen, Lock Screen or Control Center, and choose which cameras to include.
ADJUST LIGHT BRIGHTNESS AND COLOR
Dim the living room for a movie or change the color of a lamp. Use interactive Home Screen controls or open the light control from a Lock Screen widget. Control one light or the lights in a room.
SET BLINDS AND SHADES TO THE POSITION YOU WANT
Let in the morning light or lower your blinds partway for privacy. Open the position control from your Home Screen or Lock Screen instead of settling for fully open or closed.
ADJUST YOUR HOMEKIT THERMOSTAT
Change the target temperature or a supported heating/cooling mode. Use interactive Home Screen controls or open the thermostat control from your Lock Screen.
SEE THE READINGS THAT MATTER TO YOU
Visual buttons help you tell which accessories are on or off. Display individual sensor values: temperature, humidity, CO₂, air quality and accessory batteries. Add counters for open doors, unsecured locks or unreachable accessories to spot what needs attention.
KEEP YOUR HOME ON YOUR WRIST
Use Apple Watch complications and Smart Stack widgets to reach your panels, cameras, lights and scenes. Keep your controls and readings on your wrist when your iPhone is out of reach.
CUSTOMIZE EVERY DETAIL
Choose icons, names, colors, backgrounds, transparency and blur. Use different panel sizes to build compact controls or a full smart home dashboard that feels truly yours.
YOUR PANELS ACROSS YOUR DEVICES
Sync your panels with iCloud. Add widgets to a stack or Today View on compatible devices to keep your home within reach.
Home Widget goes beyond basic on/off widgets with adjustable controls, camera access and personal dashboards. A tap runs an action or opens its control, then you choose the setting. Security actions may require authentication or confirmation. Widget states update within system refresh limits.
Works with accessories already configured in Apple's Home app. Some features require Home Widget Premium, available as a one-time purchase or a monthly or yearly subscription.
Questions or ideas? Write to us at contact@vision-apps.com
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Maybe I’ll be able to control HomeKit devices without my glasses
LesGip
I’ve only been using the app for a short time, and so I still need to do some exploring. My main reason for getting this app is to gain the ability to control my HomeKit devices without my glasses on (HomeKit app too small for me to see). What I don’t understand is why I cannot put more than one of the same size panels (as widgets) on the same home screen page (despite being able to create multiple panels of the same size in the app). I think something in the help document refers to this, but I don’t understand. I had hoped to use multiple small panels, each assigned a unique color, to be able to recognize individual widgets. I switched strategies, trying to use a larger panel (with multiple actions), however those do not allow for assigning different colors to different actions, nor do I know how to adjust font size. So… it’s a good app, but so far I can’t get it to work for my purpose. Misc: I’d like to see a list of premium features; despite being available in my HomeKit app, this app does not list my TLC TV (Roku) as an available action. Feature wish: custom sounds when actions are performed in the widgets. I’ll keep experimenting.
