# MagicHue — user reviews

> 115 indexed App Store user reviews of MagicHue by Peter Breitling, rated 3.40/5 from 25 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/magichue/id586219707/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/magichue/id586219707.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 10 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 8

## What do users think of MagicHue?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- ✨ Fantastic disco sync
- 🎶 Music synchronization works well
- 💡 Great for parties
- 🚀 Fast color changes
- 👍 Easy setup
- 🌟 Magical room atmosphere
- 🎉 Gets the party lit
- 💯 Amazing app
- 🥳 Fun for entertaining
- 🌈 Good dance option
- 💖 Great addition to Hue
- 💡 Extends Hue possibilities
- 🌟 Outstanding control
- ✨ Awesome app for Hue
- 🚀 Drives bulbs fast
- 💯 Exactly what you need
- 👍 Works well
- ✨ Nice companion app
- 🌈 Good ish
- 👍 Works as designed
- ✨ Relax mode is good

**Cons**

- 🐛 Does not respond to music
- 🐛 Cycles colors endlessly
- 🐛 No longer shows connected lights
- 🐛 Doesn't work at all
- 🐛 Complex setup and UI
- 🐛 Disco effect does nothing
- 🐛 Requires a URL
- 🐛 Not intuitive
- 🐛 Bridge connection shows yellow
- 🐛 Doesn't work with v2 bridge
- 🐛 Rubbish
- 🐛 Junk
- 🐛 Horrible laggy UI
- 🐛 Graphics from 1980s
- 🐛 Visual aids don't match lights
- 🐛 Doesn't find all bulbs
- 🐛 Horrible laggy user interface
- 🐛 Incompatible with Hue Bridge 2.0
- 🐛 Cannot find bridge
- 🐛 Bad app
- 🐛 Complex and sometimes doesn't work
- 🐛 Rubbish doesn't work
- 🐛 Annoyed and frustrating
- 🐛 Disappointed
- 🐛 Poor support
- 🐛 Only finds few bulbs
- 🐛 Junk
- 🐛 Doesn't work
- 🐛 Ya no me conecta
- 🐛 Not so great
- 🐛 Can't start with scene
- 🐛 Can't use iTunes directly
- 🐛 Can't quit app
- 🐛 Color changes only brightness
- 🐛 Useless without music
- 🐛 Amateur
- 🐛 User interface far from 1st rate
- 🐛 Crashes after 2 mins
- 🐛 Constantly crashes
- 🐛 Crashes after running for minutes
- 🐛 Baffling
- 🐛 Newer version is worse
- 🐛 Freezes iPad
- 🐛 Bad audio feedback on iPad
- 🐛 Won't pair
- 🐛 Looks Awful
- 🐛 Poorly written
- 🐛 Documentation stinks
- 🐛 Embarrassing layout
- 🐛 No manual turn off
- 🐛 Not what you are looking for
- 🐛 Can't get light to work
- 🐛 Constant crashing
- 🐛 Crashes after about 2 minutes

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Only shows 0 connected lights
- No longer works
- Doesn't work at all
- App crashes
- Disco effect does nothing
- Requires a URL
- Found bridge but no lights
- Bridge connection shows yellow
- Doesn't appear to work with a v2 bridge
- Doesn't find all bulbs
- Only found bulbs originally paired to bridge
- App just does not work at all
- Cannot find the bridge
- Doesn't find any of my lights
- Complex and sometimes it doesn't work
- Rubbish doesn't work useless
- App doesn't work
- Only finds 2 of my 23 bulbs
- Doesn't connect to Bridge hue
- Can't get past first page of 'select bridge'
- Can't just start with a scene from the main Hue app
- Can't use feed from iTunes directly
- Can't seem to quit the app
- Color changes only brightness
- Doesn't allow you to play music while running
- Amateur
- Only got this app to work once
- New version constantly crashes
- Crashes after 2 mins
- Constantly crashes
- Crashes after running for a few minutes or with several lights
- App quickly freezes
- iPad becomes completely disabled and a reboot is necessary
- App goes berserk if more than 8 bulbs are activated
- Causes really bad audio feedback on iPad2
- Won't pair
- Poorly written
- Documentation stinks
- Layout buttons and interface is embarrassing
- Can't seem to find a good way to turn off completely
- When I think I have done it and then open my Philips Hue it goe right back to Disco
- Not what you are looking for
- Can't get light to work
- Constant crashing
- Crashes after about 2 minutes running in disco mode
- Baffling
- No noticeable improvements
- Freezes iPad less with update
- Still goes berserk if more than 8 bulbs are activated
- Equalizer bar issue (corrected)
- Bad audio feedback on iPad2
- Won't pair
- Looks Awful

**Most requested features**

- Pickup music from the same phone
- Strobe like features
- Ability to select a range of colors to cycle through
- More control of which colors it cycles through
- Update for Hue Bridge 2.0 with HomeKit support
- Ability to play music while running
- More user inputs in color selections
- Strobe button with presets and custom options
- Wave feature moving colors from bulb to bulb
- Interface overhaul for general usability
- Timers added
- More flexibility and control over lights
- Less crashes
- Ability to select specific colors
- Recurring timers
- Sync to turn on lights based on sunset times
- Timed fade to work

## Newest reviews (10 of 115)

### 4/5 — Appli gratuite sympa

*2019-08-16*

Première application vraiment gratuite et qui fonctionne correctement même si l’interface n’est pas très claire. Une petite mise à jour et cela devrait être parfait :)

### 4/5 — Great App Works well

*2019-06-12*

I have had this app for six years now and has always worked as designed. Wish it could pickup music from the same phone and have strobe like features. Overall 4+ app.

