Philips Hue vs The Boring Menu

The official Philips Hue app is the most comprehensive way to organize, control, and customize your Philips Hue smart lights and accessories. Organize your smart lights Group your lights into Rooms or Zones — your entire downstairs floor or all the lights in the living room, for example — that mirror the physical rooms in your home. Easily control your lights — from anywhere Use the app to control your lights anywhere you have an internet connection. Explore the Hue scene gallery Created by professional lighting designers, the scenes in the scene gallery can help you set the mood for any occasion. You can even create your own scenes based on a photo or your favorite colors. Set up bright home security  Make your home feel safer, no matter where you are. The Security Center lets you program your Secure cameras, Secure contact sensors, and indoor motion sensors to send you alerts when they detect activity. Trigger light and sound alarms, call the authorities or a trusted contact, and monitor your home in real-time. Get the best light for any moment of the day Let your lights change automatically throughout the day with the Natural light scene — so you feel more energized, focused, relaxed, or rested at the right times. Just set the scene to watch your lights change with the sun’s movement, transitioning from cool blue tones in the morning to warmer, relaxing hues for sunset. Automate your lights Make your smart lights work around your daily routine. Whether you want your lights to gently wake you up in the morning or greet you when you get home, setting up customizable automations in the Philips Hue app is effortless. Sync your lights to TV, music, and games Make your lights flash, dance, dim, brighten, and change color in sync with your screen or sound! With the Philips Hue Play HDMI sync box, the Philips Hue Sync for TV or desktop apps, or Spotify, you can create totally immersive experiences. Set up voice control Use Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, or Google Assistant to control your smart lights with voice commands. Turn lights on and off, dim and brighten, or even change colors — completely hands-free. Use Siri Shortcuts for quick control Use the Shortcuts app to create shortcuts that you can place into widgets on your Home Screen for even faster control of your lights. Turn lights on or off, adjust their brightness and temperature, or set scenes — all without even opening the app. Learn more about the official Philips Hue app: www.philips-hue.com/app. Read the Philips Hue Privacy Notice at www.philips-hue.com/privacy. Note: Some features in this app require a Philips Hue Bridge.

The Boring Menu is the app you open instead of the endless ones. It hands you one small, finished thing — a genuinely true fact, a slow breath, a tiny game, a rock that asks nothing of you — and then, on purpose, it stops. No feed. No autoplay. No reason to linger. That's the whole idea. Every session finishes. You put the phone down a little calmer than you picked it up, and you get on with your day. INSIDE, FREE • 10 tiny activities that all actually finish, and a calm daily menu that's a little different each day. • A rotating library of quietly interesting facts — each one checked and true. • An Anti-Streak that rewards using the app less, not more. It only goes up when you stay away. • A home-screen widget, and a one-breath pause before you open a tempting app. • Optional on-device Apple Intelligence that freshens some of the wording, marked wherever it's used. ONE OPTIONAL UNLOCK, ONCE Everything opens: 14 more small things (including all nine games), the full 500-fact library, a postcard you mail to your future self, and your pick of calm scene. Pay once — no subscription, ever. WHAT IT DOESN'T HAVE, ON PURPOSE • No accounts. No sign-up. No ads. No notifications. No tracking. No infinite anything. • Everything you do here stays on your phone. The app works offline; the one optional purchase goes through Apple and needs a connection just for that moment. It's a calm, finite, private little thing. Then it ends. That's allowed.