Aqara Home

• Free to download

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

• Free to download
• In-app purchases: $0.05 - $99.99 per item

Last verified 31 Aug 2026

4.7 6669 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5G5 Camera PoE camera and U100 Doorbell

   This a short review but the G5 Pro outdoor cameras (PoE, not WiFi) have exceeded expectations! Love them. And the live video integration with the Home app has been excellent too. And the Home app that I shared with my WiFi is great too. She loves seeing snippets of when motion is detected and recorded (we have Apple+ subscription) all within the Home app. Everything is consolidated there with the U100 door lock too. Lights, Thermostat, sensors…you name it - the Aqara products have been working great - except for one small thing. The G410 Smart doorbell works well, especially with the Aqara Home app, but the live video in the Home app doesn’t work good at all. It says often - “not online”. However, when I go back into the Aqara app - the doorbell camera is live, I can commend to it, etc. But for whatever reason, the sync between the Aqara app and Hone just isn’t working consistently. Hopefully a firmware update on the G410 doorbell camera will fix that, either I would say choose a different model for now.

   jman06 · 31 Jul 2026

2. 2/5Confusing app; poor settings management

   My two main issues with this app are 1) the myriad of settings buried under various different buttons and tabs, not one streamlined interface. (In other words: the app has poor UI guideline management). For example, for my doorbell, there are so many different places to set settings instead of one long settings page with everything on one screen. It’s very frustrating and all I want is one long settings page for everything having to do with the camera on one screen screen. 2) the battery indication and settings are poor. I use high-quality rechargeable batteries, and either the camera is gobbling up much of the energy far too quickly, or it is not utilizing the full potential and energy amount of the batteries. Even when I install fully recharged batteries that I know are good, it says the battery level is 60% instead of 100%. There needs to be either a calibration when new batteries are installed, or a setting to tell the app that these are rechargeable batteries, and to reset the charge amount to 100% based on the total charge level available from the current new batteries. It seems like the camera barely makes it a month or two before it hits 20% and constantly begs you to replace the batteries.

   PolloTec · 31 Jul 2026

3. 1/5US accounts require constant links to Chinese servers

   Since instituting a solid firewall, the Aqara app says everything is disconnected, though it sees/shows all my devices, they all just appear disconnected. I have about 30 of their devices, which I’m leaning towards selling to someone who doesn’t care. I got into homekit before firewalls, which explains why i have any of their devices. I find this constant linking to servers outside the apple home hubs and apple home servers, more than irksome. Local, in home is what i am after. I have cybersecurity concerns, such as iOS devices being used as botnets, for example. Since the US has poor to no consumer protection and interest in developing a cybersecurity mindset thru education of their citizens, the EU seems to be the only game in town. When i first added Aqara devices i didn’t have a good enough firewall, but now that i have traffic allowed to only. A few countries, I see i have to part ways with Aqara. They make some of the best products, and are affordable, but their need for constant data link to china makes me have brand hate. Homekit mode has become useless over the past few years. Also, beware of camera features, using them uploads the videos to Aqara servers.

   Johnney55 · 31 Jul 2026

4. 4/5Ugly icon

   They replaced the nice icon they had with this hideous ugly icon I now have to constantly look at on my home screen. The same update changed the large, easy to press with tiny controls. Adding a temperature sensor added a nice “Bedroom environment” info panel to the top of the app home screen. After adding another temperature sensor and trying to change the room here, the entire feature permanently disappeared. All time is in 24-hour format which no one in the US uses unless you’re in law enforcement or military. There is no dark mode, and you can’t set the app background to a normal color but instead are forced to choose from these bizarre wallpaper photos. Start time and stop time in automation doesn’t work in a logical or user friendly way. The app has an always-on alarm setting that you can’t shut off even if you want to. So I have to set it to “if the front door is open for 24 hours” to effectively disable it. The old version of the app at least had a decent name for this weird feature, now it’s even more unfriendly with the name “7*24 guard”. Randomly, error messages in the app will be in Chinese. I can’t add custom actions to an alarm going off. For example, I’d like to turn on the lights when the alarm goes off but that’s not possible. Despite all that, I still give it four stars. Overall it does its job pretty well. I wish very badly they’d add webhooks to the automation actions.

   johnrcornell · 31 Jul 2026

5. 3/5Needs 12 Hr. Time mode

   App is generally fine to work with. I’m able to navigate through it without much issue, and have several temperature sensors running in various locations of my residence. Overall I don’t have many issues with the app except for the blasted 24 hour time format. I emailed Aqara support back in August ‘23 requesting that they add a 12 hour time format to their sensor graphs. It’s really annoying to visualize and mentally convert from 24-to-12 hour format when practically every American operates in 12 hour format. Rep “Cecilia” said that she’d pass it along to their dev team - but apparently it isn’t that high priority of a change request since that suggestion was never actualized. Not to mention I see that a user from 4 years ago requested the same time format update. Would update the review to 5 stars if they deployed this simple feature request.

   EchoBravo5 · 31 Jul 2026

4.4 15290 ratings · Google Play

1. 1/5

   i do not understand why the camera connection established takes forever. Using the same wifi/4g I can view Tapo Camera easily, but when viewing Aqara's, it almost never work.

   Tommy Leong · 1 Aug 2026

2. 1/5

   login session expires immediately you log in. cant even load a dashboard

   Oliver Edgar · 1 Aug 2026

3. 5/5

   good

   Arvind rakholiya · 1 Aug 2026

4. 1/5

   Easily Worst Smart home App

   Aditya Pabuwal · 1 Aug 2026

5. 1/5

   a required junk and bloatware instead of a normal matter support.

   Didenko Family · 1 Aug 2026

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