Comparison

Hue Lights vs Lamptier 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

Hue Lights

Unlock advanced control for your smart lights. Create custom scenes, schedules, and dynamic lighting effects. Enhance your home ambiance with unique features like simulated weather and fire.

Highlights
  • Precise lighting control
  • Multi-room scenes
  • Customizable schedules
  • Dynamic lighting effects
  • Hue sensor and switch configuration
  • Apple Watch integration
  • In-app purchase for special effects
Features
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Hue Lights offers full feature support for all of your smart lighting needs: Precise control, multi-room scenes, schedules, sequences, dynamic lighting, and special effects. Create advanced configurations for your Hue motion sensor, Hue dimmer switch or Hue Tap. Check out our sample videos and FAQ at https://huelights.com. Teach your lights new tricks with Hue Lights! Completely customize each button on your Hue dimmer switch or Hue Tap. Control 8 scenes from a single Hue dimmer switch, change brightness speeds, or select groups based on duration of button press. Hue Lights leverages the latest firmware to store scene details directly on the bridge. You can view and edit shared scenes from any device on your network. The UI offers improved visual feedback and easier on/off/brightness controls directly from the home screen. Try the sequences feature to see amazing possibilities at your fingertips. Use your Apple Watch to activate scenes, adjust group brightness and trigger alerts. Escape to the beach with soothing ocean, lake, or creek sounds while your lights gently change and dim (Water In-App purchase). Experience amazing thunderstorms (In-App purchase) with customized controls for lightning strikes, rain density, bird songs, wind speed, sleep timer, brightness and sky color! Simulate realistic fires (In-App purchase) with dedicated controls for fire type, fire size, flare-ups and brightness. If you have any problems with previous In-App purchases, tap "Restore." Please see the comprehensive FAQ and documentation at https://huelights.com for App help. The free version allows control of lights 1 and 2. In-App purchases can unlock all lights and special effects. Hue Lights brings you shared scenes and groups, comprehensive scheduling, sequences and powerful light controls. Create multiple "On" and "Off" schedules per scene. Tap a row to select a light, group, or scene. Use quick controls at the bottom of the screen. Long press a row for quick actions (on, choose color, edit, off). Save scenes from any third-party app and use Hue Lights to activate these on your Apple Watch. Dynamically animate or schedule any scene from third-party apps. All screens are optimized for your favorite iOS devices in portrait and landscape mode. Hue Lights works well with any third-party app that saves scenes or schedules on the bridge. Do you have a favorite scene from another app that you use frequently? With Hue Lights you can turn this scene on or off with one tap! Hue Lights will show every schedule saved on your bridge from any app and give you the option to disable or remove unwanted schedules. Features: • Interactive widgets • Fire and candle effects • Light and group timers • Remote control • Hue motion sensor support • Hue dimmer switch/Hue Tap support • Sunrise/sunset actions • View/edit scenes and schedules on bridge • View/delete rules and sensors • See exact watts used on supported lights • 3D Touch on app icon • TouchLink for finding lost bulbs • Sequences • Apple Watch support • Dynamic animations • Scene themes • Supports multiple third-party ZigBee lights • Light, group and scene schedules • Tap bulb image to apply a favorite color • Localized VoiceOver support • Heuristics for working around common errors • Create transition times up to 90 minutes • Designed to work well with 50+ light deployments Experience multi-track, synchronized and visually appealing light animations and sequences. Requires "Hue Personal Wireless Lighting Starter Set" to operate. "Hue Personal Wireless Lighting" is a trademark owned by Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., see www.meethue.com for more information. LapApps, LLC is in no way affiliated with the Philips organization. Follow @HueLights on X and like our Facebook page for the latest news and updates. See https://huelights.com for more documentation and supported hardware.

About

Lamptier for Philips Hue

Create immersive lighting experiences and beautiful designs for your smart home. This app analyzes your room layout to generate personalized scenes, syncs with music, and offers convenient control over your Philips Hue lights.

Highlights
  • Dynamic lighting scenes
  • Background sound integration
  • Smart group control
  • Space Planner for room analysis
  • Lights Off functionality with timers
  • Custom scene creation
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Immersive experiences, beautiful lighting designs and everyday convenience made easy with Lamptier - it works with the Philips Hue system and helps to set your lights into a perfectly coordinated scene. The app adjusts the individual lamp settings according to their 3D-position in the room. Key features: - Large gallery of individually generated static and dynamic lighting scenes for Philips Hue - Background sounds, including curated playlists that work with Apple Music and Spotify - Smart groups allowing to launch multiple scenes at the same time - Space Planner that helps Lamptier to learn about your Philips Hue lighting setup - Dedicated "Lights Off" functionality with timers - Fine tuning mechanism to adjust every scene to your needs - Ability to create own scenes and presets To get started with Lamptier, all you need to do is place your Philips Hue lights on the Space Planner. Lamptier will analyse your Philips Hue lighting setup and generate lighting scenes that are tailored to your specific environment. Lamptier has a large gallery of lighting scenes ranging from simple everyday arrangements to more complex dynamic scenes for special occasions. The collection is constantly updated by Lamptier's team of developers, designers and music curators. Lamptier supports Smart Groups that allow you to decide which lights should be used in each scene. Multiple scenes can be activated at the same time. The app requires a Philips Hue bridge connected to local network and a set of Philips Hue bulbs in order to run. Access to Lamptier gallery of lighting scenes requires subscription that is available as an in-app purchase. Some scenes are made available free of charge from time to time. The following auto-renewable subscription plans are offered: - Lamptier Starter Plan (1-month subscription, up to 15 enabled lamps) - Lamptier Monthly Plan (1-month subscription, up to 50 enabled lamps) - Lamptier Quarterly Plan (3-month subscription, up to 50 enabled lamps) - Lamptier Yearly Plan (12-month subscription, up to 50 enabled lamps) - Access to lighting scene gallery will be unlocked for the term of subscription - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that service, where applicable Terms of use: https://lamptier.com/terms/ Please note, Lamptier is an independent 3rd party app that works with the Philips Hue system, however, we are not Philips and are not associated with Philips. An active subscription to Apple Music (purchased separately) is required to enjoy the benefits of lighting scenes that rely on playlists containing Apple Music tracks.

