Brightly Lights vs BlueHopper
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?
BlueHopper
Effortlessly control and customize your permanent outdoor lighting from your iOS device. Automate schedules, choose from millions of colors, and apply dynamic effects for any occasion, from holidays to everyday ambiance. Voice control and multi-user management are also available.
- Automate with schedules
- Customize colors and whites
- Voice control
- Apply effects and presets
- Control multiple users and zones
- Web app for large-scale control
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Every color. Every holiday. Every occasion. Controlled by the most intelligent smart outdoor lighting app ever built for permanent outdoor lighting. BlueHopper app is the smart control platform powering every BlueHopper permanent outdoor lighting system — the app that sits behind your rooflines, fences, landscape, and pool cage lights, giving you complete, real-time control over color, scenes, schedules, and security from your phone, your voice, or a pre-set automation. Exclusive to BlueHopper's permanent outdoor lighting ecosystem. Available free with every installation. For Homeowners App-controlled permanent Christmas lights and year-round lighting — change colors, set schedules, celebrate every occasion with a single tap. No reinstall, no ladders, no effort. For Businesses & Municipalities Brand-consistent and celebration-ready. Outdoor lighting control across one location or fifty. Push holiday scenes, manage zones, schedule seasonal lighting — centrally, instantly, from any device. Everything You Need to Control Your Permanent Outdoor Lighting — In One App Talk to Your Lights - Say the word — your permanent outdoor lighting responds instantly. Any command, any fixture, any scene. Hands-free, every time. One-Click Scenes - The world's first one-click holiday scene system for permanent outdoor lighting. Christmas, Halloween, 4th of July, New Year's — one tap transforms your entire exterior. Schedules & Automation - Program your permanent Christmas lights to activate at dusk, switch holiday presets on specific dates, and return to warm white at dawn — fully automated, zero manual input. Effects & Presets - Hundreds of built-in lighting effects — smooth fades, chase sequences, sparkle effects, and synchronized holiday animations across your full permanent outdoor lighting in seconds. RGBW Sliders & White Tuning: 16 million+ RGBW colors at your fingertips. Dial in exact shades with precision sliders and white-temperature tuning — from warm amber to cool white to vibrant holiday red. Lighting Blueprint: Upload a photo of your property to ee exactly how your permanent outdoor lighting will look before committing — the only app that does this. Security Lighting - Perfect for homeowners and owners of commercial spaces like restaurants and car dealerships seeking both robust security and aesthetic appeal Marketing Assets - Access a full library of product videos, brochures, email templates, and sales collateral. Everything you need to pitch, close, and upsell permanent outdoor lighting installs, right from the app. Everything You Need to Control Your Permanent Outdoor Lighting — In One App Need more information? Website: www.bluehopper.com Email: connect@bluehopper.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BlueHopper at 77% against Brightly Lights's 50%. BlueHopper also leads on ratings volume (382 vs 2). Brightly Lights's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). 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.
Brightly Lights holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BlueHopper has 382 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Brightly Lights's written reviews are positive against 77% of BlueHopper's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Brightly Lights ships an update every 2 months, BlueHopper every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brightly Lights | BlueHopper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (382 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 76.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 382 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 183 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 512 Innovation LLC | ilumi solutions |
Customer experience
Brightly Lights
BlueHopper
Bugs and requests
Brightly Lights
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
BlueHopper
Reported bugs
3 issues- App sits at X clock permanently
- Latest update caused presets to disappear
- Always buffering, requires proximity to device
Requested features
4 requests- More holiday presets
- Aurora effect with selected colors
- Simplified controller version of the app
- More pre-installed effects selections
In-app purchases
Brightly Lights
No in-app purchases
BlueHopper
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Brightly Lights free?
Is BlueHopper free?
Which has better reviews, Brightly Lights or BlueHopper?
Do Brightly Lights or BlueHopper have ads?
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