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Glowside

Lighting scenes for your Mac and iPhone. Works with Philips Hue.

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Platform
Mac · iPhone
Since
2026
Our role
Product, design and engineering
Status
Coming soon to the App Store
A living room at night lit in amber, pink and violet, with a laptop on a side table
Fig. 01A living room at night lit in amber, pink and violet, with a laptop on a side table

Overview

Glowside brings your lights to the Mac and the iPhone. Pick one of 100 photo scenes, fine-tune brightness and color, and let routines and Shortcuts take care of the rest. On the Mac it lives in the menu bar and syncs the lights with your screen.

We designed and built it end to end: product, interface, localization in eight languages and the engineering that talks to the Hue Bridge on your local network, including real-time streaming for screen sync. It needs no account and has no analytics or tracking.

Glowside’s main window: the Bedroom with four lights, overall brightness and quick scenes
Glowside’s menu bar panel with brightness, quick colors, scenes and lights
Fig. 02Glowside’s main window: the Bedroom with four lights, overall brightness and quick scenes
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Highlights

  1. 01

    100 photo scenes

    Scenes inspired by places, seasons and moods. Each one is a photo that sets the colors of your lights.

  2. 02

    Brightness and color

    A color wheel, whites from candlelight to daylight and gradient control, for every room and light.

  3. 03

    Screen sync

    On the Mac, the lights follow the colors on your screen in real time, for movies, games or music. The image never leaves your Mac.

  4. 04

    Routines and Shortcuts

    Lights react when your Mac sleeps or wakes, and scenes run from Shortcuts, Siri or keyboard shortcuts.

Built with

Swift / SwiftUI / App Intents / ScreenCaptureKit / Network framework / Metal

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