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Your smart home half-works. Let's fix that.

One app that sees your whole home. Apple Home, Google Home, and SmartThings in one list, backed by 189 devices I bought and tested myself.

Smart Home Life app Home Hub showing every ecosystem's devices in one list
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Apple + Google + SmartThings 156 + 151 devices. One list of the real uniques.
One app for the platforms you already use
Apple Home
Google Home
Amazon Alexa
Matter
Thread
SmartThings
Free on iPhone

The whole site, in your pocket.

Six network tools, free forever, no account: Thread mesh, protocol breakdown, room coverage, device lifespan, ISP alerts, and pairing-code storage.

See everything it does
The Toolbox tab listing the six free network tools
New to smart home?

Start with these six.

They cover the biggest wins: lighting, climate, security, sensors, voice, and the front door.

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Featured

The devices doing the heavy lifting.

A curated handful from across the categories, the ones I'd hand a friend setting up from scratch.

Browse all devices

189+ devices. Zero gifted.
One app to run them all.

This isn't a review site or a deal aggregator. It's my actual setup, updated whenever something changes.

189+ devices in my home
23 categories
22 brands
0 paid placements, ever

Recently added to my home.

The latest devices I've installed and started living with. Still forming opinions on a few of these.

Find it by room, or by what it solves.

Pick a category to see what I run. Counts reflect what's currently in my house.

Why This Site Exists

A real home, not a sponsored sandbox.

Smart home reviews online are mostly written by people who got the box for free. Everything here lives in my walls, runs through my Wi-Fi, and earns its keep day to day.

When something fails, gets returned, or quietly replaced, I update it here. It's the shortlist I wish I'd had three years ago.