Lightbow App Reviews

VERSION
3.3.3
SCORE
4.2
TOTAL RATINGS
269
PRICE
$4.99

Lightbow App Description & Overview

What is lightbow app? Imagine the App Store or Music Store, but for LIGHT. After six years and 100+ updates, Lightbow continues to provide the highest quality & quantity of stunning light shows, plus the most powerful editor to create your own! Enjoy hundreds of lighting and sound environments at your fingertips...

(Full Editor included with your purchase, dozens of designer collections other than "Starter Pack" available as in-app purchases)

Take full advantage of Philips hue, LIFX, Nanoleaf, & Belkin WeMo*, or control them all at once with presets, animations, groups, triggers, transitions, and more! From theater productions, to mood lighting in a restaurant, to everyday home living, Lightbow has something for everybody!

* Lightbow is an independent 3rd party app, and not affiliated with the companies that make Philips hue, LIFX, WeMo, or Nanoleaf *

** Buy Lightbow for iPhone or iPad, then download on your Apple TV for free (or vice versa). See Lightbow's description on the Apple TV App Store for more details on current functionality. Check www.lightbow.net/hardware to see which features are supported in your specific setup. **

Presets

- Combine custom multi-step animation loops, static colors, or ON/OFF/Brightness commands for any sets of lights or groups. Activate them all with a single tap.
- Light animations even run in the background (when you close the app, or hit the sleep button)
- Share presets with others in your household on your local WiFi network—no emails or passwords necessary!
- Give each preset a transition, such as crossfade, flashbulb, or fading through a specific color.
- Randomization ranges offer interesting variations on colors each time you activate a preset.
- Organize your Presets into Collections for greater flexibility and scalability.

Triggers

- Activate any preset with Siri, countdown timers, alarms, events like opening/closing Lightbow, or even a shake of your phone.
- For hue tap owners, choose the colors and fade time that each button will trigger on your Philips lights.

Groups

- Put your Philips or LIFX hardware into groups to control sets of lights together.
- Group lights by room, function, or anything else. Lights can be in multiple groups!
- Set a color on different models of lighting hardware, and Lightbow will automatically calibrate that color to match up where possible.

Light Control

- From one simple screen, you can rename, reorder, and switch on or off any of your lights.
- Set the mood of a room with control over the hue, saturation, brightness, and color temperature of each bulb.
- Use your Belkin WeMo Outlet, LightSwitch, or Insight hardware to turn any electrical device on or off, not just lights!
- Enjoy your LIFX bulbs using the same familiar interface. Lightbow will continue to add support for new lighting hardware as it is released.

ALL ACCESS
You have the option to purchase "ALL ACCESS" from the "Featured" tab within the app, a $24.99(USD) annual subscription unlocking the entire back-catalog of 100+ animated presets, plus new additions each month! This represents significant cost savings over individual purchases. Check store for pricing in other currencies. App Store subscriptions are subject to the following terms and conditions:
-Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
-Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
-Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal
-Subscriptions may be managed by you and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase
-No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period
-Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that item
Privacy Policy: http://www.lightbow.net/privacy
Terms of Service: http://www.lightbow.net/tos

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App Name Lightbow
Category Lifestyle
Published
Updated 11 October 2019, Friday
File Size 170.18 MB

Lightbow Comments & Reviews 2024

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Lightbow. Love it but has froze couple times

No Support. I upgraded to the latest version and the app won’t let me pick specific lights, it chooses additional ones. I emailed support and have yet to hear back. This of course happens after I purchased the Halloween light theme. Last time for this guy.

Great bug fix update. 2018: Useful update fixed crashing on launch bug. I can how recommend this app! The widget seems not to work however. —— 2017 Edit 3: still crashes on launch Was excited to see if the latest round of updates fixed the crash on launch for my iPhone, iPad. No luck. I invested quite a bit of time customizing my lighting, but alas the app hasn’t been able to open for months.

Awesome app. I own a lifx mini, a lifx (a19) bulb, and a lifx strip behind my mounted TV and this app works wonders with them. Gonna be my most used app now :) good job developers.. oh btw no setup which is awesome.. this app just found my lights automatically and was ready to use.. definitely recommend this app to the owners of smart bulbs especially if you want to set a mood..

App turns itself on and overrides Hue app. Downloaded it. Loved it and bought a year’s subscription. Then when it was time for bed, the lights would not turn off. Used the Hue app to turn lights off, and they turned right back on with Lightbow. Deleted Lightbow and canceled subscription, and the lights ARE STILL COMING BACK ON TO THE SCENE I SET. iOS user using current software. Fix your app.

Great app. I am so glad I got this one. The presets rock and there are new ones added all the time. I ended up subscribing. But you can also only purchase the ones you like. The rates are very reasonable and the value is great. I fully recommend this to make the most of your hue lights. Most of my lights are Gen 1, but I can only imagine that this world be so much better with Gen 2 lights.

No response from Designer. One of the main reasons I got this app was because it was one of the few hue apps that work with Shortcuts. However, the Shortcut commands do not work for me. When i select them, they simply open the Lightbow app and then they end their routine at that point without activating scene. This is really frustrating for me since I would never have purchased the app in the first place had I realized this was going to be an issue. I wasn’t too put out since the developer offers a contact page within the app. I reached out to the developer about 3 weeks ago and have not received a response. I received an auto-response at the time of the message saying “I’ll respond when i have time” (paraphrased) I get that app designers are only a single person a lot of the time and often they have day jobs that prevent them from responding in a timely manner. But if you’re a developer who can’t actually address problems with your app due to time constraints, then in my honest opinion, your app is not finished. I spent good money on this app with no hope of ever receiving a refund and most likely communication. It’s frustrating and I want people to know about it before they spend hard earned money here.

