Mesa CityLink vs Bosso Lights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mesa CityLink
Report civic issues and engage with your local government in real time. This platform allows you to easily identify problems and submit them for resolution, making it simple to contribute to your community's improvement.
- Real-time civic engagement
- Identify and report issues
- Submit photos with reports
- Simple and intuitive interface
- Contribute to community improvement
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Your Mesa CityLink on the go! City of Mesa real time mobile civic engagement platform. Mesa CityLink provides a free, simple and intuitive tool to identify civic issues and report them for resolution. A picture tells a thousand words, and with Mesa CityLink it is a snap! Download it today to make your Mesa a better place to live and work!
Bosso Lights
Control and customize your home's accent, security, and festive lighting. Create unique ambiances for any occasion, from game days to holidays, with extensive color options and scheduling features.
- Accent, security, and festive lighting control
- 16+ million color customization
- Schedule and preset creation
- Remote control from anywhere
- Multiple zone control
- Preview feature for lights
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Enhance your home with accent, security, festive lighting, and more with Bosso Smart Lighting. Showcase your home with Bosso, the top choice for permanent home lighting. We've created a brand that puts your experience first and where every detail is carefully considered. Whether you want to show off on game day, celebrate the holidays, or provide an illuminating ambiance, you'll be able to customize your lights however you like, whenever you like.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bosso Lights at 3.7 against Mesa CityLink's 2.8. Bosso Lights also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (144 vs 10). Mesa CityLink's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bosso Lights holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bosso Lights has 144 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Mesa CityLink's written reviews are positive against 54% of Bosso Lights's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Mesa CityLink ships an update every 5 months, Bosso Lights every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mesa CityLink | Bosso Lights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (10 ratings) | 3.7 (144 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 53.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 144 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | City of Mesa | Bosso |
Customer experience
Mesa CityLink
Bosso Lights
Bugs and requests
Mesa CityLink
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Bosso Lights
Reported bugs
14 issues- Schedule settings fail to execute properly
- Lights turn on/off inconsistently or partially
- App requires re-entering WiFi credentials after updates
- Manual button presses require multiple attempts to register
- App freezes intermittently
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- End date validation allows invalid date ranges
- Lights malfunction after 2 months of use
- Rogue light programs run without user scheduling
- SSID entry screen causes login failures
- Save button cut off on phone screens
- Schedule presets not applying correctly across multiple systems
- App crashes or becomes unresponsive
- Lights display wrong preset than scheduled
- Default scene settings removed in recent update
Requested features
14 requests- Music synchronization feature
- Virtual linking of multiple controllers
- Face ID or biometric login option
- Save login credentials functionality
- Advanced effects similar to Light-O-Rama
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- More preset designs and patterns
- Default scene settings restoration
- Priority scheduling for overlapping events
- Lower brightness level settings
- Copy/paste functionality between zones
- Custom preset folder organization
- Ability to modify existing schedules
- Skip button for tutorial videos
- Automatic login persistence
In-app purchases
Mesa CityLink
No in-app purchases
Bosso Lights
No in-app purchases
