Thank you for all the downloads — and what’s coming next

First of all: thank you.

Every download, test, comment, bug report, screenshot, and idea means a lot. HADS and Drag & Drop Card started as a way to make Home Assistant dashboards easier to build, share, and reuse, and seeing people actually download and use the work is incredibly motivating.

The latest Drag & Drop Card release, v1.0.2, focused on making the tab experience smoother and more predictable. The tab bar is now cleaner, active tabs stay visible, the first tab no longer gets clipped, and the layout behaves better on narrow screens and mobile devices. It is a small release on paper, but it improves something people interact with constantly.

Before that, v1.0.1 added practical quality-of-life improvements like layout deletion, quicker card editing by double-clicking in edit mode, and card-specific settings for overflow behavior and tab placement. And the first official release brought the bigger foundation: multi-tab layouts, dynamic resizing, rich backgrounds, screen saver mode, fullscreen/kiosk-style dashboards, password-protected editing, improved auto-save, and better grid/snap behavior.

Now we are working on making the whole ecosystem around the card better too.

In the next Drag & Drop Card release, the focus is on making it easier to publish, discover, understand, and maintain great Home Assistant dashboards and cards. Some of the bigger things coming are:

For HADS:

• Better support for both single cards and full dashboard exports - You can now upload both!
• Version history, so creators can upload new versions while older ones remain available
• Editable versions, including the ability to delete a specific uploaded version
• Instillation notes can be added to a card / dashboard listing!
• A wiki with sections, You can start reading it here
• A request system where users can ask for a card or dashboard, vote on ideas, attach sketches, and add a bounty
• Better Stripe onboarding status, creator account indicators, sales/order visibility, and simple analytics

The goal is simple: HADS should not just be a place to download files. It should feel like a real marketplace and knowledge base for Home Assistant dashboard creators.

For The Drag & Drop Card

This is some (not all) of the features that will come in the new release of the drag and drop card:

• Animated lines and connectors - More advanced connector editing with animated lines, hook points, corner handles, and Z-index control.
• Improved screensaver - New visual screensaver styles, better entity support, and correct custom names/labels when the screensaver is shown.
• Web card / HTML card - More flexible web and HTML-based cards for building custom dashboard widgets directly inside Drag and Drop Card.
• Packages - Support for bundled Home Assistant package content, making it easier to keep helpers, automations, scripts, and YAML connected to a dashboard design.
• Layers - Organize cards into layers, visibility groups, modes, or temporary views that can be toggled as needed.
• View functionality - Better preview and view tools for testing dashboards across desktop, tablet, and mobile layouts.
• Auto / Fixed canvas modes - Choose between a fixed Full HD canvas or an Auto canvas that scales to the current viewport.

Thank you again to everyone who has downloaded, tested, shared, or given feedback so far. The project is improving because people are actually using it, pushing it, and telling us where it can be better.

More soon.