LightShow®SmartLights vs River Rat App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LightShow®SmartLights
Control your holiday light displays directly from your smartphone. This app allows you to customize effects, colors, and themes for your lighting products, making holiday decorating easy and personalized.
- Smartphone control
- Dozens of effects and colors
- Multiple holiday themes
- Customizable lighting options
- Easy setup and management
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Put on a dazzling holiday light display–and control it all from your smartphone. The SmartLights® app works exclusively with SmartLights® holiday lighting products to control dozens of effects and colors directly from your smartphone. It’s super easy to set up and manage. Choose from multiple holiday themes, lighting technologies and color options for each lighting product. Perfect for outdoor or indoor holiday decorating, SmartLights® delivers the latest in holiday decorating technology for a custom look that’s a breeze to manage.Please make the below changes to the pages on the app stores
River Rat App
This app allows players in the River Rat Rounders league to easily sign in for games and track their performance. Stay updated on your current statistics and league progress with this convenient tool.
- Game sign-in
- Player statistics tracking
- League updates
- Performance monitoring
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An app for River Rat Rounders league players to sign in to games & keep up with their current stats
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: River Rat App at 5.0 against LightShow®SmartLights's 2.0. LightShow®SmartLights's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 73 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.2). 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.
River Rat App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively.
LightShow®SmartLights ships an update every 2 months, River Rat App every 73 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LightShow®SmartLights | River Rat App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 73 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Gemmy Industries Corporation | Dennis Mitchell |
Customer experience
LightShow®SmartLights
River Rat App
In-app purchases
LightShow®SmartLights
No in-app purchases
River Rat App
No in-app purchases
Questions
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