Press Kit

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The short version

Wallflower turns an iPad or iPhone into a dynamic dashboard for the smart home. Everything that matters, always in view. It shows only what’s relevant right now: active devices, sensors outside their normal range, cameras with motion, plus anything you’ve pinned. Built on HomeKit, it works with the whole Apple Home and Matter ecosystem.

Wallflower 3.0 is a fresh start: we rebuilt the app from the ground up. It brings the new Dynamic Dashboard, custom dashboards, redesigned detail views, hand-drawn device symbols, and full VoiceOver and accessibility support.

Other dashboards show everything you configured, all the time. Wallflower shows only what deserves your attention right now. Everything else is one tap away.

— Gernot Poetsch, Developer of Wallflower

Facts

App: Wallflower for HomeKit, version 3.0, on the App Store
Platforms: iPhone and iPad, iOS or iPadOS 26 or later, in 9 languages across 13 regions
On the App Store since: 2019
Price: basic home control is free with no device limit; any purchase unlocks customization; Wallflower Premium adds weather and calendar, with yearly or monthly billing; the yearly subscription includes a two-week free trial and Family Sharing; Home, Sweet Home unlocks the home features with a one-time purchase
Privacy: no tracking, no phoning home, no invasive third-party frameworks; HomeKit runs locally, so Wallflower controls the home even when the internet is down
Review access: a press TestFlight with everything unlocked, and an offer code for the App Store build; email us
Made by: nxtbgthng GmbH, a software studio in Berlin, founded 2010

Apple’s reported home display is the loudest validation of the idea we could ask for. It would be a perfect device for Wallflower to run on. If it ever opens to third-party apps, we’ll be first in line.

— Gernot Poetsch, Developer of Wallflower

About nxtbgthng

nxtbgthng GmbH is a small software studio in Berlin, making iOS apps since 2010, with client work for SoundCloud, the Berliner Philharmoniker, and many others. In 2019 it launched its own product, Wallflower, funded by the people who use it: no ads, no data business, no venture capital.

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An iPad screenshot: a large clock on the left with the weather and the day’s appointments under it, a room’s dashboard on the right with a CO₂ reading and a still from a camera, all on black

Dynamic Dashboard, iPad

The screen Wallflower puts up by itself: the time, the room that is doing something, and whatever is out of the ordinary.

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An iPad screenshot: a lamp drawn in magenta, a power button under it, and sliders for brightness, hue, saturation and colour temperature

A lamp, iPad

One device up close: everything the lamp can do, on one screen, in the colour it is set to.

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An iPad screenshot: a day’s temperature curve with rain bars under it, a thunderstorm warning above, and the current conditions along the bottom

Weather, iPad

The day ahead, in full detail. Part of Wallflower Premium.

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The dashboard screenshot on an iPad Pro, seen head on

Dynamic Dashboard, iPad in frame

The Dynamic Dashboard in Apple’s iPad Pro 13-inch, cut out and ready to lay on any background.

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The dashboard screenshot on an iPhone held sideways, seen head on

Dynamic Dashboard, iPhone in frame

The Dynamic Dashboard on iPhone, in Apple’s frame, cut out and ready to lay on any background.

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The lamp screenshot on an iPhone held upright, seen head on

A lamp, iPhone in frame

A lamp’s controls on iPhone, in Apple’s frame, cut out and ready to lay on any background.

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A photo: an iPad mounted flat on a white wall, showing a large clock and a living room’s dashboard, a bookshelf blurred behind it

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An iPad mounted on a wall, showing the living room’s dashboard.

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A photo: an iPad held to a stainless-steel fridge door, fridge magnets around it, showing a large clock and a kitchen’s dashboard

On the fridge, photo

An iPad on a fridge door, showing the kitchen’s dashboard.

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The screenshots are what the app draws. Please don’t crop or restyle them; we gladly provide variants instead. Wallflower speaks nine languages, and we can shoot any screen in any of them, at any size, in any device and finish. Just ask.

Contact

Gernot Poetsch, gernot@nxtbgthng.com, +49 151 15775693. Interviews, review access, background: just ask.