---
title: "card-tools"
description: "card-tools is a dashboard card for Home Assistant. It has 283 GitHub stars and was last updated April 10, 2023."
canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/cards/thomasloven-lovelace-card-tools"
url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/cards/thomasloven-lovelace-card-tools.md"
last-updated: "2026-10-22"
version: "1.4"
---

# card-tools

> card-tools is a dashboard card for Home Assistant. It has 283 GitHub stars and was last updated April 10, 2023.

card-tools is a dashboard card that provides a shared set of helper functions for building custom Lovelace cards. It does not add a visible card for regular users, who need to do nothing beyond installing it as a module resource. Card developers can import the functions through npm or load the script as a resource and call them through a custom element. The helpers include a device and browser identifier stored in local storage, access to the hass object and Lovelace configuration, and a way to keep an element's hass property updated. It also exposes the lit-element base class and template functions, a binder for the long-press and double-click action handler, and functions to create cards, elements and entity rows. It needs the Marketplace for installation.

Automatic summary of the README of thomasloven/lovelace-card-tools. Something wrong, or are you the maintainer and want your own text here? [Get in touch](https://vulpo.app/contact)

[Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/hacs_repository/?owner=thomasloven&repository=lovelace-card-tools&category=plugin)

On Home Assistant 2026.11 or newer? [Open it in the Marketplace](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/marketplace_repository/?owner=thomasloven&repository=lovelace-card-tools&category=plugin)

## Supports

- **From the Marketplace**: Installed through the Marketplace, formerly HACS.

## Setting it up

Install it from the Marketplace, then add a card of this type to a dashboard.

## From the README

> This is a collection of tools to simplify creating custom cards for Home Assistant

From the README of [thomasloven/lovelace-card-tools](https://github.com/thomasloven/lovelace-card-tools#readme), [MIT License](https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html). Shortened.

## At a glance

- Kind: Dashboard card
- Number: 283 GitHub stars
- Connection: Connection not stated
- Upkeep: No update in over 18 months
- Needs: Needs the Marketplace (HACS on 2026.10 and older)
- Latest version: 11, last updated April 10, 2023
- Source: <https://github.com/thomasloven/lovelace-card-tools>
- Issues: <https://github.com/thomasloven/lovelace-card-tools/issues>

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Last updated 2026-10-22. Source: https://vulpo.app/integrations/cards/thomasloven-lovelace-card-tools

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