Thanks Joan!. Have to say... I really like the new “Joan” theme! Very simple and nice and easily blends in with the rest of my decor.

Fast changing light. Nice to have ability to make color sequences however, there is a 10sec max for each color before it goes to the next so in order to get pretty, relaxing effects similar to ambee, you would have to string tons of the same color together to make effect of a color lasting more than 10 seconds. Too time intensive for me.

Took wayyy too many tries to find my Hue bridge. I have a current bridge and updates are current. App is useless if it can't find the bridge. Other apps found it without issue/first try.

Exactly What I Wanted. This app is everything I wanted it to be. I originally had an issue with a bug not allowing custom songs to be made and the developer responded with a fix in a few days. It takes some time to learn, but once you’ve practiced the custom preset maker is perfect for creating light shows that you can manually sync with music. I’ve used it to create a custom hockey San Jose Sharks goal song and I’ve recreated some scenes from Disneyland attractions with sound effects/lighting. I plan on doing so much more in the future. Suggestion: preset playlists. These could be implemented into the “collections” feature and allow users to stay on a certain preset for a specific amount of time and then move to the next one. I realize this is already somewhat possible.. but you cannot set specific times for certain songs (only a blanket time for all songs) and you cannot limit it to just one collection on repeat. Thanks for making this!

Most Creative App EVER!. Use this daily. The scenes combined with perfect Bluetooth sound can change a mood for any setting. Bought the full package & it was worth every penny. Highly recommend!!

Still consistently crashes whenever opened. Paid for Lightbow years ago but now it crashes each time it’s opened. Cannot update either. No customer support. Huge waste of $$$ & Ripoff. Find an app that works.

Not working. I cannot see any of my lights in the app. It is pair but no lights can be found if I can not find them, I cannot assigned them.

great app!. A fantastic app with an attractive and intuitive UI. I've been able to get a lot more out of my LIFX bulbs since switching to Lightbow. I even used the app to control the lighting for a play I designed in a non-traditional theater space. The preset packs are super fun!

IMMEDIATE REGRET. I expected animations/video on the TV but this is actually worse than some of the ios apps where at least you can turn off the tv to enjoy the lights. Instead you get an ugly static image and mediocre lights show. There are free apps for your phone that are much better. This is a total rip off for 5 bucks

No longer worth it. I loved this app and have been a subscriber for a few years. My main complaint is the animations default to one specific group of lights in my living room. If I try to run it on one light or a different group, like my bedroom, it doesn't work. This was not the case up until a few months ago. Additionally, there hasn't been any content added in months. I shouldn't have to pay this much for a broken app.

Custom Creativity. Tried all the apps avaliable for my Lifx bulbs and this one is the best. I like that I can make my own custom colors and transitions. My only wish is compatibility with sound control, but otherwise great!

Owner. They are great They are fun Good luck with this great product Larry

One color at a time on my LIFX z light strip.. One color at a time on my LIFX z light strip. I have 3 strips connected and all three strips are always the same color. Wish I could assign the groups on the light. The Lifx app is the only one I have found so far that uses various colors at the same time.

Awesome app. Outstanding developer talent. Well thought out and executed. Keep up the great work!

One of best Hue controllers. One of if not best hue controllers. Powerful yet simple.

I want to love it. Many of the pre built effects are charming, others are awfully garish but we all have our own tastes. I can’t tell if this is because I don’t have some of the information I need, or if they have intentionally disabled it, but I cannot figure out how to reliably open up presets to edit them. Especially those that were pre-built. For instance, I want to build a preset based off of one that they already built, and I cannot seem to find a way to open it to start making changes to a duplicate. Essentially, they have a lovely sea preset that I would like to shift colors in to see if I could create some thing like a forest, but so far I have not been successful.

Worked great for the first year. Worked great for the first year now the app constantly dropped all of the connected lights when you close the app. And they all have to be reconnected every time I try and use the app. I can't get any response from their support team to try and fix the issue.

Lightbow - don’t blow money. It lets you use like 10 light settings. The rest you need to pay money for!!! What a scam. Just blew 5 bucks on this dumb app. Really bummed.

Great product. Honestly the best most flexible tool for creative use of these hue lights. This is hugely better than the hue app AND it integrates other items like Wemo into the mix. The biggest feature that I love is I can program transition time changes between lighting scenes. Keep supporting this app because this one is the best out there!!

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Does not work with recent LIFX bulbs.... App can only see A19 and BR30 bulbs. Very annoying. Does not see any of the Mini varieties (Mini Color, Mini Day & Dusk, or Mini White). Very disappointing discovery.

Best of the Bunch!!. There are a ton of Phillips Hue Light apps available - I’ve tried them all. Lightbow is easily the best, my go-to app - and the only one that appears on my home screen. Super easy to use, handles groups well, fun presets - I love the Police!!! In the event something goes wrong - only happened once - it’s a simple process to report an issue, attach diagnostics, and Peter, who leads the engineering charge, will dive right in to find a fix - he really loves a challenge!! I highly recommend Lightbow for those who want a simple way to control lights in your smart home.

Can’t restore my purchases. Can’t restore my purchases from 2 years ago.

