iConnectHue for Philips Hue 4+
Get the best out of your light
Stefan Gohler
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- $4.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
LIMITED TIME OFFER: 25% off the app and the first year of first Memberships!
Discover a whole new world of lighting with iConnectHue, the ultimate Philips Hue app. Transform your lighting experience with our smart timers, customizable switches, and intuitive sleep timers, allowing you to adapt your Hue lights effortlessly for every occasion.
Whether you yearn for a soothing ambiance or a lively party atmosphere with our optional Discotainment, iConnectHue has you covered. Immerse yourself in striking calibrated colors, captivating gradients, and enchanting Magic Scenes, perfect for any mood.
Our dynamic Animations breathe life into your home with lively color displays. For lightning-fast access to your lighting actions, our customizable widgets are at your fingertips.
Join us and elevate your lighting control to new heights with iConnectHue! Celebrated 5x as Philips' App of the month, we've created a potent, yet user-friendly interface that simplifies complex tasks. Step into the future of Hue light control today!
More about all the fantastic possibilities: iconnecthue.com/features
PLEASE NOTE: In case of any issues, please contact us! Our team will try hard to solve any problem that you may encounter.
Why iConnectHue?
• Full feature set: control almost every aspect of your Hues + constant updates
• Family focus: Scene sharing, family geofencing (first one turns on the light, last one off - optional), group hiding
• Everything non-music related happens on your bridge - your iPhone can stay off!
• Color animations on bridge. No empty batteries, everybody w/ iConnectHue can stop them!
• Color calibrated color picker w/ great gradient modes
• Create beautiful Magic Scenes, color your home - they work for every group & gradient light and are super easy to create
• Drag & drop colors between lights
• Multiply the possibilities of your switches and Motion Sensors! More flexibility than any other app on market (more: iconnecthue.com/features)
• Create the Today/Home widget you want! Add scenes, switches, sleep timers, reminders, light states and dimmers, motion sensor temperature & more
• Access your lights and timers when not at home
• Intelligent timers: Start them by time and day, by condition (group on/off or presence - w/ optional Automation), use colors & scenes, use random offsets, use sunrise or sunset time
• Instant timers: Darken lights when you go to bed, let your lights remind you, transition to scenes
• Find new lights & devices, add lights from other bridges, update your firmware
• Integrated tutorials and FAQ make it easy to understand the usage and to solve problems
• Supports all Hue Zigbee hardware & many 3rd party lights
To allow further development, additional modules are available via in app purchase or membership:
• Home & Away turns off lights when first arrives and last left + individually by user
• Animation Upgrade: unlimited animations, upload to switches, use them on your Apple Watch, widget & timers
• Discotainment: sync lights to music with Hue Entertainment, make your home a Disco - works with every source thanks to microphone use
• Weekend mode: let your switches and sensors act differently on week vs. weekend
• Watch Plus: control your groups, adjust their brightness and load their scenes
• Additional animation and Magic Scene packages
Memberships:
• Basic: All purchases, share your content, 2 Bridges @ 1 location (w/o switching)
• Pro: Like Basic, plus:
• Many bridges @ multiple locations w/o switching
• Light wizards: easily replace old lights, set startup mode via batch & on light search
• Daylight & Incandescent light mode
• Widget on Apple Watch
• Group picture/widget
• Apple Family Sharing of membership
• Advanced Shortcuts
• +More: iconnecthue.com/pro
Options & pricing: iconnecthue.com/app-options
It's less than a single Hue light! We want the best app for you and invest time and money. More:
iconnecthue.com/app-costs
It's the most comprehensive Hue app available:
iconnecthue.com/features/
HUE BRIDGE V2 REQUIRED!
Terms: iconnecthue.com/terms/eula_en.pdf
What’s New
Version 5.5.1
IMPORTANT: IF THE OLD OR NEW WIDGETS DON'T APPEAR, RESTART YOUR DEVICE! This is an issue in iOS.
This update is more or less 2-3 big updates in one - we're proud to present the best Home Widget available for Hue, and if this wasn't enough, we've extended Siri Shortcuts by quite an extent. In detail:
We now support Home Widgets - and they put more functionality in available space than any other Hue widget! One small and one medium with the 2024 upgrade, or any number and large widgets via a Membership. They support every action of the classic Widget - and more:
* All Home Widgets sync via iCloud
* Place them anywhere you like on your Home screen
* Duplicate & Share them with family members (Membership)
* Multi action, up to 4 actions for one group - a new one per press (Pro)
We've polished the way you can add new things to your widget - this is free for everybody! You can access your list of widgets now directly from iConnectHue's menu.
