r/HomeKit
Founded June 2014 · Public — anyone can post
Private in protest to Reddit’s handling of API rules. Join us on discord: bit.ly/HomeKitDiscord
Members
245,563
246K
Online now
—
not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
11.6
from the last 100 posts, spanning 8.5 days
Comments per post
—
no sample yet
Growth · 7d
—
not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+0.9%
+2.2K members · ≈34d
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Oct 13
sampled Oct 13
Distinct posters
88%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 9 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/HomeKit
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Question | 26% | 45 |
| Show & tell | 25% | 397 |
| News / link | 25% | 206 |
| Discussion | 14% | 259 |
| Lessons / story | 4% | 322 |
| How-to | 3% | 254 |
| Rant | 3% | 102 |
Based on 72 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 57
- Top 10% score
- 535
- Text posts
- 33%
- Got no replies
- 3%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 17:00 UTC, Mon 22:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is welcome. Promotion goes in buying megathread (sticked). Minimum 50 karma.
- Posts must be related to HomeKit: Only posts related to HomeKit are permitted. HomeBridge questions should go in r/HomeBridge, questions that are not related to HomeKit but are about a company's product that supports HomeKit should still go in that company's subreddit. If that company does not have a subreddit you can post in a subreddit such as r/HomeAutomation, r/SmartHome, etc. A list of company subreddit's can be found in the sidebar.
- No Amazon affiliate and/or referral links.: No Amazon affiliate links and also no referral links that 'refer' you to Amazon affiliate links. An example of an Amazon affiliate link is amzn.to. These are automatically removed and using one could result in a permaban based on your previous post and comment history.
- 'What to buy' and 'Should I buy...' questions go in the buying megathread.: **'What to buy'** and **'Should I buy...'** questions go in the the sticked megathread dedicated to these types of questions in order to prevent an abundance of them.
- No questions answered by the wiki, a search of r/HomeKit, or by a search engine.: Check the [r/HomeKit wiki](reddit.com/r/HomeKit/wiki/index), [search r/HomeKit](reddit.com/r/HomeKit/search), and search before posting to avoid duplicate questions.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Offers specific, actionable advice or solutions.
- — Shares first-hand experience with products or setups.
- — Engages directly with the original poster's problem or question.
- — Provides creative or unexpected uses for smart home devices.
- — Acknowledges and addresses common pain points (e.g., subscriptions, complexity).
- — Discloses affiliation or context when promoting own work.
Similar by content
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See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/HomeKit — frequently asked
How many members does r/HomeKit have?
r/HomeKit has 245,563 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 13. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/HomeKit growing?
Over the last ≈34 days r/HomeKit changed by +0.9% — a gain of 2.2K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/HomeKit?
Around 11.6 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 8.5 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/HomeKit created?
r/HomeKit was founded in June 2014 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/HomeKit?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 88% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 13. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/HomeKit?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/HomeKit yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/HomeKit for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/HomeKit into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/HomeKit's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/HomeKit's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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