A flexible lighting tool. The scene creator is a bit intimidating at first but becomes incredibly useful once mastered. Combined with a palette app, I can create the exact mood I want.

Issues with Lights, UI, Support and Price. First issue is lights. I turn off certain lights because I don't want the presets using them. The app turns them back on! It's like it looks at the bridge and says "That is the state of the light I'll use, instead of issuing them commands" If in the app I turn OFF a given light, even if someone turns ON that light via Alexa or Hue, the APP should IGNORE it, not go and use it. Ugh! Second, buying presets is terrible, because after you do there is NO interface for "Here is what you have purchased!" You literally have to go through each and EVERY preset button just to see what you have bought. If you buy say 2 or 3 but can't remember which ones you have to click them all tomfind what you bought! Third, some presets don't even work all the time. Fireworks works sometimes, othertimes it doesn't! I contacted support 4 weeks ago twice, no reply back. Finally, each pack is 5 bucks. If you want all the presets, it's flipp'in expensive! I DO like the sounds + lights but this whole app setup is just plain terrible.

Amazing but.... The app is great except really expensive if you want all the sounds. Wish we could do more with that but we love the app!

Was working good. Was working fine for a few months but now it won’t connect with any of the LIFX lights they say there connected but you can’t turn them on or off and the presets aren’t working also I was kinda disappointed because I thought this app was going to let us make theme lights like the LIFIX app has when really all it lets you do is have colors cycling I’d like to be able to have multiple colors on one strip so until a fix is issued 3 stars

A mommy must have. I am a mom of 3 and my kids are very much affected by light. I’m sure they have S.A.D...spring and summer they pop right out of bed. Come winter - they are missing the bus everyday. So what better way to wake them up than with a smart bulb and the red light features? This is not a prank. I truly use it. They get a kick out of it and I get to work on time each day. As far as the effectiveness of the products: the app works better with my LIFX bulbs than the LIFX app. The music/sounds are great too! I do have a membership and I think 25$ is pretty inexpensive for all you get and the ease of use. My only improvement would be related to organizing the presents. I would prefer to have them organized by room and/or by child.

Good concept, not quite there. I intended to use this app with LIFX lights. There are a few issues I have with it. 1) it disconnected from my lights within minutes of using it. 2) very confusing and difficult to use. 3) EXPENSIVE!!!! Why in the world does it cost so much? $25 should be a one-time purchase. 4) aesthetically not pleasing. While I understand functionality might still be there, I hated opening the app and looking at it.

Very Cool!. I just bought a bunch of Hue bulbs for throughout my home and wanted something to control them that was straight forward and easy to use. I downloaded the app and set it up with no problems at all (not sure what the guy complaining about not being able to find the bridge was all about). I used it for 5 minutes tops and then purchased the subscription. $25 seems a bit pricey but its kind of like an Apple product, yup they are expensive but they work intuitively and that is worth my money every time. It is very cool and makes setting a room scene so easy.

Abandoned app. This app has clearly been abandoned. No longer works and doesn't support any new iOS feature. Don't pay for it!

Great App & Great Dev. Bought the app because I had bought a couple LIFX bulbs and wanted more options than what the LIFX app had to offer, and wouldn’t you know it the app couldn’t find my lights! Messaged the support email about it and in about a week there’s an update that completely fixed the issue! Apparently LIFX bulbs aren’t as easy to work with so I really appreciated how quickly the Dev fixed the issue. Once I was able to use the app I was definitely glad I picked it up because all the light scenes that you can get are really cool and unique and new ones are regularly coming out, and you can tell if you have the patience you can make some really cool scenes yourself. This will be the last app you’ll need for your smart light scene needs.

Great presets, but no way to limit presets to a subset of lights. First, the good. Lightbow has a lot of preset configuration and does a very good job animating the lights with music. The subscription is a little pricey, but it does come with a lot. The problem with Lightbow is it isn’t easy to run an animation on a single light, or even a single light group. When you start running any of the subscription presets, it runs them on all lights, or seems to pick lights at Random - not good if you have a lot of Hue lights. The only way that I’ve been able to do this, and even this isn’t 100% reliable, is to shut off all of the lights, except those that I want to control. I then start the preset and then I can turn on any other lights that I want to. The functionality that should be there is to be able to pick a light group, which should take you to a place where you can pick the preset, thereby limiting the effects to only that group.

Does not work.... They make you buy presets, and only then will you find out it doesn’t work.

Does not work with Nanoleaf as advertised. App description says you can control Nanoleaf lights, and you can’t.

Wow. If you need another app you crash your phone or not do what it says. Feel free to spend your money here. This company will be happy to take it with no regrets.

Won’t run in background. Love the app... if it would run in the background

Love it!. I just getting familiar with having colored lightbulbs as well as this Lightbow app. I LOVE the sound “animator”! #Medotation #Spirituality

Not really full version. I didn’t realize when I paid for this app that the light scenes are NOT included. They are an additional add on price per pack. Not worth the money I paid for it.

Outstanding!. Ive used many light apps. None of them make my lights dance and move like Lightbow. Excellent App to have for lighting.

Used to be Great, now it is terrible. It has become too much. It’s lost any control it used to have. I used to be able to select what lights i wanted on. Now it chooses for me, i have no say. The preset light schemes have become redundant. They make no sense and they are over priced. I used to love this app. Now i can’t stand it.

Presets keep getting deleted. The app crashes and the presets I creat get deleted every time I reload the app. Otherwise I have enjoyed this app

Perfect. I use 4 hue hubs and this program syncs them together perfectly! Only thing I would add is having an option to use the mic to trigger the light motion! Overall perfect!

