SYLVANIA Smart Home vs Sengled Bluetooth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SYLVANIA Smart Home
Easily update your SYLVANIA SMART+ HomeKit accessories to the latest firmware. This app ensures your smart home devices have the newest features and improvements without needing a separate hub.
- Firmware updates for SMART+ accessories
- HomeKit integration
- No hub required
- View accessory status
- Automatic update process
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The SYLVANIA Smart Home app allows Apple HomeKit users to easily update their SYLVANIA SMART+ accessories to the latest firmware version to incorporate new features and improvements as they become available. Setting up and upgrading your SYLVANIA SMART+ HomeKit-enabled accessories is quick and easy, with no hub required for use. After pairing your SMART+ accessories to HomeKit, use this app to check for firmware updates. Your paired SMART+ HomeKit accessories can be viewed within the app and a message will be displayed next to the accessory if an update is available. Select the accessory to update and the process will automatically begin.
Sengled Bluetooth
Control and manage your smart LED lightbulbs remotely. Adjust colors, set schedules, and organize devices by room. Offers a simple interface for quick connections and adjustments.
- Bluetooth device control
- Color and color temperature adjustment
- Room arrangement
- Widget controls
- Scheduling
- Amazon Alexa integration (alternative)
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Sengled BT is a residential bluetooth-products App, With Sengled BT, You can control and manage your Sengled Bluetooth products at close range . With a simple design, Sengled BT is able to quickly connect your bluetooth products, and controlling and setting. CONTROL YOUR LIGHTS You must turn on your phone’s Bluetooth and be within Bluetooth range to control or check the status of your devices. COLOR, COLOR TEMPERATURE AND BEYOND Transform your mobile device into a color palette, and your bulbs, your canvas. Choose from 16 million colors—or choose from Warm White to Day Light—and change the colors of your bulbs to match any mood you have. ROOM ARRANGEMENT AND PURPOSE Sengled BT App enables you to easily bundle your smart LED lightbulbs into pre-set rooms.You can set the name of the lightbulbs according to the purpose. FRONT PAGE OR WIDGET CONTROLS ALL OF YOUR DEVICES With a simplified and optimized UI design, you can access and control all devices from the front page of the Sengled BT App. SCHEDULES Enter the control page of a single light, you can find the management entrance of schedules very conveniently, and users can easily create and modify schedules of the lights here.In addition, after the light is powered off and re-powered, the schedules will be invalid. It needs to be reconnected through the Sengled BT App to continue to take effect. AMAZON ECHO DEVICE 2 ways to control your bluetooth lights,Amazon Alexa app or Sengled BT App,but they cannot be used together. If you do not have any amazon echo devices,Sengled BT App is a good choice Contact us: Our development needs your support. Your opinions and suggestions will be appreciated. Want to know more about Sengled smart products? Follow us on: Official Site: sengled.com Facebook: @Sengled Twitter: @SengledUSA Instagram: sengled YouTube: Sengled WeChat: Sengled生迪
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sengled Bluetooth at monthly against SYLVANIA Smart Home's every 4 months. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 — 1.6 for SYLVANIA Smart Home against 1.8 for Sengled Bluetooth. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 242 and 117 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 11% of SYLVANIA Smart Home's written reviews are positive against 9% of Sengled Bluetooth's.
SYLVANIA Smart Home ships an update every 4 months, Sengled Bluetooth monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | SYLVANIA Smart Home | Sengled Bluetooth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (242 ratings) | 1.8 (117 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.8% of reviews — better | 9.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 242 — better | 117 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LEDVANCE LLC | Sengled Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
SYLVANIA Smart Home
Sengled Bluetooth
User reviews
SYLVANIA Smart Home
From 242 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Works well
- 👍 Flawless
- 👍 Fairly good
Room to improve
- 🐛 Constantly disconnecting
- 🐛 Unresponsive
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Buggy app
- 🐛 Firmware updates don't work
Sengled Bluetooth
From 117 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Can turn lights off from bed
- 👍 Easy to add bulbs initially
- 👍 Connects quickly sometimes
- 👍 Works fine for some users
Room to improve
- 🐛 Disconnects frequently
- 🐛 Stops working after a few weeks
- 🐛 Lacks dark mode
- 🐛 Lacks LED color cycling
- 🐛 Lacks multi-device control sharing
Bugs and requests
SYLVANIA Smart Home
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes on launch
- Firmware updates fail
- Devices disappear from app
- Inability to connect to Bluetooth
- Lights behave erratically
Requested features
6 requests- Remove annoying pop-up notification
- Add 'never see again' option for notifications
- Improve app responsiveness and stability
- Better integration with smart home platforms
- Add scheduling/timer functionality
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- Improve color control and customization options
Sengled Bluetooth
Reported bugs
38 issues- Disconnects all the time
- Stops working after a couple of weeks
- Light bulb is on but app says offline
- QR code scan does not work
- Share app feature does not work
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- Bluetooth does not connect
- Cannot control lights remotely
- Firmware upgrade loop
- App crashes
- Bluetooth pairing issues
- Lights flash on and off
- Colors change unexpectedly
- App deletes all light bulbs
- Cannot control all bulbs at once
- Cannot set schedules for smart plugs
- App constantly crashes
- Cannot pair new bulbs
- QR code error
- App endlessly searches for bulbs
- Cannot change LED color through Echo
- Scheduling system is rough
- App breaks primary functionality after update
- Cannot control lights from different location
- Bluetooth connectivity issues
- Bulbs are unresponsive
- Cannot set color grid
- Cannot set self-transitioning colors
- Does not connect to Sengled hub
- Only 5 colors available
- Cannot control lights remotely
- App is not well thought out
- Shared account cannot control lights
- Bulbs do not stay a consistent color
- Only one schedule per 24hr period
- Settings change across all events
- App is slow and non-responsive
- Cannot use with Alexa app
- Recent update is trash
Requested features
17 requests- Dark mode support
- LED color cycling
- Multi-device control sharing
- Widget functionality
- Fade mode for color transitions
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- Rainbow mode
- Combine Sengled Home and Bluetooth app
- Siri, Shortcuts, or Widgets interaction
- Neon mode (automatic color cycling)
- Improve scheduling options
- Control entire room at once
- More features for Bluetooth bulbs
- Remote control functionality
- Schedule multiple on/off cycles
- Set different brightness/colors for schedules
- Add standard colors
- Remote control with various light features
In-app purchases
SYLVANIA Smart Home
No in-app purchases
Sengled Bluetooth
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is SYLVANIA Smart Home free?
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