2.3.0
2022-05-15
• The ability to favorite your most beloved scenes is here
• Your favorite scenes are auto-ordered: your most played scenes are automatically on top of the list for quick access
• Bug fixes
2.2.0
2022-05-08
NEW DYNAMIC SCENES!!!
Your most favorite Goldee dynamic scenes are back!!!
• Volcano Flow
• Sunrise
• Aurora Borealis
• Meteor Shower (inspired by Night Sky)
Enjoy them while they are temporarily unlocked.
2.1.0
2022-05-04
REQUESTED BY USERS
• Seven white static scenes (color temperature from 2000 K to 7000 K) for every day use are back!!! Go check them out. They are for free.
• UK users: Bringing more pricing options :)
2.0.2
2022-04-27
• Bug fixes
2.0.1
2022-04-09
• Bridge connection bug fixes.
2.0
2022-03-24
This has been long-awaiting. You may wonder why it took so long. Find out here: https://tomasbaran.medium.com/behind-the-door-of-making-ambee-2-0-480ba6519d41 This upgrade consumed hundreds of hours, thousands of lines of code, an unmeasurable amount of dedication, many failures, and frustrations — all for this huge update: AMBEE 2.0.
WHAT IS BEHIND THE CHANGE OF AMBEE 2.0?
You! And your feedback! I love your feedback and try to respond to every request within 24 hours. In the last few years, there has been quite a lot of requests. This remake culminates the majority of them such as:
• Better grouping of scenes: Ambee 2.0 offers groups by moods, colors, and sound.
• Ability to group the scenes by yourself: The ability to favorite and save into your albums is coming soon.
• More control: Ambee 2.0 offers controls of brightness, speed, volume (in case it includes audio), and pause of each dynamic scene. And it's easier than ever.
• iPad support
UI ENHANCEMENTS:
• Smaller Light Scenes cards for faster access
• Light Scenes in Full Screen with controls
• PIP (picture in picture) of the currently active dynamic scene for faster access
PRICING:
• All the previous purchases are kept forever under your account, however, Ambee 2.0 is now subscription-based. You have three options: yearly, monthly, weekly.
UKRAINIAN SUPPORT:
• New Light Scene: Slava Ukraini! with Ukrainian colors and Ukrainian national anthem
• If you are a Ukrainian, please write me at tomas [at] ambee (dot) com and you'll have a free lifetime membership
• Ambee stops being available in Russia and Belarus
Let me know your thoughts!
Love & peace!
Tomas Baran
CEO & Founder of Ambee
1.2.1
2019-03-16
• App's launch enhanced
1.2
2019-01-24
• The long-awaited feature is here: iPhone X support! :)
Enjoy and sorry about the delay, our friend. We are starting to cook something big and new for your Philips Hue lights. Please be patient with us since great things take its time.
Tomas
CEO & Founder of Ambee
1.1.10
2018-11-01
• Bug fixes
1.1.9
2018-08-12
• Fixes major animations' bug that messed up most of the animations. Please update to this release (1.1.9) and check out all the animations now. They feel great again - as they were intended to do so.
• Other minor changes.
Sorry for all the trouble.
1.1.8
2018-07-14
• Minor changes
1.1.7
2018-05-23
• Fixes the bug that popped up the feedback alert multiple times
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We're publishing six New Dynamic Light Animations. They were really tough to create in such an authentic shape. Proudly, here they are:
• Fire Canvasses (relaxing).
• Before the Hurricane (relaxing)
• Kill Your Mama (relaxing)
• Refreshing Rain (relaxing)
• Flirtatious Sun (relaxing)
• Devoured by Light (romantic).
Have fun, our friends :) Tomas, Vitalii & other dozen people that contributed
1.1.6
2018-05-16
• Rating from the app (every rating and review that you write helps make our app to be more visible to others)
• Other minor enhancements
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We're publishing six New Dynamic Light Animations. They were really tough to create in such an authentic shape. Proudly, here they are:
• Fire Canvasses (relaxing).
• Before the Hurricane (relaxing)
• Kill Your Mama (relaxing)
• Refreshing Rain (relaxing)
• Flirtatious Sun (relaxing)
• Devoured by Light (romantic).
Have fun, our friends :) Tomas, Vitalii & other dozen people that contributed
1.1.5
2018-05-08
We're fixing a bug that messed up Preview Feature of our new 'Devoured by Light' animation
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We're publishing six New Dynamic Light Animations. They were really tough to create in such an authentic shape. Proudly, here they are:
• Fire Canvasses (relaxing).
• Before the Hurricane (relaxing)
• Kill Your Mama (relaxing)
• Refreshing Rain (relaxing)
• Flirtatious Sun (relaxing)
• Devoured by Light (romantic).
