LightShow®SmartLights vs Home Sequencer
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
Home Sequencer
Automate and synchronize your HomeKit lights with custom sequences. This app allows you to control the timing and color of your smart home lighting. Requires HomeKit-enabled devices to function.
- Sequence HomeKit lights
- Control light timing
- Set light colors
- Requires HomeKit
- Foreground operation
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Sequence all the lights in your HomeKit home. Requires HomeKit, HomeKit enabled lights, switches, dimmers, or outlets. Color changing HomeKit enabled lights are required for the color feature. Long press or force touch on a light control step to select color. Home Sequencer must be running in the foreground to work. HomeKit does not allow background app access.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Home Sequencer at 4.8 against LightShow®SmartLights's 2.0. Home Sequencer also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (50% vs 23%). LightShow®SmartLights's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). 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.
Home Sequencer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 23% of LightShow®SmartLights's written reviews are positive against 50% of Home Sequencer's.
LightShow®SmartLights ships an update every 2 months, Home Sequencer weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LightShow®SmartLights | Home Sequencer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.1% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gemmy Industries Corporation | xyster.net LLC |
Customer experience
LightShow®SmartLights
Home Sequencer
In-app purchases
LightShow®SmartLights
No in-app purchases
Home Sequencer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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