Triangle vs SV Max
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Triangle
Effortlessly manage your HomeKit lighting with an intuitive, visual interface. Control individual bulbs, entire rooms, or custom groups with instant adjustments and scene saving. An undo button ensures creative freedom.
- Visual light control with triangles
- Instant Groups for custom lighting control
- Scene creation and saving
- Undo functionality for lighting changes
- Eyes-Free Color Picker
- Home and accessory management
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Control your HomeKit lighting with ease. Triangle presents your home in refreshing clarity. Lightbulbs and rooms are shown as brilliant triangles that you swipe and tap to create immersive lightscapes. Adjust a single bulb, your entire home, or anything in-between. Instant Groups let you control what you want, fast. So go ahead and play around — there's an Undo button if things get ugly! HomeKit Support • Supports HomeKit enabled lightbulbs, such as Philips Hue Instant Groups* • Control any combination of lightbulbs or rooms together • Control your entire home at once • Exclude a room or lightbulb by tapping its name Scenes • Effortlessly save your lighting as a scene you can set later • Scenes are beautifully presented in color so you can locate them quickly • Scenes are available to all other HomeKit apps • Scene names are also understood by Siri Undo • Reverse changes to brightness, color, and on/off state of lightbulbs 3D Touch** • Press firmly on a room triangle to peek in and see each lightbulb; press harder to pop fully into the room Eyes-Free Color Picker • Keep your focus on the lights, not the app • In the color picker, swipe below the triangle to easily change colors without looking • Color-temperature mode helps you set colors from a more conventional white light spectrum Home & Accessory Management for HomeKit • Create homes and rooms • Pair new accessories and assign them to rooms • Quickly switch between multiple homes • Manage home sharing invites — allow others to control your home’s accessories *Patent-pending, 2018 **Requires an iPhone with 3D Touch functionality. Music in app preview by dross: https://drosstapes.bandcamp.com
SV Max
Access live video surveillance feeds directly from your mobile device. View real-time events, control pylon functions, playback recorded videos, and manage cloud devices with push alarm notifications.
- Live video viewing
- Pylon control
- Video playback
- Alarm push notifications
- Cloud device management
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SV Max can directly access video surveillance products through the network to meet your needs of viewing live events on your mobile phone, controlling the pylon, playing back videos, pushing alarms, managing cloud devices, etc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Triangle at 50% against SV Max's 0%. Triangle also leads on rating (4.2 vs 2.7) and ratings volume (10 vs 3). SV Max's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 11 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Triangle holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Triangle's written reviews are positive against 0% of SV Max's.
Triangle ships an update every 11 months, SV Max every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Triangle | SV Max |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (10 ratings) — better | 2.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 435 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Brentt Blakkan | CCTV Security Pros |
Customer experience
Triangle
SV Max
In-app purchases
Triangle
No in-app purchases
SV Max
No in-app purchases









