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24 alternatives to Chroma for Hue 3.0

The best way to control your Philips Hue lights on macOS.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Chroma for Hue 3.0 launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1CF
   Chroma for Hue, Control Your Philips Hue Bulbs from OS X▲16

   2015 · chromaforhue.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Chroma for Hue▲1

   Control your Philips Hue bulbs right from OSX

   2015 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Brilliance▲260

   f.lux for Philips Hue bulbs

   2016 · brilliance.site · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Hue Log▲162

   Philips Hue logging, monitoring and analytics for macOS

   2023 · huelog.app · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Sweet Hue▲68

   Manage Philips Hue in style

   2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Hue Widget▲93

   Control Philips Hue lights from notification center (iOS)

   2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Philips Bridge 2.0▲127

   Philips brings Siri & HomeKit to Hue

   2015 · philips-hue.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Hue Sentiment▲65

   Control lights with your mood

   2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Hue Match▲113

   Show colors on your Apple TV that match your Hue lights

   2018 · huematch.app · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Lightsync▲67

    Sync your philips hue to your music

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    HuePlay▲83

    Sync your Hue lights to Spotify's now playing cover art.

    2019 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Chromtuner ▲87

    A chromatic tuner for macOS. ±1¢ accuracy

    May 2026 · chromtuner.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    SwiftHue for iOS▲82

    Easily control your Hue lights, widget included

    2014 · swifthue.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    System Color Picker▲233

    The macOS color picker supercharged

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Hues▲100

    The most lightweight color picker for Mac ever

    2014 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Hue Widgets▲73

    Control your lights from your Home Screen

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Chroma▲210

    The definitive color picker

    2016 · chroma.spencerhamm.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Light Sync App▲2

    Sync Hue lights with display. Linux, Mac & Win. Open source

    2019 · lightsync.app · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Chroma▲88

    Colors for everyone.

    2022 · chroma.dev · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Hue - Tint Picker▲22

    Pick hues in your dock icon

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    HaloStrip▲19

    Mac beautification tool

    2025 · halostrip.zhaohe.org · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Solace▲171

    macOS gives you three appearance options: Light, Dark, or Auto. Auto follows sunset, which is a surprisingly blunt heuristic. It doesn't account for season (dark mode at 3:50pm in December, light mode at 9pm in June), and it has zero awareness of actual conditions outside. Overcast and dark at 2pm? Your Mac doesn't care. The deeper problem is that macOS treats appearance, wallpaper, and colour temperature as unrelated settings. You end up stitching together separate tools that don't know about each other, or you just live with the defaults and accept the friction. Solace tries to solve this…

    Feb 2026 · theodorehq.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    LightBuddy▲229

    Look better on video calls using the screen you already have

    Dec 2025 · lightbuddy.app · its alternatives →

24. 24
    ChromaNova▲9

    Instant taskbar color picker: pick, generate, save hues.

    2025 · vesmirnykebab.github.io · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →