Comparison

∞ Color Light vs Stride Red

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

∞ Color Light

Easily select any color with intuitive swipe gestures. This app functions as a customizable nightlight with a sleep timer and a low-light flashlight. It also remembers and restores your screen brightness settings.

Highlights
  • Select any color via swipe gestures
  • Adjust hue, saturation, and brightness
  • Timed nightlight function
  • Low-light flashlight mode
  • Screen brightness control
  • Lock button to prevent accidental changes
  • Home and lock screen widgets
Features
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Turns your iPhone or iPad into a solid screen of color. Use as a timed nightlight, a low-light lantern, or just a simple color chooser. Adjust the hue, saturation and color brightness right from the main screen with an intuitive and unique input mode (just swipe with one or two fingers). Change the screen brightness with three fingers. Remembers screen brightness settings when you quit the app and restores the original brightness on restart. • Swipe the screen with one finger to change the hue and saturation. • Swipe with two fingers to change hue and color brightness. • Swipe with three fingers to change screen brightness. (Must have Accessibility-Zoom turned off) • Remembers screen brightness settings on app quit/restart. • Set the color to red and turn the screen brightness down for a stealthy flashlight! • Lock button to prevent accidentally changing the color. • Sleep timer for use as a night light. Plus, now has two types of widgets for quickly launching the app even from the lock screen:  • Standard widgets for the home screen or today view (the screen to the 'left' of the home screen • Accessory widget for the lock screen (goes right below the time display) - Instant access to a low-light lantern!

About

Stride Red

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NOTICE: only works with iPhone Pro models (iPhone 13 Pro or newer) Stride Red uses your iPhone's LiDAR sensor to see in the dark, even total darkness, up to 15 feet away. Red monochrome coloration protects your low-light vision. Useful for walking the dog at night, hiking, hunting or fishing without using a flashlight! Note: do not rely on Stride Red while driving, cycling, operating equipment, crossing traffic, entering hazardous areas, or doing anything that requires full attention to your surroundings.

Screenshots

∞ Color Light4 screens
Stride Red2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ∞ Color Light at 16.6 against Stride Red's 26.4. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
∞ Color Light versus Stride Red: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter∞ Color LightStride Red
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid RichmondSasan Sadat-Sharifi

In-app purchases

None

∞ Color Light

No in-app purchases

None

Stride Red

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ∞ Color Light free?
∞ Color Light is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stride Red free?
Stride Red is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ∞ Color Light or Stride Red have ads?
Neither ∞ Color Light nor Stride Red shows ads.

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