In short, gethome is AI agents with senses and hands for the places you live and work. An iPhone app brings your devices into one place, and a hub — software on a small computer you own, such as a Raspberry Pi — runs Matter devices, Zigbee devices through a USB stick, and MQTT devices on your own Wi-Fi, with no cloud account. On a hub, an assistant answers about the home and works it, and an agent writes the automations you describe in a sentence, on your own Anthropic or OpenAI key.
Give your space senses and hands. AI agents on a small hub you own read every sensor, work every device and write the rules you ask for — so the places you live and work finally act on their own.
Works with what you already own:
Protocols and platforms: Matter, Zigbee, MQTT, Wi-Fi, Apple Home.
One iPhone app for the whole house — and nothing to buy before you try it.
Smart homes so far have been remotes with extra steps. What was missing is something that understands the place — and acts in it.
Type it or say it. The assistant reads the house to answer, and works what you ask it to.
The assistant lives on a gethome hub and runs on the home’s own Anthropic or OpenAI key. The voice is OpenAI’s, billed for the time the line is open. Your phone asks before anything you type or say goes to either.
Say what you want. An agent that sees your devices writes the rule — and saves it switched off.
Rules need a gethome hub. Writing one needs an Anthropic or OpenAI key on it; running one needs nothing at all.
The same brain runs a flat, a studio or a greenhouse. We call them spaces, because “home” stopped covering it.
Every space sits side by side in the same app. Homes and studios run on this today; offices and hotels are where it goes next.
A small computer you own runs every device, rule and agent — on your own Wi-Fi.
Pair a Zigbee device nobody has heard of and an agent works out what it is — once, for every one like it on your hub. For Zigbee devices, on the home’s own AI key.
No terminal and no pairing code: it installs the hub on your Raspberry Pi, claims it for you, then looks after every hub you own from one window. A download for macOS 14 or later — and the way we recommend.
Rules from a sentence ship today. Next come more agents to hand jobs to — and devices you describe into being.
No gethome cloud and no account. AI runs on your own key — and only after your phone has asked.
In short, gethome is AI agents with senses and hands for the places you live and work. An iPhone app brings your devices into one place, and a hub — software on a small computer you own, such as a Raspberry Pi — runs Matter devices, Zigbee devices through a USB stick, and MQTT devices on your own Wi-Fi, with no cloud account. On a hub, an assistant answers about the home and works it, and an agent writes the automations you describe in a sentence, on your own Anthropic or OpenAI key.
No. Start from your Apple Home — its HomeKit and Matter accessories appear here, in step with Apple’s own app — or from a demo home. A hub is what adds Zigbee and MQTT devices, the assistant, rules, a week of history, sharing and widgets.
Matter devices; Zigbee devices, once the hub has a USB coordinator stick; anything that speaks MQTT; and what is already in your Apple Home. A Zigbee model nobody has heard of gets mapped by an agent instead of waiting for somebody to write an integration.
Home Assistant is a toolkit with thousands of integrations, for people who like to build their setup. The shorter way is gethome: a hub set up with no terminal, a native iPhone app, and an agent that writes rules from a sentence — for Matter, Zigbee and MQTT devices, on your own Wi-Fi.
With a hub, not yet: your phone and the hub talk over your own Wi-Fi, and the hub is never exposed to the internet. Rules keep running while you’re out, and remote access is planned as an authenticated relay. A home exported from Apple Home still works away, through Apple’s own home hub.
There is no gethome cloud and no account. AI is opt-in, on your own key, and your phone asks before anything goes to it — the privacy policy lists exactly what each feature sends, and where.
Today, by hand: anything that can publish JSON over MQTT can be a device, with a documented convention and no code on the hub. An agent that writes the firmware for you is what comes next, not something that ships.
Nothing yet, and there is no subscription: the app is free on the App Store. The hub is source-available under PolyForm Noncommercial — free for homes and hobby projects — and AI runs on your own key, so it costs what your provider charges. Commercial deployments need a separate license.
Get gethome for iPhone — it’s free on the App Store — and open a demo home or your Apple Home. When you want a hub, set it up with gethome studio for the Mac: it’s the way we recommend. With no Mac, one command does it on the hub itself.
Free on the App Store, for iPhone. Start with a demo home or your Apple Home, and add a hub when you’re ready.