What Is Flic and What Does flic.io Offer?

Flic is a brand of physical smart buttons, dimmers, and hubs that let you control lights, music, apps, and smart-home devices with a press or twist instead of reaching for your phone. flic.io is the company's main site, where it presents consumer products, business solutions, integrations, and developer tools. It is aimed at people who want simple physical controls for connected devices, and at organizations that need buttons for alerts, service calls, or staff safety.

Core Products on flic.io

The site organizes its hardware into a few clear lines:

The site also lists Flic Mic & Flic Cue as coming soon. Flic Cue is described as an AI voice button, with early access promoted and a Kickstarter launch announced for November. These are pre-release products, so availability and final details should be checked on the site rather than assumed.

How the Products Fit Together

A Flic button on its own is a trigger. The hub or gateway is what lets that trigger reach other devices and services, such as lights, music, or a business alert system. This is why the site presents buttons, hubs, and integrations as one ecosystem rather than standalone gadgets.

For example, a restaurant could place a button at a table to send a service request, while a home user could map a button press to a lighting scene. The same hardware line supports both because the action is defined by the integration, not the button.

Solutions for Businesses

Beyond consumer smart-home use, flic.io details business applications across several industries:

• Healthcare — patient call buttons, nurse panic buttons, emergency medical alarms
• Personal safety — panic buttons for lone workers, schools, campuses, and elderly users
• Hospitality — hotel panic buttons, restaurant service call buttons, waiter call buttons
• Lone worker — wearable panic alarms and location tracking
• Other sectors — office and facility management, sports, schools and child care, retail, automotive, logistics, and tactical/defence

These pages describe use cases and direct visitors to contact the company, so pricing and deployment specifics are not published as fixed figures on the pages shown.

Integrations and Developer Tools

The site provides a setup and developer section that includes:

• A list of all integrations and a getting-started guide
• A mobile SDK
• Tools for using Flic as a MIDI controller, keyboard emulator, or mouse emulator
• Flic for OSC and Flic for Mac
• A developer portal, Flic Hub Studio, and Flic MQTT
• Device Manager and Flic Cloud Buttons for business deployments

The site states that Flic buttons integrate with existing solutions and can be deployed and managed using free SDKs. Whether a specific integration suits your setup depends on the system you already run, so check the integrations list before committing.

What to Check Before Choosing

• Consumer vs. business need — home users can start with a button plus hub; organizations should review the industry solution pages and contact Flic for deployment details.
• Hub requirement — confirm whether your intended use needs a Hub, Hub LR, or Gateway, since the button alone may not reach your target service.
• Pre-release products — Flic Cue and Flic Mic are announced but not yet generally available; treat their features as provisional.
• Pricing and access — the pages reviewed do not publish current prices or state that products are free, so verify cost and account requirements directly on flic.io.