Everything Mote Desktop does
Mote keeps Philips Hue lights, rooms, zones, and scenes available while you use your PC. Everyday control and PC Sync are free. Mote Pro adds multiple bridges and Sync Boxes, advanced widgets, custom dashboard layouts, global shortcuts, and automations, and all of it is free to try for 14 days.
Free and Mote Pro
Both tiers share the same Hue control. Pro expands the workflow rather than holding back everyday functionality. Every Pro feature is free to try for 14 days from the moment you pair your first bridge, then a one-time purchase through the Microsoft Store rather than a subscription.
| Feature | Free | Mote Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Rooms, zones, lights, and scenes | Included | Included |
| Devices and entertainment areas | Included | Included |
| Color and white temperature inspector | Included | Included |
| Hue Play HDMI Sync Box | One box | Multiple |
| Hue Bridges | One | Multiple |
| Desktop widgets | One | Unlimited |
| Multiple controls in one widget | Not included | Included |
| Mascot styles | Cartoon | All five |
| Mascot, pill, or bubble; fold and auto-collapse options | Included | Included |
| Widget theme, size, corners, and placement | Not included | Included |
| Dashboard layout | Standard | Custom |
| Global keyboard shortcuts | Not included | Included |
| Automations: calls, locking, focus, presence, and calendar | Not included | Included |
| Entertainment area setup and testing | Included | Included |
| PC Sync: Video, Games, and Music | Included | Included |
| Get Mote Free | Free to try for 14 days with no login or credit card required, then a one-time purchase through the Microsoft Store rather than a subscription. |
- Free
Home dashboard
Every room, zone, and light in one view. Check power, color, and brightness at a glance, then adjust what you need.
- Rooms, zones, lights, scenes, devices, and entertainment areas in a single dashboard
- Power, brightness, and color controls on each card
- Standard grouping layouts in Free
- Reorder cards and save a custom layout with Mote Pro
- Free
Room and light control
Open a room to work with scenes and individual lights in the same view.
- Scene tiles and per-light controls side by side
- A color inspector for precise color and white temperature
- Controls for lights, rooms, zones, and devices
- Set up what Hue switches, dimmers, and motion sensors do, and group a multi-light fixture into one card
- Free
Hue scenes
Build the scenes a room should have, and reach them in one click.
- Create a scene from the colors a room is showing now, or from the gallery
- Edit and delete your own scenes without leaving the desktop
- Preview a scene before applying it
- Run supported dynamic scenes that move through their palette on their own
- Recall any scene from the dashboard or a widget
- Free
- Mote Pro
Desktop widgets
Keep the controls you use most pinned beside your work.
- Name each widget so it is easy to recognize later
- Free includes one widget with one room, zone, or light
- Fold into the free Cartoon mascot, pill, or bubble, with optional animation and facing direction
- Mote Pro adds Low poly, Pixel art, Paper, and Watercolor mascot styles
- Choose stacking or fading, expansion direction, and an auto-collapse delay
- Arrange the controls, choose the density and appearance, and preview the result
- Mote Pro adds as many widgets as you like, each with several controls or a whole toggle group
- Mote Pro adds separate open and collapsed sizes, theme, corners, translucent tiles, placement, pinning, and always-on-top behavior
- Free
PC Sync
Match a compatible entertainment area to what is happening on your PC.
- Video, Games, and Music modes for a compatible entertainment area
- Choose which part of the display each light follows
- Set up the entertainment area and place its lights in a 3D view
- Processing happens on your PC; captured pixels and audio are not uploaded
- Free
- Mote Pro
Hue Play HDMI Sync Box
Drive the same entertainment area from a Sync Box instead of your PC.
- Pick which HDMI source the box follows
- Video, Game, and Music styles with an intensity setting
- Fine-tune how strongly the entertainment lights react
- One Sync Box is free; pair more and switch between them with Mote Pro
- Free
- Mote Pro
Hue Bridges
Pair the Hue Bridge Pro or classic bridge you already own. Free saves one; Mote Pro switches among several.
- Free
App preferences
Live in the tray, start with Windows, and keep everything Mote saves on your device.
Automations
Lights that follow what you are doing on the PC, and put themselves back afterwards.
- On-air light. Chosen lights turn a color, a white, or a scene while any app uses your microphone or camera, then go back when the call ends.
- Stepping away. When the PC locks or sleeps, lights turn off, dim, or set a scene, and return when you unlock it.
- Focus sessions. Pick a rhythm, lights, and a vibe; the lights keep time through focus blocks and breaks.
- Presence. When every chosen phone has left the home Wi-Fi for ten minutes, lights turn off; when someone is back, a scene comes on.
- Calendar. Add a Google, Outlook, or iCloud calendar by its iCal address, and lights change around matching events.
When two automations want the same light, a priority order you arrange decides, and PC Sync can be part of it. Every automation can be set up on Free; running one needs Mote Pro or the 14-day trial. Automations run on your PC; a calendar is read from the address you give it. The privacy policy says exactly what each one reads.