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

When the mesh is having problems (e.g. all pods drop their links simultaneously, a hideous programming flaw) and I want to launch this app to monitor the situation, then and only then am I prompted to log in and have my email verified, adding multiple steps of absolute annoyance before I can even begin to see the mesh status. And since you've dropped tech support for your products to customers who supported you early on, this is the only means I have to submit a bug report.

For the most part, this app is okay however, it does not alert for devices online if the main account holder is in the house which in turn, does not allow for activity or tracking of any non-allowed device, it does not allow for usage time tracking for devices other than the most recent activity of the devices. it needs more tracking of activity and control of activity. also, allowing notifications for each individual device to be separate and added for that specific device would be great.

Absolutely horrible update. It won't even work now unless smart things app is installed and I WILL NOT have that on any device. Permissions says it can use the camera and modify/delete anything on any USB drive I might plug in. This is unacceptable. I should be able to login to my router without this horrible software, which is acting like a malware/virus. Not recommended for anyone concerned with safety and privacy. If I could I would give it 0 stars.

What’s new

- We're refreshing Plume Home with a redesigned Home screen and a new Devices tab, rolling out to a limited number of users before ramping up over the next month. It's now easier to see your network status and manage family members and connected devices.
- Many bug fixes and performance improvements