LIFX - 1100-Lumen, 11W Dimmable BR30 LED Light Bulb, 75W Equivalent - Multicolor

I have around 15 LIFX lights in my home and love everyone of them. The LIFX customer support is also excellent. These lights are great for big floor lamps. I use them in my meditation room and it provides the perfect environment to exercise, meditate or just play video games.

The app is so much easier than HUE. Colors are better and brighter. However, not as soft as the HUE's colors. What I like about the LIFX is that on the app you can pick a pure color like Blue or Purple and tone it down on the app by adding a little white to the color. The bulbs from LIFX are much brighter than HUE's. And, I have a few light strips which are great and a couple of rooms of the BR30 bulbs in my existing Hi Hat fixtures. The only thing is that unless everyone in your house has the app, it's a pain to control the lights as they have no way to turn them on or off. There is a switch from Logictech that is a 3 way press switch which also works with IFTTT technology. You can easily wirelessly program this click switch (which is very small and thin) to turn the lights on and off. Or, to control a number of other wireless things in your house. For now, the other members in my family can use Echo (Alexa) and speak to turn the lights on or off. The BR30 sized bulbs also state on the package they can be used indoors or outdoor locations (with the HUE you can't do that). Also, as mentioned in many reviews, no hub needed to buy with LIFX system. Installation took all of 3 minutes to screw in the bulbs and download the app. Took longer for me to decide what names to give the bulbs. Grouping them is easy so in my room with four hi hats I can turn all on in a group or turn each one off or on individually. Color rendition is great. Even the shades of white are amazingly true. Soft white, daylight, Flourescent light....you name it, it covers the whole temperature spectrum. Whereas before with regular bulbs you had to choose a temperature and stick with it, you just dial up what you like with these bulbs. Love them so far. And, oh yes...one more thing. If you are going to buy a few, buy the multi packs on Best Buy's website as a pack of 4 is $196 rather than buying 4 bulbs individually at $60/each for a total of $240 (much cheaper). If you still feel you need to compare them after my review, buy one of each brand and a hub for Philips HUE and try them out for yourself. I think if LIFX had better marketing and more product on the shelves in Best Buy they would be the clear winner of which bulb sells more. However, Philips is killing LIFX on marketing and using the fancy packaging in stores. Go for the LIFX over Philips...you won't regret your decision.

Great lights, very bright easy to setup and manage. They do not require a hub with makes the price even more attractive. Highly recommend.

Got 2 of these to try out, was wanting to be able to change colors. Got them and they did so much more then I thought. So now there in every light in the house.

Besides connection issues every so often, this light has been great for our kitchen. Dimming and color capabilities provide a lot of utility to this light.

Simply connect LIFX bulb to the outlet and use your phone to connect to it. I love LIFX because you don’t need a $60 bridge on top of each light. Use Alexa Google Siri Bixbiby and your phone to control color.

I really don't enjoy the native app, but the hardware is pretty good and it pairs well with Homekit. I am super tech savy, but the setup was quite glitchy.

The light is very bright with white light and useful for outdoors.