Homie—Menu Bar App for HomeKit
Quick Control for HomeKit
Only for Mac
Free · In-App Purchases
Control your HomeKit devices from your menu bar—that's quick and easy.
You can even setup global Keyboard shortcuts or automation triggers that enable different scenes automatically.
For example, I have assigned my F5 and F6 keys to dedicated scenes…very handy to handle your HomeKit devices from your keyboard, while you‘re working at your computer anyway.
And of course you can assign all kinds of shortcuts to any scene, such as ⌘⇧N for “Good Night”.
On my desk, waking up my Mac enables my working light scene…while bringing the computer to sleep turns it off again.
That‘s basically it – a quick & simple app.
Homie makes use of the new HomeKit framework for Catalyst Apps in macOS 11 Big Sur – that's why macOS Big Sur is required in order to use Homie.
Available Subscription Option (annually):
Homie Pro Subscription to get access to all Pro Features:
- Add favorite scenes, so they can be reached with one click in the app.
- Pin sensors to your menu bar, so you can see them with one glance.
- Add global keyboard shortcuts, so you can control your scenes super-fast.
- Add automation triggers for your scenes (e.g. unlocking your computer turns on a specific scene).
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more This update contains numerous bug fixes:
- Ensures that pinned accessories are displayed reliably after restarting the app.
- Ensures that ACs can be set to cool state and don’t randomly switch to heat.
- Ensure that sliders have the correct min / max values.
- Adds room name under pinned accessories.
- Fixes an issue where turning on / off all lights of a room would not refresh the buttons reliably.
- Fixes an issue where the accessories could get stuck and would not refresh.
- Fixes an issue where controls of accessories would not show up reliably.
1.3 28/08/2025
Ready for macOS Ventura!
1.2 26/10/2022
Fixes a bug where the "Lifetime Unlock" button was not clickable in the German version of the app.
1.1.1 22/08/2022
- Adds support for the HomeKit Air Purifiers
- Adds support for smart door locks:
- August Home Smart Lock
- Yale Linus SmartLock
- Level Bolt
- Nuki Door Lock
- Adds support for garage door openers.
- Adds support for grouped devices to be added to favorites.
- Adds support for devices that support both heating and cooling.
- Adding localizations for device infos in German and Spanish.
- Device information are now sorted alphabetically.
- Adds support for roller shutter devices.
- Adds support for smoke alarms.
- Adds support for speakers.
- Exposes the current main state of an accessory to its menu item (e.g. on / off).
- You can now disable scenes.
- The currently active scene is highlighted in the menu item.
- Homie automatically refreshes devices when the computer is unlocked.
- The heater is now automatically turned on when setting the temperature.
- Fixes an issue where the subscription restore button was not clickable.
1.1 30/07/2022
Adds support for Dyson Air Purifier.
1.0.18 03/04/2022
Improved control UI for thermostats: You can now pick a temperature from the a list and change the off/heat/cool/auto state.
1.0.17 09/01/2022
Fixes an issue where Homie would crash for some users when the computer would come back from sleep.
1.0.16 30/11/2021
Fixes an issue where "Show in Favorites" was greyed out and devices couldn't be added to favorites anymore.
Sorry for the bug!
– Frederik
1.0.15 18/11/2021
- Fixes an issue where Homie would crash when executing automations (sorry for that!).
- Now displays the app version number in Settings.
- You can now launch the Home app from Homie‘s menu bar item.
1.0.14 09/11/2021
- Adds support for grouped accessories (grouped accessories are now treated like one accessory, can be pinned to the menu bar and can be controlled simultaneously).
- Fixes an issue where pinned accessories couldn’t be removed after their name was updated.
- Uses a new way to identify assigned scenes in automations if HomeKit decides to change the UUIDs from time to time.
1.0.13 02/11/2021
- Fixes a problem where devices could disappear from the menu bar after a restart of the computer. This is an issue with inconsistent identifiers being provided by the HomeKit Framework. I have now implemented a workaround using the name, room, and house of the accessories to re-identify them, whenever their identifier changes.
- Deleted scenes are still provided by HomeKit, that’s why I decided to stop displaying scenes without any triggers (= no devices assigned to that scene). This should fix a problem where deleted scenes would still be displayed by Homie.
- Whenever the computer goes to sleep, no HomeKit updates are delivered to Homie (I assume to save energy). That‘s why Homie will reload all deices when your computer becomes active again. Before it could happen that a wrong state of an accessory would’ve been displayed.
