LIFX Mini

High-quality white, temperature-changing and colour lightbulbs ; Powerful app control ; Support for every voice assistant

Fiddly to set up ; Apple Home didn't control temperatures properly

Smarter, smaller lights with a neat range of control options and some fancy modes.

The Lifx Mini puts out plenty of light, and offers all of the colors, features, and integrations that you get with standard-size Lifx bulbs at a lower cost.

At $45 each, the color-changing Mini bulbs are still awfully expensive, and the design still doesn't cast enough downward light. The pairing process, newly revamped to align with HomeKit, is also a little more confusing than it ought to be.

These are excellent smart bulbs, but it's tough to justify the splurge unless you catch them on sale.

Smaller design allows bulbs to fit in more fixtures ; Light is delivered more effectively to the sides of the bulb ; More reasonably priced ; The cheapest LIFX bulb you can buy ; Arguably a better design than the standard LIFX A19 bulb ; High-quality...

Less powerful than the super-bright LIFX A19 ; Still a bit of an ugly bulb ; Still considerably heavier than competing bulbs ; Very little in the way of extra features ; Pricier than the competition ; Considerably heavier than competing bulbs ; Limited...

“Day & Dusk” is LIFX’s shorthand for a white smart bulb with tunable light. This bulb is effectively the same as the LIFX Mini White, only instead of being locked to a color temperature of 2700K, it can shift through a modest range: 1500K to 4000K. The...

No hub required ; Works with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple HomeKit and more ; Includes many smart features ; Fits in small lamps

Expensive ; Difficult to set up

Lifx's mini bulbs are difficult to set up, but they're easy to integrate into a smart home once they're up and running.

If there's anything close to a serious gripe we have with the Mini, it's only that on the standard model, colors we picked in the LIFX or Home apps sometimes didn't translate into the real world. In those cases, it was just a matter of experimenting...