Vulpo 1.2Updated
Vulpo press kit
Vulpo is a native Home Assistant companion app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, developed by Joshua Dessol and published by Joshua Dessol Design in Germany. It launched on the App Store in May 2026 and reached version 1.2 in August 2026. This page collects the facts, boilerplate and assets for articles and listings.
Vulpo for Home Assistant
The native Home Assistant app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.
Current version
1.2, August 2026Platforms
iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch
Price
Free, Pro from $4.99Developer
Joshua Dessol, Germany
About Vulpo
Vulpo is a native Home Assistant app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Instead of embedding the Home Assistant web interface, Vulpo builds every screen in SwiftUI: 30+ dashboard card types, purpose-built controls for lights, climate, covers, locks and media, Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Control Center controls, Live Activities for appliances, vacuums, solar and climate, Siri support, a native Energy dashboard and Vulpo Lumen, a LiDAR-based 3D view of the home linked to real devices.
Vulpo connects directly to the user's own Home Assistant server with no cloud relay and no account. The core app is free; Vulpo Pro unlocks Live Activities, 3D rooms, unlimited widgets and early-access Vulpo Labs features.
Vulpo is the fully native Home Assistant app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, with widgets, Live Activities, Siri and a 3D view of your home.
One-liner, free to quote
What makes it different
Six things that separate Vulpo from the official Home Assistant Companion app.
No web views.
Every screen is native SwiftUI, including on the Mac.
Native dashboards.
Built in the app from 30+ card types and synced through iCloud; no Lovelace YAML.
Apple Watch app.
Direct entity control, sensor history and complications, standalone over Wi-Fi or LTE.
Widgets and Live Activities.
Eight widget types, Control Center controls and Live Activities with buttons.
Vulpo Lumen.
LiDAR room scan with entity linking and path-traced rendering.
Direct connection.
Talks to the user's own Home Assistant server; no relay, no account.
Full detail in the comparison with the official Home Assistant Companion app.
Fact sheet
- Name
- Vulpo for Home Assistant (short: Vulpo)
- Category
- Smart home / home automation client for Home Assistant
- Platforms
- iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch (iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26)
- Current version
- 1.2 (August 2026)
- First release
- May 2026
- Price
- Free; Vulpo Pro $4.99 per month, $24.99 per year or $59.99 one-time
- Developer
- Joshua Dessol, Joshua Dessol Design, Germany
- Languages
- English, German, French, Dutch
- Download
- App Store
- Website
- vulpo.app
- Contact
- josh@vulpo.app, @joshdotswift
Assets
Bundles for editorial use. Individual images are available on request until the archives are online.
Press kit
Icon, logo, screenshots and the fact sheet in one archive.
App icon set
The Vulpo icon at 1024 to 64 pixels, the classic icon, the greyscale mark and the Icon Composer source layers.
Screenshots
App Store screenshots for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch in English, German, French and Dutch, sorted by device and language.
Press contact
For interviews, review copies, promo codes or additional material, contact Joshua Dessol directly. Replies usually arrive within a day.
Home Assistant is a trademark of the Open Home Foundation. Vulpo is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the Open Home Foundation or Nabu Casa.