Husvarde Guide

Husvarde has no account to create and no login screen — when you first open the app, you'll see a quick three-screen introduction to what it does, then you're straight into adding your first fixture.

There's nothing to sign up for and nothing tied to your identity. Your fixtures are stored on your device from the very first one you add.

Tap "Get Started" at the end of the intro, fill in a name and pick a category and type (Lighting → Bulb, HVAC → Aircon, and so on — or choose "Other" and type your own if nothing fits), and you're tracking your first fixture.

Every feature that matters works completely without ever opening the camera. Add a fixture from the list, give it a location (building, level, room — these are free-text tags that autocomplete from what you've already typed, so your list stays organized as it grows), and you're set up to track it.

From a fixture's detail page you can:

• Log a service (clears its maintenance date and records what was done)
• Log a note (keeps a record without resetting the maintenance clock — useful for things like "noticed a flicker" that aren't a full service)
• See its full history, searchable and grouped by month

Every fixture shows a status at a glance — a color dot that's blue when it's fine, amber when service is coming up soon, red when it's overdue, or gray if no maintenance date is set yet. Group your list by room or by fixture type using the toggle at the top of the list.

• Overdue
• Due soon
• Upcoming Maintenance
• No due date

AR tagging is entirely optional — think of it as a bonus layer on top of the tracking you're already doing, not a separate thing you have to use.

The first time you open the AR tab in a room, Husvarde needs to scan it — point your device slowly around the space (walls, ceiling, furniture) until the progress ring fills and turns into a checkmark. This scan is what lets the app remember exactly where you tap.

Once scanning is done, tap any real object — a light fixture, an air conditioning unit, anything — to drop a marker there. Tap an existing marker to see its name and status right in the camera view.

One thing worth knowing: AR currently supports one room at a time. If you want to tag fixtures in another room, you'll need to start fresh there — everything you've already logged in your list stays exactly as it is either way.

Every fixture can have a maintenance date — the day you'd next like to service it. Set one from the fixture's detail page, and Husvarde will show its status color based on how close that date is.

Turn on reminders and you can set up to two notifications ahead of the date — for example, one a week before and a second the day of. Each reminder can be timed independently, and the second one can be turned off entirely if you only want one nudge.

These are one-time reminders, not recurring ones — logging a service on a fixture clears its maintenance date, so you decide when to set the next one rather than the app guessing an interval for you.

Husvarde is free to use for up to 20 fixtures, with full AR tagging included at no cost — AR isn't a paid feature.

If you need to track more than 20, a single one-time purchase (~$4.99) removes that limit for good and turns on sync through your own iCloud account, so your fixtures and history stay in step across your iPhone and iPad.

There's no subscription, no recurring charge, and no separate tier beyond this — you pay once, if you ever need to, and that's it.