New: camera mosaic Extra Large Portrait panels for iOS 27

HomeKit, one tap away.

Open a camera or your camera mosaic, dim the lights, set the thermostat or switch off a whole room. All from custom Home Screen panels, Lock Screen widgets and Apple Watch.

Download Home Widget for free on the App Store

Free download

Explore use cases
  • iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch & Mac
  • 18 languages
  • Premium optional
Home Widget on an iPhone, an unfolded iPhone Duo and two Apple Watches: HomeKit panels with scenes, lights, sensors, batteries and cameras, a thermostat complication and a light color wheel

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New in 1.10.5

Ready for iPhone Duo

Home Widget adapts its panels and backgrounds to both screens of iPhone Duo, folded or unfolded.

Discover
New in 1.10

Camera mosaic

All your HomeKit cameras on one screen. Choose them, order them, feature the important ones, and open the mosaic from a widget, the Lock Screen or Control Center.

See the cameras
A six-camera HomeKit mosaic opened in Home Widget on iPhone
New for iOS 27

Extra Large Portrait panels

A single Home Screen widget with up to 28 items: scenes, lights, sensors, cameras and shortcuts together, on compatible iOS 27 devices.

Make it yours
An Extra Large Portrait Home Widget panel with 28 HomeKit items on an iPhone Home Screen
New in 1.10

Thermostat controls

Set the target temperature and switch heating or cooling modes right from an interactive Home Screen panel, or open the thermostat from the Lock Screen.

Adjust the climate
A Home Widget thermostat control with a 21.5° setpoint on an iPhone Home Screen
iOS 26 & iOS 27

Clear and tinted widget styles

Home Widget panels follow the Home Screen’s default, dark, clear and tinted styles, so they blend with your wallpaper and icons.

See the styles
A Home Widget panel in the dark tinted Home Screen style on an iPhone
Also on Mac

Your home on the Mac

Run Home Widget on a Mac with Apple silicon to control your HomeKit home and keep its widgets on your desktop.

Learn more
A MacBook Pro desktop with Home Widget panels: weather, accessory batteries and two Living Room HomeKit panels

Built around your routines

What can you do with Home Widget?

Home Widget for HomeKit gives iPhone and iPad users custom Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for smart home control: launch a scene, control a room’s lights, open a HomeKit camera or camera mosaic, adjust light brightness and color, position blinds, change a thermostat setpoint, and display individual sensor and battery readings. Apple Watch controls keep these everyday tasks within reach on your wrist.

  • Home Screen

    Small to Extra Large panels, with up to 28 items.

  • Lock Screen

    Circular, inline and rectangular widgets.

  • Apple Watch

    Panels, Smart Stack widgets and complications.

  • Control Center

    Open a camera or your camera mosaic.

Home Widget panels on an iPad Home Screen and an iPhone Extra Large panel with lights, scenes, temperatures, cameras and counters

Home Screen panels

Your rooms, scenes and sensors in one panel.

Mix accessories, scenes, shortcuts, sensor readings and cameras in the same widget. Create a panel, add your actions, then place the widget: a personal control panel in minutes.

Control a room from a Home Screen widget

Turn the living room lights on together, switch the room off at bedtime, or keep your garden controls close by. Room controls can also adjust brightness and color for compatible lights.

  • Small, medium, large and extra-large panels, with up to 28 items
  • Counters for open doors, unsecured locks or unreachable accessories
  • Accessories from several HomeKit homes in one panel
Light color presets inside a Home Widget panel, and the full color wheel of a HomeKit light strip

Lights

The right light, without a scene for every mood.

Adjust light brightness and color

Dim the living room for a movie, choose a warmer reading light or change the color of a lamp. Control one light or the lights in a room without preparing a scene for every setting.

Use interactive Home Screen controls, or tap a Lock Screen widget to open the light control in the app.

  • Brightness and color presets right in your interactive panels
  • The full color wheel in the app for compatible lights
  • One light, or all the lights of a room together
A selected HomeKit camera and a six-camera mosaic opened in Home Widget on iPhone

Cameras New camera mosaic

Every camera, one tap from wherever you are.

Open a HomeKit camera with one tap

See who is at the front door, check the driveway or look in on your pets. Give the camera you use most its own Home Screen or Lock Screen widget.

The widget opens the selected camera in Home Widget. Audio options depend on the camera.

Open your camera mosaic with one tap

Check the front door, garden and garage on one screen. Choose your cameras, arrange their order and give your most important views more space.

Launch the mosaic in Home Widget from a Home Screen widget, Lock Screen widget or Control Center.

Open a camera from Control Center

Add a Home Widget control to Control Center to open a selected camera or your camera mosaic, with the camera set and supported audio mode you choose.

Home Widget thermostat setpoint control on the iPhone Home Screen, next to a panel with lights, temperatures and a humidity reading

Climate, blinds & sensors

Comfort you can read and adjust at a glance.

