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Home Assistant Apps

Apps (formerly known as add-ons) extend Home Assistant with additional applications that run alongside it on your own hardware. You can install, update, and configure them in a few clicks from the built-in Settings > Apps panel.

Apps can run anything from an MQTT broker for your smart devices, to a network-wide ad blocker, to a file-sharing service that lets you edit your configuration from another computer. Whatever you install stays on your own hardware, alongside the rest of your smart home.

Apps for Home Assistant are freely available in the App store.

To install an app, in Home Assistant, go to Settings > Apps, and select Install app. All apps, including their documentation, are available right from the store. Select an app you are interested in to read its documentation or to install it.

A few power-user apps are hidden by default. To see them, turn on Advanced mode on your user profile page.

Important

Apps are only available if you used the Home Assistant Operating System installation method. With other installation methods, you can often achieve the same result manually. Refer to the documentation provided by the application you would like to run.

Check the Home Assistant forums for app repositories managed by the community.