The easiest yet most powerful way to control your Philips Hue lights and devices with your Mac. For Day-to-Day. For Pros.
The app integrates seamlessly into the menu bar, from where you can easily manage and control all your lights and other devices. We Love Lights Studio provides you access to pro features for a much better control experience. New rooms, zones, lights, smart plugs, motion sensors, switches and status items can be added, renamed, rearranged, customized or hidden when not needed. All these functions work with Philips Hue Bridges (no Bluetooth support yet) and Phoscon deCONZ Bridges (e.g. Conbee). You can connect to multiple bridges, even remotely when you are not at home.
All functions at a glance:
• Beautiful and intuitive user interface, available in two views: Menu in the menubar & Studio window
• Create, delete or simply recall rooms/zones, lights, smart plugs, scenes, motion sensors and switches
• Dim or switch rooms and zones
• Adjust color, saturation, and brightness (depending on light type) for all your lights using multiple color pickers
• Define or change rules and configurations for motion sensors and switches
• Hide unneeded groups and devices
• Re-sort groups and devices
• Automatically syncs with the Philips Hue mobile app
• Support for global hotkeys
• Support for Shortcut App for automations
• Multi-Bridge support: Control multiple Philips Hue Bridges or Phoscon deCONZ Bridges simultaneously
• Remote access: Use your Philips Hue bridge even when you are not at home
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Awesome
AZKriegs
I was an anti-Hue guy for a long time because of the price. But after getting a few bulbs and then using their app, I was sold. Everything just works. And it looks beautiful. The Hue app has every feature I'd want. But no Mac app. Then I found We Love Lights. It's the exact same feeling. It does everything you'd want it to do, and it looks beautiful. Thanks for making such a great app.
Perfect for Mac
nickwichman
The We Love Lights app has effectively replaced all of the Philips Hue Sync/control ratchet attempts that have been made in the past. I use this app daily, and it works just as it should to control my entire house from my MacBook. I’m grateful that it exists.
Sub-par experience
violet_pigeon
- If you have multiple hubs, there's no way to show all of them through the mac tray icon's drop-down menu.- There's no way to create custom groups *outside* of the Hue app.- There's no easy way to precisely set values for multiple lights simultaneously.- The app keeps asking for feedback, but it triggers the mail app if I wish to send any feature requests. It is not hard to implement a simple form in-app.
Developer Response
Thanks for receiving your feedback. Indeed there are good feature requests I will start working on it.
Exactly what I needed
Tumbleweed56
Easy to use, quick to setup. I love being able to control my Phillips Hue bulbs from my Mac, and not have to reach for my phone while on video calls.
Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback, glad to know 👍
New Features:
- Backported to macOS 13 to reach a wider audience
- Redesigned toggle buttons and sliders with new styles and animations for a more engaging interface
- Added option to use accent colors instead of colors reflecting the current light state
- New languages added: Dutch, Spanish, and Catalan
- New menubar icon rendering
- Brightness value animation on group menu toggle buttons
Resolved Issues:
- Fixed a foreground color issue with group and device buttons in light mode
- Disabled background polling in remote mode to improve performance
- Fixed crashes during SSL handshaking
- Fixed group and device buttons not being tappable when background style is set to transparent
- Fixed a glitch with collapsible section headers on macOS 26
- Fixed misplaced menu icon popover
- Fixed potential memory leaks
- Improved performance by caching bridge service objects
Version 3.7
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