New in 2.4Live Activities You Can Press

Your home, on every screen.

Live Activities and widgets for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, filled from Home Assistant or any HTTP call. Now with buttons, right on the Lock Screen.

Download on the App Store Add to Home Assistant

First week free, then $2.99 a month. The Home Assistant integration is free.

Works with what you already run

Watch it finish.

The dishwasher counts down on your Lock Screen, from the first rinse to “Emptied”. No app to open, no notification to dig for.

New in 2.4

Press it from the Lock Screen.

Up to three buttons on every activity. They run the service in Home Assistant directly; from anything else they arrive as an event or a webhook.

Friday, October 17
21:47
21:47 · You tap Pause.
Friday, October 17
21:47
A second later · Paused, and the card says so.

Wherever you look.

The same activity follows you into the Dynamic Island, onto your wrist and up on the CarPlay dashboard. The buttons stay on your iPhone.

New in 2.4 · Showcase and Remote

Your home at a glance.

The front door and whether it’s locked. The car, with its lock and climate one tap away. Tonight’s cheap hours, and the one battery that’s nearly flat. Sixteen templates, every size, all on one screen.

An unfolded iPhone Duo in landscape with a Home Screen of Aivi widgets: the front door, Locked, 8 degrees outside; the car at 78 percent with Lock and Climate on; electricity at 17.9 cents, low; four battery rings; the Hallway switchboard with Leaving active, the garage closed, heating away at 17 degrees and the vacuum cleaning; energy at 1 kilowatt; the living room at 21.4 degrees, rising.

Leave the house in one tap.

A Switchboard in the hallway: lights off, heating down, the garage shut, the vacuum out. Share it with the family and anyone can press it.

New in 2.4

Built for Home Assistant.

Install the free, open-source integration from HACS. Pick the entities behind each widget in a panel with a live preview, and the buttons act in Home Assistant itself. No YAML, no automations.

Open in HACS Everything it does →

  1. Add Aivi to HACS

    Open it in HACS with the button, or add the repository by hand. Download it, then restart Home Assistant.

  2. Paste your token

    Under Settings → Devices & services, add the Aivi integration and paste the API token from the app.

  3. Pick entities, save

    Open Aivi in the sidebar, choose what each widget shows and watch the preview. Save, and it’s on your phone.

Home Assistant 2025.4 or newer, with HACS. Prefer plain automations? Blueprints still work. How it compares with the Companion app: the Home Assistant Live Activities guide.

No Home Assistant?
Send JSON.

Aivi is a plain HTTPS API underneath. One request starts a Live Activity or updates a widget, from a script, a cron job or anything else that speaks HTTP.

Guides for Node-RED, Shortcuts, GitHub Actions and openHAB.

Send your first update →

The Live Activity the request draws: the car, charging, done at 06:40, its bar at 68 percent of the way to 80, the reserve hatched, 7.4 kilowatts. 
$ curl -X PATCH https://api.getaivi.app/activities/car \
    -H 'Authorization: Token …' \
    -d @charging.json
A curl command that sends the car's charging state as JSON to the Aivi API, and the Live Activity it draws.

See the JSON →

Sixteen shapes. Send them numbers.

Progress, prices, batteries, scenes and switches. Point a template at your sensors and it draws itself.

See all 16: 13 widgets and 3 Live Activities →

Free for a week. Then $2.99 a month.

Or $23.99 a year, about $2 a month. One plan with everything in it, and the people you share with never pay.

Aivi costs $2.99 per month or $23.99 per year (about $2 per month billed annually), with the first week free.

  • 5 Live Activities at once
  • 20 widgets
  • 5 people on each
  • iPhone, Watch, CarPlay
  • The HTTP API
  • Home Assistant
Start your free week Billed through the App Store.

Before you install.

What is Aivi?
Aivi is an iPhone app that turns Home Assistant entities and plain HTTP API calls into Live Activities on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and into Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. No app of your own, no push certificates.
Do I need Home Assistant?
No. Home Assistant gets a free integration, but anything that can send an HTTP request works: a script, Node-RED, Shortcuts, a cron job.
What do the buttons do?
They pause a 3D print, stop the dishwasher or dock the vacuum right from the Lock Screen. With Home Assistant a press runs the service you picked; from anything else it arrives as an event or a webhook. The card changes only when your system says it did.
Does it need Home Assistant Cloud or an open port?
No. Updates go out to Aivi, and presses come back over a connection Home Assistant opens itself.
What do I need on my phone?
An iPhone on iOS 18.4 or later. Widgets need iOS 26. Activities also show on Apple Watch and in CarPlay.
Can the rest of the house see it?
Yes. Share any activity or widget with up to five people. They don’t pay, and their presses work too.

More in the docs →

Put it on the Lock Screen.

Download Aivi, connect Home Assistant or send one HTTP call, and watch your washer show up next to your notifications.

Get Aivi, first week free Set up Home Assistant →