Lights App vs S
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lights App
Control your home lighting with this app. Personalize light sets, create groups for simultaneous control, and utilize timer functions for automated operation. Choose from eight distinct controller functions and adjust brightness.
- Personalize light sets with custom names and pictures
- Control multiple light sets simultaneously with groups
- Three timer functions for automated lighting schedules
- Eight controller functions (e.g., Stay on, Twinkling, Fade away)
- Adjustable dimming for light sets
- Supports 7 languages
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- - 7 languages can be selected (Dutch, German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Polish) - - Light sets can be personalized by creating your own name and picture - - Multiple light sets can be controlled simultaneously by creating groups - - The App has three timer functions, to let the lights operate at different times - - The App has 8 controller function (Stay on, Fast twinkling, Twinkling in phase, Fade away, Fade away in phase, Phasing, Wave and combination) - - Light set can be dimmed
S
This app helps installers of distributed PV power plants manage accounts and provides visual guides for microinverter installation. It offers rapid configuration, power generation data, and detailed alarm information for commissioning and diagnostics.
- Account monitoring
- Visual installation guide
- Microinverter configuration
- Power generation data
- Module-level data
- Alarm information
- Commissioning & diagnostics
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S-miles Installer is a mobile application developed by Hoymiles especially for installers of distributed PV power plants. It provides an EASY-TO-USE procedure for monitoring accounts and a visual physical layout guide for the installation of microinverters, which helps installers configure monitoring accounts rapidly, and provides installers power generation data on both plant-level & module-level as well as detailed alarm information about the power plant for commissioning & diagnostics.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: S at 66% against Lights App's 19%. S also leads on rating (4.3 vs 1.7). Lights App's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
S holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of Lights App's written reviews are positive against 66% of S's.
Lights App ships an update every 6 weeks, S monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lights App | S |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (13 ratings) | 4.3 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.1% of reviews | 65.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 224 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lights App | Hoymiles Power Electronics Inc. |
Customer experience
Lights App
S
In-app purchases
Lights App
No in-app purchases
S
No in-app purchases
