Comparison

hueDynamic for Philips Hue vs Needlepoint Studio

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

Head to head
About

hueDynamic for Philips Hue

Enhance your Philips Hue lighting system with dynamic scenes, sound synchronization, and advanced control. Create custom ambiences from photos, program smart buttons, and enjoy immersive experiences for movies and parties. Features include power outage detection and compatibility with various Hue light types.

Highlights
  • Dynamic lighting scenes with sound
  • Advanced smart button programming
  • Real-time camera-to-light synchronization
  • Custom photo ambiences
  • Multiple bridge support
  • Power outage detection and recovery
  • Sound-to-light disco modes
Features
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Your lights. Your music. Your moment — hueDynamic brings your Philips Hue lights to life with AI-powered Auto DJ, immersive experiences that combine light and sound, advanced Disco, a full Party light sequencer, live DJ pads, Camera Sync and Siri Shortcuts. From a quiet night in to one more song with friends, make the whole room part of the moment. NEW: AUTO DJ — LIGHTS THAT FEEL YOUR MUSIC Press play and let hueDynamic take the decks. Auto DJ listens to your music, recognizes the genre right on your device and switches Disco to the matching light show as your playlist moves from house to rock to reggae. 19 genre presets, live detection with genre artwork and a Chill knob to soften the lights whenever you like. Try it free for 10 minutes of music. FEEL EVERY BEAT WITH ADVANCED DISCO Prefer to take the controls? Explore Peak, Spectrum and Neural modes or shape your own sound-to-light response. Tune bass, midrange and treble bands, assign lights to each, and adjust color, sensitivity, smoothing and strobe. Save your own version of any genre and your favorite setups. YOUR LIGHTS. YOUR SHOW. Create something only you could make with the Party light sequencer. Arrange color washes, chases, waves, pulses and twinkles on a visual timeline with individual light tracks, then loop your creation. Shape brightness and color with custom ADSR curves, including independent red, green and blue channels. Set the BPM, tap a tempo or detect it through your microphone, and save shows, patterns and effect presets for your next big night. PLAY THE ROOM WITH DJ PADS Put the light show at your fingertips with 16 performance pads across two banks. Tap for an accent, hold an effect or launch a loop, right on the beat. Record your performance as editable timeline clips and save pad layouts for every set. ESCAPE INTO LIGHT AND SOUND Unwind beside a glowing fireplace, lose yourself in a rainforest or fill the room with fireworks. Explore over 100 mixable ambiences and dynamic experiences with music and stereo sound effects, build playlists and browse themed Experience Packs. HALLOWEEN LIGHTING & SPOOKY SURPRISES With hueDynamic running, your Hue Motion Sensor or the MotionAware areas on a Hue Bridge Pro can trigger random light and sound effects from your selection. Perfect for haunted-house displays. MAKE YOUR HOME YOUR OWN ● Use Siri Shortcuts to start experiences, Disco or Auto DJ, adjust your lights and set the mood with your voice. ● Point your camera at the TV and Camera Sync brings on-screen colors into your room. ● Create photo ambiences from your favorite pictures and refine them with Tweaks! OmniScene lets you reuse them in different rooms. ● Control lights across multiple Hue bridges without switching between bridges. ● Give Hue Dimmer, Tap, Tap Dial, Smart Button, Lutron Aurora, Niko and RunLessWire Click more possibilities with advanced programming. ● Set multiple button actions, cycle ambiences and brightness levels, and customize motion sensor behavior. ● Use Child Lock to restrict rooms and bridge programming. ● Check Hue Motion Sensor temperatures, set timers and control compatible third-party bulbs connected to your Hue bridge. ● Back up favorites, Disco presets, Party creations and saved device-programming profiles. Ready to make your lights come alive? A Philips Hue bridge is required. Party and Neural Disco require a Hue Entertainment area with compatible lights. Free access includes limited feature previews; most dynamic effects have a 2-minute limit. Pro 2.0 unlocks Auto DJ and the new advanced features through a one-time purchase or subscription. Existing Pro owners keep their original Pro features. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Needlepoint Studio

Organize your needlepoint projects, track your progress with photos, and manage your thread stash. Features a stitch library and a timer for your stitching sessions. Your data is private and stored locally.

