Here are my favorite home apps to make smart home management fast and fun, without the clutter or annoying navigation.

Google Home web app adds a Devices tab to control smart-home gadgets from your browser. Tile controls mimic the app: click to toggle, drag for brightness; no color picker yet. Some devices (speakers, ...

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Apple’s Home app has always felt like an afterthought. Probably because it was. Apple didn’t want to make an app to control its HomeKit home automation software framework; it didn’t release one until ...

No disrespect to Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, but voice control still has its quirks and sometimes it’s easier to control your various smart home devices using your PC instead. But the degree to ...

That bar at the top is presumably for “Ask Home,” which sounds like a conversational chatbot for controlling your smart home. This harkens back to how an earlier version of the Google Home app had an ...

Beginning next month, you’ll be able to see your Nest Doorbell footage and interact with it through the ADT+ app. Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo ADT has announced it will revamp the ADT+ app this year ...

Building on Google Assistant voice command support, Microsoft is rolling out an Xbox update that lets you remote control the console with the Google Home app. The Google Home app remote control today ...