Magic Hue Bluetooth vs Hao Deng
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Magic Hue Bluetooth
Control smart bulbs with your phone via Bluetooth. Adjust color, brightness, and set dynamic lighting scenes like flowing colors or music synchronization. Automate on/off times for personalized ambiance.
- Bluetooth Low Energy control
- Color and brightness adjustment
- Dynamic scene lighting
- Music synchronization
- Scheduled on/off times
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MagicHue Bluetooth is a BLE(Bluetooth Low Energy) based, personal, scene lighting system. A BLE supported smart phone can be used to control the bulbs, for color/brightness setting. Some useful functions can be used to set the scene lighting, e.g., flowing Color, dancing with music, turn on/off, times.
Hao Deng
Effortlessly manage your smart LED lights with a vast array of color and brightness options. Create custom scenes, group bulbs by room, and utilize security or wake-up lighting features. Sync lights to music or ambient room colors for a dynamic experience.
- 16 million color choices
- Brightness control
- Customizable scenes
- Multi-room grouping
- Security lighting timers
- Wake-up/turn-down lighting
- Music sync (MIC mode)
- Camera color detection
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Controlling your smart LED has never been easier. 16 million amazing color choices, coolwhite or warmwhite, or many other tones in between. Select any color you want, vary the brightness, store favorite scenes, or choose one of the preset color sequences. MULTI-ROOM / MULTI-SCENE Control the bulbs individually, or group them together. Create individual moods for different rooms. Full control, at your finger tip. SECURITY LIGHTING Going out of town? Set the smart LED to come on and off at certain times, and no one will know you are away. Set individual timers for daily, weekdays, weekends, or specific days. PERFECT WAKE-UP or TURN-DOWN LIGHTING Setup the smart LED to gently turn on the room lighting in the morning, or reduce brightness in the evenings. Perfect way to start the day or settle into the evening. PARTY TOOL Having a party? Set the device to MIC mode, where it’ll listen to the surrounding music and change colors to match the beat. Want lighting to match the color of the room? Easy, use the camera from the APP to detect the surrounding color, which then auto-updates the LED device to matching colors. SHARE Have you created the perfect scene using your lights? Have multiple users at home? No problem, use the email to share devices with other members of your household. SECURE Setup passwords to ensure only authorized persons have access to your smart lighting network.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Magic Hue Bluetooth at 3.7 against Hao Deng's 2.7. Magic Hue Bluetooth also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Hao Deng's advantage is review sentiment (36% vs 17%) and ratings volume (83 vs 7). On price, update cadence, 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.
Magic Hue Bluetooth holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hao Deng has 83 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of Magic Hue Bluetooth's written reviews are positive against 36% of Hao Deng's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Magic Hue Bluetooth | Hao Deng |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (7 ratings) — better | 2.7 (83 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 36.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 83 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 明长 周 | JM Zengge Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Magic Hue Bluetooth
Hao Deng
In-app purchases
Magic Hue Bluetooth
No in-app purchases
Hao Deng
No in-app purchases
Questions
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