Have fun, our friends :) Tomas, Vitalii & other dozen people that contributed
P.S. Big thanks to Rob v. d. G. for his help on the newest animations. We have better colors thanks to him. Cheers, brother :)
1.1.4
2018-05-07
We're publishing six New Dynamic Light Animations. They were really tough to create in such an authentic shape. Here they are:
• Fire Canvasses (relaxing)
• Before the Hurricane (relaxing)
• Kill Your Mama (relaxing)
• Refreshing Rain (relaxing)
• Flirtatious Sun (relaxing)
• Devoured by Light (romantic)
Have fun, our friends :)
Tomas, Vitalii & other dozen people that contributed
P.S. Big thanks to Rob v. d. G. for his help on the newest animations. We have better colors thanks to him. Cheers, brother :)
1.1.3
2018-04-07
• under the hood preparations for the new exciting animations that are coming in the following update (1.1.4)
1.1.2
2018-03-27
• minor enhancements while cooking new animations for you that will come soon :)
1.1.0
2018-03-19
• minor enhancements
1.1
2017-12-14
• Static scenes now for free as a Christmas Present :)
• New Icon
• Other minor enhancements
P.S. Please, contact me personally (
[email protected]) before writing any negative review, since it affects our visibility. I respond fast :) Thanks. Tomas, CEO of Ambee.
1.0.38
2017-12-04
Some bug fixing has come :)
• Muting the audio fixed
• Background disabling now fixed
• Other minor enhancements
If you like our app, write a nice App Store review since it makes Ambee more visible to others. Thanks a lot :)
Tomas, founder of Ambee
P.S. Please, contact me personally (
[email protected]) before writing any negative review. I respond fast :) Thanks.
1.0.37
2017-10-31
We are super excited to share with you that we have created one of the best Light Animations so far (most of them come with sound in the background). Here they are:
• The Pumpkin Day (of course, we had to make a special one, just for the holidays)
• In Venice (for the romantic souls :))
• Transamerica at Sleep (for all the hardworking maniacs :) located in the Bay Area or anywhere on the planet)
• The Rock&Roll Drinks (for the tough guys and gals)
• The Dusky Road (for the ones who are feeling melancholy)
• The Reggae Vibes (for all of us who just wanna chill, like they do in Jamaica - ya man)
Oh, and please, if you like this update, write us a nice App Store review since it makes Ambee more visible to others. Thanks a lot :)
Tomas, founder of Ambee
P.S. Please, contact me personally (
[email protected]) before writing any negative review. I respond fast :) Thanks.
1.0.36
2017-09-27
• We had to fix that nasty bug that disabled some users to reconnect to bridge again. Sorry about all the inconveniences. With that I apologize to Ben, Manny, Ruggero, Rickie, Ian, Joey, Mr. Luis, Joe, Alan, Luca, Joshua, Ali and others.
• Minor enhancements
Writing a nice App Store review makes Ambee more visible to others. Therefore, it has an important impact on our development. Thanks for doing so :)
Tomas, founder of Ambee
PS: Please contact me personally (
[email protected]) before writing any negative review. I try to respond fast :) Thanks.
PS: We are preparing new dynamic light animations right now :) some including exciting sounds :)
1.0.35
2017-09-04
• Bug that disabled some users to reconnect to bridge fixed. With that I also apologize to Ben, Manny, Ruggero, Rickie, Ian.
• Minor enhancements
Writing a nice App Store review makes Ambee more visible to others. Therefore, it has an important impact on our development. Thanks for doing so :)
Tomas, founder of Ambee
PS: Please contact me personally (
[email protected]) before writing any negative review. I try to respond fast :) Thanks.
1.0.34
2017-07-27
• Bridge connection is now saved on your iPhone, so you once you pushed the button, you won’t have to do it any more :) To save you some finger clicks.
• Icon little correction
• Bug fixes
Writing a nice App Store review makes Ambee more visible to others. Therefore, it has an important impact on our development. Thanks for doing so :)
Tomas, founder of Ambee
PS: Please contact me personally (
[email protected]) before writing any negative review. I respond fast :) Thanks. Tomas.
1.0.33
2017-07-24
• Ambee fixes the issue which caused overriding after the lights were turned off from other sources (official hue app, Siri, Alexa, hue tap, hue dimmer…)
• Login is now separated from Signup
• New icon
• Better light transitions when switching Light Animations
• According to your feedback, we changed the background settings
• Now you can select your light zone first, then Light Animation
• Other minor design enhancements
• Bug fixes
• PS: Since the previous update (1.0.32), Ambee remembers your lastly used light zone and selects that one as the default one.
Writing a nice App Store review makes Ambee more visible to others. Therefore, it has an important impact on our development. Thanks for doing so :)
Tomas, founder of Ambee
PS: Please contact me personally (
[email protected]) before writing any negative review. I respond fast :) Thanks. Tomas.