XKchrome LED Light vs Car Light
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
XKchrome LED Light
Enhance your vehicle's appearance with dynamic, customizable LED lighting. Choose from millions of colors, sync lights with music or your camera, and enjoy safety features like brake lights and parking spot reminders.
- 16 million color options
- Music and microphone sync
- Camera color capture
- Customizable animation themes
- Parking spot locator
- Brake light activation
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XKchrome is an innovative app-enabled light system that completely changes the look of your night rides. It casts dynamic light that highlights the beauty of your vehicle with any color you picked. You can sync its light with your camera and music, or choose from 15 hand-picked, fully-customizable animation themes. XKchrome can also remember your parking spot, and help you find the way back to your vehicle. In addition, the whole system can be turned into a bright red light when you brake, significantly increase the night driving safety. FUN: - 16 million vivid colors at your finger tip. - Sync light with the music in your phone or the microphone. - Sync light with your vehicle's speed or acceleration. - Capture a color with camera and paint your vehicle with it. - Choose from 15 holiday themes with full customization. - Control multiple zones simultaneously, and group/ungroup zones at your will. CONVENIENCE: - Remember where you parked your vehicle. SAFETY: - Turn the entire lighting kit into RED color when you brake. REQUIREMENTS: XKchrome controller or light system is required for using this app. DEVICE COMPATIBILITY: - iPhone: iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone XR - iPad†: iPad (3rd gen), iPad (4th gen), iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad mini, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3, iPad Pro - iPod touch†: iPod touch 5th gen DISCLAIMER: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. To provide best user experience, "find my vehicle" feature only activates the GPS in the background for about 10 seconds when the phone is disconnected from the controller. The power consumption is similar to opening the Maps App briefly to find your current location. You can also turn off this feature at any time.
Car Light
Control smart LED home products via Bluetooth. Customize colors, brightness, and effects with touch controls. Sync lights with music or use your microphone for dynamic light shows.
- Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity
- Manual headlight, taillight, and downlight control
- Customizable color, brightness, and effect modes
- Adjustable mode speed
- Music playback within the app
- Microphone-based light effect control
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Car Light Control Smart LED home products are connected via Bluetooth 4.0. You can manually set the headlights, rear lights, lights, down lights. Touch with your fingers to customize the color, brightness, effect mode and mode speed. You can also play music in the APP and use the microphone to control the effect of light.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: XKchrome LED Light at 3.6 against Car Light's 1.8. XKchrome LED Light also leads on review sentiment (48% vs 18%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
XKchrome LED Light holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 85 and 72 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of XKchrome LED Light's written reviews are positive against 18% of Car Light's.
XKchrome LED Light ships an update every 5 weeks, Car Light every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | XKchrome LED Light | Car Light |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (85 ratings) — better | 1.8 (72 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 48.4% of reviews — better | 18.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 85 — better | 72 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | XKGLOW LLC | 杰 张 |
Customer experience
XKchrome LED Light
Car Light
User reviews
XKchrome LED Light
From 85 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great product quality
- 👍 Professional looking app
- 👍 Impressive responsiveness
- 👍 Good organization of features
- 👍 Lots of color patterns
Room to improve
- 🐛 Music sync issues
- 🐛 Bluetooth connection problems
- 🐛 App crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Updates causing lights to turn on
- 🐛 Inconsistent white color
Car Light
From 72 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Works well with light bar
- 👍 Minimal connection time
- 👍 App was working fine
- 👍 Easy to use app
- 👍 Changes colors nicely
Room to improve
- 🐛 Stuck in music mode
- 🐛 Music mode not working
- 🐛 Cannot change colors
- 🐛 App crashes
- 🐛 Not compatible with newer iPhones
Bugs and requests
XKchrome LED Light
Reported bugs
22 issues- Disconnects from Bluetooth when using Music feature on iOS
- App updates randomly turn on lights and lose paired controllers
- App prompts for update but none available in App Store
- White color randomly changes to light green and won't revert
- Cannot sync music due to 'restriction by Apple'
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- Music sync only works with downloaded songs, not streaming services
- App glitches when adding songs to gallery
- Color defaults back to white when using Apple CarPlay with GPS
- DRM protected content prevents music playback
- App requires uninstalling and reinstalling for iOS 14.4
- Bluetooth connection is unreliable, disconnects frequently
- Headlights won't pair with iPhone but pair with Android tablet
- Cannot use microphone for music sync when Spotify is playing in background
- Lights turn off when phone goes into sleep mode
- Lights turn on by themselves and require app to turn off
- Cannot sync songs from Spotify
- Music feature doesn't allow access to Apple Music content
- Cannot set brightness by default
- Speed mode shuts down when using other GPS apps
- App does not rotate
- Favorites menu lost after update, app freezes and crashes
- App no longer works after June 17th update, cannot delete/reinstall
Requested features
19 requests- Add timer feature
- Make usable for CarPlay
- Random color selection beyond presets
- Lower speed sensitivity setting
- Save theme as default
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- Lights move to streamed music (not just microphone)
- Configure different brake light modes
- Set color/theme for individual units
- CarPlay compatibility
- Integration with Spotify, Pandora, etc. for music sync
- Add favorite color/theme Dropbox
- Landscape mode
- Apple Watch integration
- Widget support
- Add microphone to controller for music sync
- Design app for XK SILVER
- Electronic eye to turn system on at dusk
- Set brightness by default
- Fix speed mode glitch with GPS apps
Car Light
Reported bugs
23 issues- App stopped working (version 1.6)
- Cannot change colors
- Stuck in music mode
- Color wheel not showing
- Music mode display for all options
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- Music function barely works
- App crashes on startup
- App crashes on Bluetooth connection
- App closes within seconds of opening
- App crashes when selecting lightbar
- App closes when trying to connect
- Music feature doesn't play
- App is cut off, cannot click options
- Music response doesn't work
- Lights won't go off
- App needs to be reinstalled to turn lights off
- Cannot play music
- Cannot rename vehicle
- Music feature doesn't work
- No feature to strobe using white color
- Cannot add white to custom colors
- Cannot control brightness on strobe
- Cannot choose colors in strobe mode
Requested features
19 requests- Option to pick default color
- Retain settings
- Mode previews
- Live updating
- Sync with Apple Music
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- Update strobe speed
- Control strobe speed
- Strobe white color
- Standard colors on the side
- Set default light on startup
- Dim and control brightness of all colors
- Mix white with other colors
- Brightness control on strobe
- Add white to strobe
- Custom color options
- Add white to custom colors
- Change vehicle name
- More customization options
- Choose colors in strobe mode
In-app purchases
XKchrome LED Light
No in-app purchases
Car Light
No in-app purchases
Questions
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