Smart Living vs CloudyBay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Living
Control your home devices like lights, curtains, and fans remotely. Check the status of your appliances from anywhere, anytime. Prepare your home environment before you arrive by turning on AC, lights, and opening curtains.
- Control lighting
- Control curtains
- Control fans
- Control sockets
- Check appliance status
- Remote device control
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Smart Living is an application help you to control your home devices such as lighting, curtain, fan, socket, etc… Open the app, you can check the home appliance and light status via this App any time and anywhere . Before you go to home, you also open you AC, open you curtain, light, etc...
CloudyBay
Control your smart lighting devices with a mobile app. Customize colors, brightness, and scenes for any room. Manage your lights remotely and integrate with voice control systems for a seamless smart home experience.
- 16 million color options
- Precise color and brightness adjustment
- Customizable lighting scenes
- Remote control from anywhere
- Voice control integration
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CloudyBay smart lighting devices, give different intelligent settings for every room, providing a smart lighting experience. 1. 16 million colors, meets every kind of your needs. 2. Accurate and smooth setting of color, dimming, cool and warm light etc. 3. Various scenes. One-touch to change different lighting atmospheres, easily transform your living room into a dance floor.. 4. Control your smart light regardless of distance. As long as you have a network, you can use smart phone to control the lights anytime, anywhere. 5. It can easily access your existing intelligent voice control system, enjoy hands-free and intelligent life from now on.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CloudyBay at 2.5 against Smart Living's 1.5. CloudyBay also leads on ratings volume (83 vs 6). Smart Living's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (34% vs 18%). 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.
CloudyBay holds the better App Store score, 2.5 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CloudyBay has 83 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 34% of Smart Living's written reviews are positive against 18% of CloudyBay's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Smart Living ships an update every 3 weeks, CloudyBay every 7 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Smart Living | CloudyBay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (6 ratings) | 2.5 (83 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.1% of reviews — better | 18.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 83 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 186 MB | 203 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | LANBON | CloudyBay Inc. |
Customer experience
Smart Living
CloudyBay
Bugs and requests
Smart Living
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
CloudyBay
Reported bugs
15 issues- Lights stuck in pairing mode
- Lights disconnect and won't reconnect
- App only works a few days a week
- Lights disconnect every time
- App loses connection with lights, requires reset
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- Smart scenes don't work
- Group control portion of the app never works
- Connection times out during setup
- Lights randomly stop working
- Lights randomly lose connection
- Lights blink constantly
- Lights reset from warm light to bright white
- Lights go offline every single day
- Some lights don't connect to the app or are uncontrollable
- App doesn't remember custom settings after power on
Requested features
12 requests- More app options and customization for light patterns and colors
- Ability to change color on a schedule
- Add feature to group lights and modify them on the fly
- Rhythm feature should be available for groups of lights
- Anything set for individual lights should be available for groups
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- Add number value for white color adjustment
- Fix update issues where connection times out
- Make app intuitive and entertaining like Philips Hue
- Improve app/firmware to prevent lights from going offline
- Fix power on behavior so it remembers custom settings
- Provide an iPad version of the app
- Automate scenes again, don't require manual selection daily
In-app purchases
Smart Living
No in-app purchases
CloudyBay
No in-app purchases
