Josh vs Oelo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Josh
Control your smart home with an AI-powered platform. Personalize your experience by adjusting settings, creating automations, and accessing devices from anywhere. Enjoy intuitive control through touch, text, and voice commands for the whole family.
- AI-powered smart home control
- Personalize home intelligence
- Create automations and alerts
- Access property from anywhere
- Intuitive touch, text, and voice commands
- Customizable dashboards and interfaces
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Josh.ai: AI powered smart home control. Powered by Josh.ai's award winning software platform AI OS, the Josh App provides seamless access to your connected devices and dynamic tools to personalize your home intelligence experience to the fullest. Refine administrative settings, adjust a home's floor plan, nickname devices, create automations and alerts, and add custom photos to your bespoke interface. Access your property from anywhere and easily navigate to what's important. Simply swipe from the Interactive Home Page to access custom dashboards, areas, devices, and scenes. The Josh.ai platform is designed to empower every member of the family with intuitive control and intelligent assistance through touch, text, and natural voice commands. Note: The Josh App requires a valid software plan and accompanies Josh hardware, which is exclusively available through certified home technology professionals. Visit www.josh.ai for more information.
Oelo
Design custom holiday lighting with a multi-color system that allows infinite color mixing and movement. Save favorite patterns and schedule your lights to turn on and off automatically for convenience.
- Multi-color lighting system
- Infinite color mixing
- Add movement to lights
- Create custom lighting programs
- Save favorite patterns
- Schedule automatic on/off times
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Unlike other permanent holiday lights, Oelo is the only multi-color system that lets you mix and match infinite color options while adding movement to create your own custom lighting programs. With the app, you can save your favorite patterns for ease, and you can set your system to turn on (and off) by itself for added convenience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Josh at weekly against Oelo's every 2 months. Josh also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (87% vs 60%). Oelo's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Josh holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Josh has 115 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Josh's written reviews are positive against 60% of Oelo's.
Josh ships an update weekly, Oelo every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Josh | Oelo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (115 ratings) — better | 4.4 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 115 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Josh.ai Inc | Oelo LLC |
Customer experience
Josh
Oelo
In-app purchases
Josh
No in-app purchases
Oelo
No in-app purchases
