Wake vs Digital Control Plan
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.
Digital Control Plan
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The application supports product quality inspection. - Create test visits. - Do a test. - Track inspected reports.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Digital Control Plan at monthly against Wake's every 4 months. Digital Control Plan also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 16.6). On price, 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 ships an update every 4 months, Digital Control Plan monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wake | Digital Control Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (22 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 73.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Jean-Francois Hamel | Nam Huynh |
In-app purchases
Wake
No in-app purchases
Digital Control Plan
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Wake free?
Is Digital Control Plan free?
Do Wake or Digital Control Plan have ads?
Which is updated more often, Wake or Digital Control Plan?
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