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Hearth
Transform an iPad into a warm, minimalist HomeKit control center. Designed for 24/7 wall-mounted use — glanceable status, essential controls, nothing more.
Transform an iPad into a warm, minimalist HomeKit control center. Designed for 24/7 wall-mounted use — glanceable status, essential controls, nothing more.
Hearth turns an old or spare iPad into a dedicated HomeKit dashboard — designed to be mounted on a wall and left always-on. The interface is deliberately minimal: glanceable status, essential controls, and a design language that feels like furniture rather than a phone app stretched to a larger screen.
Most smart home apps are built around the phone interaction model: open the app, find the right screen, interact, put the phone down. A wall-mounted home hub is a different use case entirely — it's always visible, always accessible, and should reward ambient glances rather than demand focused attention.
Designed for 24/7 wall-mounted operation with purpose-built idle state.
Lights, climate, sensors at a glance — no feature sprawl.
Information designed for ambient glances, not focused reading.
The UI belongs in a living room, not a command center.