ViplexHandy vs Smart Lighting Console
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ViplexHandy
Manage and control Taurus series multimedia players for LED displays. Design playlists, configure screens, and manage media files directly from your iOS device. This app offers comprehensive control for asynchronous full-color LED displays.
- Screen management
- Solution editing
- System settings
- Media library
- Quick screen configuration
- Real-time control
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ViPlex Handy, designed for the Taurus series products, is an application for the iOS platform. Launched by NovaStar, the Taurus series products are the second generation of multimedia players for small and medium-sized asynchronous full-color LED displays. This application supports functions like screen management, solution editing, system settings, and media library. Screen management: Allows you to manage the Taurus series products in the LAN and supports quick screen configuration, real-time control, playback management, cloud server binding and so on. Solution editing: Allows you to quickly design various playlists which will be sent to the Taurus series products for playback. System settings: Includes software language settings and help documentation. Media library: Allows you to browse the multimedia files on your mobile phone.
Smart Lighting Console
Control your smart lighting system from your mobile device. Adjust colors, brightness, and create custom scenes for your home. Offers a centralized platform for managing all your connected lights.
- Mobile control system
- Adjust color and brightness
- Create custom lighting scenes
- Centralized light management
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智能灯光控台移动端控制系统
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Smart Lighting Console at 3.0 against ViplexHandy's 2.4. Smart Lighting Console also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). ViplexHandy's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 1). 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.
Smart Lighting Console holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ViplexHandy has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ViplexHandy ships an update every 6 weeks, Smart Lighting Console every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and June 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ViplexHandy | Smart Lighting Console |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (28 ratings) | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 212 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Xi'an NovaStar Tech Co.,Ltd | Guangzhou Shuning Intelligent Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
ViplexHandy
Smart Lighting Console
In-app purchases
ViplexHandy
No in-app purchases
Smart Lighting Console
No in-app purchases
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