Developer Response
Hello LesGip!Thanks a lot for your feedback and your questions. Could you contact us by email (contact@vision-apps.com). It would be easier to discuss these points. Nevertheless here are my answers:1 - To select what panel to display in your widget, long press on the widget then, "edit Widget" on the popover menu. It will let you change the panel displayed here and also change the widget position useful if using background images.2 - Concerning TV, media devices and HomePod, Apple HomeKit do not expose them as other devices so we can't control them that way. But if you create some scenes or shortcut in the shortcut app, you can add action to trigger that scenes or shortcuts from the widgets.Expecting that it answer all of your question.Regards,Clement
Candid Review
RickDS_iPad
Overall, this App is pretty handy. It give you quick access to some of the HomeKit devices or cameras with just a click. That's a big plus, because Apple's native Home app in all occasion that you must wait for Home App to get all the devices status from the HK hub before controlling any device or getting the temperature of a sensor. This could take 5 seconds if you are using Home's wifi, and 10 to 15 seconds if you are using celluar. I like the quick access to individual cameras or turning on the lights or opening the garage door. Now, here are some of the things I do not like or things could be improved:1. You cannot control temperature of a thermostat. I just wonder if you can control the brightness or color of light. Why can't you set temperature on a thermostat? This is a big minus for me because turning on or off of a thermostat is meaningless in many occassion. I hope future udpates will allow setting the temperature.2. Camera feed or snapshot take too long to load. If I'm at home, it'd take 4 to 6 seconds, if I am on cellular, it'd take 15 to 20 seconds. I could getting quicker display of a snapshot from native Home app. Hope the developer can tweak the performance.3. Battery Drain! Before install Home Widget, my iPhone 12 Max could last till end of the day (11pm). I just put 3 widgets in home screen. And my battery went down below 40% in 7 hours. Battery stats in Settings shows that this App drains the most battery, so this is the curlprit. That's not practical if this drains battery. I had to remove the widgets right away in order for me to last till 7pm. So, I hope the deveoper tweak the codes and see if there is any way not to drain so much battery. Or warn users which accessory or sensors or how to setup in order to have the optimal battery performance. I really want to keep it and I don't need to delete in mid-day.
Limited by refresh intervals
Dave's Triple
I originally was excited about this app after purchasing it, but now it’s a little bit of a letdown because of one frustrating limitation. The device states only update after preset intervals. That is, if you turn on a light using your iphone, your ipad’s widget will not display that device state change instantly. I have my preset refresh interval set to Home Widget’s recommended 30 minutes, but I’m not 100% sure if it even updates that often. Apple’s own home widget does display state changes instantly. Because of this, I’ve really only been using the widget for opening cameras. It does this pretty well. The only problem is that it just opens in the home widget app, so you have no access to recordings. I wonder if an apple shortcut can also do this?The background option is interesting, but cumbersome to use. It is super hacky. A bug I’ve been seeing is the background reverts to a default blue until you interact with the widget.
Developer Response
Hello Dave,Thank you for your feedback. Concerning the bug you mentioned, I am not sure to understand. Could you send me an email at contact@vision-apps.com I would be happy to investigate that.Camera streams can't be opened through shortcuts as far as I know.Concerning delayed background refresh, you're right. When device states changes for another device, it will take some time to be update. You can try to go to a lower value. Lot's of user uses a 10 minutes interval with very good results. By the way, a tap on refresh button, a sensor or a counter item will trigger an instant refresh. Clement
Excellent customizable widget
iBanks
This is an amazing laucnher for HomeKit accessories as well as launching custom shortcuts created within the Shortcuts app. Allows you to create beautiful homescreen widgets by allowing you to blend into your wallpaper background rather than being stuck with an always solid black or white background. May sometimes take a few moments to refresh the current state of accessories due to the limitations Apple has put on the refresh rate of widgets. Another limitation put on by Apple and not the developer is that launching a shortcut from the widgter has to first open the Shortcuts app to run but yet Apple's Shortcuts widget doesn't for some reason. But overall I love the design of this app and it is very useful for quick access to controlling your home or speeding up your processes using shortcuts.
Home Widget 1.10.5 gives you even more ways to personalize your widgets and improves the Apple Watch experience.
What’s new:
• Choose separate backgrounds for Light and Dark appearances, and optionally link backgrounds to your Focus modes.
• Camera mosaics come to Apple Watch: browse your cameras and open them fullscreen from your wrist.
• Apple Watch states and complications sync much faster and more reliably with iPhone.
• A new corner complication with text joins the existing Watch complications.
• Icon search is improved in all 18 languages.
• Help and FAQ have been completely refreshed, illustrated, and translated.
Improvements:
• Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent a widget action from starting on the first tap.
• Smoother app launch and lighter HomeKit loading.
• More accurate widget layouts on recent devices and screen sizes.
• Improved reliability for unreachable accessories, Shortcuts, backups, and widget rendering.
• Numerous stability and performance improvements.
Version 1.10.5
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Clement Marty
Size
148.5 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.