Josh vs epiXsky Star Control
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.
epiXsky Star Control
Easily control your epiXsky star system modules and effects. Design your own universe with features like stars, constellations, meteor showers, and ambient lighting.
- Control stars and constellations
- Simulate meteor showers
- Manage galaxy effects
- Adjust Saturn and mini lights
- Configure ambient LED cove lighting
- Create shooting star and fireworks effects
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epiXsky Star Control is an easy setup interface that allows you to control your epiXsky star system modules and effects. BUILD YOUR UNIVERSE! Control the following epiXsky features: - stars - constellations - meteor showers - galaxy - saturn - mini lights - ambient led cove lighting - shooting stars - fireworks
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Josh at weekly against epiXsky Star Control's every 16 months. Josh also leads on ratings volume (115 vs 8). epiXsky Star Control's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 87%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18). On price, rating, 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.
epiXsky Star Control holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Josh has 115 ratings behind it against 8, 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 100% of epiXsky Star Control's.
Josh ships an update weekly, epiXsky Star Control every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Josh | epiXsky Star Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (115 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 115 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Josh.ai Inc | impact lighting inc |
Customer experience
Josh
epiXsky Star Control
In-app purchases
Josh
No in-app purchases
epiXsky Star Control
No in-app purchases
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