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I have hue and wemo..... But I use the app for the responsive wemo control. Very nice work dude. Keep it up.

Great fine control. Great for lifx, lots of fine control over hue, sat and brightness. Great features!

Best hue app to date.. Far better than Phillips' app, not that that's hard. I see this app has great potential and the developer seems keen to keep improving it. Also the cleanest looking for iOS 7. Keep up the good work. Thanks 😊

Amazing. This app easily replaces the hue and wemo apps. its easier to setup than both and it detected all my wemos and hue lights in about 15sec. Leaving me with a simplistic, customisable user interface. Awesome!!

Useless for home automation. There are some clever lighting effects but you have to have the app open and on screen to work. This means that timers and schedules don't work (unless you walk around with the app open constantly and don't use your phone for any other purpose). Could be so great but it really misses the point.

Good App. Very good app, i m glas i van finally manage my Lifx and wemo within one app

Lightbow for Hue Lights. This is a must have app for your Hue Lights. So many different scenes and colours for different occasions. A bit hard to navigate at first but once I got the hang of it, was fairly user friendly. I had no idea my Hue lights could do half of this stuff. Neighbours txt me from across the road every night as they love watching the changing lights as much as do. Kids stop on the side of the road to check them out. Really is a spectacular app and well worth $35 a year.

Fantastic. Just downloaded this app to use with Phillips Hue bonus I can also control my Belkin We Mo. Now off to play.

Fabulous. Go no further!. This app takes the native app and adds to it almost all that other apps offer. Buy this and you'll need nothing else unless you want ITTH support. I'm a geek and I can get that elsewhere. Enjoy this beautifully written app, then decide. Even the in-app packs are worth the money, just for the fun.

Does nothing. There is something in the instruction I didn't find .. the app does nothing, make shore you have some sort of thing that it must connect to to make it work . I don't have IT. So I only wasted $1.49. So it's rubbish for me .

Best hue app. I've tried almost all the philips hue apps, this one is easily the best and the developer is quick to respond to any questions!

Expensive extra presets & buggy.. This app will not start up well if it cannot find your light. (It should have an option to setup the light after the app opens. The animations need to be longer than 5 seconds to allow a greater variety of use. Education, Sport etc. It needs minutes as well. The triggers work as an alternative, however should have a way of connecting them. I.e Let the triggers one after each other. The extra presets are expensive for what you get. The Apple Watch app is buggy with preset delays to the watch. The settings menu has a bug as well. The text is over itself.

Best Hue and WeMo app. I've tried a few and this one is by far the easiest and very powerful! The others have been deleted and this one is staying! Keep up the good work

Most useful Hue app to date. Fine granular control & capture as well as transitions that no other app offers so far.

Great app and great support. Worked well with my Philips Hue and Tap. Triggers and extra packs are cool.

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Best Hue app!. The theme packs are great. The space theme is really nice and polished. Keep em comin. It would be great if lights in groups were treated as one bulb by themes. Love this app! Developer keeps adding features year after year!

Wow. In a class of it's own.. I purchased a ton of apps to manage my hue bulbs before I found this one. It does everything and it supports wemo! Don't waste your money buy this one first.

Incredible!. This is arguably the best philips hue control app on the iOS AppStore! The possibilities are endless; you can use built-in sounds or music to go along with custom or preset animated scenes. Creating a scene is very fun and simple, you can choose how long each colour lasts on each bulb, which bulbs are on, there are different transitions, you can set timers etc... definitely worth the price! If you own a philips hue system, this is a must have!

Tap Switch Not fixed yet. I would give it 5 stars but the tap switch stopped working.

Doesn’t say on.. Doesn’t stay on. Waste of money.

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Great!. Really nice app for someone who has Wemo and Hue bulbs. The only complaint I have is the featured preset are way too expensive for what you get. I won't be buying anymore.

No way. They have to improve stability and user experience Iphone version has some bugs Not user friendly Schedule not easy Back to Hue basic version 2.5 Please improve your tests before you release them

Not super impressed.. Was looking to spice up my collection of hue apps. I'm a big fan of OnSwitch, and was hoping this new app would wow me. My big mistake is assuming that paying for this app would allow me access to all the settings. I was wrong. Kinda wish I could get a refund now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Stick with it through the learning curve.. Maybe there was a tutorial I arrogantly skipped past, but I found it took a little while to get the overall UI metaphor as it's a little clunky. But once you understand how this app works, it's a powerhouse. You can create very slick animations with Hue, for example. Or just construct robust scenes in an editor with more fine-grained control than Philips' own app.

Fantastic. Totally eliminates the need for multiple apps to control Hue and Wemo products. Easy to setup, and it works great. Very happy with the purchase.

Useless, not working.. Don't waste your money for this app. Scrap app.

Remote access would make it a perfect 5 stars. Great app. Probably the best hue app. Since it's missing remote access I still need to keep the Philips Hue app.

Pretty crappy. Not worth 5 bucks (Or even 2) Barely any features Buggy

Great App. This app does everything the Philips app doesn't. For normal day to day use of my lights Lightbow is where it's at.

Great app for hue. Works pretty good, would give 5 stars except the in app purchases are a tad expensive.

Helping me through winter. I adore my Lightbow settings for my Phillips Hue Lights. Instead of waking up to darkness on winter mornings, I enjoy the beautiful colours of my lights. Now I look forward to darkness outside so I can try out new settings. :-) Update Dec. 2018: Lightbow just keeps getting better and better. I feel so special now that I have my very own preset. LOL This is by far the best app available for Hue lights!

