Lightbow
for Philips hue, LIFX, WeMo
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Description

Imagine the App Store or Music Store, but for LIGHT. After five years and many great updates, Lightbow continues to provide the highest quality & quantity of stunning light shows, plus the most powerful editor to create your own! Put hundreds of lighting and sound environments at your fingertips...

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

Take full advantage of Philips hue, LIFX, and 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!

** 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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In-Apps

Christmas (16 Presets)
£3.99
Emotions (10 Presets)
£3.99
Halloween (12 Presets)
£3.99
FIREWORKS (11 Presets)
£3.99
S P A C E (11 Presets)
£3.99
Annual "All Access" Pass
£22.99
Summer Fun (10 Presets)
£3.99
We Love Fall (10 Presets)
£3.99
Winter Warmth (10 Presets)
£3.99
Love is Everywhere 11 Presets
£3.99

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User Rating

3.6 out of 5

15 ratings in United Kingdom

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Dead app

Mike Manchester on

The developer gave up on this app 4 years ago, it’s not worth downloading.

Very poor app

Therm02 on

What a waste of money! Just goes to show that the star ratings are unreliable as a guide to the usefulness of an app. This app is unnecessarily convoluted and certainly not user friendly. What is most irritating is that I paid and downloaded this expecting the free app by LIFX ( which had a poor star rating) not to be good enough. It is, however, perfectly useable and does everything I’d expect, reliably and easily. This app does not!

Beautiful, shiny app!

Too Write on

Love this app. There’s a brilliant variety of presets and the accompanying sounds make it extra ambient. The ability to create presets is what makes Lightbow realy stand out over other light apps. The only thing I think could be improved is that the light greens seem to have changed. Colour 180 at saturation 50 and brightness 100 used to give me a cool aqua, but now it seems to come out as a weird yellowish-green, or colour 115 at saturation 5 and brightness 100 gave me a very subtle mint green, but now comes out pale yellow. It’s not my lights, because I’ve tried the same combinations in their own app and i they come out as expected. I’d like this back how it was originally, but perhaps that’s just me being picky. Otherwise, I really am impressed with the app, so it stays at five stars. Thank you. This is the app I use all the time.

Used to be a Great App... now it's slowly getting worse

The Faithful Penguin on

I’m slowly getting fed up with Lightbow. The reasons are that the lightbow collections are appearing too frequently and as a result the quality of them is suffering, also I believe that the developer is not looking after the people that have supported this app. I used to buy all of the lighbow collections, however that has stopped. Before if anyone had purchased a lightbow collection, Halloween for instance, then any new scenes that were to do with Halloween would have been added to the Halloween collection for free as long as you had purchased it previously. That was the same for any Lightbow collection, Christmas, Space, Summer Fun, etc. What I didn’t like was that I had supported (along with many others) the developer by buying all of the collections (some were just ok) and then instead of being given for free the new obvious “Halloween” scenes, they were bundled as a separate lightbow collection called “Haunted House”. Just because it’s called Haunted House, doesn’t hide that it’s Halloween. It was put into the collection just before the Halloween period and is obviously Halloween and should have been added to “Halloween” for free. That is what has stopped me buying all of the lightbow collections. If I’m supporting the developer then I expect him to do the right thing, not rename fresh Halloween scenes and pretend they are different just because he has called them Haunted House and then expect me to pay for them. However it’s the developers loss. That has saved me money as there are 4 collections that I haven’t paid for, and lost money for the developer because of his Haunted House stunt. I understand that you need and want to generate more income, but if it’s at the expense of losing loyal customers, then you need to rethink what you are doing. Also the lightbow collections seem to be appearing more frequently, and perhaps this is why they are losing their appeal and the quality of them is suffering. The “Twelve Days” lightbow collection I was prepared to pay for, because although it’s to do with Christmas, it is a Christmas song in itself and therefore shouldn’t be added to the “Christmas” lightbow collection. The problem is, it’s not working properly, it races through parts of it and skips sections. It’s a shame, because if it had worked properly then I would have bought it. The light can’t react quickly enough to the music, which just ruins what I’m imagining it might be like. I wouldn’t buy this collection just to play the 12 light colle

Incomprehensible

hypertrinity on

Paid 5 Quid and got a headache. Makes no sense. No explanation. What is the opposite of intuitive? Lightbow.

Not working on latest firmware

Simburgur on

This isn't working with the latest Hue Bridge firmware. No response from support in 3 days and no refunds available. This review will be removed when the issue is fixed or a refund is made possible.

Use it every day

Fozwil on

Love this app. Use it every day

Rubbish

GROOL on

Thought it would be worth it buying but then you have to buy y other packs inside the app

Good for timing scenes

Johnsmithttttt on

Good for timing scenes

Too many presets and too high a cost

JohnT @ Emsworth on

I used to use this app a lot, but got fed up with all the sets of "featured" (i.e. Shop) presets that fill up the interface and no way to organise them. At £23 a year it's a bit too steep for me I'm afraid.

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App Info

Category
Lifestyle
Publisher
Peter Rapp
Languages
English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek (modern), Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Recent version
3.3.3 (4 years ago )
Released on
Sep 15, 2013 (10 years ago )
Last updated
2 weeks ago