Legrand Lighting Control vs Hubitat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Legrand Lighting Control
Effortlessly manage your home's lighting with custom scenes and scheduling. Automate lights for specific times or activities, and control them remotely from anywhere. Integrate with voice assistants for hands-free operation.
- Control radiant RF and adorne Wi-Fi devices
- Create custom lighting scenes
- Schedule lighting automation
- Remote control from anywhere
- Voice assistant integration (Alexa, Google Assistant)
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The Lighting Control app offers simple and convenient control of your radiant® RF Lighting Control and adorne® Wi-Fi Ready devices. Scenes allow you to customize, schedule, and automate groups of devices to enhance the comfort and convenience of your home. Create the perfect dimming level for movie time, or automate your outdoor lights to turn on at sunset and off at sunrise.
Hubitat
Control and monitor your smart home devices remotely. Set up location-based automation and receive important alerts directly to your phone. This app enhances your existing home automation system.
- Access Dashboards
- Monitor and control devices
- Arm/disarm Safety Monitor
- Change Modes
- Define Geofence for Presence
- Receive Push Notifications
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Hubitat Elevation Mobile App is an accessory to the Hubitat Elevation home automation system. Users of Hubitat Elevation can use the Mobile App to: - Access Dashboards to monitor and control devices, arm or disarm Hubitat Safety Monitor, change Modes and more. - Define a Geofence for Mobile Presence detection based on phone location. The Geofence center defaults to your hub location but can be dragged to any location and the radius set. - Receive Push Notifications from Hubitat Elevation apps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Legrand Lighting Control at 3.9 against Hubitat's 2.8. Hubitat's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (28% vs 17%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Legrand Lighting Control holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 283 and 168 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of Legrand Lighting Control's written reviews are positive against 28% of Hubitat's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Legrand Lighting Control ships an update every 4 months, Hubitat every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Legrand Lighting Control | Hubitat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (283 ratings) — better | 2.8 (168 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 28.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 283 — better | 168 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Legrand, Inc. | Hubitat, Inc. |
Customer experience
Legrand Lighting Control
Hubitat
User reviews
Legrand Lighting Control
From 283 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Aesthetically pleasing switch design
- 👍 Easy physical switch installation
- 🔧 Simple scene setup and programming
- 🎛️ Good dimming and multi-zone control capabilities
- ⏰ Reliable local control when on same network
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent app connectivity issues
- 🌐 Poor remote access functionality
- ⚠️ App crashes repeatedly
- 🔄 Constant need to reconnect and restart
- 📡 Hub frequently loses connection
Hubitat
From 168 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast local control and response times
- 🔒 Local-first architecture with optional cloud access
- 💡 Highly customizable and flexible platform
- 📱 Geofencing and presence detection capabilities
- 🎯 Excellent device compatibility and integrations
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and stability issues
- 🎨 Outdated, clunky UI design (Windows 98 style)
- 📍 Geofencing unreliable and inconsistent
- 🔋 Excessive battery drain from location tracking
- ☁️ Cloud/remote access requires paid subscription
Bugs and requests
Legrand Lighting Control
Reported bugs
21 issues- App fails to discover or connect to hub
- Remote access doesn't work outside home network
- App crashes on launch
- Scenes don't execute or execute partially
- Lights show incorrect on/off status in app
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- Three-way switches lose pairing randomly
- Hub locks up every 72 hours
- Firmware updates brick the device
- App stuck in update mode
- Controller unresponsive to scene commands
- Lights turn on/off randomly at night
- App repeatedly logs out of cloud service
- Devices appear duplicated in app
- Landscape lights turn off after exactly 15 minutes
- Interior lights turn off when outdoor lights activate
- System flashing as if being programmed
- App won't install updates
- Samsung Artik cloud transition broke functionality
- New Eliot cloud service unreliable
- Apple Watch app version never works
- Alexa integration shows switches as unresponsive
Requested features
14 requests- HomeKit and Siri integration
- Apple HomeKit compatibility
- Better remote access when away from home
- Edit button for scenes
- Longer dimming duration (up to 1 hour)
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- Seasonal/ambient light-based controls
- Vacation mode with temporary scene disabling
- Location-based automation
- Better app UI design (more intuitive interface)
- Static IP assignment for hub
- Automatic device addition via QR code scanning
- Unified single Legrand app
- Backward compatibility with older hubs (LC6001)
- Better integration with smart home platforms
Hubitat
Reported bugs
18 issues- App crashes on startup consistently
- Geofence detection fails to send events to hub
- Geofence shows incorrect location (off by km)
- Login screen keyboard covers continue button
- App hangs at 'Loading User Data' screen
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- Dashboard doesn't load after backgrounding
- Local LAN mode not working, stuck on cloud
- Hub discovery doesn't work on iOS
- Duplicate rooms and devices displayed
- Incorrect device status reporting
- Notifications show 'invalid token' error
- App doesn't support screen rotation
- Email verification code not received
- Presence detection broken after updates
- App unable to connect to hub after updates
- Geofence size resets to default
- What's New screen cannot be dismissed
- Layout issues with overlapping buttons on iPhone 7
Requested features
15 requests- Native iOS app with proper UI/UX design
- Dark mode option
- Widget support for quick device access
- Ability to add/discover devices from mobile app
- Automation and scene creation from app
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- iPad landscape view support
- Drag-and-drop dashboard tile customization
- Multiple geofence locations
- Motion sensor activity logging in dashboard
- Improved dashboard responsiveness and layout
- Manual IP address entry for hub connection
- SMS-based account verification
- Battery usage optimization for geofencing
- Real-time notifications with better visibility
- Detailed user manual and in-app help
In-app purchases
Legrand Lighting Control
No in-app purchases
Hubitat
No in-app purchases
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