The 4 Best Smart LED Light Bulbs of 2025

Top pick

This affordable bulb was a standout in testing and easy to set up, and it includes a collection of fun and useful modes and Scenes.

Compatible with: Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri Shortcuts, Google Home, Samsung SmartThings

The WiZ 60W A19 Color LED Smart Bulb is the best smart bulb, thanks to its great lux performance, simple app setup, wide color temperature range, and large selection of Scenes. This bulb is also one of the more affordable models we tested.

It connects easily over Wi-Fi in the WiZ app, and in about a minute or two you can start turning your light on and off, adjusting the white light color temperature, changing the light to any one of the “16 million colors” WiZ says it supports, creating Schedules, and trying out more advanced features like custom effects and automations.

Note that although WiZ is owned by Philips Hue, the WiZ app operates separately from the larger Zigbee-enabled Philips Hue app and ecosystem.

It’s a great way to keep things simple. Despite being our top pick, the WiZ bulb isn’t overly complex. It’s a totally great option if you want to stick with the plain-and-simple basics: on/off light control, brightness adjustments, changes to bulb color (or temperature) depending on what you’re doing, custom schedules to fit your daily routine, and the ability to share app access with family, friends, visitors, or caregivers.

But you can still go all-in if you want. The WiZ 60W A19 Color LED Smart Bulb also has a great collection of additional options. You can create custom Scenes or choose from a selection of preset themes, like Relax and TV Time, that are activity-centric. There are also 19 preset “dynamic effects,” such as Ocean, Sunset, and Jungle, that cycle through colors in a thematic way. The Jungle effect, for instance, cycles among various shades of green and yellow—it’s a nice effect as it subtly shifts from one color to the next.

You can deeply customize the app to your habits. For example, a circadian-rhythm mode changes the light throughout the day according to your particular wake and sleep schedule. Another feature, SpaceSense, is supposed to automatically adjust your lights to your preferred setting when you walk into a room via the WiZ bulb’s built-in motion-sensing technology. (It didn’t always change settings when I was in close proximity to a bulb, though, and felt more like a beta feature as a result.)

Flaws but not dealbreakers

You get Siri Shortcuts but not Apple Home. While this bulb has a lot of smart-home functionality, it relies on the more pared-down Shortcuts app rather than the Apple Home app. You can still use Siri to control your WiZ bulb with Shortcuts, but you won’t be able to use any of the advanced automations you can only find in the Home app.

Privacy and security snapshot

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