Perfect. This is the missing link for those using multiple platforms and multiple locations. Easy to set up, and relatively easy to figure out. Plays nicely with both Wemo and hue. Nice to have one app for day to day use rather than a bunch on my home screen.

Very good but.... .. Wemo don't work anymore. Used to, but now they don't appear, tried scanning with the app and rebooting plugs several time.

It doesn't sync anymore. When you launch the app it's always the wrong bulbs are turned on.

Love it. Perfect.... especially the themes.... Christmas!!

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Powerful. Great app with a good feature set. Lightbow can do everything the Philips app can plus many more granular controls enabling very complex patterns and loops. Groups are fantastic and presets work like you'd expect; you can also make presets for turning specific or groups of lights off. Great developer, too. Through many email exchanges, he's shown a deep understanding of what makes users happy and that shows in his app.

Best app for Hue I've used. I tried a few different apps, but now run everything through LightBow. It allows so much control over the lights' color and temperature, grouping for scenes, triggers and transitions.. it even integrates my WeMo switch which I use for a non-smart spotlight. It's just such a useful and powerful app!

Good. Lots to do

Best Philips Hue App by far. Certainly the original Philips Hue app (by Philips) has been improving since Hue were released, but it has never been great. So, just like other Hue owners, I have purchased & tried literally every Hue app on the App Store. Lightbow is by far the simplest, best, and most user friendly. It isn’t complicated so it launches very fast. The developer is a Hue user, so he knows exactly what Hue users need. I do not need scenes, I just need colors. I do not need a loading animation, I need my lights accessible now. I do not need voice recognition features, I do not need the ability to import photos from my Flickr account. This app is not a swiss army knife - it is a finely sharpened specialty knife. Absolutely the best Hue App there is. Once Philips opens the Cloud API, I’m sure that Peter will include it.

Cool. I have not had a chance to use the app yet as I'm waiting on my bulbs in the mail. But I highly recommend adding notification features and alarms/nightlights. These are features that few if any apps have and it will certainly be something people may desire. Nice work

Pretty good.. This works a hell of a lot better than the new version of the LIFX app, that's for sure. Scheduling is a bit iffy, and trying to have multiple iThings control the same lights can get a bit weird, but this app is much more usable than most lighting controllers. And the light animation features are pretty cool.

Ok. The animation you can do are marvelous, but they only have sound effects and they play even in the firework and Halloween packs. Can you please fix this so I don't drive myself nuts with the noise. The fireworks would be so much more enjoyable if I don't have to hear that. Plus you can also add firework sound effects for people to use so they can make their own shows!

New User and I'm in love!. I've only been using my Hue lights for about a month but I've gotten a fair amount of them including Blooms and light strips. This app makes them so much more awesome! I went all in and also paid for the year subscription and don't regret it. I don't have the time or inclination (at this point) to try to do all the fancy effects myself. With the full pack I really feel like I'm getting the full capabilities of my lights. I hope more people sign up for this so the developer will keep cranking out updates and high usership might be able to drive the cost down. For me though, totally worth it!

Simply the best! Precision and flexibility like no other!. Lightbow offers extreme flexibility in controlling my Phillips Hue, GE Link, Belkin WeMo, and other Zigbee lights and switches. Creating animations is simple and efficient allows for nuancing that produces fantastic results. The simple interface allows for extreme flexibility in creating step based effects and fine-tuning the look of my home for static looks. Using the whites tool you can even take control of your fixtures down to a single degree of Kelvin! That's precision! If you're looking for a great way to control all of your homes automated lighting fixtures, this is it. As a professional lighting designer myself, this app lens itself to unique abilities for control and creating beautiful looks.

My Go-To Light App. Does everything with my Philips Hue bulbs and WeMo switch I wish the native apps did. One button push to change them both together and also does a sweet set of color animations. Best app of the three I've downloaded so far. Keep up the great work on this and as soon as it can get Siri integration, that would be the bees knees!

Powerful but confusing interface.. I don't have anything constructive to suggest so far as improving the interface, but so far as sheer breadth of light automation/animation support, lightbow is basically king. Now if there were just some way to clean up the interface and make it easier to understand. Took a whole lot of tinkering to figure out how to create my own animations, and I still haven't figured out how to end an animation with a light turning off and stopping the animation there. Just the same, if you are stubborn enough to learn the interface, you will be hard pressed to find a better app that crosses the light-platform divide. It supports just about everything! 4 stars simply because of the painful learning curve.

Great App.. I have been running Lightbow since its release. They have built a great app and it can be customized for anyone's taste. I use this app to run 35 Hue lights ( every style ), and 14 LIFX products from their first gen. thru the just released night spectrum. I run all the lighting in sycrination and never a problem. The app handles this with ease from my iPad Pro, and Apple TV. I have also tried to use it with my WeMo devices. Lightbow performs as designed. HOWEVER, WeMo needs some improvements. WeMo is lacking in their design especially firmware and App. I would encourage anyone to give this App a try. It is techinical, but is very well designed and powerful. There is a slight learning curve. However, take your time and sit back and enjoy the show. You will NOT be disappointed. Brad

Top of the class. If you are still using Wemo App, time to retire it. Switch to Lightbow and suddenly everything is instant, I can now turning on all lightswitches in my living room with just one click. Yes, Lightbow has Groupinv feature for Wemo Lightswitch. I have 4 wemo lightswitches in my bedroom, with Grouping I can turn on 2 or more switches all at once. Very cool!

