BOYU INTELLIGENCE vs Surplife
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BOYU INTELLIGENCE
Remotely control and monitor smart devices like water pumps, lights, and pet products via Wi-Fi. Adjust settings, create custom modes, and simulate natural environments for optimal device performance and integration into smart home systems.
- Wi-Fi remote control
- Real-time monitoring
- Adjustable working modes
- Customizable timing settings
- Simulated natural light modes
- Preset lighting effects
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Through WIFI connection to the smart cloud, you can achieve intelligent remote control of BOYU smart devices, including water pumps, aquariums, lights, and smart pet products. As long as the devices are connected to the network, you can remotely control and monitor the operational status of the devices in real-time by your phone. The system allows for adjusting the working modes, operating parameters, light modes, timing settings, and various preset modes for multiple devices. For example, adjusting water pump flow and switch, controlling light tones and brightness during different time periods, and choosing from 6 simulated natural modes to create effects like sunrise, sunset, moonlight, daylight, overcast, and lightning. Additionally, 3 preset modes enable one-click setting for optimal lighting effects for raising goldfish, fluorescent fish, and aquatic plants. With intelligent automatic control, multiple custom modes can be set for the water pump to output different water flow rates at different time intervals, improving filtration efficiency. The lighting can be set to different color temperatures and brightness levels during different time periods, simulating natural environments. Intelligent WIFI remote control significantly enhances the efficiency of each product and expands usage scenarios, providing a feasible solution for integrating into comprehensive smart home applications across different scenes.
Surplife
Control your smart lighting devices with ease. Add and manage multiple lights from a single application, allowing you to adjust settings remotely from any location.
- Add multiple devices
- Control multiple devices
- Remote device control
- Easy device management
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Surplife is a smart lighting control APP. Add and control multiple devices to the App so easy. Remotely control devices from anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BOYU INTELLIGENCE at 5.0 against Surplife's 4.5. Surplife's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
BOYU INTELLIGENCE holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Surplife has 1.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
BOYU INTELLIGENCE ships an update every 11 months, Surplife fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BOYU INTELLIGENCE | Surplife |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.5 (1.2K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 55.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #192 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 479 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Guangdong Boyu Group Co.,Ltd. | 明长 周 |
Customer experience
BOYU INTELLIGENCE
Surplife
Bugs and requests
BOYU INTELLIGENCE
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Surplife
Reported bugs
5 issues- Lights turning on/off randomly
- Inability to save custom settings
- App crashing or not opening
- Lights not responding to app commands
- Scheduling feature not working as expected
Requested features
5 requests- More holiday and theme options
- Ability to save custom scenes
- Improved app UI and navigation
- Multi-device syncing and control
- Integration with smart home platforms
In-app purchases
BOYU INTELLIGENCE
No in-app purchases
Surplife
No in-app purchases
