MagicHue vs Color Lights Flashing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MagicHue
Transform your Philips Hue lights into dynamic, colorful art. Enjoy relaxing fades or a vibrant music-reactive visual experience for parties or romantic dinners. Control individual lights and customize effects.
- Disco effect for Philips Hue lights
- Music and voice-reactive light effects
- Individual light control
- Brightness and saturation control
- Adjustable fading speed and light position
- Multiple bridge support
- Predefined and custom light presets
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Free for a limited time! You are looking for a new way to experience your philips hue lights? Then meet the hue app that transforms your rooms into living color art: From relaxing smooth fading to a highly dynamic visual music experience. Use it for a romantic dinner setup or your next party at home! This version features: Common functions: ◆ Switch disco bulbs on/off quick button ◆ Each light can be controlled individually ◆ Disable Auto-Lock to keep the app running ◆ Multiple Bridge Support Disco effect functions: ◆ Control any subset of lights for the disco effect ◆ Brightness and saturation control ◆ Free selectable hue (color) fading speed ◆ Selectable light position along the hue fading ◆ Microphone sensitivity can be adjusted ◆ 6 Predefined light presets plus one user defined ◆ Multiple devices can control different rooms according to local acoustic and we are working on a lot of more cool features that will be included with future updates for free! NOTES This app uses the microphone to convert music or voice input to light effects. It does not (yet) listen to music that is played on the iPhone itself. REQUIREMENTS - Requires iOS 8.1 or higher and the Philips hue kit
Color Lights Flashing
Transform your phone into a versatile lighting tool. Enjoy a bright flashlight, customizable disco effects, and music synchronization for parties or mood lighting. It offers a user-friendly interface with battery optimization and privacy respect.
- Music synchronization
- Disco ball simulation
- Adjustable strobe frequency
- Mood lighting effects
- Battery optimized flashlight
- Clean and fast interface
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Color Lights brings you the world's most entertaining flashlight app, all in one app. A simple but complete tool in your phone with many useful features with music, color and flash. Color Lights app provide you with many more features synchronizing the camera led flashlight and the screen flashlight turning your phone in a color flashlight ensuring you're enjoying lighting, dancing and listening music. FEATURES: * Cool Interface: Stunning graphics with beautiful interface and clean layout make the operation simple, smooth and fast! * Colorful environment: Simulate a disco ball and another light effects, select your style, switch color mode and host your own personal ambient. * Optimized: Battery friendly, super bright flashlight and music integration. * No unnecessary permission, no data collections: Just camera to control the flashlight and microphone to beat to the rhythm of the music. We respect your privacy. USES: * Strobe/Blinking Lights: The brightest strobe lights with frequency adjustable can be used in your bike, in your car, to send a warning, to produce a nice effect in when recording a video. * Animate your music! Color Lights flashlight app can integrate music from Music Streamers(Spotify, Deezer, SoundCloud) and from Music Players and beat to the rhythm of the music! Cool! * Disco Light: Animate the moments with your friends with disco lights, like a color flashlight create a cool disco light effect that will turn your flash LED on and off with the surrounding sound like graphical equalizer or music visualizer. * Mood Light: Selecting slow speed transform your room in a mood lights, using your screen color as a night light displaying color lights of the rainbow that adding ambience and atmosphere to a room. Can help you meditate and relax an even release tension, stress or anxiety. Have fun! * Disclaimer: Strobe light can cause epileptic seizures in some people with history of epilepsy. Do not point to the face for long periods. --- MORE INFORMATION: Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://duperchic.wixsite.com/chic-apps/policy Contact us: chic.message@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Color Lights Flashing at 4.6 against MagicHue's 3.4. Color Lights Flashing also leads on review sentiment (81% vs 50%) and ratings volume (198 vs 25). MagicHue's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Color Lights Flashing sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. MagicHue asks for nothing beyond the download.
