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.

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.

I had to drop a star from original review. Now you get logged out for no apparent reason. Notifications are useless because they don't take you to the actual notification area. Again the hardware is fine, but it Lacks support for DMZ and many standard router features which doesn't really make it work for anything more than a wireless access point.

What’s new

- Many bug fixes and performance improvements, including a change to prevent users requesting multiple sign-in codes over a short time.