Top Smart Bulbs for Your Home in 2025
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Smart bulbs are the easiest way to make your home feel modern, efficient, and a little bit boujee. Whether you want lights that adjust to your mood, respond to your voice, or save energy automatically, there’s a perfect option for every home. Here’s a quick rundown of the best smart bulbs in 2025.
Tapo TP-Link Smart Bulbs
Affordable and reliable, Tapo bulbs make smart lighting simple with an easy to use app and straight forward connection. Great for adding to a smart home setup that you’re already familiar with.
- Colors: Warm white, cool white, full color spectrum customisable on the Tapo app.
- Brightness: 800–1,000 lumens
- Efficiency: 9–12W LEDs lasting up to 25,000 hours
- Compatibility: Tapo app, Alexa, Google Assistant
*If your at home energy plan costs 30 cents per KW, and you run a 9W bulb for 10 hours a day, you’d be looking at spending around 3 cents a day – a common 60W incandescent bulb run for the same amount of time would cost about 18 cents per day based on a 30 cents per KW plan*
LIFX Smart Bulbs
Known for vibrant colors and smooth WI-FI control, perfect for bold, customisable lighting.
- Colors: 16 million+ options
- Brightness: 800–1,100 lumens
- Efficiency: 9–17W, up to 22 years lifespan
- Compatibility: Alexa, Google, Apple HomeKit, IFTTT
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Lepro Smart Bulbs
Budget-friendly smart bulbs with dependable performance. A great starting point for beginners with smart home devices that need affordable and reliable products.
- Colors: White tones + RGB
- Brightness: 800–1,600 lumens
- Efficiency: Energy Star LEDs, ~15,000 hours lifespan
- Compatibility: Alexa, Google, Apple HomeKit
Philips Hue Smart Bulbs
The gold standard of smart lighting with a wide range of shapes, sizes and types of lights to fit more home scenarios. Best for those who want a complete, premium lighting ecosystem.
- Colors: 16 million colors and whites (2200K–6500K)
- Brightness: 800–1,600 lumens
- Efficiency: Uses up to 80% less energy with most models
- Compatibility: Hue Bridge, Alexa, Google, Apple HomeKit
Laser Smart Bulbs
Cutting-edge bulbs using laser diodes (convert electrical energy into laser light) for brighter, more efficient light. Great for outdoor use if needed.
- Colors: Warm to daylight white + full RGB
- Brightness: 800–1,600+ lumens
- Efficiency: Low power use, minimal heat, long lifespan
- Compatibility: Alexa, Google, Apple HomeKit
Extra thoughts
If you want to up your smart bulb game in the home and make them even more convenient, consider connecting them to a smart hub such as Amazon Alexa. This will allow you to say “Alexa, turn on lounge room light” and viola! Your light turns on!