It took a lot of effort to support Home Widgets, in addition we redesigned them. The way they work is vastly different from the old widgets, they won't always show the latest state. But still, iConnectHue will always switch right. Opening the app or pressing the reload button in the middle will update them instantly.
(Available for every Member or w/ 2024 upgrade)
Pro Members will welcome the Multi Action Item - put up to 4 actions for the same group into it and step through them, like with the Hue Dimmer Hue button. This saves up to 75% space, and allows you complex actions even in a small widget.
IMPORTANT: If the old or new widgets don't appear, please restart your iOS device. This is a bug in iOS.
Also note that the classic widget is marked as "deprecated" since multiple years by Apple. It might happen that it will disappear with a future iOS update. Home Widgets require iOS 17, as this introduced interactive Widgets.
Siri Shortcuts
You can now create and edit shortcuts in the shortcuts app directly - with nice lists of what you can do and where.
The old way of doing things in the app and adding them as shortcut afterwards isn't available any longer, but you can still create shortcuts within iConnectHue via its menu.
(Available for every Member or w/ 2024 upgrade)
Note: If you get the error that something went wrong in the shortcuts app, please restart your device. This is a bug in iOS.
In addition to this, Pro Members get a new selection of possible shortcuts and actions:
* Change brightness of a group
* Toggle a Motion Sensor, Contact Sensor
* Turn a group on in 2 hour sun-adjusting daylight mode
* Set the color of a group via color code (see our Copy & Paste tutorial for possible codes)
If you run into any problem, please let us know so we can take care of it. Thank you!
Other detail improvements:
* Try out the new things without purchase; Running new shortcuts and using Home Widgets though requires the appropriate purchase
* Toggle the Contact Sensor on/off from any widget (2024 upgrade)
* Pro: Improved color pasting can also pass brightness (see our Copy & Paste tutorial for possible codes)
* Contact sensor open state indicated via icon in device list
* Added support for new light types
* Several detail improvements - finders, keepers
* Fixes and stability improvements - yes, we also do that...
IMPORTANT: IF THE OLD OR NEW WIDGETS DON'T APPEAR, OR SHORTCUTS DON'T WORK, RESTART YOUR DEVICE!
Note that some things might only be available in iOS 17, and we strongly recommend to update to the latest iOS version for everything to work properly.
•• Please help us with a positive App store rating - thanks for your support! ••
If you run into any issues, don’t hesitate, contact us from within the app. You will surely get support! Need a quick check for a question? We also have an elaborate FAQ: https://iconnecthue.com/f-a-q/
Ratings and Reviews
Best Business Model :)
The guy who wrote “Bad Business Model” is a clown. Obviously he doesn’t know anything about hard work and a fantastic app. Super easy very simple to navigate and the updates are great.
Excellent App
This is one of the best apps I have ever used and is without a doubt the best app for controlling Phillips Hue lights.
A highly recommended and stable app. A+!
I have reached out to the developer for help a few times in the past and was surprised to get useful help and support.
Ehhh
Cool idea don’t get me wrong. But when I buy an app, I expect to be getting everything.
Developer Response ,
Dear pizza-gamer,
thank you for your review.
Don’t get us wrong - but it’s all written in our app description ;)
Did you get endless gas for paying $7 once? Probably not. It’s the same here - we are working continuously on this app, to give you new features and update it for new hardware and firmware. As you can imagine, continuous work cannot be for free. We don’t sell any data and don’t have any kind of ads. To fund our work for you, we thus rely on additional in-app purchases and memberships - which are announced in the AppStore description and the screenshots.
If you would like to get all features (and also share them in your household) we recommend our memberships!
More details what you can get with iConnectHue Pro: https://iconnecthue.com/pro/
Best regards,
Your iConnectHue Team
App Privacy
The developer, Stefan Gohler, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- User Content
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Stefan Gohler
- Size
- 63.5 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 8.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Danish, French, German, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2013-2024 iConnectHue
- Price
- $4.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Home & Away $0.99
- Animation Upgrade $3.99
- Discotainment $3.99
- Widget Editor $2.99
- Watch Plus $2.99
- Pro membership 12 months $24.99
- Basic membership 12 months $14.99
- Christmas animation package $2.99
- Multi Bridge $4.99
- Summer delights $2.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.