Philips Hue for PC

★ ★ ★ Philips Hue Overview

What is Philips Hue? The official Philips Hue app is a comprehensive app that allows users to organize, control, and customize their Philips Hue smart lights and accessories. It offers features such as organizing lights into rooms or zones, controlling lights from anywhere, creating extraordinary light experiences, using light recipes for daily routines, personalizing with automations, syncing lights with screen or sound, and hands-free voice control.

Software Features and Description

1. Make your lights flash, dance, dim, brighten, and change color in sync with your screen or sound! Use the Sync tab to sync your lights with the Philips Hue Play HDMI sync box or Spotify.

2. Adjust your lights’ brightness, temperature, and color and control multiple lights across Rooms or Zones all from the Hue app — and it doesn’t matter where you are.

3. The official Philips Hue app is the most comprehensive way to organize, control, and customize your Philips Hue smart lights and accessories.

4. Use Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, or Google Assistant to control your smart lights with just your voice.

5. Simple voice commands let you turn lights on and off, dim and brighten, or even change colors without you ever lifting a finger.

6. Group your lights into Rooms or Zones — your entire downstairs floor or all the lights in the living room, for example — that mirror the physical rooms in your home.

7. Use the Shortcuts app to create shortcuts that you can place into widgets on your Home Screen for even faster control of your lights.

8. Whether you use just a few bulbs or have completely outfitted your home in Philips Hue, you can organize your smart lights with ease.

9. Turn lights on or off, adjust their brightness and temperature, or set scenes — all without even opening the app.

10. You can use the app to control your lights anywhere you have an internet connection.

11. Make your smart lights work around your daily routine.

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Download and install Philips Hue on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
Philips Hue	Get App ↲	73,013 4.61	Signify Netherlands B.V.

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install Philips Hue app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using Philips Hue on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "Philips Hue"
The search will reveal the Philips Hue app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once Philips Hue is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including Philips Hue.
Now enjoy Philips Hue on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	Signify Netherlands B.V.	4.61	5.26.0

Get Philips Hue on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get Free on Mac	Signify Netherlands B.V.	73013	4.61

Download on Android: Download Android

Philips Hue functions

- Organize smart lights into rooms or zones

- Control lights from anywhere with an internet connection

- Create unique light experiences with scenes created by professional lighting designers

- Use light recipes designed by lighting experts to support daily routines

- Personalize with customizable automations

- Sync lights with screen or sound using the Sync tab

- Use hands-free voice control with Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, or Google Assistant

- Use Siri Shortcuts for quick control

- Some features require a Hue Bridge.

✔ Pros:

- The app update resolved the issue of lights turning on bright white after a power outage or reset.

- The app has a nifty way to wake you up by slowly adjusting lighting over time.

- The app is prettier and easier to use after the major update.

☹ Cons:

- The firmware update required for the app feature took longer on some bulbs than others.

- Some UI changes are a little wonky.

- Lights take 10-15 seconds to show any sort of change after a recent update.

- The app does not allow for Sensor customizations, such as picking which lights in a room to turn on or off.

Top Pcmac Reviews

Finally! Power On Behavior Settings!

By VirtualMirage (Pcmac user)

I’ve been using Hue in my home for almost two years now. My biggest issue with the system is how the lights would all turn on bright white after a power outage or if lights connected to a light switch would reset to the default white if someone turned it off from the wall switch. Now with this update, my largest gripe has been resolved! I will say that the firmware update required for this feature took longer on some bulbs than others. Most of my bulbs received the update within 30 minutes or so. But I had a handful that took over day, almost two days! They did eventually update and now all bulbs are on the latest firmware. The next thing I am waiting for is the ability to use Hue Entertainment with my AppleTV so that I can sync my lights to what’s on the screen. Hopefully, that comes sooner than later. Other areas of improvement would be to the routines. It would be nice if I could set a routine to turn on at sunset but turn off at a fixed time of day without having to create two separate routines (one for on and the other for off). At the moment, the only other option that it gives you within a single routine is to have the lights turn off at sunrise if they are set to turn on at sunset.
Disappointed.

By SuperDuperPoop (Pcmac user)

Updated August 4th, 2014 After some app updates and resets, the app is working better. Changed from 2 stars to 4 stars. The app is much letter than before the major update, but some UI changes are a little wonky. ——— At first, the new update ran great and I didn’t have any issues. For whatever reason now, my lights take 10-15 seconds to show any sort of change. Simply turning on and off the lights takes 20 seconds. At first I thought my gen1 bridge was dying so I replaced it. I’ve factory reset my gen2 bridge about 5 times and re set everything up so many times over. 3rd party apps like on switch control lights better and immediately. I gave this app two stars instead of one because I’ve had my Phillips hue bulbs for almost 5 years now and they’ve been really good to me. But this app has made working with these bulbs a pain and I’ve wasted soooooo much time trying to get the app to work properly. I’ve even reset my router and managed switch to default to see if it’s a network issue. It’s not. The hue app is constantly connecting and reconnecting and failing to connect over and over. Extremely frustrating. You guys can do better. You teased this app update for so long and I held off getting rid of these bulbs hoping this update would fix my issues. Please take the time to address this app and fix these bugs.
Shortcut for alarms, please!

By PinkWhimsy (Pcmac user)

I’ll start off by saying that I’ve barely touched the Hue app in several years, since I’ve been able to control everything I need with HomeKit. However, I’d recalled that Hue has this nifty way to wake you up where it slowly adjusts lighting over time, instead of a jarring sound or something, and I wanted to try using this. The only way to do this is through the Hue app itself. I got even more excited when I learned that Hue started supporting Shortcuts, hoping that I’d be able to incorporate an action to set this type of alarm in the app in my shortcut for bedtime (I work varied shifts throughout the week, waking up as early as 5 and as late as 8am). There doesn’t appear to be a way to execute this shortcut without just telling Shortcuts to open the app, like I can do with the clock app. I’m not sure if this is a limitation of available actions developers are permitted to donate, or if this is just not something that had been considered, but I would love to see this! The only other downgrade is for how confusing it is to set up new lights and assign them to rooms. I’ve set up this stuff probably 50 times (moving several times as well as adding new accessories over the years) and I never remember that you name the light and then have to back all the way out and add it to a room. It seems kind of clunky.
Still No Sensor Options

By Djgrolyos (Pcmac user)

I wanted so long for V3 to come out. Total disappointment. Basically it is prettier and easier to use. As far as more features, not much. The one I really wanted was Sensor customizations. You cannot pick which lights in a room to have turn on or off. I have multiple Hue lights in my bathroom. I have a Sensor in it. I want my Sensor to detect motion and then if it is night time, turn on only the cabinet lighting very dim. This is just so when you go to the bathroom at night you don’t have blaring lights or have to get your phone out to turn them on. In the Hue App, the only option is to have ALL the bathroom lights come on. You cannot pick just one or two lights. You can do this in HomeKit, but then some of the customizations for the Sensor Hue allows won’t work. (I.e. how strong the motion had to be to work, how long to keep it on, etc....) Hue Hyped this new version for months if not a year. Now it is here and like I said... it basically is the same app just better designed. Very disappointing. Will not be buying more sensors until they fix this. One last thing... same thing is true with Hue Tap and Hue Dimmers. Both only let you pick rooms, not individual lights. Dimmer only has 4 customization areas when there are 5 in HomeKit. It’s like Hue forgot all about their accessories. C’mon... I wasted $250 on 5 Sensors, $100 on 2 taps, and $200 on 5 Dimmers and all of them you can’t do what you claimed you could when I got them.