### 4/5 — Worked for a while...

*2018-12-23*

Now it only shows me 0 connected lights. Too bad...

Update: reinstalled the apps and now it works, it shows me all my lights.

### 4/5 — Qué experiencia

*2018-05-28, version 1.8*

Disfrutando

### 3/5 — Needs work

*2017-11-14*

If you can get the app to work without crashing and figure out very complex set up and wonky Ui

### 1/5 — Dreadful. Just Doesn't Work

*2016-12-21*

This is not at all intuitive and if you click on Help it takes you to a YouTube showcase demo of it working. Nothing about how to set it up. It is a load of rubbish.  Found my bridge but then can't find any lights at all. Bridge connection just shows yellow. Don't even know if that means it is fully connected.  No help whatsoever.

### 4/5 — Works Well

*2016-12-21*

The app works well. I especially like the relax mode which doesn't rely on music input and slowly change the color of the lights.

### 1/5 — Doesn't work

*2016-12-09, version 1.7*

Doesn't appear to work with a v2 bridge.

### 1/5 — GARBAGE

*2016-09-26*

Doesn't work waste of time

### 1/5 — Junk

*2016-04-13*

Horrible laggy user interface. Graphics straight from 1980s. Not to mention the app visual aids don't even resemble what the lights are doing.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Komisches Teil

*2020-11-14*

??

### 1/5 — Just cycles colors regardless of music?

*2019-08-17*

Maybe I just haven’t figured out how this app works, but it doesn’t seem to respond to music in any way.  It just seems to rotate through colors endlessly, even when music isn’t playing.  Confused.  Will look elsewhere for a Hue music app.

**Developer response:** Hi, yes, colors cycle in the speed you select. But the brightness level is controlled live per light. The brightness is controlled per frequency spectrum you select for the light (bass, mids or highs)! Best regards, Peter

### 1/5 — Findet Lampen nicht!

*2019-01-28*

App ist nutzlos, da meine Lampen nicht gefunden werden können. Bridge hat aktuelle Updates drauf und ich nutze das iPhone 8.. zudem stürzt die App oft ab. Daher 1/5 Sternen.

### 1/5 — stürzt alle paar Minuten ab

*2018-12-31*

ständige sporadische Abstürze und teilweise plötzlicher Funktionsausfall. Man muss die App dann schließen und neu starten... schlecht

### 1/5 — No longer works

*2018-02-03*

Used to be great. Sadly this no longer works, though it sees my v2 bridge.

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work at all

*2018-01-31, version 1.8*

Rubbish

### 1/5 — ?

*2018-01-05*

Au début il me dise sélectionné votre bridge mais il me propose rien et je peut pas sauter cette étape ci quelle qu'un à la soluce dite le moi

### 1/5 — Schrott App

*2017-09-16*

Leider stürzt die App immer kurz mach dem Start ab. Ich habe sie auf meinem IPhone 6S nie zum Laufen bekommen.

### 1/5 — Doesn't work

*2017-07-20*

When I turn the disco effect on, it doesn't do anything at all. Not worth my time to figure it out.

### 1/5 — I can't even get on it

*2017-02-17*

For some reason I have to put a URL in but what URL????

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Seems good

*2021-03-04*

Haven’t tried it for long but it works pretty well!

### 5/5 — Fab disco sync with amazon music

*2019-12-23*

Fantastic app, really easy to set up, took me two minutes and now have disco lights in my kitchen and dining room. Using Amazon to stream music around the house and the mic on the iPad pics up the sound to sync perfectly.

### 5/5 — Mehr solche Apps bitte!

*2019-12-01*

Guter Script für alle Lights ohne versteckte Inappzocker Kosten!!!

### 5/5 — Thank You

*2018-04-29*

After easy setup, i get to make the room Magical, thank you for this free app

### 5/5 — Just what I was looking for!

*2017-08-06*

Amazing app can't recommend enough! For the people who can't get it to work just like with any other hue app you have to pair I with your bridge!!

### 5/5 — Intuitiv und wirkungsvoll

*2017-04-24*

Sehr intuitive Bedienung, klappte sofort, Discomodus ist geil!!

### 5/5 — Beste HUE Disco App

*2017-03-08*

Ich habe intensiv nach einer LED-Steuerung gesucht mit der ich Disko-Ambiente schaffen kann. DMX ist zu umständlich, da ich nicht dauernd am Pult stehen möchte.
Diese App ist sehr gut, könnte aber noch ausgereifter werden.

### 5/5 — Top! Klasse App!

*2016-11-26*

App tut genau was sie soll, vielen Dank.

### 5/5 — Amazing

*2016-09-04*

Gets the party lit!!!!

### 5/5 — Good ish

*2016-07-29*

Best app runnable on iPhone 4. And still good on iPhone 6s I dubno why these fools throwin shade.

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