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iConnectHue for Philips Hue
Discover a whole new world of lighting with iConnectHue, the ultimate Philips Hue app! Transform your lighting experience with our smart timers, customizable switches & widgets intuitive sleep timers, allowing you to adapt your Hue lights effortlessly for every occasion.
Whether you yearn for a soothing ambiance or a lively party atmosphere with Discotainment (optional), iConnectHue has you covered! Immerse yourself in striking calibrated colors, captivating gradients, and enchanting Magic Scenes, perfect for any mood.
Dynamic Animations breathe life into your home with lively colors! For lightning-fast access to daily actions, customizable widgets are at your fingertips.
300000+ installs: Join us and elevate your Hues to new heights with iConnectHue! Celebrated 5x as Philips' App of the month, we've created a potent, yet user-friendly interface that simplifies complex tasks.
More about all fantastic possibilities: iconnecthue.com/features
PLEASE NOTE: In case of any issues, please contact us! Our team will try hard to solve any problem that you may encounter.
You get with a one-time price:
• Full feature set: control almost every aspect of your Hues +constant updates
• Family focus: Scene sharing, family geofencing (first one turns on the light, last one off - optional), group hiding
• Everything non-music related happens on Bridge - your iPhone stays off!
• Color animations on bridge. No empty batteries, everybody w/ iConnectHue can stop them!
• Calibrated color picker w/ great gradient modes
• Create beautiful Magic Scenes, color your home - they work for every group/gradient light, super easy to create
• Drag&drop colors between lights
• Multiply the possibilities of your switches & Motion Sensors! More flexibility than any other app on market (iconnecthue.com/features)
• Create the Home widget you want! Add scenes, switches, sleep timers, reminders, dimmers, motion sensor temperature & more
• Access your lights and timers when not at home
• Intelligent timers: Start them by time and day, by condition (group on/off or presence - w/ optional Automation), use colors & scenes, use random offsets, use sunrise or sunset time
• Instant timers: Darken lights when you go to bed, let your lights remind you, transition to scenes
• Find new lights & devices, add lights from other Bridges, update your firmware
• Integrated tutorials and FAQ make it easy to understand the usage and to solve problems
• Supports all Hue Zigbee hardware & many 3rd party lights
• +more via Membership or in app purchases
HUE BRIDGE V2/PRO REQUIRED!
To allow further development, additional modules are available via in app purchase or Membership:
• Animation Upgrade: unlimited animations, upload to switches, use them on your Apple Watch, widget & timers
• Discotainment: sync lights to music with Hue Entertainment, make your home a Disco - works with every source thanks to microphone
• Weekend mode: let your switches and sensors act differently on week/weekend
• Watch Plus: control your groups, adjust their brightness and load their scenes
• Home&Away turns off lights when first arrives & last left +individually by user
• Additional Animation & Magic Scene packages
• Yearly feature upgrades
Memberships
Basic
• All purchases, share your content, many&large Widgets, 2 Bridges @1 location, gradient light animations
Pro: like Basic plus
• Many bridges @ multiple locations
• Dashboard on Home view
• Sync Box support
• Light wizards: easily replace old lights, set startup mode via batch & on light search
• Daylight & Incandescent light mode
• Widget on Apple Watch
• Group picture&widget
• Apple Family Sharing of membership
• Advanced Shortcuts
• +More: iconnecthue.com/pro
Options&pricing: iconnecthue.com/app-options
It's less than a single Hue light! We want the best app for you and invest time and money. More:
iconnecthue.com/app-costs
It's the most comprehensive Hue app available:
iconnecthue.com/features/
Terms: iconnecthue.com/terms/eula_en.pdf
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Developer & User Discourse
Anmolah • Apr 18, 2026
★ 1
I buy the app, and it turns out they’ve put a bunch of features behind a subscription.
Sod-ers • Mar 13, 2026
Bought in 2021 & used every day since.
Some favorite features:
- Hold for secondary action & long press exclusivity.
- Time alternations.
- Inactivity timers as low as 30 secs.
