AmbientLight+ vs smartctr
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AmbientLight+
Control your vehicle's interior lighting with this application. Adjust the atmosphere lamp's color, brightness, and various modes to customize your driving environment.
- Control vehicle atmosphere lamp
- Adjust lamp color
- Adjust lamp brightness
- Select lamp modes
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An app used to control the vehicle atmosphere lamp, through the APP can adjust the atmosphere lamp, mode, etc.
smartctr
This app provides intelligent remote control for pickup truck roller shutters and carriage LED lights. It enables automatic switching of these features for convenient operation.
- Remote control for roller shutters
- Automatic roller shutter switch
- Control carriage LED lights
- Automatic LED light switch
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Smartctr is an intelligent remote control app that controls the roller shutter equipment of pickup truck. It can control the automatic switch of roller shutter and the automatic switch of LED light in the carriage
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: smartctr at 3.3 against AmbientLight+'s 2.9. AmbientLight+'s advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, 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.
smartctr holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 10 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 45% of AmbientLight+'s written reviews are positive against 40% of smartctr's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
AmbientLight+ ships an update monthly, smartctr every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AmbientLight+ | smartctr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (15 ratings) | 3.3 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.8% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 海均 敖 | 爽 余 |
Customer experience
AmbientLight+
smartctr
In-app purchases
AmbientLight+
No in-app purchases
smartctr
No in-app purchases
