Philips Hue

Name: Philips Hue
Rating: 4.7 (95741 reviews)
Author: Signify Netherlands B.V.

Official Philips Hue app

Free · In‑App Purchases

96K Ratings
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4+
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Lifestyle
Developer

Signify Netherlands B.V.
Language

EN
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Size

248.8
MB

The official Philips Hue app is the most comprehensive way to organize, control, and customize your Philips Hue smart lights and accessories. Organize your smart lights Group your lights into Rooms or Zones — your entire downstairs floor or all the lights in the living room, for example — that mirror the physical rooms in your home. Easily control your lights — from anywhere Use the app to control your lights anywhere you have an internet connection. Explore the Hue scene gallery Created by professional lighting designers, the scenes in the scene gallery can help you set the mood for any occasion. You can even create your own scenes based on a photo or your favorite colors. Set up bright home security Make your home feel safer, no matter where you are. The Security Center lets you program your Secure cameras, Secure contact sensors, and indoor motion sensors to send you alerts when they detect activity. Trigger light and sound alarms, call the authorities or a trusted contact, and monitor your home in real-time. Get the best light for any moment of the day Let your lights change automatically throughout the day with the Natural light scene — so you feel more energized, focused, relaxed, or rested at the right times. Just set the scene to watch your lights change with the sun’s movement, transitioning from cool blue tones in the morning to warmer, relaxing hues for sunset. Automate your lights Make your smart lights work around your daily routine. Whether you want your lights to gently wake you up in the morning or greet you when you get home, setting up customizable automations in the Philips Hue app is effortless. Sync your lights to TV, music, and games Make your lights flash, dance, dim, brighten, and change color in sync with your screen or sound! With the Philips Hue Play HDMI sync box, the Philips Hue Sync for TV or desktop apps, or Spotify, you can create totally immersive experiences. Set up voice control Use Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, or Google Assistant to control your smart lights with voice commands. Turn lights on and off, dim and brighten, or even change colors — completely hands-free. Use Siri Shortcuts for quick control Use the Shortcuts app to create shortcuts that you can place into widgets on your Home Screen for even faster control of your lights. Turn lights on or off, adjust their brightness and temperature, or set scenes — all without even opening the app. Learn more about the official Philips Hue app: www.philips-hue.com/app. Read the Philips Hue Privacy Notice at www.philips-hue.com/privacy. Note: Some features in this app require a Philips Hue Bridge.

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

96K Ratings

Love!!!
Jun 11

HealthyEnergetics
We’ve had a house full of hue lights for 10 years. After a while they get into my rhythm. They turn themselves on and off and it’s like having my dad when I was little. Always saying, “who left the light on”. Recently we did some remodeling and the bathrooms got 36 inch round mirror set in a bracket with spools of thread to hold it at the right distance. It looks great. Everyone wants one and we saved so much money doing it ourselves. My son came along and I asked him to set the auto sequence. At first I was annoyed because he could see the light blue walls, so why did he make it pink. Then a few minutes later it went back to blue. He set it up to say good morning. I see you. And I love you. In lights every morning. Thanks for being a part of us Hue. Even if the lights in my son’s bathroom turned off when I was in the middle of my shower. Oh and as our system aged, it was harder to get the right power cords and plugs. If you are going to change the engineering, support it. Don’t make me look on eBay!!! I love my globe on the back porch. I love to teach the kids how to make it any color their finger gets to. I have an ap for a thunder storm and it makes the kitchen cabinets turn on like florescent bulbs how they kind of bounce. These things bring me joy because I am comforted by light. Leave the light on!!
Love!!!
Jun 11