Color Lights Flashing holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Lights Flashing has 198 ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of MagicHue's written reviews are positive against 81% of Color Lights Flashing's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MagicHue | Color Lights Flashing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (25 ratings) | 4.6 (198 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 49.6% of reviews | 80.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 198 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Breitling | Pavel Rojas |
Customer experience
MagicHue
Color Lights Flashing
User reviews
MagicHue
From 25 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Fantastic disco sync
- 🎶 Music synchronization works well
- 💡 Great for parties
- 🚀 Fast color changes
- 👍 Easy setup
Room to improve
- 🐛 Does not respond to music
- 🐛 Cycles colors endlessly
- 🐛 No longer shows connected lights
- 🐛 Doesn't work at all
- 🐛 Complex setup and UI
Color Lights Flashing
From 198 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤩 Fun and enjoyable experience
- 💡 Creative exploration features
- 🌈 Colorful and vibrant lights
- 👍 Easy to use interface
- 🎶 Syncs with music (paid version)
Room to improve
- 💸 Expensive paid features
- 🆓 Free version is limited/useless
- 💡 Wish all features were unlocked
- 💡 Desire for more affordable options
- 💡 Wish for a free version with more features
Bugs and requests
MagicHue
Reported bugs
53 issues- Only shows 0 connected lights
- No longer works
- Doesn't work at all
- App crashes
- Disco effect does nothing
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- Requires a URL
- Found bridge but no lights
- Bridge connection shows yellow
- Doesn't appear to work with a v2 bridge
- Doesn't find all bulbs
- Only found bulbs originally paired to bridge
- App just does not work at all
- Cannot find the bridge
- Doesn't find any of my lights
- Complex and sometimes it doesn't work
- Rubbish doesn't work useless
- App doesn't work
- Only finds 2 of my 23 bulbs
- Doesn't connect to Bridge hue
- Can't get past first page of 'select bridge'
- Can't just start with a scene from the main Hue app
- Can't use feed from iTunes directly
- Can't seem to quit the app
- Color changes only brightness
- Doesn't allow you to play music while running
- Amateur
- Only got this app to work once
- New version constantly crashes
- Crashes after 2 mins
- Constantly crashes
- Crashes after running for a few minutes or with several lights
- App quickly freezes
- iPad becomes completely disabled and a reboot is necessary
- App goes berserk if more than 8 bulbs are activated
- Causes really bad audio feedback on iPad2
- Won't pair
- Poorly written
- Documentation stinks
- Layout buttons and interface is embarrassing
- Can't seem to find a good way to turn off completely
- When I think I have done it and then open my Philips Hue it goe right back to Disco
- Not what you are looking for
- Can't get light to work
- Constant crashing
- Crashes after about 2 minutes running in disco mode
- Baffling
- No noticeable improvements
- Freezes iPad less with update
- Still goes berserk if more than 8 bulbs are activated
- Equalizer bar issue (corrected)
- Bad audio feedback on iPad2
- Won't pair
- Looks Awful
Requested features
17 requests- Pickup music from the same phone
- Strobe like features
- Ability to select a range of colors to cycle through
- More control of which colors it cycles through
- Update for Hue Bridge 2.0 with HomeKit support
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- Ability to play music while running
- More user inputs in color selections
- Strobe button with presets and custom options
- Wave feature moving colors from bulb to bulb
- Interface overhaul for general usability
- Timers added
- More flexibility and control over lights
- Less crashes
- Ability to select specific colors
- Recurring timers
- Sync to turn on lights based on sunset times
- Timed fade to work
Color Lights Flashing
Reported bugs
6 issues- Free version is useless
- Paid features inaccessible
- Unable to restore purchases
- App bugged a lot
- App didn't work as shown in ads
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- Siphons cash from account
Requested features
6 requests- More affordable pricing or a free version
- Free trial option
- Unlock all features
- Brighter lights
- Wider light coverage
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- More features in the free version
In-app purchases
MagicHue
No in-app purchases
Color Lights Flashing
- FlashBeat – Weekly Access$1.997 Days
- MusicVibe Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Unlimited Weekly Access3 Days trial$9.997 Days
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- Infinity Lights – Yearly Pass7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Origin Lights – Launch Deal1 Year trial$49.991 Year
Questions
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