Wallflower 3.
The Dynamic Dashboard for your smart home.
A dashboard earns its place in your home only if everything it shows deserves your attention. Wallflower turns an iPad or iPhone into a control panel on the wall, for everyone in your home. And it shows what matters right now, filtering 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, 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 as the content: anything that doesn’t present information, like a settings button or controls, stays out of the way until you actually use the display. With attention sensing enabled, Wallflower notices you approaching and brings the controls 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. What about your family, what about guests? Wallflower makes the smart home 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: all that sensor data is finally somewhere everyone can see it. Are the windows closed? Is the upstairs light on? What’s the air quality in the kids’ room? One look at the wall. And like everything else on the dashboard, a graph can appear only when its readings matter.
Easy to start. Flexible to make it your own.
You don’t need much to get started: 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. Adjust the room type so a bathroom doesn’t warn you about high humidity. Add a device from another room, or a camera from the holiday home.
You can also create a custom dashboard. It starts empty and shows only what you add, from any of your homes. Give it a name and a symbol, then fill it with exactly the information you want, in your order.
Everything else, at a glance
Looks like your home
Custom symbols for lamps and devices, and redesigned detail views for lights, thermostats, fans, cameras, TVs and more. Even the sockets look correct for your country, automatically.
A proper wall clock
Extremely accurate, shows the date, and goes compact when space is tight.
Weather that warns you
Current conditions at a glance, severe weather alerts when they matter. And it tells you when to bring an umbrella.
The family calendar
Today’s schedule, where the whole household actually looks. Birthdays too, and an address book group picks whose to show.
Guest Wi-Fi by QR code
Nobody types Wi-Fi passwords. Guests scan, and they’re in.
Issues, surfaced
Unreachable devices, low batteries, network trouble: Wallflower tells you before you wonder.
Optimised for the dark
When the room gets dark, the display dims with it instead of lighting up your home.
Settings, protected
Face ID, Touch ID or a passcode keep configuration yours, on a device everyone touches.
Works with your whole home
Built on HomeKit: Philips Hue, IKEA, Eve, Aqara, plus Matter devices, KNX bridges, Home Assistant and Homebridge. If it’s in your Apple Home, it’s in Wallflower.
Wallflower feels at home on every iPhone and iPad, in every size and orientation. It requires iOS or iPadOS 26.
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.
Wallflower is built on HomeKit, which runs locally: it controls your home even when the internet is down.
And behind it 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?
Free
- Your Apple Home, viewed and controlled
- No limit on the number of devices
- The wall clock
- Guest Wi-Fi by QR code
Wallflower Premium
- Everything in Free
- Pin, hide, and arrange
- Custom dashboards
- Weather, with alerts
- The family calendar
Yearly, with a two-week free trial and Family Sharing — or monthly.
Wallflower is on all day, every day. No app in your home works more hours. To keep developing it, as we have since 2019, we charge a subscription. The prices for your region are shown in the app and on the App Store. And if subscriptions aren’t for you, Home, Sweet Home unlocks the home features with a one-time purchase. That includes custom dashboards, but not weather, calendar, or future additions beyond home control.
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