HealthyEnergetics

We’ve had a house full of hue lights for 10 years. After a while they get into my rhythm. They turn themselves on and off and it’s like having my dad when I was little. Always saying, “who left the light on”. Recently we did some remodeling and the bathrooms got 36 inch round mirror set in a bracket with spools of thread to hold it at the right distance. It looks great. Everyone wants one and we saved so much money doing it ourselves. My son came along and I asked him to set the auto sequence. At first I was annoyed because he could see the light blue walls, so why did he make it pink. Then a few minutes later it went back to blue. He set it up to say good morning. I see you. And I love you. In lights every morning. Thanks for being a part of us Hue. Even if the lights in my son’s bathroom turned off when I was in the middle of my shower. Oh and as our system aged, it was harder to get the right power cords and plugs. If you are going to change the engineering, support it. Don’t make me look on eBay!!! I love my globe on the back porch. I love to teach the kids how to make it any color their finger gets to. I have an ap for a thunder storm and it makes the kitchen cabinets turn on like florescent bulbs how they kind of bounce. These things bring me joy because I am comforted by light. Leave the light on!!
Great overall; has a few issues
03/10/2023

Seth Seger
The Hue system is the best I’ve seen for home smart lighting, hands-down! The app is beautiful, and the out-of-the-box scenes are gorgeous, and work pretty seamlessly; the more Hue lights you have, the better it looks, and it scales automagically when I add new lights. The automations are the only disappointment I have with it at all; they’re super basic, and haven’t improved much over the last ~3 years or so since I’ve had Hue lights. A recent update actually seems to have removed some of the previously-available functionality of the automations, and/or made the UI for that part of the app very unintuitive (I’m not sure which yet — still trying to figure it out since the changes). It’s way more difficult (impossible?) to get really granular scene fades/changes than it should be, IMO. To be fair, it looks to me like they’ve been focusing on making automations “just work” out of the box, rather than making users create a bunch of complex automations manually, but for those of us who have really specific ideas about how we want our automations to work, the automations are still woefully lacking, even after all these years of time they’ve had to build those features out. There are other apps that pick up some of the slack, but they’re very unpolished and in some ways worse. So, all that is to say — yay for this app for being the best overall app available for Hue lighting, but why are the automations still so basic, after all this time!?!?
Great overall; has a few issues
03/10/2023

Seth Seger

The Hue system is the best I’ve seen for home smart lighting, hands-down! The app is beautiful, and the out-of-the-box scenes are gorgeous, and work pretty seamlessly; the more Hue lights you have, the better it looks, and it scales automagically when I add new lights. The automations are the only disappointment I have with it at all; they’re super basic, and haven’t improved much over the last ~3 years or so since I’ve had Hue lights. A recent update actually seems to have removed some of the previously-available functionality of the automations, and/or made the UI for that part of the app very unintuitive (I’m not sure which yet — still trying to figure it out since the changes). It’s way more difficult (impossible?) to get really granular scene fades/changes than it should be, IMO. To be fair, it looks to me like they’ve been focusing on making automations “just work” out of the box, rather than making users create a bunch of complex automations manually, but for those of us who have really specific ideas about how we want our automations to work, the automations are still woefully lacking, even after all these years of time they’ve had to build those features out. There are other apps that pick up some of the slack, but they’re very unpolished and in some ways worse. So, all that is to say — yay for this app for being the best overall app available for Hue lighting, but why are the automations still so basic, after all this time!?!?
Love the layout but needs more presets & customization
08/11/2024

HariboDelicious
I am obsessed with my Hugh Phillips lights! So much so that I’ve bought nearly $1000 worth and I don’t regret a thing. The app design is slick and modern, with an easy to understand, intuitive layout. Some of the features, such as unstacking gradient, light strips with multiple color options within the color wheel, take some googling to initially uncover. But once you get the hang of it, it’s fun to design your own scenes. There are a few things that I wish Philip would improve upon. The grouping system, especially related to syncing music and other media by creating “entertainment zones“, can be somewhat frustrating and can leave you with several overlapping groups. Moreover– as a previous nano leaf user – I can say that Phillips lacks the lighting customization options that the former’s app permits. Some of the lights seem capable of additional color points yet gradients are always limited to three no matter the size or length. Finally, I wish Phillips would release more presets that you can install on your devices. Addition to the 30 or 40 that are always in the store, it seems they occasionally release seasonal presets. But there is no way to share or view additional presets either Phillips designs or customers. Overall, I would definitely recommend lighting your house with Phillips Hue. The app could just use a bit more fine-tuning to provide the functionality that competitors apps seem to allow.
Love the layout but needs more presets & customization
08/11/2024

