Wake vs Triangle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wake
Simulate natural sunrises with your Philips Hue lights. Program custom wake-up routines with adjustable colors, durations, and specific lights for different rooms. Wake-ups are stored on your Hue bridge for independent operation.
- Simulate sunrises with Philips Hue lights
- Program custom wake-up times and days
- Select light colors and transition durations
- Assign specific lights and rooms
- Set lights to turn off automatically
- Enable/disable wake-ups with a switch
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This application allows you to easily program your Philips Hue bridge in order to simulate sunrises in your house. Lights turn on when desired at low intensity and evolve towards higher intensity and daylight colours. For each wake-up that you program, you can: - Set the time at which the lights will turn on at low intensity. - Select the days of the week for which the wake-up must be repeated. - Choose between different colours when the lights turn on (natural, red, orange and blue). - Select the duration of the transition towards high intensity (30, 10 and 5 minutes) - Select the lights to use, this allows you to do sunrises at different times in different rooms of the house. - Set when the lights must turn off so that you do not have to do so manually. Each wake-up can be easily enabled or disable with a switch. Wake-ups are programmed in the Hue bridge. This make their execution totally independent from the app. Take note of the following limitations: - This app only works with Extended Color Lights and Color Temperature Lights. It will NOT work with Color Lights, Dimmable Lights and On/Off Lights. - The app uses five schedules and one light group per wake-up. Since the bridge is limited to 100 schedules and 16 groups, the number of wake-ups that can be created depends on the available space on the bridge.
Triangle
Effortlessly manage your HomeKit lighting with an intuitive, visual interface. Control individual bulbs, entire rooms, or custom groups with instant adjustments and scene saving. An undo button ensures creative freedom.
- Visual light control with triangles
- Instant Groups for custom lighting control
- Scene creation and saving
- Undo functionality for lighting changes
- Eyes-Free Color Picker
- Home and accessory management
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Control your HomeKit lighting with ease. Triangle presents your home in refreshing clarity. Lightbulbs and rooms are shown as brilliant triangles that you swipe and tap to create immersive lightscapes. Adjust a single bulb, your entire home, or anything in-between. Instant Groups let you control what you want, fast. So go ahead and play around — there's an Undo button if things get ugly! HomeKit Support • Supports HomeKit enabled lightbulbs, such as Philips Hue Instant Groups* • Control any combination of lightbulbs or rooms together • Control your entire home at once • Exclude a room or lightbulb by tapping its name Scenes • Effortlessly save your lighting as a scene you can set later • Scenes are beautifully presented in color so you can locate them quickly • Scenes are available to all other HomeKit apps • Scene names are also understood by Siri Undo • Reverse changes to brightness, color, and on/off state of lightbulbs 3D Touch** • Press firmly on a room triangle to peek in and see each lightbulb; press harder to pop fully into the room Eyes-Free Color Picker • Keep your focus on the lights, not the app • In the color picker, swipe below the triangle to easily change colors without looking • Color-temperature mode helps you set colors from a more conventional white light spectrum Home & Accessory Management for HomeKit • Create homes and rooms • Pair new accessories and assign them to rooms • Quickly switch between multiple homes • Manage home sharing invites — allow others to control your home’s accessories *Patent-pending, 2018 **Requires an iPhone with 3D Touch functionality. Music in app preview by dross: https://drosstapes.bandcamp.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Wake at 4.9 against Triangle's 4.2. Wake also leads on review sentiment (74% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 11 months). Triangle's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.6). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Wake holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Wake's written reviews are positive against 50% of Triangle's.
Wake ships an update every 4 months, Triangle every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wake | Triangle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (22 ratings) — better | 4.2 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.9% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jean-Francois Hamel | Brentt Blakkan |
Customer experience
Wake
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In-app purchases
Wake
No in-app purchases
Triangle
No in-app purchases









