# Lamptier for Philips Hue — user reviews > 51 indexed App Store user reviews of Lamptier for Philips Hue by Infoality Ltd, rated 4.60/5 from 398 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lamptier-for-philips-hue/id1312926257/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lamptier-for-philips-hue/id1312926257.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 310 · 4★ 46 · 3★ 16 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 23 ## What do users think of Lamptier for Philips Hue? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - ✨ Beautiful and impressive lighting scenes - 🎨 Unique 3D spatial positioning of lights - 🎵 Integration with Spotify and Apple Music - 💡 Innovative mood and ambiance creation - 🎭 Wide variety of themed scenes - ⚡ Sophisticated yet simple to use (when working) - 🎯 Individual light control capabilities **Cons** - 💰 Expensive subscription model - 🐛 Frequent crashes and connection failures - ⏱️ Slow and unresponsive performance - 🔋 Excessive battery drain in background - 🎵 Random/inconsistent Spotify track selection - ❌ Poor UI/UX design and intuitiveness - 📱 Compatibility issues with iOS updates - 🚫 No integration with smart home ecosystems - ⚠️ Lack of developer updates and maintenance - 🔌 Bridge connection and setup issues **Commonly reported bugs** - Effects fail to download - Cannot find lights or bridge - App crashes during bridge setup - Long startup times and unresponsiveness - Scenes take several minutes to load - Light limit capped at 15 lights despite paid plan - Routines cannot be turned off intuitively - Routines persist after uninstall - Sleep timer renames rooms and breaks HomeKit sync - Music sync causes phone freezing - Inverse light selection behavior - App crashes on iOS updates - Restore purchase functionality fails - Apple Music integration rarely works - Scenes content fails to download **Most requested features** - Siri Shortcuts integration - Alexa and Google Home compatibility - Apple Watch app - IFTTT support - Multiple bridge support - Multiple lights per wall/floor/ceiling - Camera-based light recognition - Force Touch quick access - Lights-only scenes without music - Consistent music track selection - Easy routine on/off toggle - Physical button/switch control - Offline functionality ## Newest reviews (12 of 51) ### 3/5 — Cool Features, Meh Execution *2021-11-10, version 1.7.5* When first downloaded all of the features and functionality were exciting to explore. The UI is super clunky, not intuitive or responsive at all. Fix that and you can have my money but right now not paying for it. ### 3/5 — App has become slow and unresponsive *2021-10-24, version 1.7.5* Great app, when it works! And lately it doesn’t. Long startup times which is unacceptable on a flagship iPhone. Once it starts, constant messages that the app is getting your scenes ready all the time now. Starting a new scene takes several minutes, leaving you in the dark. All of this needs fixing pronto for your subscribers. ### 4/5 — No more updates? *2021-07-20, version 1.7.4* The app as it is … is pretty solid. There are some lighting effects you won’t find in any other app. My big concern is however there haven’t been any updates to the app in 9 plus months and counting … description says there would be updates for the subscription we pay and new scenes etc, however that seems to have stopped. Was being updated with fixes at least monthly. Developer are you still active or did this app become abandoned? ### 4/5 — A must have for Phillips Hue *2020-12-13, version 1.7.4* Hands-down probably one of the best Hue light control apps in the Apple store. The ability to spatially position the lights in a room makes all the difference. Unfortunately that is a little time-consuming and it would be ideal if the designer could utilize the iOS device’s camera to recognize and plot the bulbs in a room much like the twinkly light app does for Christmas tree lights. One of the great features is that the app draws audio directly from Spotify and Apple Music. It would be nice if you could also have the lights sync to audio tracks played from the sounds in a room via the iOS mic. This would overcome the hurdles of partnership with the various music streaming services or if you just simply wanted to use your local radio station. But other than those minor things this app is stellar! If you have a Phillips Hue lighting system, you need this app!! ### 3/5 — Good App that Can Easily Be Great *2020-12-09, version 1.7.4* What I love most about this app are the impressive scenes. When they do update with news ones I always find a new favorite and they really do help when changing vibes from relaxed to upbeat to when we were living in the BC era (Before Covid) it made entertaining a lot of fun. I’m not sure if it’s just me but it always causes my phone to freeze when music is being synced. And I would really love it if the app could integrate with other devices such Alexa or chrome cast etc etc. instead I often have to delete the app and abandon syncing music to it. ### 2/5 — Was a FANTASTIC APP before the iOS update *2020-10-03, version 1.7.3* This Avenue no longer works since I updated to the new iOS. Ever since then my Phillips hue brakes cannot be located and the app takes forever to load. Also there are never any updates or new scenes created for this app like other apps that give a new seen every week or every month at least. We are paying a fee to use the south so we would expect a little bit more than the standard things that come with it. Something every week or every month to make us more excited to use the app and want to continue to purchase A subscription to use this app would be great ### 3/5 — Battery Destroyer *2020-07-14, version 1.7.1* The lighting