Adjust your HomeKit thermostat

Warm up the living room before relaxing or lower the target temperature at bedtime. Change the setpoint or a heating/cooling mode supported by your thermostat.

Set blinds and shades to the position you want

Let in the morning light or lower the blinds partway for privacy. Pick an intermediate position instead of choosing only fully open or fully closed.

See individual sensors and accessory batteries

Keep the nursery temperature, bathroom humidity or an accessory battery visible. Choose the readings that matter to you, including accessories from several HomeKit homes.

Home Widget circular widgets on the iPhone Lock Screen and HomeKit complications on an Apple Watch face

Lock Screen

Your home, straight from the Lock Screen.

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 from a widget you configured for that action.

One tap starts the action. Security actions may require authentication or confirmation.

  • Circular, inline and rectangular widgets
  • Actions, sensor readings and camera shortcuts
  • Quick access to light, blind and thermostat controls
Three Apple Watches running Home Widget: a light color wheel, a watch face with a lights complication and a HomeKit camera

Apple Watch

Useful when your iPhone is not in your hand.

Keep your HomeKit controls on Apple Watch

Check a camera, dim a light or activate a scene when your iPhone is out of reach. Put the controls and readings you use most on your wrist.

Use Home Widget panels, watch face complications and Smart Stack widgets.

  • Smart Stack widgets for quick home status
  • Fast access to HomeKit cameras from your wrist
  • Lights, brightness, color, scenes and compatible garage doors
Three iPhones showing the same Home Widget panel in a light tinted, clear and dark tinted style on different wallpapers

Make it yours

Panels that look like they belong on your iPhone.

Choose your icons, names, colors, transparency, blur and backgrounds for each panel. Home Widget follows the clear and tinted Home Screen styles, so your controls match your wallpaper.

  • Extra Large Portrait panels on compatible iOS 27 devices
  • Extra-large panels on iPad
  • iCloud sync across devices, and panels you can share with family
  • Shortcuts alongside your HomeKit actions

More ideas

More ways to use it every day.

Check everything before you leave

Add counters for open doors, unsecured locks and unreachable accessories. One glance at your panel tells you whether the house is ready.

Run Shortcuts next to HomeKit actions

Put your favorite shortcuts in the same panel as your accessories and scenes, and launch your custom flows with a tap.

Control several homes from one panel

Keep your home, a holiday house or a relative’s place side by side: a panel can combine accessories from several HomeKit homes.

Turn an iPad into a home dashboard

Fill the iPad Home Screen with extra-large panels: lights, scenes, temperatures and cameras, ready for the whole family.

Share panels with your family

Sync your panels across your devices with iCloud, and share the ones you crafted so everyone gets the same controls.

Use both screens of iPhone Duo

Keep compact panels on the outer screen and a full dashboard on the large inner screen, each with its own background.

Control your home from the Mac

Install Home Widget on a Mac with Apple silicon: your HomeKit panels and widgets are there while you work.

Glance at your home from the watch face

Show a temperature, the number of lights that are on or a battery level in a complication, right on your watch face.

App Store reviews

Loved by HomeKit users.

4.35average on more than 550 App Store ratings.

My favorite HomeKit App

“The most notable thing is how fast the widget or the lock screen control launches the live camera feed.”

App Store, United States

Really top

“For me, it is by far the best app in this category on the entire App Store.”

App Store, Germany · translated from German

Fills a huge HomeKit gap!

“If you use any HomeKit devices, this app is essential.”

App Store, Canada

Perfect for Apple Home

“I love this App to control my Apple Home devices! Works perfect! And does much better than the native Apple Home App!”

App Store, Switzerland

What the Home app should be

“I can highly recommend this for anyone in the Apple home ecosystem.”

App Store, Australia

Love this app

“This one definitely is a keeper. Great app, looks beautifully and works like a charm.”

App Store, Netherlands

The best app, by far

“Personally, I think it is the best option to have your whole smart home in one place and always within reach.”

App Store, Spain · translated from Spanish

Compliments HomeKit

“A wonderful app, see and control HomeKit from your phones home Screen. Just brilliant, very well implemented.”

App Store, United Kingdom

A really well developed app

“Excellent app, I think the best of its kind.”

App Store, Italy · translated from Italian

Home Widget and Apple Home

Built on Apple Home. Made for more than switches.

Apple’s Home widgets already let you toggle accessories and activate scenes. Home Widget is for people who want more than those basic actions, in a dashboard built around their routines.

Already in Apple’s Home widgets

  • Toggle accessories
  • Activate scenes
  • Climate, lights and security summaries

What Home Widget adds

  • Adjustable light, blind and thermostat controls
  • A widget that opens a selected camera or a personalized camera mosaic
  • Individual sensor readings and accessory batteries
  • Panels combining controls, sensors, cameras and shortcuts
  • Your own icons, names, colors and backgrounds

A tap can run an action or open its control. Choosing a color, blind position or target temperature takes a further adjustment. Cameras open in Home Widget; video is not played inside the Home Screen or Lock Screen widget. Accessory support, authentication and widget refresh behavior depend on HomeKit and the system.

