# OnSwitch for Philips Hue — user reviews > 368 indexed App Store user reviews of OnSwitch for Philips Hue by Buzzhaus, LLC, rated 4.70/5 from 9,562 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/onswitch-for-philips-hue/id853520339/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/onswitch-for-philips-hue/id853520339.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 7,819 · 4★ 944 · 3★ 337 · 2★ 138 · 1★ 324 ## What do users think of OnSwitch for Philips Hue? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - ⭐ Simply the best - 🚀 Fantastic app - 👍 Great app - 👍 Awesome app - 👍 Excellent app - 👍 Best app for Hue - 👍 Brilliant app - 👍 Creative and fresh - 👍 Smooth Hue control - 👍 Easy to use - 👍 Lots of options - 👍 Great for daily use - 👍 Useful modes - 👍 Animated/color flowing modes **Cons** - 🔒 Subscription to control my lights - 🔒 No One-Time Purchase Option - 🐛 Doesn't work with LifX - 🐛 Disconnects from the hue bridge - 🐛 Unable to open after recent update - 🐛 Doesn't connect - 🐛 Glitches since update - 🔋 Battery drain - 🔋 Overheats Your Phone - 🔒 NFL GAME SYNC DECREASED AVAILABILITY - 🔒 VPN - 🔒 Doesn't support LIFX anymore **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes on launch after update - Connectivity issues - Lights not responding correctly - Scenes not working as expected **Most requested features** - Add support for LIFX bulbs - Allow customization of light groups - Add background mode/automation - Add Siri/HomeKit integration - Improve interface and organization - Add more scenes and effects - Reduce pricing of individual scenes ## Newest reviews (10 of 368) ### 2/5 — Hors de prix *2026-05-21* Je cherchais une fonctionnalité précise que l’app officielle Philips n’a pas (un scénario de lumières qui s’éteint tout seul pour dormir) et que celle-ci semble avoir. Mais l’achat est un abonnement !?? On se fiche du monde ? Je veux bien acheter une fois, mais pas tous les mois 👎🏼 **Developer response:** Merci pour votre avis. Bonne nouvelle : cette fonctionnalité est disponible gratuitement dans notre application. Aucun abonnement requis. Si vous voyez une scène verrouillée que vous souhaitez utiliser pour le sommeil, vous pouvez acheter l’album avec un achat unique (à vie). ### 3/5 — Great App but will make your battery hot (multiple devices) *2026-05-11, version 4.1.27* It’s by far the best hue app in the market but the app will make your phone battery hot. I thought perhaps it was just a device whose internal consumable battery was failing, but the issue with battery getting hot occurs across multiple generations of devices. I just have to be certain that I’m not running any other apps at the time so that my phone doesn’t eventually overheat (iPhones) ### 2/5 — Expensive but good *2026-02-11, version 4.1.23* Most of the features require a monthly subscription. There are a few free but not worth it in my opinion. They want $4.16 cad a month. To much to change light colors ### 3/5 — No More LIFX Support? *2025-12-15, version 4.1.21* I started using this app years ago and even had a premium subscription. I wanted to use my outdoor LIFX lights that I’ve used in the past but it seem LIFX is no longer supported. ### 2/5 — Where are the shows I bought? *2025-12-01, version 4.1.20* Had a bunch of light shows unlocked that I paid for and now it is very hard to find them. Seems extremely deceptive now. Where is the owned section? ### 2/5 — Ttt *2025-11-12, version 4.1.18* Tupler ### 2/5 — Less NBA than before? *2025-10-31, version 4.1.18* I feel like I was able to use the lights for all of my team's regular season games before and now there is support for barely any NBA games. ### 3/5 — No refreshed Halloween scenes *2025-09-25, version 4.1.16* Needs a refresh badly. Same stuff yet asking my “unlock everything again” ### 4/5 — Decent but pricey *2025-09-14, version 4.1.15* Pretty decent. Has lots of presets. Subscription price is pretty high though. Does not work with new Hue Bridge Pro. And since I have updated to the new hardware I have cancelled my subscription. ### 1/5 — Just another company trying to nickel and dime *2025-05-01, version 4.1.11* I have been one of the early adopters of this app and have purchased nearly all the scenes. Of course, greed has gotten the best of them and the option to purchase scenes separately has been removed. Now, they want me to pay for what I already own to merely use the few new scenes they have added. I reached out to them hoping this was a mistake. Nope, they tried to put spin on it like it’s a good thing and offered a small discount for a short period. Sorry, I’ll pass. Such a good business model on “how to take care of your early adopters.”Subscription model = making me pay for problem you have created. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Battery killer *2026-07-03, version 4.1.29* The app doesn’t appear under the background app refresh list in Settings, so it’s impossible to keep the app from absolutely nuking your battery 24 hours a day. This thing drains like 40% overnight just sitting there doing god knows what with it’s background processes. