All the Matter-compatible devices you can buy now, plus what’s coming soon to the Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung-backed smart home standard.
Matter is a new smart home standard built by Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and others to make the smart home easier to use. It’s a common communication protocol smart home device manufacturers can use in their gadgets to be sure they’ll work with other devices and with all the major smart home platforms.
Matter was launched in late 2022 with a few device types — locks, lights, sensors, shades, sensors, and plugs. In October 2023, the Connectivity Standards Alliance announced it’s bringing robot vacuums, refrigerators, washing machines, dishwashers, smoke and CO alarms, air quality sensors, air purifiers, room air conditioners, and fans to the standard. This means device makers and platforms can start adding support for these categories and that smart home users should be a little closer to being able to connect and control all their devices together through Matter.
This is welcome news, but Matter is still far from being the easy-to-use, simple interoperability solution we were promised. We don’t know yet if all the platforms will support all these new device types, as it’s not a requirement that they do. We’re also still missing some key features for devices (no energy management for smart plugs, adaptive lighting, or wide support of PINs for door locks), Thread border routers are still causing headaches in some smart homes, and cross-ecosystem supportis still spotty. (I tried migrating my Hue smart bulbs to Matter, and my advice is … don’t.)
Matter is still a long way from maturity. But if you’re eager to get started with the new common language for smart home devices, we’re keeping tabs on everything slated to work with Matter right here, so read on for all the gadgets, gizmos, and Thread border routers you can buy right now and those that are coming soon.
What matters about Matter?
If you’re unfamiliar with what Matter is, check out my deep dive — “Matter’s plan to save the smart home.” Or, here’s a quick summary:
Matter is a new standard developed by all the major players in the smart home, including Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung, and more. It’s designed to simplify the smart home and make buying, setting up, and using products easier. Its primary purpose is to help connected gadgets work with each other across platforms and ecosystems, so you won’t have to look to see if it works with Amazon Alexa, Apple Home, or Google Home when buying a smart gadget. If it works with Matter, it will work with any or all of them.
With Matter, you can control your smart gadgets with any Matter-compatible platform, simultaneously using iOS or Android devices or your voice assistant of choice. So, if you have an iPhone and your roommate has a Google Pixel, both of you can control your home.
Matter works locally over two wireless protocols, Thread and Wi-Fi, with no required cloud dependency. This should make turning your smart lights on as fast as flipping a light switch (just more convenient). Matter also has security built into the standard, so you can feel more confident about buying connected devices.
For more details on how Matter will work with each smart home platform, what you will need to get started with Matter, and how Matter actually works, read my explainer, “What Matters about Matter.”
In this article, you’ll find a comprehensive list of Matter-compatible products divided into categories and separated by whether you can buy them now or if they are coming soon. We’ll keep this updated as new information comes out.
By Jennifer Pattison Tuohy,