You can fall asleep feeling like you're looking at the starry-night sky. If you have mostly white walls like me, you can change a room's entire look with a touch on your phone. (Scenes supported are only the ones in the official Hue app). Turn the lights blue when it starts to rain. Make them blink red when the email is a bill. Make the lights blink when you receive an email. A hub for your Hue to the rest of the world. I wish it supports recurring scheduling (as of right now, you have to re-set both the alarm and timer each time you want to use it), but their light settings are SO GOOD that I'm willing to let it slide. You can set an alarm for the 'Sunrise' scene, which gradually gets brighter to wake you up, and a timer for the 'Night Sky' scene, which gradually gets dimmer as you fall asleep. It just looks RIGHT, which is hard to explain since you have to see how it sets the tone and ambience for yourself.
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It's a free app, doesn't offer any customization, but what you get is THE BEST lighting recipes (with effects built in) from any other app's default offerings, certainly better than the ones you could come up with yourself (unless you want to spend hours tweaking settings). Goldee - this is hands-down my favorite Hue app, the one that I use daily and had it not existed, I would feel less good about having spent almost RM 1k on light bulbs. I wish it supports Spotify or any music you have playing from any app on your phone, but as of now, it only supports music from the Music app. A fun and fast setting for parties and such. What it does is that it set your lights to the music that you're playing. You have to manually enable a scene each time, which is pretty archaic/ dumb for such a smart device. You can't schedule a Sunset light scene to come up at a specific time etc. The problem with this one is that while it offers customization, you can't do anything else with a specific light setting. So if you want to play around with colors and effects and options, this would be the one to get. This probably has the largest customizable options for your bulbs. Hue LIFX Scintillator - this app supports both the Hue bulbs and LIFX bulbs. It doesn't offer effects, but it's clean and pretty, support alarms and timers, with the option to do geeky things as it has a desktop companion app Hue Server that supports scripts and automations directly from your computer. Hue Remote - I think if you just want a straight up remote to turn on/off your lights and create scenes, this is the best looking one. These are some of my recommendations (for iOS) :
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I would still leave the app installed on your phone cause it's the only one that could update your Hue if there's a latest firmware.
The good thing is that the Hue has an open API, so there are third party apps that you can use instead of the official one. It has some useable features like alarms and timers and geofencing, all with caveats - geofencing is too much of a battery-drain to be useful, and while the alarms and timers work solidly, I wish you can set multiple parameters instead of just time (like Wemo's better app) and support effects for each light scenes. And that is a really big problem for a device that you control/ interact with largely from your smartphone. The official iPhone app from Philips is buggy, unintuitive and is either sub-par at its best or bad at its worst. I wish Philips has made a smarter bridge that can store the current light setting in the bridge itself. Basically all light settings are not just controlled by the app on your phone, but remain 'on' as long as the app is running, which is terrible for apps that support light effects (apps like Goldee and Scintillator found a solution by asking access to your mic to save battery life). (Although the bridge is also really dumb, which is a bad choice on Philips' part. I did have a problem connecting the bulbs to an app, and that is where Hue's biggest weakness is - software. People have had problems with disconnections and the bridge not recognizing the bulbs, but I haven't had such a problem so far. I think on the hardware side, Hue is really a solid product.
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