Light Mesh vs StarLamp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Light Mesh
Control LED lights with dynamic color and white settings. Create custom scenes and manage multiple devices through a Bluetooth mesh network. Secure your devices with names and passwords.
- Static color and dynamic mode settings
- Tunable white, RGB, and RGBW LED support
- Bluetooth communication
- BLE mesh network for multiple devices
- Group control feature
- Device management with names and passwords
- Customized scene library
Read full descriptionHide full description
Light Mesh is a LED control App designed for specific LED controller or fixture. User could set up static color or dynamic mode for single color, tunable white, RGB and RGBW LEDs. The App communicate with LED controller via Bluetooth, and LED controllers link to each other with a BLE mesh network, user could control multiple devices with group feature. User could also manage different devices with name and password, and setup customized library or scene program in the App.
StarLamp
Control your RGBW LED lights with advanced features like color selection, music synchronization, and custom modes. This software offers a variety of control functions for an enhanced lighting experience.
- RGBW lighting control
- Color control
- Music synchronization
- Custom mode control
- Intelligent LED software
Read full descriptionHide full description
"StarLamp" is an intelligent LED control software that supports RGBW lighting control, with color control, music control, Mack risk control and a variety of custom mode control functions.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: StarLamp at 3.0 against Light Mesh's 1.9. StarLamp also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (33% vs 7%). Light Mesh's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 2) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). 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.
StarLamp holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Light Mesh has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 7% of Light Mesh's written reviews are positive against 33% of StarLamp's.
Light Mesh ships an update every 2 months, StarLamp every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Light Mesh | StarLamp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (23 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.1% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 慧 陈 | 峰辉 朱 |
Customer experience
Light Mesh
StarLamp
In-app purchases
Light Mesh
No in-app purchases
StarLamp
No in-app purchases
