Hue Lights User Reviews

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Naveed

App is good but the worst thing is ,not compatible with Alexa
I made user sequences but they cannot be activated by Alexa routines
My advise to make all scenes and sequences Alexa compatible in new update

Great app!

Perfect for controlling my lights. Thanks for making this!

Best app ever to control Hue Lights

I have loved this app for almost 10 years. The recent updates ensure compatibility with the new Hue bridge pro and, of course, the older bridge. Simple easy to use layout, fantastic programming capabilities, great developer support. I have tried a half dozen alternatives, this one is the best by far!
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Response from developer

The Philips Hue Bridge Pro is supported. Make sure to download the latest version of the app. There are always new features and bug fixes with each release.

Jan

I love the lights. It helps me when you’re disabled. You can just turn on the lightswithout coming out of the bed. Thank you.

Great App

I’ve been using this app since its first release. I’ve tried other apps to control my Philips Hue lights, but none provide the same level of functionality with such good user experience. The regular updates and improvements are great. The developer is very responsive to requests and provides fairly immediate responses for troubleshooting and issues. The advice is consistently helpful and resolves any problems quickly. Highly recommended!
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Don’t work

After last update they quit working

Cue the Song “Taps.”

The most noticeable thing about the latest 4.6 update is the “Nothing works anymore, at all, ever again…” feature.

A great secondary app

If you consider yourself a hue power user that is mixing Zigbee lights from different brands you need this app.

I’m not reviewing this as my primary app because I don’t use it as a primary app. I use it for its touchlink ability to connect other bulbs.

If you ever find a technical solution that is suggesting touchlink to connect your bulbs to the hue hub, you want this app
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Don’t buy if you have the Bridge Pro!

I have loved this app for almost 10 years. Does NOT work with new Philips Hue Bridge Pro. No ETA on when /or if there will be an update.

Doesn’t work with the Bridge 2.0.

The app doesn’t work with the newbie bridge 2.0 over complicated app

Excellent scenes and app support

I’ve had this app for years; my first, 3rd party app for my hue lights and the only app that provides a truly accurate template of a simple sunrise and sunset.

Sunrise and sunset. It doesn’t feel like it should be difficult to do this, yet the Hue app falls short of what this app was doing years ago.

Developer response to specific problems is within a week - often within a day - sometimes within hours and offers thoughtful, individualized suggestions.

Unfortunately, I stopped buying Hue lights when I found other brands that were reliable, color accurate much more affordable.

Please note: that UI can be a little dry and off-putting. Set up your sequences and add them to the Hue control box or add them as widgets on your phone and you’ll be set.
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Response from developer

Thanks for your review! We welcome all feedback and new feature requests. Enjoy your sunrise and sunset.

Wonderful

This app is wonderful. No other Hue app comes close to the control I can get from this. Wow.

Too complicated

This app is too complicated. Aunt nobody got time to get a PhD in Hue light control.

Latest update did not resolve anything

The app is less responsive than before. You may think that the HUE company is working against this developer, as command execution is “half-arsed.” I was looking for a more appropriate description, but this word suits my situation perfectly. I found myself fixing one thing when another stopped working. Things are falling apart quickly. I purchased premium upgrades, but during the scenes, some lights simply lose connectivity (this never happens with other apps). Animations are just a fantasy world—90% of the content doesn’t animate, or the animation screen gets frozen, waiting for God knows what. It seems that the app has lost its direction in the world of HUE lights, or it is simply in development mode, and the HUE company has completely disconnected from it. Disappointing.
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Used to be a great app!

This used to be a great app, but now it no longer pairs with my hub when I press the button, also my company phone does not allow in app purchases, but I can purchase apps from the App Store just not in app purchases. so this makes the app kind of useless for me. I paid for it once and now I can’t pull my purchased app because security settings do not allow in app purchases even though I’m not purchasing it again I can’t even pull my license in. Meh
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Response from developer

Tap the Philips Hue bridge icon at the upper left of the Hue Lights Home Screen. Tap “Search for bridges.” When your bridge appears tap on it. This should re-establish your connection. Only 1 of the 3 bridge search techniques needs to find your bridge. Make sure you are connected to the same WiFi network as your bridge. If you still have connection issues, powering down your Philips Hue bridge, WiFi router and iOS device for 10 seconds often clears up strange problems. Make sure that Hue Lights has permission to find devices on your local network. You can check this by launching the Settings app and scrolling down to the Hue Lights app. The Local Network item should be enabled. Refer to these sample screenshots for the required settings. If you are trying to use remote access away from home, disable iCloud remote relay. Here are more troubleshooting tips: https://huelights.com/faq.html#faq-2100

Scam

Just get the real Philips Hue app which is way better than this app and doesn’t try to scam you for $6 to get control over more than TWO lights. SCAM ALERT

Works with Hue v1 bridge (too) !

Thanks for the well made app! I am able to continue using my gen 1 lights and bridge 😊

Got my hue working

Got my old hue lights working in seconds, perfect app

Worst app on App Store

I can’t believe apple let this on the store takes all your information and it don’t bloody well work I even paid a tech expert to set up and he said worst app ever so all the YouTube reviews and store reviews are fake it constantly runs in background even when refused access it still runs no stopping it wants access to everything but can’t find light bulbs £200 on light bulbs and not one can it find obviously a scam
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Super helpful

The touchlink function let me connect to two hue bulbs my bridge couldn’t find. Very useful app!