Highlights
  • Project tracking with progress photos
  • Stitching session timer
  • Thread stash cataloging
  • Built-in stitch library with diagrams
  • Collection value and export
  • Private iCloud backup
  • Customizable themes
Features
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Learn to needlepoint, one stitch at a time. Needlepoint Studio teaches you the whole stitch library with animated, step-by-step lessons. Every stitch draws itself on the canvas, stroke by stroke, with a needle that shows exactly where the yarn goes. Play it, pause it, step through a single stitch, or slow it to half speed until it clicks. No other needlepoint app teaches this way. FOLLOW A GUIDED PATH Start with First Stitches, free for everyone. Then work through curated lessons in Beautiful Backgrounds, Texture Sampler, and Decorative Accents. Each path builds real skills in the order a teacher would give them. KEEP YOUR WHOLE CRAFT IN ONE STUDIO • Track every canvas from "kitted up" to finished, with progress photos and a before/after compare. • Time your stitching sessions and watch your streak and weekly minutes add up. A running timer stays on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. • Give a canvas a finish-by date and see, in plain language, whether you're on pace to make it. • Organize your fiber stash and stretcher bars: brand, color, count, and how much you have left. • Flag what you're low on, then take the whole To Buy list to the shop as a shopping list, so you never buy the same thread twice. KNOW WHAT IT'S ALL WORTH See the value of your collection at a glance, and export an insurance-ready CSV or PDF report: proof of everything you own, ready when you need it. CELEBRATE EVERY FINISH Finished canvases join a gallery grouped by year. Share a single project's before-and-after, or a whole year of stitching, as a card made for the feed. YOURS, EVERYWHERE, FOREVER Everything backs up privately through your own iCloud account. Get a new iPhone and your studio is already there. Add Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, including a new stitch to learn every day. Log a session with one tap or by asking Siri, and jump to any project or stitch from Spotlight search. GO PRO YOUR WAY: SUBSCRIBE, OR PAY ONCE AND OWN IT FOREVER Studio Pro unlocks the full stitch library, all learning paths, unlimited projects, finish-by pacing, collection and shopping-list export, the Year-in-Review card, and nine extra studio themes. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription (yearly starts with a 3-day free trial), or make a single lifetime purchase that's yours forever. Every plan works on all your devices and shares with your household through Family Sharing. Your data is never locked behind Pro: everything you've made stays visible, editable, and synced even if a subscription ends. Terms of Use: https://pandataps.com/terms/needlepoint Privacy Policy: https://pandataps.com/privacy/needlepoint Made for needlepointers.

Screenshots

hueDynamic for Philips Hue4 screens
Needlepoint Studio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Needlepoint Studio at 100% against hueDynamic for Philips Hue's 55%. Needlepoint Studio also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). hueDynamic for Philips Hue's advantage is ratings volume (847 vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. hueDynamic for Philips Hue sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Needlepoint Studio sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Needlepoint Studio holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: hueDynamic for Philips Hue has 847 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of hueDynamic for Philips Hue's written reviews are positive against 100% of Needlepoint Studio's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

hueDynamic for Philips Hue ships an update every 8 days, Needlepoint Studio weekly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
hueDynamic for Philips Hue versus Needlepoint Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterhueDynamic for Philips HueNeedlepoint Studio
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (847 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews54.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings847 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size248 MB4 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperDarrell RosePanda Taps LLC

Customer experience

hueDynamic for Philips Hue

All ratings847 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral4.3%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive54.8%
Neutral8.1%
Negative37.1%

Needlepoint Studio

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

hueDynamic for Philips Hue

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Lights remain unresponsive after using app
  • Disco mode stops working during use
  • Unable to find or connect to Hue bridge
  • Continued charging despite cancellation

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to control ambient sounds
  • Integration with Siri Shortcuts
  • Sync lighting with music from other apps
  • More sleep/relaxation lighting options
  • Landscape mode for camera feature

Needlepoint Studio

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

hueDynamic for Philips Hue

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Pro Annually$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • hueDynamic Pro 2.x Loyalty Upgrade$9.99
  • hueDynamic Pro Upgrade$24.99
3 purchases

Needlepoint Studio

Subscriptions2
  • Studio Pro Monthly3 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Studio Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Studio Pro$39.99

Questions

Is hueDynamic for Philips Hue free?
hueDynamic for Philips Hue is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Needlepoint Studio free?
Needlepoint Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, hueDynamic for Philips Hue or Needlepoint Studio?
Needlepoint Studio is rated higher. hueDynamic for Philips Hue averages 4.6 out of 5 from 847 ratings, while Needlepoint Studio averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do hueDynamic for Philips Hue or Needlepoint Studio have ads?
Neither hueDynamic for Philips Hue nor Needlepoint Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, hueDynamic for Philips Hue or Needlepoint Studio?
hueDynamic for Philips Hue ships an update every 8 days, and Needlepoint Studio weekly. Most recently, hueDynamic for Philips Hue was updated on October 25, 2026 and Needlepoint Studio on October 25, 2026.

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