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Philips Hue lights are more fun with iConnectHue – the best app for iPhone- and iPad to manage your Hue-Lights. Playing with colors, effects and dynamic animations is pure entertainment!

Enhance switches like Hue Tap/Dial Switch, Hue Dimmer, Smart Button, Friends of Hue, Motion Sensors and Lutron Aurora with multiple functions such as brightness, scenes, switch on/off or even optional color-animations.

iConnectHue’s intelligent timers activate Hue-Lamps at sunrise, sunset or any defined time – you can even let a timer recognize if you are at home or only act if your group is on or off. A sleep timer is ready to go with just two taps! The group-feature comes in handy to organize multiple Hue lights.

Discotainment makes your party a Hue Disco! iConnectHue is an essential ingredient for your Hue system brings you an ultimate feature-set packed in a clean and intuitive interface, which just received a better design with version 4 to give you a fantastic user experience with Philips Hue on iOS.
iConnectHue exists since 2013 and STILL receives regular updates in 2024!

Main interface and color picker

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Group your lights

iConnectHue is an app that can group your Hue lights. So if you use them in several rooms, you can easily arrange them in the way you expect them to use. For each group, you can save a scene, adjust color and bright­ness and even start Ani­mations or load Magic Scenes. Com­pared to the strict rooms concept, groups allow you to group specific lights to­gether, even if they are already in a room. Zones allow you to join bigger parts of your house or flat.

Groups and Zones can be used like normal rooms, over the entire app, with­out any res­trictions. Both groups and zones allow you to share the same lights with other rooms, groups and zones. (Picture shows Pro version with widget and group picture)

Drag & Drop colors

With iConnectHue, you can simply copy colors to other Hue lights via drag & drop.

Even works from tem­perature and fixed tem­perature lights to color lights and the other way around, with gradient lights and effects! iConnectHue will cal­culate the best matching choice auto­matically.

Intelligent timers

Create the timers you need - let iConnectHue wake you up in the morning by a beauti­ful sun­rise ani­mation. Turn on your lights in the evening before sun­set. Or put your Hue lights to a certain color.

Color timers are even available for individual lights!

Intelligent timers can act on group/ light states and your pre­sence. (Note: Ani­mation timers need optional Ani­mation Up­grade, presence timers the Auto­mation, or just one of our member­ships)

More versatile switches & sensors

The best editor available for Hue Tap/Dial Switch, Dimmer, Hue Smart Button, Friends of Hue switches, Hue Motion Sensors and Lutron Aurora.

Add up to 8 actions and 5 alter­nations to each button. On your Dimmer, Smart Button & Aurora, use press AND hold function.

Actions can be colors, scenes, bright­ness, on/­off, sleep, blinking and even ani­mations (with optional Ani­mation Up­grade).

Alter­nations let you do other things e.g. by  next button press, by day and night or by time range of the day. Create a group on/­off toggle switch ("group on state").

Instant sleep timers, reminders, transitions

Start sleep timers, re­minders, and tran­sitions to a scene or magic scene in­stantly in every group or room with just two taps. Your Hue lights can either fade over the whole time, in the last minutes, or turn off after the time has passed. Re­minders can blink once or for 10 seconds. They are also available for switches, the widget editor and for the watch app (with Watch Plus or membership). With the Pro member­ship you can run them via Siri Short­cuts.

(Video shows Pro version with widget and group picture)

Widget: At your fingertips

iConnectHue has the most versa­tile Hue widget editor available. Quickly create and edit the widget you need, with live pre­view!

Many functions available directly at your finger­tips:
Scenes | Magic Scenes | Group and light switches | Apply colors to groups | Sleep timers | Re­minders | Group dimmer | See group light states | Temperature (from motion sen­sors) | Disable/­enable motion sen­sors and contact sensors | or even start Ani­mations (with Ani­mation Up­grade or member­ship).

1 small & 1 mid­sized Home widget available (un­limited with member­ship)
Classical widgets are probably not available with iOS 18 anymore
With Pro: Use your widget on the Apple Watch | Toggle through 4 different colors/ scenes/ Animations per widget item

Bring your lights to life

iConnectHue comes with a big free de­livered Ani­mation package, and offers you several more optional Ani­mation packages - just in case you get tired of the de­livered ones 😉

With the optional Ani­mation Up­grade, you can create your own Ani­mations, up­load Ani­mations to switches (Hue Tap/­Dial Switch, Hue Dimmer, Smart Button, Friends of Hue, Lutron Aurora) and Sensors (Indoor & Outdoor Hue Motion Sensor), use them for timers, have them in your widget and on your Apple Watch.

Make your own lightshow!

Discotainment is the audio visualizer light­show you'll love! It uses Philips' Hue Entertainment to create near in­stant Disco effects, is able to de­tect beats (works best with beat heavy elec­tronic and pop music), volume and is able to visualize and sync your lights in a way you've not yet seen from any other visualizer app!

The best: You can con­figure it to your needs - yes, begin­ning with which Magic Scenes you want, how they are being used, over bright­ness changes, ending with strobe/­sparkle effects. Disco up your party!

(Discotainment is an optional feature not included in the basic app)

Hueblog on Discotainment (German)

Magic Scenes are... magic!

Magic scenes are scenes that can be used in every group, with every gradient light and can be altered to fit into your group or light with a few taps.
They con­sist of a set of colors - and they are assembled in a few seconds - either manually, or (with member­ship) from gradients and pictures! Forget all the clumsy ways and multiple steps of getting a scene created - this is possibly the fastest and most con­venient way to create scenes you've ever seen!

Several Magic Scene packages are already included, several more of them are optionally available.
With a member­ship, you can create Magic Scenes from gradients and pictures.

Featured several times

Philips has chosen iConnectHue to be the Philips Hue App of the month no less than 5 times! It's also featured as one of the few Hue Enter­tainment capable apps.

iConnectHue has also been featured for its BIG 4.0 up­date and has been selected as one of the top paid apps in 2019 by Apple in the App Store.

 
iConnectHue is one of the top paid apps in 2019

There are reasons for this: It is being de­veloped con­tinuous­ly, and it's the most ad­vanced 3rd party app you can get for your Hue system! Try it out today!

Share & duplicate your content

With a Basic or Pro membership you can share your content with other iConnectHue mem­bers, like your family and friends, or other mem­bers of the big Hue com­munity, and dup­licate it to create more variations.

Con­tent you can cur­rently share & dup­licate are Magic Scenes, Disco Scenes, Ani­mations and Home widgets.

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