Comparison

Car vs NOVA AUTO

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Car

Control your LED Bluetooth lights wirelessly. Customize colors, brightness, and dynamic light effects like jumping, fading, and strobing. Explore unique modes such as voice-activated, twinkle, and meteor effects for personalized ambiance.

Highlights
  • Wireless Bluetooth connection
  • Customizable light colors
  • Adjustable brightness
  • Dynamic light change modes
  • Voice-activated light mode
  • Twinkle and meteor modes
Features
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This is an LED Bluetooth lighting control software. Connect to our wireless devices. You can adjust the color of the lights as needed, such as red, green, blue, yellow, purple, cyan, white, etc. It can also adjust the brightness. You can also adjust the light change mode, such as jump, fade, strobe, etc. You can set the light voice mode, twinkle mode, Meteor mode and so on. This software is relatively simple to use, first open our Bluetooth light fixtures, make sure that the mobile phone Bluetooth is turned on, open our software, our software automatically links to our Bluetooth light fixtures. If the connection is successful, you can control the lighting effects through your phone. Thank you

About

NOVA AUTO

Control and customize your car's LED lights wirelessly via Bluetooth. Adjust color, brightness, and set timers or sync lights with music. Manage multiple sets of lights simultaneously for a personalized driving experience.

Highlights
  • Bluetooth wireless control
  • Adjust color and brightness
  • Music to light sync
  • Timer functions
  • Control multiple light sets
  • Power on/off lights
Features
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Nova connect helps user to control and change the light color of at least 3 sets of car LED lights at the same time! Using bluetooth wireless technology change the colors and brightness of your car LED lights all from your phone. Additionally, take advantage of our palette, timer, music to light sync and other features that are continuously introduced. Single color lighting LED light products. For instance, through this App you can power on and off the roof top led light bar, the lower windshield mounted led auxiliary work light pods, and the driving led headlights at the same time with just a touch of your finger on the App. RGB multi color changing LED light products. To give you an idea, you can set up the light mode, the light brightness and sync with the mobile music at the same time for the RGB led wheel lights, RGB led rock lights and the RGB led truck bed lights. Fancy or dream color LED light products. Supposed that you have mounted LED grille lights, car interior atmosphere LED lights and under car body LED light strips all in your vehicle, you can change and select the light flash mode, the light speed as well as to schedule a time to power all these lights off simultaneously.

Screenshots

Car4 screens
NOVA AUTO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: NOVA AUTO at every 6 weeks against Car's every 7 months. NOVA AUTO also leads on rating (1.9 vs 1.6). Car's advantage is ratings volume (125 vs 21). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

NOVA AUTO holds the better App Store score, 1.9 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Car has 125 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of Car's written reviews are positive against 13% of NOVA AUTO's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Car ships an update every 7 months, NOVA AUTO every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and July 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Car versus NOVA AUTO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCarNOVA AUTO
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.6 (125 ratings)1.9 (21 ratings) — better
Positive reviews8.8% of reviews13.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings125 — better21
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer纯 胡Shenzhen Nova Industry Co Ltd

Customer experience

Car

All ratings121 ratings
Positive10.7%
Neutral5.0%
Negative84.3%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive8.8%
Neutral1.5%
Negative89.7%

NOVA AUTO

All ratings21 ratings
Positive19.0%
Neutral4.8%
Negative76.2%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive13.3%
Neutral13.3%
Negative73.3%

In-app purchases

None

Car

No in-app purchases

None

NOVA AUTO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Car free?
Car is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NOVA AUTO free?
NOVA AUTO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Car or NOVA AUTO?
NOVA AUTO is rated higher. Car averages 1.6 out of 5 from 125 ratings, while NOVA AUTO averages 1.9 from 21 ratings.
Do Car or NOVA AUTO have ads?
Neither Car nor NOVA AUTO shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Car or NOVA AUTO?
Car ships an update every 7 months, and NOVA AUTO every 6 weeks. Most recently, Car was updated on September 8, 2026 and NOVA AUTO on July 19, 2026.

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