How Finest compares
Finest and Home Assistant’s own app are different tools.
Price
- Finest
- From $2.99/month. Family $4.99/month or $49.99/year.
- Home Assistant app
- Free
- Home Assistant app + Nabu Casa · Home Assistant Link from 2 December
- $6.50/month or $65/year
What it is
- Finest
- A native app designed for households
- Home Assistant app
- Home Assistant’s own dashboards in an app
- Home Assistant app + Nabu Casa
- The app plus Nabu Casa’s cloud services
Household roles
- Finest
- Owner, resident and guest, with per-person permissions
- Home Assistant app
- Home Assistant users (administrator or regular)
- Home Assistant app + Nabu Casa
- Home Assistant users (administrator or regular)
Sign-in
- Finest
- Passkeys (Face ID or fingerprint), or your Home Assistant login
- Home Assistant app
- Home Assistant username and password
- Home Assistant app + Nabu Casa
- Home Assistant username and password
Remote access
- Finest
- Use your own, including Nabu Casa and Tailscale. Our own is in progress.
- Home Assistant app
- Use your own
- Home Assistant app + Nabu Casa
- Included
Notifications
- Finest
- Included, end-to-end encrypted
- Home Assistant app
- Included
- Home Assistant app + Nabu Casa
- Included
Voice
- Finest
- Your own Assist pipeline. Our own is in progress.
- Home Assistant app
- Assist
- Home Assistant app + Nabu Casa
- Assist, plus cloud voice
Source code
- Finest
- Integration open source (Apache-2.0). App closed.
- Home Assistant app
- Open source
- Home Assistant app + Nabu Casa
- App open source
- Get the app
Based on public information as of November 2026, including Nabu Casa’s pricing page. Check each provider for current details.
Nabu Casa funds Home Assistant’s development, and Finest works with it.
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