Triones vs Magic Hue Bluetooth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Triones
Control smart lights with extensive color and brightness options. Create custom scenes, sync with music, and manage multiple devices remotely. Schedule lighting and personalize your environment.
- Personalized color and brightness control
- Scene creation and music sync
- Multi-device and group management
- Remote operation and scheduling
- Photo color selection
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1. Personalized Color Control: Supports 16 million color adjustments and brightness tuning, allowing you to switch light colors via shaking your phone, selecting hues from photos, or rotating the color wheel, with intelligent storage of frequently used color preferences; 2. Scene Smart Interaction: Pre-set multiple modes, enabling lights to sync with music rhythm or respond to voice commands for dynamic changes; 3. Multi-device Management: Supports simultaneous connection and group control of multiple fixtures, adapting to various scenarios such as home, commercial, and automotive modifications; 4. Flexible and Convenient Control: Remote operation without directional restrictions, supporting scheduled on/off task settings; 5. Rich themes: Multiple backgrounds can be switched to meet user needs.
Magic Hue Bluetooth
Control smart bulbs with your phone via Bluetooth. Adjust color, brightness, and set dynamic lighting scenes like flowing colors or music synchronization. Automate on/off times for personalized ambiance.
- Bluetooth Low Energy control
- Color and brightness adjustment
- Dynamic scene lighting
- Music synchronization
- Scheduled on/off times
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MagicHue Bluetooth is a BLE(Bluetooth Low Energy) based, personal, scene lighting system. A BLE supported smart phone can be used to control the bulbs, for color/brightness setting. Some useful functions can be used to set the scene lighting, e.g., flowing Color, dancing with music, turn on/off, times.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Magic Hue Bluetooth at 3.7 against Triones's 2.4. Magic Hue Bluetooth also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (4 vs 2). Triones's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (47 vs 7). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Magic Hue Bluetooth holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Triones has 47 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 19% of Triones's written reviews are positive against 17% of Magic Hue Bluetooth's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Triones ships an update fortnightly, Magic Hue Bluetooth every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.
| Parameter | Triones | Magic Hue Bluetooth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (47 ratings) | 3.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.6% of reviews — better | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 兴魁 胡 | 明长 周 |
Customer experience
Triones
Magic Hue Bluetooth
In-app purchases
Triones
No in-app purchases
Magic Hue Bluetooth
No in-app purchases