HariboDelicious

I am obsessed with my Hugh Phillips lights! So much so that I’ve bought nearly $1000 worth and I don’t regret a thing. The app design is slick and modern, with an easy to understand, intuitive layout. Some of the features, such as unstacking gradient, light strips with multiple color options within the color wheel, take some googling to initially uncover. But once you get the hang of it, it’s fun to design your own scenes. There are a few things that I wish Philip would improve upon. The grouping system, especially related to syncing music and other media by creating “entertainment zones“, can be somewhat frustrating and can leave you with several overlapping groups. Moreover– as a previous nano leaf user – I can say that Phillips lacks the lighting customization options that the former’s app permits. Some of the lights seem capable of additional color points yet gradients are always limited to three no matter the size or length. Finally, I wish Phillips would release more presets that you can install on your devices. Addition to the 30 or 40 that are always in the store, it seems they occasionally release seasonal presets. But there is no way to share or view additional presets either Phillips designs or customers. Overall, I would definitely recommend lighting your house with Phillips Hue. The app could just use a bit more fine-tuning to provide the functionality that competitors apps seem to allow.
Pretty good start
04/04/2019

XXiiSARGEiiXX
Just started using the Philips Hue products about a week ago. Overall I am impressed with their products. This app is decent, seems intuitive to use. There are 2 things I would really like to see from this app. 1. Be able to sort rooms. This would be very helpful. I would like my rooms to be listed in Alpha order without having to go in and redo all of them. 2. Be able to add sub-rooms (maybe a different name) to rooms. If I have light bulbs, the play bar, lamps, etc in the same room, I would like an easy to to control them with in that room without having to create separate rooms for each set of lights/devices I want to control in a room.Update #1: I figured out how to sort rooms, that is great, wasn’t very obvious to start, glad it is available. Since using the Philips Hue system for a couple weeks I realize some other things I would like to see. It would so nice to have a pool of available scenes, since there is a limit to the number of scenes and devices that can be on a hub. This really should not be that difficult to implement. Also another easy implementation would be to have a checkbox on your sensors, something along the lines on the Do not disturb that is in the labs. Except it really doesn’t need to be all that complex, simply if you have a scene on do not change it. Those are two very easy fixes that I would love to see.
Pretty good start
04/04/2019

XXiiSARGEiiXX

Just started using the Philips Hue products about a week ago. Overall I am impressed with their products. This app is decent, seems intuitive to use. There are 2 things I would really like to see from this app. 1. Be able to sort rooms. This would be very helpful. I would like my rooms to be listed in Alpha order without having to go in and redo all of them. 2. Be able to add sub-rooms (maybe a different name) to rooms. If I have light bulbs, the play bar, lamps, etc in the same room, I would like an easy to to control them with in that room without having to create separate rooms for each set of lights/devices I want to control in a room.Update #1: I figured out how to sort rooms, that is great, wasn’t very obvious to start, glad it is available. Since using the Philips Hue system for a couple weeks I realize some other things I would like to see. It would so nice to have a pool of available scenes, since there is a limit to the number of scenes and devices that can be on a hub. This really should not be that difficult to implement. Also another easy implementation would be to have a checkbox on your sensors, something along the lines on the Do not disturb that is in the labs. Except it really doesn’t need to be all that complex, simply if you have a scene on do not change it. Those are two very easy fixes that I would love to see.

- The Hue AI-powered assistant can now create automations on demand. Just describe what behavior you’d like, and it will create one for you. Don't worry – you can always adjust it later if necessary (available in selected countries for phones set to English). - You can now take quick actions directly from your locked screen for Hue secure motion detected notifications such as the ability to mark as a safe event or turn on lights from your security devices like indoor motion sensor, contact sensor and camera devices. - Your security timeline events will now be categorized as per security events, making it easier to read through your timeline history.

Version 5.55.0

2d ago

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