Logitech's Harmony App Gets A Complete Redesign In v4.0, Is No Longer Horrendously Ugly

Logitech makes some of the finest universal remotes available, with all sorts of buttons and touchscreens. The Harmony remotes might be super-neat, but the Android app has long suffered from a terminal case of ugly. Well, no more with the most recent update. It looks like an app you’d want to use.

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Here’s the changelog from v4.0.

Now supports Harmony Living Home products: Harmony Ultimate Home, Harmony Home Control, and Harmony Home Hub
New UI provides easy access to your Activities and your AV and Home Control Devices
Start Activities and control devices from out of home (requires new Harmony Living Home product)
Start or end Activities based on schedules, or in response to sensors (sold separately, requires new Harmony Living Home product)

The app lets you pair a phone or tablet with most Logitech Harmony remotes. You don’t need an IR blaster on your device to control components when connected to a Harmony remote. The app can be used to create actions that power on and change settings on TVs, cable boxes, and whatever else you have in your living room. Maybe a Betamax player, I don’t know. Version 4.0 also includes support for Harmony Home Control products like blinds and lights.

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The look and feel of the app is vastly improved, but it’s not really a standard Android UI. Frankly, it has a bit of an iOS vibe. Still, it’s about a million times better than the old UI, which you can see below.

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