Plume Home

Plume Design, Inc.

About this app

The Plume Home app brings together WiFi intelligence, security and easy management of your network and household to enhance your connectivity experience. Unlike other mesh WiFi systems, Plume automatically fine-tunes your network for peak performance—blocking interference, allocating bandwidth appropriately to all your connected devices, and prioritizing speed to live apps like video conferencing and streaming. All managed through a single mobile app.

- Simple setup
In a matter of minutes you will be able to add all your connected devices and ensure extenders are properly placed around the home for optimal coverage.

- Profiles and groups
Create user profiles for each member of the household to assign devices to them or even assign devices to groups like ‘light bulbs’ or ‘living room’ to easily manage them. Use profiles and device groups to set security policies, schedule Focus time, apply internet Timeouts, and optimize bandwidth with Traffic Boosts—giving you better control over online time and network performance.

- Traffic Boost
Prioritize your network how you want to. Choose to make sure specific applications, profiles, devices, or whole app categories are first in line for bandwidth. Feel confident that your video meeting, live TV stream, or gaming session has what it needs. Want Plume to handle it? Plume Home’s default Automatic Mode will prioritize any live traffic that needs it.

- Home security
Protect your devices from cyber threats like malware and phishing. No one home? Prioritize the network for security devices and applications like smart locks and cameras, and get instant alerts for any unusual activity. Use Motion to detect any movement when the home should be empty.

- Parental controls
Set predefined access profiles for kids, teens, or adults to automatically filter restricted content. Schedule Focus time to pause connectivity for specific profiles, devices, app categories, or the entire network. Need a quick break? Instantly restrict internet access from the home dashboard with a Timeout. Want to see where your bandwidth is going? See detailed usage graphs for all profiles and devices down to individual apps.

Ratings and reviews

The account management/logging in and out is unnecessarily odd. on top of that, there's a bunch of privacy settings that I don't want that it re-enabled by itself. once those are disabled, every tab on the app shows a banner that takes up a third of the screen "Data access off". Ultimately a very inefficient and frustrating way to manage a network. not even good for non-tech demographics.

UPDATE: (buying 3rd party router to bypass, bumped to 2 stars from 1) Custom primary/secondary DNS needs to also be able to direct to LAN devices without reserving those IP addresses only for devices! (especially if I'm paying 8 extra bucks for the Smart WiFi option!) I want to be able to direct all of my network traffic (without manually configuring each device) to my Raspberry Pi that is running Pi-hole to block ads and other network bloat. I miss having full control over my router...

This app was alright until the redesign a few months ago. Now it's even slower, harder to navigate, and the majority of the advanced features are completely missing. They also broke older versions of the app so you're forced to update. If your Internet provider tries to sell you on Plume, say NO and buy your own router.

What’s new

- Updated Welcome Screen
- Many bug fixes and performance improvements