Brightly Lights vs PRTFOX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brightly Lights
Control smart holiday lights from your phone to create custom colors and patterns. These lights blend with your home decor when off, allowing year-round use for any occasion, from holidays to sporting events.
- Customizable colors
- Programmable patterns
- Smartphone control
- Year-round decor
- Holiday and event themes
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Brightly Lights are programmable holiday lights you control with your smartphone. You can light them up in any color and any pattern. When turned off, they blend in with your home, so you can leave them up year-round. Now you can celebrate any holiday (Halloween, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Independence Day, Christmas, Hanukkah, birthdays), any cause (light your house pink during Race for the Cure), or any sporting event (flash your team colors during rivalry games)! What will you celebrate today?
PRTFOX
Create custom prints with support for text, barcodes, images, and more. Offers high-resolution printing and flexible connectivity options. Features ink cartridge protection for extended lifespan.
- Customizable print content (text, QR, barcode, image)
- High-resolution printing (up to 600dpi)
- WiFi and router connectivity
- Supports various ink colors and media
- Ink cartridge protection features
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DIY custom printing, printing content can support text, TWO-DIMENSIONAL code, bar code, picture, date and time, number, database. Built-in position sensor, up to 600dpi printing support. It can be used by directly connecting to WiFi or connecting the printer to a router to free up the mobile network. Support weak solvent ink, a variety of color options, support a variety of media printing, suitable for a variety of printing scenarios. Provide more humanized ink cartridge protection measures, effectively extend the service life of ink cartridges, improve user experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Brightly Lights at 50% against PRTFOX's 0%. Brightly Lights also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0). PRTFOX's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). 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.
Brightly Lights holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Brightly Lights's written reviews are positive against 0% of PRTFOX's.
Brightly Lights ships an update every 2 months, PRTFOX monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brightly Lights | PRTFOX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 512 Innovation LLC | 珠海奔彩电子股份有限公司 |
Customer experience
Brightly Lights
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In-app purchases
Brightly Lights
No in-app purchases
PRTFOX
No in-app purchases
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