I agree about the learning curve.... ...but overall, this is a very functional app. I have the Philips Hue system, which I like a lot... but the App leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to control (you rely upon 'scenes' as your ONLY control over your lights). By contrast Lightbow is FAR MORE functional when it comes to turning individual lights on/off or controlling brightness and color! Also like the feature in the notifications screen. In short, it might take a few minutes to get used programming the more advanced features, but other than that... AWESOME!

Customizes sunrise for morning alarm. This app is freaking amazing. You can customize your routines as much as you want. I bought the hue lights so i could create a sunrise setting to wake up with, and this app allows me to do that perfectly. It's also simple to make your own themes. Originally i was really disappointed with the hue lights, but once i found this app it allowed me to customize them how i wanted. Its hands down the best hue app for ios

Solid, well designed color schemes and scenes for Lifx. I'm aware that the app supports different bulbs as well, but I've only tested it with Lifx so far. I'm very pleased with the results, and while any Lifx app is CAPABLE of setting the colors to whatever you'd like, and most if not all have scenes / themes, I've found that Lightbow has the most creative and compelling included palettes. I haven't purchased any packs yet, though I have been very pleased with the ability to demo any purchasable pack for a minute at a time. This is my new go-to Lifx app.

One of the absolute best, but in-app purchases keep me from giving a five-star. This app is on my home screen. So why four stars and not five? It is the recently offered, incredibly overpriced, nearly useless in-app purchases (light collections). It feels like the developers owe money to a loan shark and had to do generate cash fast. Now that the negative is over with I can say that this is one of the top three (or four) Hue apps in existence — and I own all of them! It's the only app that has the ability to utilize Hue's rapid sequence strobe effects, has a fantastic user interface and great customization capability. Without question, purchase this app: just avoid the in-app purchases!

It is customizable. Pros: lets you have very exact control over light groups, color temperature, color, fade times. Shows color/temp and brightness with numbers. Cons: I'm not sure if this is an app for playing with/setting up lighting scenes or controlling them. When I want to set up presets it's not as powerful as it could be. And when I want to use those presets it's too complicated and too easy to accidentally edit them.

Good, but the animation doesn't work when you are not in the app or your phone is off!. Good, but the animation doesn't work when you are not in the app or your phone is off! Update: They fixed the problem o had. Changed to five stars!

Excellent For Hue Lights. I've been using this app for several months now and I have a bunch of Hue lights connected to it. It gives me a ridiculous amount of creative freedom to make some seriously cool things happen. I have red lights flash and play a fog horn when my favorite team scores, I have disco party lights, an underwater adventure, and even fireworks and lighting in my living room. It's a ton of fun to use and very easy to understand.

App functionality is stellar. The app is absolutely incredible for what it unlocks and allows you to accomplish with your lighting system. That said, the in-app purchases are FAR too expensive, and each contains less than I'd wish. I hope at some point the developers drop the prices to $0.99 per purchase and add an all-in-one purchase for a few dollars. Because the purchases feel like a classic nickel and dime situation, I'm forced to give three stars to an app that otherwise deserves 5.

Best LIFX animation app. This is a great (best in my opinion) app for LIFX light animations. They have put together a robust collection of tasteful light animations. You can create your own custom lightning animation with this app, however I don’t have the patience to create anything as nice as any of their creations. The animations are organized by collections where each collection has 5-10 different animations. They allow you to preview each collection for a couple minutes and there are a lot of them. I submitted a support ticket because LIFX bulbs wouldn’t stay in a group when relaunching the app. I have 20 LIFX bulbs around the house, so grouping them is a must for me. Their support team eventually reached out to me several weeks with a solution and an update ready to go. They even gave me a detailed explanation of the root cause and the resolution. The update worked and my bulbs stay grouped. I am now a subscriber. Considering how much I already spent on 20 Lifx bulbs, I find this app helps me get more value out of these things. Suggestions. It would amazing if we could trigger a preset via IFTTT or something. It would be great to trigger crazy flashing lights if a door is opened while the alarm is set. Or activate a preset on a schedule. Etc. —————————————- Previous review: This app has some challenges, but has the best lighting animations I have found from an app. I have 14 Lifx lights across my home. The app supports grouping lights together to control a group of lights separately. However after relaunching the app, the light groups forget what lights are assigned every time. I submitted a support ticket on 16Feb2018, but no response from support as of 03Mar2018. I would subscribe if they could fix the issue. I have the same problem with a similar app, so it must be a challenge with Lifx bulbs.

Hue *and* WeMo detected and controllable. Bought this solely for the dual-device (Philips and Belkin) integration, which was a good move...! Looking forward to some more features and the addition of 'groups.' The other reason I bought this is that the developer seems very active in home automation forums, which I find encouraging. Minus one star for inadequate documentation in app / I'll change this if I figure it out or it gets updated... it also needs a WeMo Insight icon.

**There is No App Better**. If you want something to control both your WeMo and Hue setups, this is the ultimate app. Lightbow lets you easily create custom presets and easily control your WeMo and Hue devices on the fly. You can group lights and adjust them all with amazing simplicity. I've purchased lots of apps to control my setup, but after Lightbow I've stopped looking.

Great Features. I like being able to setup lighting animations, but can't seem to figure out how to keep them running when the app is in the background or closed. I have setup a trigger to start an animation when the app closes, but it doesn't seem to work. I would LOVE to see this app ported to Mac so I can leave it running full time.

