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The best Home Assistant dashboard in 2026? Mega Dashboard vs Mushroom, Dwains, floor3d and the built-in editor
Updated 7 October 2026
In short. There's no single best dashboard — it depends on how you like to build. If you want a finished dashboard from your own rooms and devices, a 3D plan and an editor that works right on the screen, try Mega Dashboard for Home Assistant. If you love building card by card, Mushroom is excellent. If you want a real rotating 3D model, look at floor3d. If open source matters most to you, all the others are open source and Mega Dashboard is not.
| What it is | How you edit | Floor plan | Wall tablet full screen | Open source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Dashboard | An app that builds a whole dashboard from your rooms and devices, and installs the cards it needs | On the dashboard itself: tap, drag, resize; 37 modules; no YAML | 3D picture of the home with devices, lights per room, day and night | Built in (kiosk-mode is installed for you) | No — free to use, all rights reserved |
| Built-in dashboard (Sections) | Home Assistant's own dashboards | Drag-and-drop grid, a form per card; YAML for anything beyond the standard cards | Picture elements card, set up mostly in YAML | Needs an add-on such as kiosk-mode | Yes |
| Mushroom | A collection of good-looking cards | The usual dashboard editor, with a full visual editor for every card | No | Needs an add-on | Yes |
| Dwains Dashboard | A dashboard generated from areas, devices and floors (version 3 in maintenance, “Next” in alpha) | Its own settings pages | No | Depends on your setup | Yes |
| floor3d-card | A card that renders a real 3D model (OBJ/GLB) you can rotate | Mostly YAML | Real 3D model from Sweet Home 3D, Blender and others | Needs an add-on | Yes |
| ha-floorplan | A card for an interactive SVG floor plan | An SVG you draw (e.g. in Inkscape) plus YAML rules | 2D SVG plan, fully custom | Needs an add-on | Yes |
Checked in October 2026. Projects change — if something here is out of date, tell me in Discussions and I'll fix it.
When Mega Dashboard is the right choice
- You want a complete dashboard tonight, not a project for the next month. The wizard builds it from your home in about five minutes.
- You want to change things by tapping them, with undo and a history, instead of editing YAML or card forms.
- You want a 3D plan of the home with your devices on it, without modelling the house in Blender.
- The dashboard goes on a wall tablet and should be really full screen, with its own layout for the tablet and the phone.
- You'd like it in Bulgarian or English.
When something else fits better
- You only use open-source software. Mega Dashboard is free but closed source; every other option here is open source.
- You enjoy building card by card and want full control over every card: the built-in editor with Mushroom is a great combination.
- You need a real 3D model you can rotate and fly through: floor3d-card.
- You want a hand-drawn plan with total control over every shape: ha-floorplan.
Can I use them together?
Yes. Mega Dashboard creates its own dashboard and doesn't touch the ones you already have. Pages you made by hand inside it are left as they are, and the full card editor lets you add any card you like — including Mushroom cards.