Screenshots

Hue Lights4 screens
Lamptier for Philips Hue4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Hue Lights at free with in-app purchases against Lamptier for Philips Hue's subscription. Hue Lights also leads on ads (none vs shown). Lamptier for Philips Hue's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Hue Lights sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Lamptier for Philips Hue sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lamptier for Philips Hue holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 472 and 397 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 45% and 45% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hue Lights ships an update every 5 months, Lamptier for Philips Hue every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Hue Lights versus Lamptier for Philips Hue: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHue LightsLamptier for Philips Hue
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (472 ratings)4.5 (397 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.0% of reviews45.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings472 — better397
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB134 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLapApps, LLCInfoality Ltd

Customer experience

Hue Lights

All ratings132 ratings
Positive47.0%
Neutral7.6%
Negative45.5%
Written reviews220 reviews
Positive45.0%
Neutral9.1%
Negative45.9%

Lamptier for Philips Hue

All ratings398 ratings
Positive89.4%
Neutral4.0%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive45.1%
Neutral13.7%
Negative41.2%

User reviews

Hue Lights

From 472 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great app for controlling Hue lights
  • 👍 Excellent functionality and customization
  • 💡 Helpful for connecting older Hue bulbs
  • 🚀 Touchlink feature works well
  • 👍 Responsive and helpful developer support

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy and unreliable after updates
  • 👎 Complicated and unintuitive user interface
  • 💰 Expensive in-app purchases required
  • 🐛 Compatibility issues with newer Hue bridges
  • 👎 Scenes and schedules not working as expected

Lamptier for Philips Hue

From 397 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Beautiful and impressive lighting scenes
  • 🎨 Unique 3D spatial positioning of lights
  • 🎵 Integration with Spotify and Apple Music
  • 💡 Innovative mood and ambiance creation
  • 🎭 Wide variety of themed scenes

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription model
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and connection failures
  • ⏱️ Slow and unresponsive performance
  • 🔋 Excessive battery drain in background
  • 🎵 Random/inconsistent Spotify track selection

Bugs and requests

Hue Lights

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Lights not responding to commands
  • Scenes not loading or activating properly
  • Frequent crashes and connection issues
  • Unexpected changes to light groups and settings

Requested features

4 requests
  • Alexa/Siri integration and voice control
  • Ability to run effects/animations in the background
  • More customization options for sunrise/sunset scenes
  • Better widget and Apple Watch support

Lamptier for Philips Hue

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • Effects fail to download
  • Cannot find lights or bridge
  • App crashes during bridge setup
  • Long startup times and unresponsiveness
  • Scenes take several minutes to load
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  • Light limit capped at 15 lights despite paid plan
  • Routines cannot be turned off intuitively
  • Routines persist after uninstall
  • Sleep timer renames rooms and breaks HomeKit sync
  • Music sync causes phone freezing
  • Inverse light selection behavior
  • App crashes on iOS updates
  • Restore purchase functionality fails
  • Apple Music integration rarely works
  • Scenes content fails to download

Requested features

13 requests
  • Siri Shortcuts integration
  • Alexa and Google Home compatibility
  • Apple Watch app
  • IFTTT support
  • Multiple bridge support
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  • Multiple lights per wall/floor/ceiling
  • Camera-based light recognition
  • Force Touch quick access
  • Lights-only scenes without music
  • Consistent music track selection
  • Easy routine on/off toggle
  • Physical button/switch control
  • Offline functionality

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Hue Lights

One-time9
  • Unlock 100 ScenesFree
  • Thunderstorm$1.99
  • Fire$1.99
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  • Water$1.99
  • Perfect Sunrise$1.99
  • Richer Colors and Scenes$1.99
  • Premium Actions$1.99
  • Premium Sequences$1.99
  • Unlock 48 Lights$4.99
10 purchases

Lamptier for Philips Hue

Subscriptions10
  • Starter Plan, up to 15 lamps$2.991 Month
  • Starter Plan, up to 15 lamps7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Monthly Plan, up to 50 lamps$4.991 Month
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  • Monthly Plan, up to 50 lamps7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Quarterly Plan, up to 50 lamps$14.993 Months
  • Quarterly Plan, up to 50 lamps7 Days trial$14.993 Months
  • Yearly Plan, up to 50 lamps$29.991 Year
  • Starter Plan, up to 15 lamps$29.991 Year
  • Starter Plan, up to 15 lamps7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Yearly Plan, up to 50 lamps7 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Hue Lights free?
Hue Lights is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lamptier for Philips Hue free?
Lamptier for Philips Hue is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hue Lights or Lamptier for Philips Hue?
Lamptier for Philips Hue is rated higher. Hue Lights averages 4.1 out of 5 from 472 ratings, while Lamptier for Philips Hue averages 4.5 from 397 ratings.
Do Hue Lights or Lamptier for Philips Hue have ads?
Lamptier for Philips Hue shows ads; Hue Lights does not.
Which is updated more often, Hue Lights or Lamptier for Philips Hue?
Hue Lights ships an update every 5 months, and Lamptier for Philips Hue every 5 weeks. Most recently, Hue Lights was updated on November 11, 2026 and Lamptier for Philips Hue on November 4, 2026.

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