effects are nice. The way it uses battery in the background is not. For example, yesterday night Lamptier drained 30% of my iPad Pro battery and 36% of my iPhone X battery over 17 hours during which it was not being used. No lighting effects were being displayed, but it kept slaughtering battery in the background. So make sure you force quit it when you’re done. A few other improvements I’d like to see: the interface is pretty but poorly designed from a functional standpoint. There are also way more scenes with soundtracks than without, and it would be nice to be able to run some more without playing any music. ### 3/5 — Awesome app. Seriously lacking in control options. *2020-07-07, version 1.7.1* This app is wonderful in what it achieves. The lighting scenes are beautiful. Operating the app is non-intuitive for 2/3rds of my family and none of my visiting friends could decipher it - many already have philips hue. Once you active one if the beautiful scenes you can only stop it with the app. There is no integration with anything that would make it easier to activate or deactivate. No ifttt, no siri shortcuts, no alexa, no google home, nada. I mailed the developer and the response was: many hurdles to overcome, functionality will improve over time, etc etc. While I accept that, but this is a premium product and I would dare to suggest that this will become a relic if not updated. To prove my point it is not even possible to switch your lights off with a Hue switch or button once activated by lamptier - you have to open the app. ### 2/5 — This Looks Good BUT !!!! *2020-03-23, version 1.6.6* This looks really good and would have loved to use it if I could have purchased it but EVERYTHING is the subscription model and am not going to pay anymore subscriptions. Just wish you could purchase it outright. ### 1/5 — Crashes *2020-03-14, version 1.6.5* When trying to add bridge. ### 1/5 — Awesome app ... *2020-01-17, version 1.6.3* ~$3.00 for me to push the button on my bridge to link your app? Really? That’s kinda like Save-On Foods charging you $3 so you can walk your own groceries to your car. It’s nothing but digital panhandling. On a positive note, this will make a great subject for my Marketing Class paper. We’re studying ethics (or in this case, lack thereof) in marketing. 5 stars for the app, -4 stars for that really dirty cash grab by the devs. Shame on you guys. ### 1/5 — I have tried installing multiple - never connects *2019-12-05, version 1.6.3* This app might be a fake? I’ve tried installing it multiple times and it never will connect to the bridge. When prompted to hit the bridge button, the app crashes on my phone. I have tried this 3 different times with a freshly erased bridge or with a bridge that’s setup already that works with other apps. Avoid. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Unusable for $29 *2025-02-15, version 1.7.7* I couldn’t even use any of the effects. Whenever trying to use any effect, it fails to download them. Absolutely nothing worked. Never had an issue similar to this with any other app. ### 1/5 — "Can't find lights" *2024-08-07, version 1.7.7* Thanks for taking my money, but not delivering :/ ### 1/5 — Worked for 15 lights but not for more *2021-07-19, version 1.7.4* I liked the app and expected it to be fine when I upgraded to the plan with more than 15 lights but it couldn’t seem to handle it, it always defaulted back to only 15 lights. Uninstalled and reinstalled, restored purchase etc. 15 lights, only 15 lights. Unfortunate because it’s a cool app. ### 1/5 — No way to turn routines off *2021-07-08, version 1.7.4* Please be aware that there’s no intuitive way to turn light routines off. I have been trying for weeks to remove some light routines that take place whenever my front lights come on. Even uninstalling the product doesn’t remove the routine. Stopping and removing the routine when it shows up only works until the next day. I’ve tried various times contacting support about this issue and they have not replied. All I can think of doing next is to reset my Hue bridge to factory settings, but then I’ll have to add all of my lights over again. The app is messy, unorganized and not user friendly. ### 1/5 — Overpriced Garbage *2021-01-03, version 1.7.4* Setup instructions are pretty much non existent. “Connect the bridge to WiFi.” How? Okay, there is an Ethernet plug. Guess I should connect it to the router. “Does the bridge have the latest firmware?” How should I know? How would I update it? Alright, I can connect to it now. “No lights found.” (Tap on X to close message.) “No bridge found.” Really??? Google for how to fix. “Make sure lights are kind that can connect to bridge.” Well that’s what got me here because I realized I needed one after buying them. “Set up manually.” How? The only thing I can do with the app is connect to the bridge so it can tell me it can’t find any lights. This was a big waste of time and money. And now I have two very disappointed kids to add to the headache I will get returning this trash. ### 1/5 — Money grab attempt *2020-11-03, version 1.7.4* Money grab. ### 1/5 — Garbage *2020-08-05, version 1.7.1* This app is garbage. I tried a scene, and it uses all my lights. I have both color and white. So I went to Enable Lamps to chose my lights. Turned off all the pesky white bulbs and hit save. Next thing I know all of my color lights are out and all my white lights are on. I messed with it for ten minutes and couldn’t figure out why it just did the opposite of what I wanted. No matter what I did I couldn’t get it to work. This app was probably thrown together and didn’t spend enough time in R&D. ### 1/5 — Cancelling the free trial early *2020-05-12, version 1.6.7* Used the free trial and will be cancelling. There