Lightbow

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

Love this app. Use it every day

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

Good for timing scenes

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.