Press

Praised by the press.

For Tech Times, Home Widget closes two of the most consistently requested gaps in iOS widget-based home control. TechRadar calls it already a favorite that scratches a big itch, HomeKit Blog a game-changer, and Hueblog definitely a great solution for your homescreen. In Germany, HomeKits.de ranks it among the most-used third-party apps, especially on iPad, and Apfelpage notes it is among the first third-party apps to support the new Extra Large Portrait format (both translated from German).

“Home Widget builds the control panel that Apple didn’t.”

9to5MacHomeKit Weekly, October 2026Read

“I highly recommend checking out Home Widget.”

MacStoriesReview, September 2023Read

“Highly capable and highly recommended for any HomeKit user.”

Tom’s GuideFebruary 2022Read

“Home Widget is one of the best apps for HomeKit.”

“Home Widget 1.10 wants to (almost) make you forget Apple’s Home app.”

Mac4everSeptember 2026 · translated from FrenchRead

“Version 1.10.3 extends its lead over Apple’s own Home widgets.”

Apple Technik BlogSeptember 2026 · translated from GermanRead

HomeKit specialists

2026

Earlier coverage

At a glance

Home Widget in a few facts.

Price
Free download, no ads. Optional Premium as a lifetime purchase or a monthly or annual subscription, with Family Sharing.
Devices
iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS 17 or later, Apple Watch with watchOS 10 or later, Macs with Apple silicon, and iPhone Duo from version 1.10.5.
Works with
The accessories, rooms, scenes and cameras set up in Apple’s Home app (HomeKit), and your Shortcuts.
Widgets
Home Screen panels from small to extra large, Extra Large Portrait on compatible iOS 27 devices, Lock Screen widgets, Apple Watch complications and Smart Stack, and a Control Center camera control.
Languages
English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
Developer
Vision-Apps, an independent studio in France. Home Widget has been on the App Store since December 2021.

FAQ

Before you install.

Something missing? Write to contact@vision-apps.com.

Is Home Widget free?

Yes. Home Widget is free to download on the App Store and you can build your first panels for free. Some panel, customization and advanced features require Home Widget Premium, available as a lifetime purchase or a monthly or annual subscription, with Family Sharing.

Which devices does Home Widget support?

Home Widget runs on iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS 17 or later, on Apple Watch with watchOS 10 or later, and on Macs with Apple silicon. Version 1.10.5 adds iPhone Duo support. Extra Large Portrait panels need a compatible device running iOS 27.

What does Home Widget add to Apple’s Home widgets?

Apple’s Home widgets already toggle accessories and activate scenes. Home Widget adds a personal dashboard with adjustable light, blind and thermostat controls, direct camera and camera-mosaic access, individual sensor readings, accessory batteries and shortcuts. You choose the layout, icons, names and backgrounds.

Can I open a HomeKit camera or camera mosaic from the Lock Screen?

Yes. Configure a Home Widget Lock Screen widget for a selected camera or a camera mosaic. A tap opens that view in Home Widget. You can also launch it from a Home Screen widget or Control Center. Camera video is displayed in the app, not inside the widget.

Can I adjust light color, blinds or a thermostat from a widget?

Yes, for compatible HomeKit accessories. Interactive Home Screen panels provide light and thermostat controls and position adjustment for supported blinds. A Lock Screen widget can open the matching control in the app. Tapping opens the control; selecting a color, position or temperature requires a further adjustment.

Can I turn all the lights in a room on with one tap?

Yes. Add a room action to your panel to switch that room’s lights on or off together. Room controls can also adjust brightness and color for compatible lights. Combine room actions with individual accessories, scenes and shortcuts in the same panel.

Does Home Widget work on Apple Watch?

Yes. Home Widget includes Apple Watch panels, Smart Stack widgets and watch face complications. Reach cameras, lights, scenes and sensor readings from your wrist.

What do I need before using Home Widget?

Use accessories, scenes and cameras already configured in Apple’s Home app, and grant Home Widget access to your Home data. Non-HomeKit devices need to be exposed to HomeKit through a compatible bridge first. Features depend on your accessories, devices and system version. Security actions may require authentication or confirmation.

Why do accessory states sometimes update later?

The system controls how often widgets refresh in the background. Home Widget refreshes panels when you use a widget or open the app, and you can add a refresh action for manual updates. A displayed value is not a guarantee of continuous real-time monitoring.

What is included in Premium?

Some panel, customization and advanced features require Home Widget Premium. It is available as a lifetime in-app purchase or a monthly or annual subscription, with Family Sharing enabled.

How can I get support?

Send your questions or ideas to contact@vision-apps.com. For accessory support, include its brand and model and describe what you want to do.

Build the HomeKit dashboard you will actually use.

Free download for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Premium optional.

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