EverLights vs Oelo Anywhere
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EverLights
Enhance your home's exterior with discreet lighting that becomes vibrant after dark. This innovative system offers a smarter, safer, and more colorful way to illuminate your property without the need for frequent installation or removal.
- Invisible by day
- Radiant at night
- Smarter lighting solution
- Safer illumination
- Colorful home lighting
- Permanent installation
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Invisible by day, radiant at night. A smarter, safer and more colorful solution to lighting your home that you never need to take down.
Oelo Anywhere
Control and customize your permanent holiday lighting system with a wide range of colors and movement options. Save your favorite patterns, schedule them up to a year in advance, and manage your lights from anywhere in the world. Requires a specific hardware unit for operation.
- Multi-color lighting options
- Customizable lighting programs
- Movement effects
- Save favorite patterns
- Remote control from anywhere
- Schedule lighting up to 12 months in advance
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Unlike other permanent holiday lights, Oelo is the only multi-color system that lets you mix and match infinite color options while adding movement to create your own custom lighting programs. Our patented channel that fully encloses our lights enables them to be left up year round. With the app, you can save your favorite patterns for ease, and you can set your system to turn on (and off) by itself for added convenience. Control your lights from anywhere in the world seamlessly. Or schedule your patterns up to 12 months in advance. Oelo Cloud Control Unit Required for use of Oelo Anywhere app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Oelo Anywhere at free against EverLights's paid. EverLights's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (93 vs 17). On price, rating, review sentiment 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.4 for EverLights against 3.5 for Oelo Anywhere. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EverLights has 93 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 52% of EverLights's written reviews are positive against 50% of Oelo Anywhere's.
EverLights ships an update every 3 weeks, Oelo Anywhere every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EverLights | Oelo Anywhere |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (93 ratings) | 3.5 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.6% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 93 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Axis Innovations, LLC | Oelo LLC |
Customer experience
EverLights
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In-app purchases
EverLights
No in-app purchases
Oelo Anywhere
No in-app purchases
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