OnSwitch for Philips Hue

Buzzhaus, LLC

In-app purchases

About this app

OnSwitch for Philips Hue has a beautiful, simple user interface but it's also powerful. Your Hue lights come alive with a single click!

Our Hue app connects to your Philips Hue Smart Bridge, creating immersive animated experiences with your Hue lights!

There are many categories of light scenes:

Everyday lighting to enhance family time or working from home. There is even a Sunset sleep timer and a Sunrise Wake Up alarm.

Animated holiday experiences for Halloween, Christmas, New Years and many more.

Party/Disco lighting to make your home gatherings come alive.

Relaxing ambiance lighting with smooth color flows, nature scenes, health spa style experiences.

Even fun light scenes for kids such as "Baby Animals" and "Emergency" which simulates police cars and fire engines.

Get the best Hue App, get OnSwitch!

HERO LIGHTING
Our Hue light scenes have cinematic flair. Music sound tracks set the mood while our an animation engine delivers bursts of light and sound where anything can happen. Santa lands on your house! Zombies attack! You are in a spaceship battle!

Other light scenes transport you to a Lush Forest, Venice or even Deep Space to chill out in the Orion Nebula listening to superb ambient electronic music.

CREATIVE LIGHTING
OnSwitch gives you smarter, clearer ways to control your smart lights. Instead of guessing what Hue's "Light Recipes" mean, our Everyday Lighting album presents gorgeous photos of antique and halogen bulbs or a skylight so it's clear what kind of light you are going to get. Our fluorescent tube even flickers on like the real thing!

Want Color? Other apps make you drag a pin around a color wheel. OnSwitch makes it easy with curated Pastels and Accent colors. Warm and Cool color flows. And "Color Splat!" our exclusive color discovery feature that's always fun and a surprise.


SUNRISE ALARM & SUNSET SLEEP TIMER
Wake up with a beautiful sunrise and your favorite music! Go to sleep with a sunset, optimized for better sleep.

LIGHT GROUPS
Easily create and manage groups of bulbs. Control each group independently. OnSwitch manages groups on your Philips Hue Bridge so it will play nicely with your other apps!

IMPORTANT!
• You will need Philips Hue lights along with the Hue Smart Bridge or LIFX bulbs to use this app.
• LIFX support is not guaranteed. If connected, it may not support all LIFX devices, or all app functions and animated content.

Ratings and reviews

It's not app. It's an app store. You get a few free sample themes but you could easily spend a small fortune on light themes. Most are a $1.99. The only positive thing I can say is I didn't experience any technical problems with it. If you paid $2.00 to unlock a whole group of themes I would have spent money with this store but it's way to expensive for what you get. update: I'm updating my review because the developers took the time to address my complaints from years ago.

Awesome app. Great effects and constantly adding nemembership. I changed my five star review to 2 stars. I'm suddenly unable to see anything on the app it just says downloading effects then fail. It gives me the opportunity to retry but with the same result. This was my favorite of all of the hue recommended apps, and I had a paid memberahip.

My only app that gets hung up for some time before being able to interact with it upon opening. Seems badly managed as no longer connects to Philips Hue and app doesn't provide me a way to reconnect, else that feature is also not working on the app. Would recommend you stay away else get stuck with a useless app. Edit: The app is alive, seriously good job by the developers. Interface is smooth, no minutes worth of lag anymore.

What's new

• New: Betelgeuse Album