Comparison

Triangle vs LightLayout for Philips Hue

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Triangle

Effortlessly manage your HomeKit lighting with an intuitive, visual interface. Control individual bulbs, entire rooms, or custom groups with instant adjustments and scene saving. An undo button ensures creative freedom.

Highlights
  • Visual light control with triangles
  • Instant Groups for custom lighting control
  • Scene creation and saving
  • Undo functionality for lighting changes
  • Eyes-Free Color Picker
  • Home and accessory management
Features
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Control your HomeKit lighting with ease. Triangle presents your home in refreshing clarity. Lightbulbs and rooms are shown as brilliant triangles that you swipe and tap to create immersive lightscapes. Adjust a single bulb, your entire home, or anything in-between. Instant Groups let you control what you want, fast. So go ahead and play around — there's an Undo button if things get ugly! HomeKit Support • Supports HomeKit enabled lightbulbs, such as Philips Hue Instant Groups* • Control any combination of lightbulbs or rooms together • Control your entire home at once • Exclude a room or lightbulb by tapping its name Scenes • Effortlessly save your lighting as a scene you can set later • Scenes are beautifully presented in color so you can locate them quickly • Scenes are available to all other HomeKit apps • Scene names are also understood by Siri Undo • Reverse changes to brightness, color, and on/off state of lightbulbs 3D Touch** • Press firmly on a room triangle to peek in and see each lightbulb; press harder to pop fully into the room Eyes-Free Color Picker • Keep your focus on the lights, not the app • In the color picker, swipe below the triangle to easily change colors without looking • Color-temperature mode helps you set colors from a more conventional white light spectrum Home & Accessory Management for HomeKit • Create homes and rooms • Pair new accessories and assign them to rooms • Quickly switch between multiple homes • Manage home sharing invites — allow others to control your home’s accessories *Patent-pending, 2018 **Requires an iPhone with 3D Touch functionality. Music in app preview by dross: https://drosstapes.bandcamp.com

About

LightLayout for Philips Hue

Features
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Your home isn't a list. LightLayout turns your Philips Hue rooms into an interactive floor plan, so controlling your lights is as easy as tapping the room you see on the screen. See your whole home at a glance, spot which rooms are lit, and control them straight from the plan, at home or away. Tap a room for brightness, colour, white temperature, and the Hue scenes you already use. Long-press to toggle the whole room. Lift the plan into a 3D dollhouse view for a different perspective. More than one place? Add multiple homes, like your house, a summer cabin, or a family member's flat. Each has its own floor plan, and you can switch between them in a tap. Creating your layout is quick and guided. LightLayout imports rooms and lights from your Hue Bridge and helps you place them on a simple grid. No drawing skills required. Add floors, cut doorways, drop windows, and place each lamp roughly where it sits so the plan glows like your home does. Furnish rooms with beds, tables, sofas, and chairs so each one is recognisable at a glance, and add Outdoor Areas (grass, decking, or asphalt) to give patio and garden lights a place on the plan too. You can even trace over a scan, photo, or PDF of an existing plan. No Hue Bridge yet? Try the built-in demo home first. Control - Interactive floor plan for rooms and individual fixtures - Brightness, colour, and white temperature for compatible Hue lights - Recall the Hue scenes you've already created - 2D plan or a rotatable 3D dollhouse view - Optional remote access over mobile data or another Wi-Fi network - Home Screen and Mac desktop widgets, plus Siri and Shortcuts support Design your plan - Guided editor: multiple floors, doorways, windows, room merge, split, and lock - Indoor and Outdoor Areas: grass, decking, asphalt - Furnish rooms with beds, tables, sofas, and chairs, in natural tones or your theme's colour - Trace an existing plan from a scan, photo, or PDF Everywhere you are - Multiple homes: keep a separate plan for each Hue Bridge and switch between them anytime - Sync your floor plan across your Apple devices with iCloud - Share one plan with your household, across Apple Accounts - Keep working locally when iCloud is unavailable - Reconnect automatically after network changes, sleep, or Bridge restarts - Now available in English, Finnish, Swedish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese Simple by design - Try the demo home without a Hue Bridge - Free to try with a demo home. One-time unlock to connect your Hue Bridge, for all your iPhone, iPad, and Apple silicon Mac devices. - No LightLayout account. No subscription. No ads or tracking. At home, LightLayout talks directly to your Hue Bridge over your local network. Optional Remote access uses a secure LightLayout gateway and the Philips Hue cloud when your Bridge cannot be reached locally. It is off by default and requires you to authorize your Philips Hue account. Each device pairs with the Bridge and authorizes Remote access separately. Local Bridge credentials stay in secure storage on that device; remote Hue authorization is stored encrypted by the gateway. A shared floor plan never grants anyone access to your Bridge or Hue account. Requirements: a Philips Hue Bridge and compatible lights. Initial setup requires the device and Bridge to be on the same local network. Remote access requires a separate Philips Hue authorization and an internet connection. LightLayout uses Hue Rooms (not Zones). Automations, entertainment areas, Sync Box, and gradient effects stay in the official Hue app. LightLayout is an independent third-party app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Signify. Philips Hue is a trademark of Signify Holding. Privacy Policy: https://www.lightlayout.app/privacy/ Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Triangle3 screens
LightLayout for Philips Hue4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Triangle at none against LightLayout for Philips Hue's 1. Triangle also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.6). LightLayout for Philips Hue's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 11 months). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. LightLayout for Philips Hue sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Triangle asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Triangle ships an update every 11 months, LightLayout for Philips Hue every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Triangle versus LightLayout for Philips Hue: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTriangleLightLayout for Philips Hue
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrentt BlakkanAppsolute oy

In-app purchases

None

Triangle

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

LightLayout for Philips Hue

One-time1
  • LightLayout App Unlock$7.99

Questions

Is Triangle free?
Triangle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LightLayout for Philips Hue free?
LightLayout for Philips Hue is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Triangle or LightLayout for Philips Hue have ads?
Neither Triangle nor LightLayout for Philips Hue shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Triangle or LightLayout for Philips Hue?
Triangle ships an update every 11 months, and LightLayout for Philips Hue every 5 days. Most recently, Triangle was updated on November 2, 2026 and LightLayout for Philips Hue on November 8, 2026.

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