Your home stays at home.

Afterglow has no account, no analytics and no ads. It talks straight to your Philips Hue Bridge and your Home Assistant, and to nothing else.

What it talks to

Your Hue Bridge on your home network, and your Home Assistant at the addresses you give it, such as its address away from home. Your lights, rooms and scenes travel between your iPhone and those, never through a server of ours.

What stays on your iPhone

Your homes and their settings: where your lamps stand, which floor you looked at last, what was lit before the house went dark. Also a copy of what your bridge and Home Assistant last reported, so the app opens instantly.

The key your Hue Bridge gave Afterglow, and the sign-in for Home Assistant, are kept in the iPhone’s Keychain. Removing a home deletes them, and Afterglow signs out of Home Assistant first.

Signing in to Home Assistant

You sign in on your own Home Assistant’s page. Afterglow never sees your password, only the sign-in Home Assistant hands back. This site holds just the short public description Home Assistant reads to recognise the app.

The camera

Vibe check reads the colours in front of the camera, on the phone, as you move. Nothing is recorded, saved or sent.

Siri and Shortcuts

They run inside the app on your iPhone, using the same direct connection as a tap.

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October 2026