EverLights vs Permanent Lights
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.
Permanent Lights
Control your lighting system from your phone. Select pre-made designs, build your own, and set timers for your lights. Manage multiple zones or even different homes with ease.
- Holiday and accent lighting presets
- Custom pattern creation
- Multi-zone and multi-home management
- Brightness and speed adjustment
- Scheduling and timers
- Save favorite settings
- Quick on/off control
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Permanent Lights makes it easy to control your Permanent Lights USA lighting system right from your phone. Choose from presets, create custom patterns, set schedules, and manage multiple lighting zones — all in one simple, modern app. Features: • Pre-built holiday and accent lighting presets • Create your own custom patterns • Control multiple zones or homes • Brightness and speed control • Scheduling / timers • Save your favorites • Quick on/off control
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Permanent Lights at 100% against EverLights's 52%. Permanent Lights also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.4) and monetization model (free vs paid). EverLights's advantage is ratings volume (93 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14). On price, update cadence, 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.
Permanent Lights holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EverLights has 93 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of EverLights's written reviews are positive against 100% of Permanent Lights's.
EverLights ships an update every 3 weeks, Permanent Lights every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EverLights | Permanent Lights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (93 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 93 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 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 | 14 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 405 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Axis Innovations, LLC | Permanent Lights USA LLC |
Customer experience
EverLights
Permanent Lights
In-app purchases
EverLights
No in-app purchases
Permanent Lights
No in-app purchases
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