About IoT Parrot

Built for hobbyists who like to tinker.

Why we built it

IoT Parrot started with a simple frustration: the smart-home space is full of beautiful, polished apps that only talk to their own brand of hardware. If you're the kind of person who likes to flash an ESP32, wire up a sensor on a breadboard, and run your own MQTT broker, none of those ecosystems are for you.

We built IoT Parrot for the people on the other side of that line — hobbyists, makers, and tinkerers who want to control their own devices, on their own infrastructure, without handing the keys to a closed platform.

What IoT Parrot is

IoT Parrot is a cross-platform app for controlling MQTT devices. You bring your own broker (or use a hosted one), define your devices and the topics they publish and subscribe to, and build dashboards with the widgets you actually need — switches, sliders, gauges, charts, maps. Schedule actions on cron timers, share dashboards with people you trust, trigger automations from NFC tags. It works on iOS, Android, and the web, and your configuration syncs across all three.

What IoT Parrot isn't

IoT Parrot isn't a closed ecosystem. We don't sell hardware, we don't lock you into a specific cloud, and we don't analyze or monetize your device data. Your MQTT messages go directly between your devices and your broker — they never touch our servers.

We're also not an enterprise platform. There's no team-based RBAC, no SLA-backed dashboards, no audit logs. If you need those, you should probably be looking at HiveMQ or AWS IoT. We're built for hobby-scale fleets — anywhere from one ESP32 in your closet up to a hundred devices around your house.

The company

IoT Parrot is operated by Lurawood Labs LLC. Questions, feedback, or just want to say hi? Email hello@iotparrot.com or visit our contact page.