- Fixes a problem where a device would be displayed as “not supported” even though it was compatible with Homie.
Thanks a lot for using Homie! Personally, Homie is one of my favorite apps to develop & to use myself. That‘s why I‘m always happy to hear your feedback, suggestions, and ideas to improve it even further.
1.0.12 17/05/2021
If you like Homie, you can now get Homie stickers via the main Homie Menu Bar icon which will be shipped internationally.
1.0.11 15/03/2021
- Adds color picker so you can now change the color of your HomeKit light bulbs.
- Fixes an issue where Homie could crash unexpectedly after using it for some time.
1.0.10 14/03/2021
This update of Homie resolves an issue where pinned sensor values in the menu bar would not be refreshed automatically whenever new sensor values are available.
1.0.9 08/03/2021
- Attempts to fix an issue where Homie wouldn‘t launch when started.
- Favorites are now alphabetically sorted again.
Also new in the last version if you haven't seen it so far:
- You can now use a slider to change the settings of thermostats and air humidifiers.
- Icons can now be assigned to pinned menu items.
- Accessories can now also be added as favorites.
1.0.8 03/03/2021
- You can now use a slider to change the settings of thermostats and air humidifiers.
- Icons can now be assigned to pinned menu items.
- Accessories can now also be added as favorites.
1.0.7 02/03/2021
You can now use a slider to change the brightness of lights.
This was quite a lot of work, requiring changes in many parts of the Homie architecture.
Please continue to send feedback for new devices and features to add.
For those of you who are interested, the technology behind Homie utilizes the new HomeKit Framework in Big Sur which is available via Mac Catalyst.
However, Catalyst Apps cannot be Menu Bar Apps. Only AppKit apps can be. Thats why Homie is a Catalyst app which bundles an AppKit App.
Quite complicated, but it works!
1.0.6 09/02/2021
- Added German Localization: Herzlich Willkommen bei Homie!
- You can now control window shades (open / close).
- Resolves a problem where the Homie Upgrade Dialog would be displayed twice.
1.0.5 14/12/2020
Adds new quick menu feature to turn on and off all lights in one room.
Resolves an issue where some sensors wouldn't get updated, or some commands were delayed to be delivered to the devices.
This also reduces the CPU usage for larger HomeKit setups and should prevent crashes in general.
1.0.4 29/11/2020
- Ensures that Homie is only installable on macOS 11 Big Sur, because earlier versions of macOS don‘t offer the necessary HomeKit framework.
- Added a lifetime-purchase option for Homie.
1.0.3 20/11/2020
Homie 1.0.2 adds some of the most requested features from the first weekend after the release. Thanks a lot for your support, supporting Homie via the paid subscription makes such updates possible:
- Sensors are now listed in their appropriate rooms.
- Upgrade screen is now fully readable on smaller screens as well.
- CarbonDioxideLevel and CarbonMonoxideLevel sensor values are now displayed as expected.
- Updated screenshots, so the text is more readable.
- Scenes, Sensors, and Rooms are now alphabetically ordered.
- Sensor values now also update automatically.
- You can now control light accessories as well & pin them to the Menu Bar.
- You can now also pin rooms & homes to the Menu Bar directly.
- Homes, rooms, scenes, and accessories are now sorted alphabetically.
- Homie now indicates when an accessory is not reachable in the current network conditions.
- New automations added: Execute scene when computer wakes up while an external screen is connected; and execute scene when computer goes to sleep while an external screen is connected.
1.0.2 18/11/2020
This update also fixes an issue when no HomeKit permissions have been granted so far.
Sensor values (Temperature, Humidity, Air-Quality Related measurements) can now be pinned to the menu bar directly.
This means, you can read the temperature with one glance.
1.0.1 13/11/2020
This update contains numerous bug fixes:
- Ensures that pinned accessories are displayed reliably after restarting the app.
- Ensures that ACs can be set to cool state and don’t randomly switch to heat.
- Ensure that sliders have the correct min / max values.
- Adds room name under pinned accessories.
- Fixes an issue where turning on / off all lights of a room would not refresh the buttons reliably.
- Fixes an issue where the accessories could get stuck and would not refresh.
- Fixes an issue where controls of accessories would not show up reliably.
more Version 1.3 28/08/2025
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