Backyard Dreambook vs Firefly Permanent Lights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Backyard Dreambook
Explore inspiring ideas and content for your ultimate backyard. Save favorite images to personal collections and share them. Request project estimates, start financing, or schedule meetings with designers directly from the app.
- Inspirational backyard images
- Feature stories and articles
- Save and share favorite photos
- Request project estimates
- Finance process initiation
- Schedule designer meetings
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Discover all the inspiration and content you need to bring your Ultimate Backyard to life! Download the app, then swipe, click, and scroll through a wealth of Feature Stories, What’s Hot articles and tons of high-res pool, spa, landscape and backyard feature images to ignite the imagination. Save your most-loved photos into Dreambooks to share with friends and family. When it’s go time, request a project estimate, begin the finance process, or set up a meeting with one of our world-class designers. Do it all from the palm of your hand and with a simple click.
Firefly Permanent Lights
Customize your home's accent lighting with millions of colors and over 100 preset patterns. Control individual lights and create schedules for holidays and daily routines. Showcase your home with unique, personalized light displays.
- Millions of color options
- 20+ movement and effect patterns
- 102 preset patterns
- Individual light control
- Customizable white hues
- Saveable timers and schedules
- Calendar event integration
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Choose from over 16 million colors to create custom patterns with 20+ movements and effects. Also select from 102 preset patterns. Control each light individually to create accent lighting that best showcases your home. Choose which lights to turn on and their colors, including any hue of white. You can save timers for nightly and weekly schedules, as well as calendar events for holidays and special occasions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Firefly Permanent Lights at every 3 weeks against Backyard Dreambook's every 7 months. Backyard Dreambook's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 50%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Backyard Dreambook against 4.7 for Firefly Permanent Lights. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 7 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Backyard Dreambook's written reviews are positive against 50% of Firefly Permanent Lights's.
Backyard Dreambook ships an update every 7 months, Firefly Permanent Lights every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on June 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Backyard Dreambook | Firefly Permanent Lights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (10 ratings) — better | 4.7 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 14 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 409 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joan Smith Enterprises Inc | Firefly Solar & Lights LLC |
Customer experience
Backyard Dreambook
Firefly Permanent Lights
In-app purchases
Backyard Dreambook
No in-app purchases
Firefly Permanent Lights
No in-app purchases
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