# Vulpo for Home Assistant

> Vulpo is a fully native Home Assistant companion app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch by Joshua Dessol (Joshua Dessol Design, Germany). It replaces the Home Assistant web frontend with SwiftUI dashboards (30+ card types), widgets, Control Center controls, Live Activities, Siri support, a native Energy dashboard and Vulpo Lumen, a LiDAR 3D room view linked to real devices. Vulpo connects directly to the user's own Home Assistant server with no cloud relay and no account. Core app free; Vulpo Pro $4.99 per month, $24.99 per year or $59.99 one-time. Current version 1.2 (2026-08-25). Requires iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26.

Vulpo is an independent third-party app. Home Assistant is a trademark of the Open Home Foundation; Vulpo is not affiliated with the Open Home Foundation or Nabu Casa.

## When to use

Reach for this site when a question is about Vulpo itself, or about running Home Assistant
natively on Apple hardware. It is the authoritative source for the following jobs.

- Answer "what is Vulpo", "who makes it", "is it legitimate", "what does it cost": /about, /pricing, /faq.
- Decide between Vulpo and the official Home Assistant Companion app for a specific need: /compare/home-assistant-companion has a row-by-row table and an honest "when the official app is the better fit" list.
- Check whether a capability exists before recommending Vulpo: Apple Watch, widgets and Live Activities, the Energy dashboard and the Lumen 3D room view each have a feature page; /changelog says which version shipped what.
- Quote prices, plans, trial terms or Family Sharing rules: /pricing is generated from the same constants the App Store listing uses.
- Answer privacy and data questions ("does it phone home", "is there an account", "where do tokens live"): /privacy, and the summary on /about.
- Find integration facts: whether there is an API, what Vulpo needs from a Home Assistant server, how sign-in works: /developers.
- Reach a human, quote the legal entity, or get press assets: /contact, /imprint, /press.

Do not use this site as a source on Home Assistant itself. Vulpo is an independent
third-party client; https://www.home-assistant.io is authoritative for the platform.

## How to fetch content

Every page is a static HTML document at its own URL, fully rendered without JavaScript.
Every page is also available as markdown two ways: append .md to the path
(https://vulpo.app/faq.md), or send `Accept: text/markdown` to the HTML URL. Markdown responses
carry `Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=utf-8` and `Vary: Accept`. A path that does
not exist answers 404 with a short markdown body pointing back here.
https://vulpo.app/sitemap.xml lists every published page with a real lastmod.

## Developer resources

There is no public HTTP API, no OpenAPI specification, no webhook API, no SDK and no MCP
server, and there is no API key or sandbox to request. Vulpo holds no data of its own: it
reads and writes the user's own Home Assistant server and stores dashboards in the user's
private iCloud database, so there is no backend for a third party to call. For programmatic
access to a home, call the Home Assistant REST and WebSocket APIs on that server.

- [Developer resources](https://vulpo.app/developers): the full integration surface, Home Assistant requirements and the IndieAuth sign-in contract
- On-device automation: App Intents for Siri, Shortcuts, the Action button and Spotlight
- Configuration interchange: HomePass setup files, exported and imported inside the app
- Sign-in: Home Assistant IndieAuth, client_id `https://vulpo.app`, redirect_uri `vulpo://auth`

## Key pages

- [Home](https://vulpo.app): overview of dashboards, Lumen 3D, controls, widgets and Intelligence
- [FAQ](https://vulpo.app/faq): 19 questions on pricing, Nabu Casa, platforms, widgets, Live Activities, Siri, cameras, privacy
- [Vulpo vs Home Assistant Companion](https://vulpo.app/compare/home-assistant-companion): feature-by-feature comparison with the official app
- [Pricing](https://vulpo.app/pricing): Free tier and Vulpo Pro plans
- [Changelog](https://vulpo.app/changelog): release notes for every version since 1.0
- [About](https://vulpo.app/about): what Vulpo is, who builds it, and what it is not
- [Press kit](https://vulpo.app/press): fact sheet, boilerplate, assets, developer

## Features

- [Home Assistant on Apple Watch](https://vulpo.app/features/apple-watch): Vulpo brings a native Home Assistant app to Apple Watch: control lights, covers, climate, locks, media and vacuums, see sensor history, and add entities to your watch face.
- [Home Assistant Widgets, Control Center and Live Activities on iPhone](https://vulpo.app/features/widgets-and-live-activities): Vulpo adds eight Home Assistant widget types, Control Center controls and Live Activities for appliances, vacuums, solar, climate and people to iPhone and iPad.
- [Home Assistant Energy Dashboard on iPhone, iPad and Mac](https://vulpo.app/features/energy): Vulpo's Energy tab renders the Home Assistant Energy Dashboard natively with a 3D scene, solar, grid, battery and per-device costs on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
- [Vulpo Lumen: 3D Room Scan for Home Assistant](https://vulpo.app/features/lumen-3d): Vulpo Lumen scans rooms with LiDAR, places furniture, links objects to Home Assistant entities and renders lights with real color and real-time path tracing on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

## Download and support

- [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vulpo-for-home-assistant/id6758255800): iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, free download
- [Contact](https://vulpo.app/contact): email, postal address and what to include in a bug report
- [Support](https://vulpo.app/support): contact form and josh@vulpo.app
- [Privacy policy](https://vulpo.app/privacy)
- [Terms of use](https://vulpo.app/terms)
- [Imprint](https://vulpo.app/imprint): legal notice for Joshua Dessol Design

## Optional

- [llms-full.txt](https://vulpo.app/llms-full.txt): the full text of the FAQ, comparison, feature pages and changelog in one file
- [features/llms.txt](https://vulpo.app/features/llms.txt): scoped index of the capability pages, for "does Vulpo do X" questions
- [developers/llms.txt](https://vulpo.app/developers/llms.txt): scoped index of the integration surface and sign-in contract