Josh vs MyWAC Lighting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Josh
This app offers AI-powered control for your smart home, allowing you to manage connected devices, personalize your interface, and create automations. Access your home from anywhere with intuitive touch, text, and voice commands.
- AI-powered smart home control
- Personalize home interface
- Create automations and alerts
- Intuitive touch, text, and voice commands
- Remote access to property
- Manage connected devices
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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.
MyWAC Lighting
Control your lighting devices via the cloud or locally. Group lights for unified management and create custom presets for color and tunable white. Automate lighting based on wall station triggers.
- Cloud or local control
- Group lighting control
- Custom color presets
- Tunable white presets
- Wall station automation
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Connect your lighting devices to the cloud or choose to control locally only. Group lights across devices for unified control in the app. Custom preset pallets for full color and tunable white lights. Configure your Wi-Fi or WAC Home wallstation to trigger automatons on your devices. Currently Supported Products: CTR-WDMX-3CH - Wireless DMX LED Controller LED-WCT-WT - Wi-Fi Wallstation Colorscaping Landscape Transformer
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Josh at 87% against MyWAC Lighting's 4%. Josh also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Josh holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 115 and 58 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Josh's written reviews are positive against 4% of MyWAC Lighting's.
Josh ships an update weekly, MyWAC Lighting every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Josh | MyWAC Lighting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (115 ratings) — better | 2.1 (58 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews — better | 4.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 115 — better | 58 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Josh.ai Inc | WAC Lighting |
Customer experience
Josh
MyWAC Lighting
Bugs and requests
Josh
Reported bugs
5 issues- App completely fails to load home
- Natural language processing fails to recognize simple commands
- App has zero memory
- Josh doesn't consistently communicate commands
- Music control is confusing and unintuitive
Requested features
6 requests- Improve music control interface
- Allow device name changes
- Enhance memory for device names
- Improve natural language processing for commands
- Better scene creation based on habits
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- Control all lights in a room at once
MyWAC Lighting
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Josh
No in-app purchases
MyWAC Lighting
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Josh free?
Is MyWAC Lighting free?
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Do Josh or MyWAC Lighting have ads?
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