- Battery indicators & low warning.
- Toggle motion sensors & set lights color.
- Adjust motion sensor sensitivity.
Some favorite features:
- Hold for secondary action & long press exclusivity.
- Time alternations.
- Inactivity timers as low as 30 secs.
- Battery indicators & low warning.
- Toggle motion sensors & set lights color.
- Adjust motion sensor sensitivity.
Chazfll • Mar 6, 2026
This was a fantastic app until you updated it, and now our request requesting me to pay for something I already paid for. Whoever is in charge needs to reverse this decision. Why should I buy your lights if you’re gonna charge me more later than to operate them totally ridiculous!
Reviewer80194 • Mar 3, 2026
I think it’s a bit shady this is a paid app that then locks most features behind an additional subscription. Ive seen other comments with the developer defending this by saying you can also buy individual feature à la carte without a full membership.
And yes, you’ll see these marked in the application as “try free”—but it’s not free, since you had to pay to download the app. I think this app has a lot of potential, but please be aware that your first purchase is paying for a demo.
EDIT: Adding following the developers response.
To say 2/3s of features are available is again misleading. Take Animations for instance- one of the listed features in the app description. I counted over 60 animations available in your app. Only six of them are included in the base price.
No one would reasonably expect that they would have less than 10% of a feature listed in the description when making an actual purchase.
If I had three apples and let you take a single bite out of two of them - I couldn’t conscionably say you paid for 2/3s of my apples.
I don’t think this is a poorly designed app, I just think you’re being opaque about what is available at what price.
You responded with a “magazine” analogy and described the options to buy one issue or a whole subscription. But you have always been able to flip through magazines before purchasing them.
And if I thumbed through a magazine and saw it only contained 10% of the cover story, then I certainly wouldn’t buy it.
And yes, you’ll see these marked in the application as “try free”—but it’s not free, since you had to pay to download the app. I think this app has a lot of potential, but please be aware that your first purchase is paying for a demo.
EDIT: Adding following the developers response.
To say 2/3s of features are available is again misleading. Take Animations for instance- one of the listed features in the app description. I counted over 60 animations available in your app. Only six of them are included in the base price.
No one would reasonably expect that they would have less than 10% of a feature listed in the description when making an actual purchase.
If I had three apples and let you take a single bite out of two of them - I couldn’t conscionably say you paid for 2/3s of my apples.
I don’t think this is a poorly designed app, I just think you’re being opaque about what is available at what price.
You responded with a “magazine” analogy and described the options to buy one issue or a whole subscription. But you have always been able to flip through magazines before purchasing them.
And if I thumbed through a magazine and saw it only contained 10% of the cover story, then I certainly wouldn’t buy it.
Dante J Demarco • Feb 4, 2026
Wow I love paying to get an app and then forced into a subscription to get use out of it…
Oni_Tactics • Jan 21, 2026
Pay to download a base app and get almost no functionality (much less than the Philips Hue app), you then need to pay for a base membership to get a few free samples of the pro membership items but will need to individually buy them (not as much functionality as the Philips Hue app yet), finally you need to pay for a Pro membership to get full functionality and get all the animations/scenes for “free” (same as the Philips Hue app, but iConnectHue has more animations). Only get this if you are sure the Philips Hue app does not have the animations you need and know this app has it.
Comparison:
Color change: Philips Hue app matches all versions of iConnectHue
Scenes: Philips hue app has more scenes than the base iConnectHue version of the app and the basic membership, but has a better ability to modify the scenes (even beats the pro membership)
Animations: Philips hue app has more animations than the base iConnectHue app and the base membership. The pro membership has more animations than the Philips Hue app.
Comparison:
Color change: Philips Hue app matches all versions of iConnectHue
Scenes: Philips hue app has more scenes than the base iConnectHue version of the app and the basic membership, but has a better ability to modify the scenes (even beats the pro membership)
Animations: Philips hue app has more animations than the base iConnectHue app and the base membership. The pro membership has more animations than the Philips Hue app.
