LightShow®SmartLights vs Philips Motion Effects
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
Philips Motion Effects
Control your Philips Illuminate™ lights to create custom light shows. Adjust color, brightness, and function, or sync lights to music and voice. Group up to four sets via Bluetooth for a dynamic lighting experience.
- Create custom light shows
- Control color and brightness
- Sync lights to music
- Sync lights to voice/microphone
- Group up to 4 light sets
- Set multiple timers
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Create your own light show using the Philips Motion Effects™ customizable lighting system. Control your lights from your smart phone or tablet using the Motion Effects™ app. The easy to use app allows you to adjust the color, brightness or function of your Illuminate™ lights. Simple Bluetooth connectivity allows for up to 4 sets to be grouped together, and you can choose from 16 functions on each set. Customize your light show: • Functions: Choose from one of 16 available functions, with brightness control available on some functions • Music: Make the lights move to music on your phone, using one of four predetermined flashing sensitivities • Microphone: Set the app to microphone and watch the lights flash to your voice, or turn on your favorite streaming service to get real-time reaction to music • Timer: Set multiple timers
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Philips Motion Effects at 2.8 against LightShow®SmartLights's 2.0. Philips Motion Effects also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 23%). 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.
Philips Motion Effects holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 23% of LightShow®SmartLights's written reviews are positive against 50% of Philips Motion Effects's.
| Parameter | LightShow®SmartLights | Philips Motion Effects |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (4 ratings) | 2.8 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.1% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gemmy Industries Corporation | Seasonal Specialties LLC |
Customer experience
LightShow®SmartLights
Philips Motion Effects
In-app purchases
LightShow®SmartLights
No in-app purchases
Philips Motion Effects
No in-app purchases
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