100 photo scenes
From Tokyo at night to a crackling fireplace: pick a photo and your room takes its colors. Turn on Motion and the colors drift slowly.
A Mac app for your lights
Set the moodfrom your Mac.
Glowside puts your lights in the menu bar: 100 photo scenes, fine control of brightness and color, screen sync, routines and Shortcuts, in a fast native app.
Works with Philips Hue.
Coming soon to the Mac App StoreSee features
Menu bar
Your lights, one click away.
Rooms, brightness, quick colors, scenes and screen sync in a compact panel. Open the full window when you want more.
Scene library
100 scenes, ten moods
Cozy, night, focus, nature, cities, party, movies, games, seasons and light effects. Every scene comes with its own photo.
Northern lights
Paris
Full moon
Neon
Afternoon coffee
Cherry blossoms
Cyberpunk
Autumn
Ocean
Rio at dusk
Prism
Reading
Lavender
Disco
Volcano
Christmas
Screen sync
Your lights follow the screen.
Video, Game and Ambient modes match your lights to the colors on screen in real time, and Music mode pulses with the beat. The image is read at 64 pixels wide and never leaves your Mac.
- Video
- Game
- Ambient
- Music
Routines
Lights that know when to rest.
Turn off or dim the lights when your Mac sleeps or locks, bring them back when you return, and let a timer fade them out slowly at bedtime.
Everything your lights need, one click away
Brightness and color
A color wheel and whites from candlelight to daylight for your rooms and lights, plus gradient control for gradient lightstrips.
Screen sync
Your lights follow the screen in real time in Video, Game and Ambient modes, or pulse to the beat in Music mode.
Right in the menu bar
Rooms, scenes, lights and sync in a compact panel, and a full window when you want more.
Routines
Turn off or dim the lights when your Mac sleeps or locks, and bring them back when you return.
Shortcuts, Siri and hotkeys
Toggle the lights, set brightness or start a scene from Shortcuts, Siri or global keyboard shortcuts.
Fade out at bedtime
A timer dims the lights slowly and turns them off when the time is up.
Your Bridge scenes, too
The scenes you created in the Hue app show up in Glowside, ready to use.
Privacy
Private by design
- No account
- Nothing to sign up for. Pair with your Bridge and you're done.
- No tracking
- No analytics, no ads and no third-party code inside the app.
- Stays at home
- Your lights are controlled on your local network, through your Bridge.
- Your screen stays on your Mac
- Screen sync reads a tiny copy of the screen, 64 pixels wide, in memory only.
Requirements
What you need
- A Mac with macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- A Hue Bridge on the same network as your Mac
- For screen sync, an entertainment area set up in the Hue app
Available in English, Português, Español, Français, Deutsch, Nederlands, Italiano and 日本語.
Coming soon to the Mac App Store
Glowside is in its final stretch. Questions, ideas or want to know when it launches? Write to us.