Echo Three • Jan 7, 2026
The app is $3.99 to download. Fair enough. If you want see the actual temperature (6500 Kelvin, for example), though, that's a PRO feature. $14.99 a year? This is misleading. Will be disputing this with Apple.
dkitsov • Dec 27, 2025
This app, unfortunately, does not support free placement of colors on the Festivia Christmas lights or other gradient lights.
Edit: developers response is misleading.
Festivia and other gradient lights are not fully supported.
Specifically scattered modes do not work.
Gaslighting is uncouth
Edit: developers response is misleading.
Festivia and other gradient lights are not fully supported.
Specifically scattered modes do not work.
Gaslighting is uncouth
I-Hate-Apple-So-Much • Dec 21, 2025
The app killed off perpetual licenses users and removed functionality already paid for
Orrcorman21 • Dec 12, 2025
The easiest app to use for hue integrations. Love this app
Hum42 • Nov 24, 2025
Been using this app since the last one Apple no longer supports…. $$ :-( lately on only one of my iOS devices it fails to function… tried removing it and re-downloading it to see how long it will last. Lately Apple has been disallowing functionality due to VPN usage. This also is very concerning as functionality is growing less and less since their AI efforts are growing more and more restricting.
D'Kar • Oct 26, 2025
This app gets the best out of my Hue system. It’s worth it for the ease and mastery of my Hue setup. I’m saying that as a subscriber. One of the best apps of the whole App Store in my opinion.
Irregardless Source • Oct 11, 2025
Pay some. Then pay some more. The. Pay some more. Ridiculous
Bangkok Coyote • Oct 10, 2025
This app is the only app to use. It is wonderfully written and has a user interface far better than other apps I’ve tried using. It allows you to use the basic functionality of Hue switches, and will also allow you to go farther in implementing sophisticated switch behaviors.
I’ve been using the app for 3 years now, and it just keeps getting better.
I’ve been using the app for 3 years now, and it just keeps getting better.
bem9132 • Sep 29, 2025
I bought this app after using a competitors app for the last few months, this app is very intuitive for set up and fun to use. The pro features are simply outstanding.
JPF-463692 • Sep 19, 2025
This app makes using Hue devices so much easier. I have used it for years and have around 50 smart bulbs in my house. I only had one issue one time and that was when I moved, and the app developer offered great quick support. Highly recommend for any Hue users!
ason9299 • Sep 2, 2025
“This is a new device or function that wasn't supported when you purchased the app.”
This is the message I get when trying to use this app. I’ve already nought the app, how many times do we have to throw money at you??
In reading the dev responses here, it seems this app is their whole career & needs ongoing subscriptions. As I’ve already paid, I’m not doing it again.
Deleting it & suggest anyone reading reviews takes a second thought on this one.
This is the message I get when trying to use this app. I’ve already nought the app, how many times do we have to throw money at you??
In reading the dev responses here, it seems this app is their whole career & needs ongoing subscriptions. As I’ve already paid, I’m not doing it again.
Deleting it & suggest anyone reading reviews takes a second thought on this one.
mcpooh123 • Aug 21, 2025
Really the best app to control Hue lights that I use everyday. Super easy to configure switches via s wizard. Convenient remote access. CONSTANT updates to support new hardware. Nice disco feature to entertain guests. Highly recommend! (And let’s be honest: the yearly subscription has a pretty low price for such non-stop updates)
Rogers Global • Aug 6, 2025
Hands down the best app for lighting control on the market. I’ve been subscribed premium for years and iConnextHue outshines their competitors.
Avery A. Parker • May 7, 2025
Overall, app seems to be solid, just bought it, but I hoped it would have Bluetooth support, not just Zigbee :(
I still control my lights using Bluetooth, wanted some cool animations and more control over color (like brown) because saw RGB and CIE XY controls. Maybe I should finally buy Hue Bridge tbh.
I still control my lights using Bluetooth, wanted some cool animations and more control over color (like brown) because saw RGB and CIE XY controls. Maybe I should finally buy Hue Bridge tbh.
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