Philips Hue Smart 100W A21 LED Bulb - White and Color Ambiance Color-Changing Light - 1 Pack - 1600LM - E26 - Indoor - Control with Hue App - Works with Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple Homekit

These bulbs are great. I had used off brand or lesser quality smart bulbs for a few years and decided to finally get these. Big difference! These are brighter, have way more functions and have really nice scenes in the app. Plus the ability to customize scenes is great. We made a nice one that is for ‘fancy dinner’ with flickering candlelight on some bulbs and a nice soothing low light on others. Can even drop a widget on your iPhone to activate scenes. If you are new to these, be sure to invest in the hub too, it enables per-room and per-light controls and scenes. Without the hub you still have decent control with the app on your phone, but the hub really is worth it. Set up was better than the off-brand ones I had been using, and the Hue app is way better than what those used. Integrated pretty easily with my Google home, but I still haven’t quite figured out after a few months how to invoke scenes using voice commands. No issues using voice for on/off/dimming though.

Bought this to replace an aging Philips Hue 60W equivalent bulb that I bought more than 10 years ago. I like the Philips hue system because they work pretty consistently compared to other budget brands with Apple HomeKit connectivity. The light is much brighter compared to the old bulb, and I use this in a floor lamp in my living room. I like that you can use the app or HomeKit to change the color temp of the bulb as well. As with other Philips Hue bulbs, you need the hub to connect to HomeKit, as it acts as a bridge to the Apple Device you have set as your base (Mine is a v1.0 HomePod). I just tell Siri to turn on, dim, or turn off the bulb regularly, and response time is pretty quick, about 1-2 seconds at most. It's very easy to use with HomeKit, and setup took at most 5 minutes to add to the hub and get it working. I expect this bulb to last around as long as the previous bulb, and it was worth every penny if so.

The recommended price for these bulbs is vicious. However, shop around and you can find them for around 45 bucks. Once you get over the sticker shock, you will find that these bulbs are very bright (I can believe the 1600 lumen claim), they don’t fail over time (like so many led bulbs do), they have a high 90+ color rendition index (that’s nice light to be in) at least in the white spectrum, they can reproduce almost any color of light, they connect quickly, behave reliably, and the hue bridge + app gives you tremendous control over how your lighting works. You can buy cheaper bulbs, but the Philips ecosystem works properly. My family are largely technophobes. They would not have anything to do with an app. However, these bulbs in combination with a Hue Tap and Dial switch, operate as easily as any ‘switch it on at the wall’ type lighting. The price will sting, but the results make it worthwhile.

I had the older or other 60w version for my room. The color selection and lighting overall was good, but it just wasn’t anywhere bright enough for the entire room, which I needed. This version was perfect, and it works great with my Apple Home setup.

It made my day and room amazing although expensive , easy to install and connect bt we bought the bridge so far its doing great

It’s a Hue bulb, so it’s great, I haven’t found a bad Hue bulb. Amazing colors, easy to set up, it’ll last a few years minimum as all of my other ones have. My only qualm with this is it’s not a 100 watt equivalent to an incandescent bulb, particularly at a warm color setting. 75W maybe. That could also be most LED bulbs overselling themselves but I’m knocking a star off despite it being a solid and functional item.

These lights are good! I bought the open box ones and saved some money and the quality is just like new. The only thing I would say you need to watch out for is that the brighter bulbs are larger length wise and might not fit if the space is tight (like in an overhead light fixture with a glass diffuser). I had to mess with them a bit and even then I couldn’t screw the glass case on all the way. But they are a lot brighter than the smaller ones so I think it’s worth it.

Brighter than most of the hue bulbs.