HueFlow launches on Google Play with local backups for Philips Hue automations

An independent app keeps rules, automations, rooms and scenes in an encrypted backup on your own phone, and restores them reviewed item by item, even onto a new bridge.

BRAZIL, October 7, 2026 — Sinus launched HueFlow on October 5, an Android app that backs up and restores the setup of Philips Hue homes. The app saves rules, automations, rooms, zones and scenes in an encrypted file on the device itself, with no account and no cloud. HueFlow is free on Google Play.

It is for anyone who has reset or replaced their bridge, or swapped a bulb or a switch, and doesn't want to rebuild their home by hand. It also shows, in a graph, what every switch, dial and sensor actually does.

Philips Hue still offers no backup for automations. When a bridge fails, the home has to be set up again, piece by piece.

In June 2026, firmware 2071353020 left some Hue Bridge Pro units with a red LED and unresponsive, even after a reset. Signify confirmed fewer than 100 devices were affected, fixed the issue and replaced them free of charge, regardless of warranty. The new bridge, however, arrived empty: lights, accessories, scenes and automations all had to be redone. “A backup feature is missing,” wrote Hueblog.

In September, at IFA, Philips announced an official Backup & Restore, still with no release date. It will store the backup in the Hue Cloud, require an account and restore only onto a Hue Bridge Pro.

• Local, encrypted backups. Rules and automations, rooms, zones and scenes with their colors and gradients. On the Bridge Pro, MotionAware areas and SpatialAware positions too. Backups stay on the device, with a history, and work with both the white bridge and the Bridge Pro.
• Restore without surprises. Four steps show what is new, what changed and what is already the same. Nothing is written to the bridge until you confirm, and every restore keeps a copy of the previous state so it can be undone.
• Swap a device, keep the automations. If a bulb or a switch was replaced, point the old one at the new one and the automations follow. On a new bridge, lights and accessories still have to be paired again before restoring. Doing that from inside HueFlow is planned for a future version.
• Automations you can understand. Every accessory becomes a graph: trigger → condition → action → target. Legacy rules (V1) and current automations (V2) are drawn the same way, and the visual editor (beta) changes an automation without touching JSON.
• Try it without a bridge. Demo mode shows the whole app with a sample home.

• Android: available now on Google Play.
• iPhone and iPad: coming soon. Anyone who wants to test it can join the waitlist.
• Free, with ads and a limit on backups and saved bridges. More slots can be unlocked by watching an ad.
• Premium (monthly, yearly or lifetime): removes ads, unlocks unlimited backups and bridges, and keeps the last 10 restores ready to undo.
• Languages: English, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Spanish and French.
• Requires a Philips Hue Bridge on the local network (except in demo mode).

Sinus is the name under which Jefferson Medeiros, an independent developer based in Brazil, publishes HueFlow. The app talks to the bridge directly over the local network and runs no server of its own. More at hueflowapp.web.app.

HueFlow is an independent app and is not affiliated with Signify or Philips Hue.

Jefferson Medeiros — sinus.dev.app@gmail.com

Press kit: icon · feature graphic · backups screen, restore, comparison, rules graph and automation editor.

• Hueblog, June 29, 2026: Firmware Update May Cause the Hue Bridge Pro to Stop Working
• TechTimes, July 1, 2026: Signify Confirms Fewer Than 100 Affected
• Engadget, July 11, 2026: Philips offers free replacements
• Hueblog, Sept 3, 2026: Backup & Restore — All the Details
• Hueblog, Sept 3, 2026: Philips Hue Announces New Products and Backup Feature