All Better Now. This app is the best. Spend some time with it, and you can program your own lightning storms, flower fields, candles, fireworks, and lava flows. I had given previous versions low marks for acting buggy after I'd invested time in creating programs for a house full of lights. The latest version is working like a dream on iOS 10. Only complaint would be inability to randomize values on the red-purple end because of the break in the slider, but that is a very minor issue that you won't notice until you spend a few hours programming animations. Excellent app.

Great Potential, But Needs Improvement. Thanks for fixing the light reorder bug!!! Things that don't work well: --------------------------- Can't tell difference between "on" and "off" icon easily when clicking "New" on the Preset tab. Adding green to "on" icon would help. Color/temp/brightness pickers should scroll. Tapping them is hard to use and get accurate setting. Have to tap many times if I want to hit exactly 85% brightness for example. Extra hard to set low brightness like 5%, always goes to 0% or 10%, can't click in between easily. I suggest making a default scene for "all off" and put it at the top. Most people would want to quickly turn off all lights when they leave the house so this would be a nice default. Things I like: --------------------------- Awesome "Transition" settings are unique to this app. I love the flexibility of the transitions. Very easy to program scenes. Better than other apps for sure. Unique, easy interface. Overall: --------------------------- I actually think with fixing a couple things this app may be the best overall functionality of the 3rd party apps. I have them all and think this has lots of potential for ease of use.

Powerful.. Feature Packed.. Awesome... This powerful app comes loaded with features and is just plain awesome. If you been waiting for an application that will control various lighting situations and technologies then you have found your app. This app controls a host of various manufacturers in various lights. This program allows you to fine-tune your lighting stew Asian to your hearts content. We professional style features your short to be able to manipulate your scenery however you want.

Powerful and easy to use Hue App. I am glad for an app that finally recognizes the difference between the bulbs color range and the friends of hue color range! Even better- when they are grouped, the color picker tries to make sure they are as closely matched as possible. Great app, and many regular updates. Thanks!

It got even better!. I'd typically be annoyed to see in-app purchases, but seeing as the developer has taken user feedback and made his application improve its functionality, I don't really mind. As long as the updates we've all patiently awaited remain free, I'm quite happy! Thank you developer! EDIT: If I could add a sixth star, I would. The developer (Peter) even personally responds to his users. That's customer service! EDIT: I'd like to see the option for LIFX triggers to run in the background.

Great start (v1.1) - much cleaner than Philips app. I have five Philips Hue lights, and I wanted something that would give me fine-grained control over each of them. With the Philips app, I had to find a picture with all the colors I wanted and then drag each light's cursor to the exact pixel with the color I wanted for that light. With this, I can set the color for each light directly. The interface is crystal clear, so even if I'd never heard of HSL (or color temperature), it would be obvious what they are and how they affect the color. That's the core functionality for an LED light controller, and Lightbow gets it right.

Best Hue App So Far. I've tried nearly every Philips Hue control app on the App Store and I've found Lightbow to be the best app on the market for basic control of my Philips Hue lights. The profiles are easy to create and use and I love that I can share my profiles with my wife. As an added bonus, Lightbow also let's you control WEMO switches, which really sets it apart from other apps. You can't go wrong with Lightbow.

Bug fix needed.. Apple watch complication not syncing.

Best of the best. As much as we all hate paying for apps, this is the one to get and feel like you got even more than you paid for. Easy to use while offering the ability to get as sophisticated as you want if you're up for it. Very well done!

Best Hue app aside from Ambee. Ambee is by far the best, most user friendly Hue app that even beginners can use to get the most from their smart light setup. This app is becoming even better as I become more savvy with designing my own scenes. I started with simply editing existing scenes to make them uniquely my own - the embers scene has been a lot of fun to enhance and learn from. Its been a wonderful addition to my home during the holidays! Highly recommend.

Great App Great Support. Lightbow is the best app for the Hue lights and can also control my WeMo switches! Newest update has a glitch that caused WeMo not to be discovered. Developer has already responded to my email! I have never experienced such quick response. Read some negative comments about in app purchased presets, I treat them as not only a purchase of some good presets, also as support to the developer. Been enjoying this app a long time. It continues to be updated and continues to work great! Presets are excellent

More subtle transitions, please!. This app is awesome. It's my "go-to" for controlling my 8 Hue lights. There's something for every occasion. Please add some more subtle, calming transitions! There are many color schemes that would be more palatable if they didn't change so quickly. Also, take some of the brighter schemes and make them darker, and vice versa. If Supernova had a slower transition speed it would be PERFECT. Maybe a bright/dim version of some of the more popular ones, too, like Spaceship Controls. It should be easy to modify an existing scheme, and would be an excellent update.

One Of My Favorite Light Apps. I don't get the negative reviews. I find this app to be fun and really well made. Yes I sprung for the All-Access annual subscription after playing with all of the previews and settings... because there are SO many, it's worth it! I get the app on my iPhone, iPad, AND AppleTV... each customized for the device with a really easy-to-use interface. Many scenes also have a soundtrack and/or sound effects which are pretty neat (ok some are weird.. like 'Tea Kettle'). I find most of them really fun. Some have complained about the price. Yes, you buy each scene a la cart, or you can do the annual subscription (which is well worth it to get the entire package PLUS anything new they roll out.) To put it bluntly, apps take time and skill to make. I don't mind paying for a good app. This is a great app that really shows off the capabilities of these pricey lights!

