CrownSensor vs Hue zBridge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CrownSensor
Control your phone's volume and screen brightness using Bluetooth-connected IoT hardware. This app enables seamless integration for managing device settings remotely.
- Bluetooth IoT hardware integration
- Mobile phone volume control
- Screen brightness adjustment
- Remote device setting management
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This application demonstrates the application scenario of IoT hardware operating mobile phone volume and screen brightness via Bluetooth.
Hue zBridge
Unify your Hue and Conbee ZigBee bridges into a single interface. Create custom scenes, control lights across multiple bridges, and manage motion sensors. Personalize your smart home setup with advanced scheduling and room customization.
- Combine Hue and Conbee bridges
- Create custom scenes
- Control lights across multiple bridges
- Add and manage motion sensors
- Restrict scenes by day/time
- View Conbee adapter whitelist
- Transfer configuration between devices
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Combine your ZigBee bridges from Hue and Conbee adapters into a single interface allowing you to assign custom scenes, invoke group lighting commands that will control these across multiple bridges. You can create custom scenes and control lights across multiple bridges and also add Motion Sensor devices to your custom scene where you can enable or disable the sensor when the scene is executed. This was designed for personal use an and has grown by user input and requests. No data is collected and never will be. If you have suggestions or problems please let us know. It is designed for use on your local network. You can now assign to custom scenes some modifiers that will restrict scenes being run by day of week, time of day range, or if its day or night at your location. If you try and run a custom scene outside of those valid windows you have selected it will present you with an opportunity to override the restrictions based on those options. On the slide out menu you can add bridges to load, see your device list across multiple bridges in the rooms they were set up for on your Hue or Conbee bridges. You can create Custom Scenes that contain lights from various rooms, groups and zones that might be defined on your bridges, and Motion Sensors to the scene. You can sign custom images to your rooms as well as rearrange the order the rooms on displayed in on the main screen. If you have rooms you wish to Hide then you have an option to so. If you have multiple.e devices ( family member phones, iPads, etc ) you can transfer the configuration from your phone to those other devices. Also if you have a Conbee ZigBee adapter you can view the "whitelist" from the system and it will show you the authentications that have been made on the system. It displays the keys that have been assigned as well as the last sen date. Old entries that haven't been seen in over 30 days will have a red box around them. This is a way you can cleanup the whitelist. Tap on a whitlelist entry and you have the option to remove that key from your system. If you have issues with Rooms that is causing you issues you can wipe the rooms database in the app. It will then rebuild the list the next time you close and open the app. This database is kept to allow for changing the order of the rooms as well as the ability to assign a custom scene to display in a room.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: CrownSensor at Free against Hue zBridge's $5.99. CrownSensor also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On rating, 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
CrownSensor is free to download; Hue zBridge costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CrownSensor against 5.0 for Hue zBridge. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
CrownSensor ships an update every 3 days, Hue zBridge every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CrownSensor | Hue zBridge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Lanke Xuntong Technology Co., Ltd. | Lake Hawk LLC |
Customer experience
CrownSensor
Hue zBridge
In-app purchases
CrownSensor
No in-app purchases
Hue zBridge
No in-app purchases









