iConnectHue for Philips Hue 4+
Get the best out of your light
Stefan Gohler
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- 3,99 €
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
HALLOWEEN - we have a set of 8 spooky Animations, available until mid Nov! LIMITED TIME OFFER: 25% off the app!
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 daily 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 stays 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 - 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 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, many & large Widgets, 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 5.7.1
It's going to get flashy with this update, be prepared for:
Halloween Animations!
Following our yearly tradition, we've made our Halloween Animations available again to everybody, which now includes 8 spooky animations!
As always, available for free until mid November, or, with Membership, available all year.
Hint: You can also put these on motion sensors and switches or timers, if you want some extra-scariness (w/ Membership or Animation Upgrade).
(Available to everybody)
Support for new Hue effects
We've added support for Philips' new effects, they're available for every light under the "effects" menu.
Note that their availability depends on whether you have the latest bridge firmware (1.66), your lights support them and that Philips enabled them for your bridge. If they're not available right now, try to check for a new firmware and/or give it a few days until they're announced by Philips themselves.
(Available for every Member or w/ 2024 upgrade or when purchased in 2024)
Classic Widgets and iOS 18
Please note that Apple discontinued support for the Classic Widgets in iOS 18, hence you can only use Home Widgets with it. We've put a lot of work into making Home Widgets do the same and more, albeit working completely different and being more restricted, and we recommend you to make the switch to them.
If you want to stay with the Classic Widgets, the only way is not to install iOS 18. But please note that due to issues in iOS' app extension handling, we've found that Classic Widgets are not as reliable as they used to be - we're sorry about that, but at the same time, cannot do anything about it, as we do not have access to iOS' internals. Again, we recommend to use Home Widgets instead by now.
Please restart your device if your Widgets are not working out of the box after this update due to iOS' extension handling.
Other detail improvements
• We've prepared iConnectHue for iOS 18
• Hue Twilight: We've added support for 2 additional model types of it; If it didn't appear in your device list, it should by now
• Some dialogues enhanced
• Fixes and stability improvements - yes, we also do that...
•• Please support us with a positive App store rating - thank you very much! ••
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
Excellent
Well worth the money for the ”pro” subscription.
Developer Response ,
Dear KenSu,
thank you very much for your positive review!
Thanks for your support - we are happy to hear that you enjoy our Pro membership :)
We wish you a lot of fun with iConnectHue!
Frustrating, complex and capable
To be honest, it has no competition. If you want to set up your Hue lights to do more than the Philips app lets you, this is it. But it is not easy and it is frequently frustrating.
Like the game of musical chairs when you need to repurpose a light and move it from room to room, but rooms can’t be empty and lights can’t be in two rooms. Or when you replace a bulb and need to redo every scene it has been involved in for every group it is in.
It’s capable and very deep but you pay for the depth with the hours you spend fixing things.
Developer Response ,
Hello password123, thank you for your review. To make your groups available for the Hue App, please create Zones. But to avoid confusion, we recommend to use only iConnectHue. Scenes are room/group specific because often the groups and lights are very different. For universal use we developed our Magic Scenes.
If Magic Scenes aren't what you're looking for: With version 4.1, we'll have a light migration wizard, which will allow you to replace lights automatically for most settings app-wide, including scenes.
What Philips should have made their app like in the first place
What Philips should have made their app like in the first place -
App seems comprehensive, at a glance hard to tell how much you can do with it. Bought it after reading about ’Happy New Year’ animations in update info, quite a letdown that they cost extra.
Developer Response ,
Dear Hetken voi pelata,
thank you for your review.
We are happy to hear that you like our app.
Regarding the costs: we, as any other app developers, have to finance our app and our salaries. We've informed in the app introduction for new purchasers like you that it's a separate purchase, maybe this has been overlooked?
Contrary to the Hue app, we cannot cross-finance it by hardware sales. And we have also decided against selling your data or spamming you with adverts.
iConnectHue now exists since almost 8 years! Such a long time with constant updates and upgrades is not possible with the initial app purchase only. For those who do not have a membership, additional content is an in app purchase.
You are of course free to choose which ones you want to have, noone is forced to pay for features that are not needed, but if someone would like to have a bit more functionality can buy them.
This allows us to always offer you an app that is up-to-date, and also to add new features - quite a few of them for free!
In case of the new year animations, we had to tweak iConnectHue in several ways, which required testing and rolling out new features only to get this animation set ready for new year's eve. We think asking for a fair share of this and considering that it's MUCH cheaper than actual fireworks, yet it works as many times as you want is well worth its price.
If you would like to know more about this topic, which is relevant not only for us but also other developers, we'd recommend reading this article on our website: https://iconnecthue.com/app-costs/
We wish you a lot of fun with iConnectHue!
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 based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
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Stefan Gohler has identified itself as a trader for this app and confirmed that this product or service complies with European Union law.
- DUNS Number
- 315191146
- Address
- Doberaner Strasse 16a Parkentin Germany
- Phone Number
- +49 38203727877
- appstore@iconnecthue.com
- Size
- 63.4 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
- 3,99 €
- In-App Purchases
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- Pro membership 12 months 19,99 €
- Discotainment 4,99 €
- Home & Away 1,99 €
- Animation Upgrade 3,99 €
- Basic membership 12 months 12,99 €
- Watch Plus 2,99 €
- Multi Bridge 5,99 €
- 2024 Upgrade 4,99 €
- Classic Widget Editor 2,49 €
- 2020 Upgrade 4,99 €
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.