Recent Update
I’ve had my lights since the original kickstarter delivery. The app worked for me just fine - sure it wasn’t perfect, but it functioned for my needs for years. With the most recent update it disconnected all of my devices and the pairing function is not intuitive when you no longer have the packaging with codes to scan. I had each of my lights named and organized and now they’re gone. I’m very disappointed that a mediocre update (the app is now uglier and more complicated) ruined my experience.
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finally intuitive and functional (v31Oct26)
The original app was utter garbage and they have FINALLY done a complete rebuild. Good so far.
Interface finally makes sense—tapping on ‘buttons’ now results in the behavior any human being would expect.
“Group” feature finally works, so I can simultaneously adjust brightness or switch on/off both lights in the room.
Not yet tested: if it will actually let other people in household connect and operate lights without constantly losing connection, as with the old one.
The visual look is no longer snazzy, but it makes sense finally.
Interface finally makes sense—tapping on ‘buttons’ now results in the behavior any human being would expect.
“Group” feature finally works, so I can simultaneously adjust brightness or switch on/off both lights in the room.
Not yet tested: if it will actually let other people in household connect and operate lights without constantly losing connection, as with the old one.
The visual look is no longer snazzy, but it makes sense finally.
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Please update!
I really like the lights without the app. With the app however I can adjust light temperature and brightness. However, it randomly turns off and disconnects from the app. Also the app is too old school on the click button settings and not user friendly. Please update your app. Don’t give people a reason to not buy more Pop Lights.
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The app is pretty buggy
I have two lights grouped, but it often just turns one on/off and the brightness slider often doesn’t update right away, I need to turn on/off the whole thing a couple times before controlling the brightness. Also poplights don’t connect to Google which is a huge bummer for me since I set all my lights thru google.
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Great concept, terrible execution
The pop lights themselves are great. But the only way to fully access their full functionality (like setting timers, adjusting brightness and warmth) is in this piece of garbage app. Not only is the actual app built like an elementary student designed it, it can’t even maintain a connection with the lights consistently. Even when the light and app said they were synced, the lights still don’t respond very often. Unpairing and re-pairing, and all other practical steps to troubleshoot don’t do anything. I recommend NOT buying these lights for anything dependent except turning on and off using the button on the lamp.
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Huge miss
Installed lights in a closet with no electrical outlets or lights and thought I could use the app to turn them off and on since they are hard to reach… but nope. There is no way to make a “hey, siri” shortcut to turn the light on and off. No widget to avoid the annoying amount of screens to click through to turn them on and off in the app, and then the app is some how never connected to the lights. The timer also doesn’t work, so the lights get left on and died daily until i gave up and stopped using them.
Huge waste of money buying these lights that are useless because of a terrible app.
Huge waste of money buying these lights that are useless because of a terrible app.
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UI is ridiculous
Whoever designed this app designed it to be as complicated as possible. On top of not being able to easily switch the lights on and off, which is literally the only point of the app, it is super buggy and unreliable. Half of the time I try to turn off the lights it will only turn one off or none of them. I could build a better app and I have never built an app in my life.
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Bad connectivity and user experience
I hope they get connected to the Apple Home kit because this makes controlling the lights a very unintuitive process that only works about half the time.
Put controls first
I like how you can control so many things from the app but it would make a lot more sense to make that the first thing I see when I open it instead of having to go in to “adjust settings” to turn it on and adjust brightness. I really hope you change this.
Doesn’t actually turn lights on and off half the time
When I tap the “on” button, it’s pretty much a 50/50 shot if it actually works to turn the lights on or change the duration of time they’re on. I always check to see if the app is up to date and it is.
So glitchy, barely useful to turn lights on and off
This app is mostly useless. Half the time we can’t connect to the lights. The other half of the time, the lights are turning themselves off even with battery. For the price of these lights, this is really not worth it.
Buggy app
The app works, but needs to be debugged and improved. It doesn’t remember settings, and it takes multiple tries before it will turn the lights on and off
Tried all day to get them to connect
A whole day trying to troubleshoot to get these lights to connect to the app. Time to send them back!!!
Meh
Love the light but must be within 3 feet to use the app. The timer doesn’t work at all.
Bummed
What a bummer! I really wanted to love these lights, and be able to recommend the product of a queer and women led company to others. I bought them about 6 months ago and have given them a solid chance but they’re just not hitting the mark (especially for the price). They don’t get very bright and the battery dies quickly. The app hardly ever connects to both lights right away. It’s a bit of a pain everyday to open the app, navigate to the “adjust settings”, cross my fingers and hope that it connects to both of my lights instead of one. Sadly, it just never does. :(
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App a bit janky
I second some other opinions that it's one more step than necessary to control the lights. When you buy wireless lights for the convenience of controlling them remotely that's a big deal. Additionally I find it overall to be a bit clunky, slow etc. It doesn't always find the lights (may have more to do with the actual light and Bluetooth but still), and when grouping them often does not control them together which defeats the purpose.
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Needs help
Should not be that many steps to turn the lights on and off
Easy to fix
This app would be so easy to fix. Please just fix it.
Boo
This app works but it is not intuitive and takes longer than necessary(too many steps) to turn lights on and off
Unreliable
It has a lot of trouble finding both of my poplights. I unsynced one of them and now can’t re-sync it. Really frustrating, defeats the purpose.