is a really bad bug in the software currently which means if you set the sleep timer it will rename your rooms on the Philips Hue app and break all the sync between the Apple Homekit app also. That’s ridiculous. Every morning when I wake up my room ‘Bedroom’ has been renamed to ‘schedule_8_use’. I have to rename the room every morning and resync everything back to the Apple HomeKit app. The scenes themselves are absolutely terrible and none of them actually fit the title. For example all of the tired/sleep related scenes play very upbeat random music from Spotify that you could never sleep to. And you better get used to it because the only option for audio here is to connect with Spotify - the app doesn’t have its own built in audio for a lot of the scenes so you are forced to connect to Spotify. And let’s say you do almost fall asleep, Spotify starts blasting out adverts full volume and it wakes you back up again and ruins your mood. Another blow is that the Spotify tracks for the scenes unfortunately are random every time - so there is no consistency. One day you might fall in love with a scene and the audio it plays. You go back the next day and activate that scene but Spotify plays a different random song. It’s like the developer got very lazy and just set it to shuffle songs related to that scene. As I write this I have ‘to the skies’ scene activated. The picture is a guy looking into space and beyond the stars. The scene suggests the audio will be some kind of intergalactic space music, calm and quiet. Something to relax to. But instead you get a weird track from Spotify playing a spoken word vocal track with an R&B beat. A song about breaking up with someone. It literally couldn’t be a worse fit. Deleting the app until you can fix the sync breaking bugs and very poor music choice for scenes. ### 1/5 — Does not support two bridges at the same time *2020-04-26, version 1.6.7* No second bridge support. Also can’t add more than one light to a wall, floor or ceiling ### 1/5 — So Much Potential *2020-04-08, version 1.6.6* This app has so much potential, which has been wasted on a buggy interface. Scene content cannot be downloaded and no explanation at all. Such a shame; This should have been a wonderful app. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2022-05-01, version 1.7.7* The best! Wish so much I had the locked features but there’s so much great light settings available without it! ### 5/5 — I love this *2021-12-21, version 1.7.6* This has taken my new smart light hobby (obsession) to a whole new level. I very rarely write reviews but this one deserves it. It is well thought out and well put together. It is a lot of fun and my smart light visions are now a reality. My first thought is that this probably wouldn't be for a “casual” smart light dabbler, but actually I think it may be perfect for those kind of users as well. You can make things look real impressive without having to put all of the hours into programming and set up that I did. So I say go for it. I have checked around and there is absolutely nothing better. Thanks! Staci ### 5/5 — Really cool set scenes *2020-08-14, version 1.7.2* Relax Chill Make love Make babies Heal Mourn Meditate Breath Remember Reminisce Let go Take in See clearly Time travel Empathize Manifest Rituals Contemplate Study Work Dream All of the themes scenes and preset moods come with lights and music to help you get into whatever it is you need to break through Decide set sit back and let Lamptier help you get you where your going! Love, Lightworker 11 ### 5/5 — Best dynamic lighting app, worth the sub *2020-08-11, version 1.7.2* Great app for dynamic mood lighting. It has improved significantly since launch and I appreciate the frequent updates. Still plenty of room for improvement regarding UI/UX especially. Content updates are fun and frequent. Not really tried the audio element of it, generally prefer my own jams 💃 ### 5/5 — Great App for Phillips Hue Owners *2020-07-21, version 1.7.1* Easy to use. Easy to setup. 3D space is a feature you won’t find on other apps. It really makes the experience more immersive. My one dislike is that sometimes I just want lights only and a lot of their scenes or the ones I gravitate towards always has a music track. I highly recommend. ### 5/5 — Best app for Hue lights I’ve found *2020-06-22, version 1.7.0* Love this app because it has many scenes and uses Apple Music or Spotify instead of canned app music ### 5/5 — Best app for Hue Lights *2020-03-25, version 1.6.6* Great for relaxing at home. ### 5/5 — Recommend *2019-09-10, version 1.6.0* Reasonable subscription fee, Great options, built in sounds and playlists Available from Spotify /Apple Music. What I particularly like is the control for individual lights so for example I can have wall lamp set at a higher brightness than the ceiling. Highly recommend ### 5/5 — Beats all *2019-09-02, version 1.6.0* This app beats them all, very sophisticated but simple to use. And it just works. I just paid ~$3.00 for Hue Sync and it was hard to see just what I paid for absolutely garbage. ### 5/5 — This is the app I always wanted! *2019-05-09, version 1.5.1* This the only app that I have found that uses 3D space. It works great. There are tones of scenes that work really well. I would love to see some Siri shortcut integration. I have noticed some of the sound tracks will play to my connected home pods while others default back to my phone. I can’t see any reason other than the ones that do that are older scenes. Hope this only gets better so far I’m very happy. One of my favorite apps and as long as it is kept up I have no problem paying for it. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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