Hue Lights vs Softflame

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.

Softflame brings a real candle glow to the smart bulbs you already own. Matter bulbs can switch on and off, dim, and change color — but they have no way to flicker like a flame. Softflame gently moves their brightness and color, step by step, so a room fills with candlelight, a slow breath, or the drift of an aurora. When you stop, every light goes back exactly as it was. EVERYDAY PRESETS • Candle — warm white that wavers like a flame. Set the base brightness, how deep it flickers, and the color temperature (2,000–3,500K). • Breathe — slowly brighter and dimmer, six breaths a minute. • Aurora — green, teal and violet, drifting round. • Under the Sea — blue and teal, with a gentle swell of light. • Rainbow — slowly round every color. CHRISTMAS • Tree — red, gold and green in turn, dimming between colors. On Apart, every light is a different ornament. • Snowfall — snow white drifting into a pale blue, with a soft sparkle now and then. • Silent Night — a deep blue and a warm gold, slowly taking turns. • Frost — blue-white, ice blue and pale lavender, like a string of LED tree lights. HALLOWEEN • Pumpkin — yellow to orange, like a jack-o'-lantern. • Twilight — purple fading into a dark blue. • Lightning — darkness, then a blue-white flash, once or a few times in a row. New seasonal presets arrive with updates. EASY TO USE Tap a preset, check the lights you want, and press Play. Each light can run its own preset — Tree in the living room, Frost by the window. Every preset can move its lights together or each at its own pace, with a brightness setting, and speed for Aurora, Rainbow and Frost. Every preset has a moving preview, so you can see it before you try it. MADE FOR YOUR HOME • Works with bulbs that are already in the Home app: Matter over Thread or Wi-Fi, and bulbs behind a bridge. • Thread bulbs change about every quarter second; bridged and Wi-Fi bulbs every half second to a second, so the flame stays smooth instead of lagging. • Color presets need a color bulb. Candle, Breathe and Lightning work on any dimmable bulb; Pumpkin and Snowfall also run on tunable-white bulbs. • Your lights are put back — power, brightness and color — the moment you stop or leave the app. FREE AND PRO Every preset is free to try, on up to 2 lights for 30 seconds at a time. Softflame Pro is a one-time purchase, with no subscription: up to 10 lights, no time limit, and the screen stays awake while your lights are running. Softflame runs while the app is open. It has no account and collects no data; your settings stay on your iPhone. Made by the developer of HomeMonitor.