Smart Mesh vs Bluetooth mesh by Silicon Labs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Mesh
Control your mesh lighting system with ease. Customize lighting types, manage up to 200 lights, and utilize relay transmission and group functions for seamless operation. Paired remote controls enhance usability.
- Mesh networking lighting control
- Customizable lighting types (white, warm white, color)
- Support for up to 200 lighting devices
- Lighting relay transmission
- Group control functions
- Paired remote control integration
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Smart Mesh is a mesh networking lighting applications, easy to control simple; Add remote control function; Users can customize the page type according to the type of lamps (white, warm white, color); The application can support about 200 lighting networking, lighting relay transmission function, as well as group functions; The use of paired remote controls combined with software allows for easier control.
Bluetooth mesh by Silicon Labs
This app enables Bluetooth mesh networking on iOS devices. It allows users to provision and configure Bluetooth mesh devices, manage network nodes, and control devices implementing light and lightness models.
- Bluetooth mesh networking implementation
- Device provisioning
- Node configuration
- Publish and subscribe settings
- Node grouping
- Light and lightness model control
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This application implements Bluetooth mesh networking for the iOS operating system. The Bluetooth Mesh by Silicon Labs application can be used to provision Bluetooth mesh capable devices and add them as nodes into a Bluetooth mesh network. The application also supports the configuration of the mesh models, publish and subscribe settings as well grouping of nodes. The application also implements light and lightness models for Bluetooth mesh, so it can be used to control Bluetooth mesh nodes which implement the same models. The application implements the Bluetooth mesh networking stack from the GATT bearer and up all the way to the mesh model layer. The native Bluetooth stack on iOS is used to open LE GATT connections to Bluetooth mesh nodes with a proxy feature enabled.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bluetooth mesh by Silicon Labs at 3.1 against Smart Mesh's 1.4. Smart Mesh's advantage is review sentiment (15% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bluetooth mesh by Silicon Labs holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 1.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 15% of Smart Mesh's written reviews are positive against 0% of Bluetooth mesh by Silicon Labs's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Smart Mesh ships an update every 3 weeks, Bluetooth mesh by Silicon Labs every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Mesh | Bluetooth mesh by Silicon Labs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.4 (11 ratings) | 3.1 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 茂林 李 | Silicon Labs |
Customer experience
Smart Mesh
Bluetooth mesh by Silicon Labs
In-app purchases
Smart Mesh
No in-app purchases
Bluetooth mesh by Silicon Labs
No in-app purchases
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