Excellent LIFX & Hue support. Great app!. Best program I've found to control my combination of LIFX & Hue lights and WEMO switches. Offers an enormous amount of features and makes it easy to control everything from both my iPad and iPhone. The shared presets made it easy to make my presets once and share then to my wife's and daughters phone. Great support from the developer. The Dresden FLS-PP strip control is awesome and another example of how responsive the developers are in making this the best light control program out there. There is nothing better out there. Gotta have this one!

Excellent App for Hue Lights. There are a lot of apps out there for Hue lights. I probably downloaded the lion's share of them. One left my lights turning themselves on in the middle of the night whenever they felt like it. Others were just cheap copies of each other. This one truly takes advantage of the broad array of colors, color depth, hue, and brightness that the Hue lights offer. It also doesn't seem to impact the regular Hue app.

Amazing Hue support.. The ONLY app I use to control my hue lights. I don't know why Phillips doesn't include functionality like this, but it doesn't matter because this app is fantastic. I'd love if they included Lutron support so I didn't have to use another app to control those, but I can't knock Lightbow for that.

So user friendly its ridiculous. It looked so difficult and intimidating then I found out It only looks complicated I only I wish I'd found out sooner. Replaces all my old hue apps and then some. Great support, awesome effects,never loses contact with my bridge, so no more having to get up and push the button to pair all the time Works with Hue and my Lifx and Lightify garden spots together perfectly when all the other apps couldn't even control one set very well. It's what I imagined Hue would be before I got sadly let down by every other app that came along when I first started. And now the effects are all I imagined and more.

Great investment!. It can be a bit scary to download an app for $5 (for some reason...) but this was worth it! This really put my LIFX bulb to good use since the official app doesn't give you much flexibility. The only thing about this app is that sometimes the presets can be a bit unreliable in the notification center. I emailed the developers and they said they're working on a fix, if and when that's fixed, 5 star rating all around!

The best hue app. Once you understand how to make your presets, this app is fantastic. It's a little wonky determining where to click to do what, but no other app gives you rapid access to your most used settings while still allowing you the flexibility to do some awesome stuff with your lights. Definitely the best app out there for everyday use of your lights. Additionally, the developer does his best to answer all e-mails, and many times you get a response very quickly.

Great App! Lots of options. The app has a learning curve, but we'll worth the effort. When it's all said and done you can do just about anything you want with your Phillips bulbs. Takes quite a bit of thinking but lots of options open to you if you make the effort to learn it. Maybe at some point someone will do a good manual to go along with it. I would rather pay extra to see even more features added, rather than just have the option to buy scenes. The programmer has done an excellent job writing this app. It's the best and most flexible I've been able to find in the app store. I am now also using it with my Belkin products. Support has been prompt and responsive.

Finally, the Hue App I've been looking for!. I've downloaded just about every Philips Hue App that's out there and only Lightbow allows me to create variable timed multi step light animations that run while the app is in the background. If that sentence makes sense to you then you know this is the app you've been looking for. If it doesn't, Lightbow includes a feature guide that will have you experiencing the full coolness factor of your Philips Hue setup in no time at all. Highly recommended! It supports LIFX as well...

Best lighting app..... Period. Updates, updates, updates, this was a great app when I bought it and it just keeps getting better and better and better. This is a terrific app with lots of features that is adaptive to lots of hardware and it's obviously made by a responsive developer that is passionate about his app! Buy this app!

This IS the app that you are looking for.. By far the coolest features for controlling your lights. You will need to spend some time learning the interface, but once you do then you will be able to really control your lights. This is my "go to" app for my phillips hue. (In addition, great customer service.)

Only app you will ever need to manage Hue lights.. This app is the best! I have tried dozens of apps to manage the hue lights but since I tried Lightbow I was able to delete all the other apps I used for the hue lights. This is a must have. The possibilities are endless with this app and it's so user friendly too.

Fantastic=Simple+Complex. I've downloaded every single app out there to control my Hue lighting (2,000 sq ft home, inside and out), and this is the first one I've found that does it all. From simple one-touch control to complex configuration, this app has you covered. It's like I have my own coding guru at my fingertips. "You want to do what? Sure. Here ya go."

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Price $4.99
Adult Rating 4+ years and older
Current Version 3.3.3
Play Store com.pwr.Lightbow
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The application Lightbow was published in the category Lifestyle on 15 September 2013, Sunday and was developed by Peter Rapp [Developer ID: 695235162]. This program file size is 170.18 MB. This app has been rated by 269 users and has a rating of 4.2 out of 5. Lightbow - Lifestyle app posted on 11 October 2019, Friday current version is 3.3.3 and works well on iOS 10.3 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.pwr.Lightbow. Languages supported by the app:

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Lightbow has the most Halloween content of any lighting app! - With the popularity of our "Trick or Treat?!" collection last year, we decided to double the number of costume-centric light+sound environments (available for in-app purchase) that you can use to psych up kids (and parents) before heading out to Halloween festivities! Enjoy all new presets like Vampire, Rubber Ducky, Swamp Creature, Fairy, Sailor, and more... Users who already bought the "Trick or Treat?!" in-app purchase get all the new presets for free. (Are you throwing a halloween party or just like getting into the spirit of things? Check out the dozens of presets in the "Haunted House" and "Halloween" collections as well! - Added a half-dozen new color profiles for lightbulbs introduced since the last release. - Fixed a few issues with toolbar heights and layout that popped up with the latest iOS versions.

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