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work well *2026-02-07, version 4.1.23* Every time I select an effect like candle light or fire, it works fine as long as my iphone is open. But whenever the phone goes to sleep the effect stops. That is insane, what am I supposed to keep my phone open all night ### 1/5 — Fraud *2025-12-07, version 4.1.20* On the app description it says it supports LIFX light. I paid the premium in the past and it worked!!! Now they have LIFX working on their app description but on the support page it says it used to work not anymore! So where's my refund? ### 1/5 — Do you like software? *2025-10-31, version 4.1.18* What if I told you that you could buy the same software every month for eternity! ### 1/5 — Over priced junk *2025-10-15, version 4.1.18* Does less than free Philips app for $50/yr. Garbage. ### 1/5 — Good but not great *2025-10-10, version 4.1.18* Would get 5 if you didn’t need a subscription. Would be nice with video. ### 1/5 — Not working *2025-09-27, version 4.1.16* After new update app doesn’t open ### 1/5 — DO NOT BUY! *2025-09-25, version 4.1.15* This app DOES NOT work with new Hue devices. Do NOT buy it! ### 1/5 — Subscriptions ruin another app *2025-08-01, version 4.1.13* Yay, I bought tons of stuff on this app now I have to subscribe to get it all back. Thanks a ton for the ripoff ### 1/5 — Another app ruined by subscriptions *2025-07-16, version 4.1.13* This used to be a really great app. More recently they changed to a subscription model though and I think that ruined it. Why should I have to pay a monthly fee now for something that cost them nothing to maintain? It’s not like they have servers that they have to cover the cost of upkeep on. Used to be able to buy scenes that you liked, and that was it. You didn’t have to keep paying for the privilege of using them. This app is just a glorified scene, preset manager. They have animated scenes, but it’s not worth the premium monthly charge for it. Especially when you consider you used to be able to buy that same service and have it for the lifetime and not have to pay a subscription to keep it active. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love this game *2026-05-01, version 4.1.26* This is amazing ### 5/5 — The BEST light app out there! *2026-04-27, version 4.1.26* This is my favorite light app ever! So many great, fun choices and the customer service is amazing as well. Highly recommend!! ### 5/5 — Super Bowl Halftime Show *2026-02-09, version 4.1.23* Great lighting experience! Thank you! I didn’t think you would have it but you sure did! ### 5/5 — Love this! *2026-01-26, version 4.1.23* Love watching NFL games with this app, really hope you guys have plans to sync with World Cup Games ### 5/5 — Thanks for adding hue bridge pro support *2025-10-29* Thank you for the new Halloween volume 3! With over 40 hue lights in my house and yard, the Halloween scenes are pretty awesome to watch. There are also are couple of descent fireworks scenes, and then two okay lightning scenes. For the lightning scenes, they could easily improve it with more lightning more often, or even give the option to choosing how often the lightning “strikes“ (and probably do the same with some of the firework scenes). Most of the other scenes in this app is something I would probably never really use, but if you have young kids, then there are some more scenes that they may have fun with. I have over 40 hue lights that are all over inside and outside. One thing I noticed is that as you add more lights, sometimes some of the actions/events that trigger on a single light in a scene are not as noticeable. It would be nice if you have over a certain number of hue lights, instead of only having one light doing something for a scene (e.g. illustrating a voice or police lights), it should display on to two or more lights. Also, it would be great if this app had the option to add lights that were other bridges. I have lights on separate bridges because of hue sync bridge limitations. So to sum this up. There are some good scenes, but there are a few things I think could be improved. It would be great if we could get some good Christmas scenes, some more firework scenes, and create an even better lightning scene that happens more often. Another scene that would be great to have is something the developers could title, “just show off!” Sometimes I want to show off all my hue lights to people who come over. I would love to have some fancy scene(s) that helps me show off even more. (anyone with a bunch of hue lights knows what I’m talking about!) **Developer response:** First: Hue Bridge Pro support is included in our v4.1.16 update - being reviewed by Apple now. (We needed a Bridge Pro unit in our lab before we could test/release the fix.) Second: Thank you for the thoughtful, detailed feedback on Halloween scenes, lightning, and live sports sync! That kind of specificity is incredibly valuable to our team. We’d really like to hear more from you directly, so please drop us a note at support@getonswitch.com. Conversations like this help shape what we build next. OnSwitch is actively maintained, and we’re committed to making it better with each release. And yes — we have more seasonal content coming soon. ### 5/5 — Amazing!! *2025-10-17, version 4.1.18* Exactly what I was looking for. Works great. Awesome if you a football fan. ### 5/5 — Bridge Pro *2025-09-30, version 4.1.17* Edit: Developers fixed this issue. App works with Bridge Pro now. Still learning to use to app, but no complaints for now! I just got my home set up with a new Hue kit, which uses a Bridge Pro rather than the original Bridge. I don’t think this app works with the new Bridge Pro. ### 5/5 — Ne fonctionne pas avec Bridge Pro *2025-09-12* L’application ne fonctionne pas avec Philips Hue Bridge Pro. Très décevant… **Developer response:** Merci pour votre avis. La prise en charge de Bridge Pro est incluse dans notre prochaine mise à jour 4.1.16. Si cela corrige le problème, merci de nous le faire savoir en laissant un avis mis à jour. Santé ! ### 5/5 — Not good anymore *2025-07-14, version 4.1.13* Put it back the way it was. Where is search to find things I loaded ### 5/5 — Editing light groups destroys my Hue setup *2025-05-20, version 4.1.11* Editing light groups destroys my Hue setup. When I changed the setting it removed all the globes from my Philips Hue app. Destroying all scenes I had setup. Not happy at all! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-29.*