Lightbow App Reviews

Lightbow offers user a multitude of options to control their Philips Hue lights and Belkin WeMo switches. I feel the price is fair for the numerous options/control you get over your Hue lights. I found the Lightbow to have more flexibility and control over my lights and a better UI than comparable apps. I was unable to load Lightbow to my wife’s iPhone and emailed Lightbow. In a timely manner Peter responded back to me and resolved my issue, that of iCloud vs. iTunes account log-in issue. Thanks!

What the heck! You update this app and now it wont even open or function. Get it together!

New update absolutely broke the app. This app was a 4 star app until this update. I would highly recommend not buying the app until this is fixed. I hope the company takes a quick round turn but updates seem pretty infrequent from them.

This was my go-to app for controlling my Hue lights, in a large part due to the Notification Center widget (my primary means of controlling my lights day to day). Unfortunately this feature seems to be broken since a recent update in February 2016. Hope this is fixed soon.

This is a great app for building scenes and controlling your lights. 3 stars for lack of usability when getting started, you have to figure it out yourself and its not easy. Also notification widget doesnt work. Luckily there are frequent updates, we need some tutorials.

A fantastic app with an attractive and intuitive UI. Ive 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!

If Apple made a hue part of the Settings app, it would look and behave exactly like this one. Also lets you control how bulbs transition from one color to another, which I didnt know you could do with hue! The Flashbulb. The bundled presets are pretty good too.

Generally, this app could be great. The various customization options are powerful and self-explanatory. However, its incredibly buggy. It loses my Hue bridge all the time, and I have to use one of three other (free) apps to control my lights thereafter. None of those programs have the customization that lightbow has, but all of them are far more stable. I hope the programmer can fix the lingering bugs soon, particularly since I put so much effort into programming the presets.

It wont connect to my Lifx bulbs anymore ??

This is the best app for hue. Tried many others. I only wish I could save my settings to iCloud to be able to use on other devices. Each device needs to be setup individually.

Only complaint is that the widget does not work very well.

Widget leaves a little to be desired otherwise 5 stars.

Stumbled upon this app because it appears to be virtually the only app that supports Hue and LIFX together. Imagine my surprise that the only option is so incredible, and better than about anything Ive used that controls Hue alone. Whats really incredible is the ability to have animations that you can control with very fine precision. In fact, precision is painted all over this app. This has the result of being a little daunting, but there are lots of available inbuilt presets of you dont want to do any tinkering. But that brings me to the "Featured" in-app purchases... These purchases are preset packs. They dont really add any features to the app, just scenes that you could make on your own for free, in theory. I am completely okay with this—what you are paying for is the convenience of not having to set up these incredibly specific presets/animations yourself. If the dev keeps supporting the app, I know Ill be happy to buy the Christmas or Halloween packs when those holidays roll around. But if you dont want to do that, you arent restricted in any way whatsoever by not buying the packs. If I have a couple of criticisms, they arent deal breakers at all. First, the notification center widget uses space a little liberally; Id prefer it if the straight list at least was presented in 2 columns, so as to not use so much space. Second, the representation of dim color assignments is to have a darker color that appears fully opaque/saturated. What this means is that dim pink looks like some deep black/purple in the swatch for the preset. Other approximations from other apps seem more intuitive. But overall, this app is worth the money. If you want setup scenes yourself, itll take some effort, but your end result will be exactly what you want.