Cololight vs Yeelight Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cololight
Control smart lighting devices to create vibrant color displays. Customize light shapes, adjust colors with presets or custom palettes, and set dynamic effects for a dynamic ambiance.
- Add and pair smart lights
- Edit light shapes
- Select and customize colors
- Adjust dynamic lighting effects
- Control light brightness
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This App works with the device - Cololight to show color changes full of variety, bringing your life with magnificent colors. The main functions are described below: 1. Add and pair Cololight 2. Edit the shape of Cololight through Joint & Split 3. Adjust light color with Selected Color and Customized Color 4. Adjust Dynamic Effect to show color changing 5. Adjust light brightness
Yeelight Pro
This app offers a comprehensive smart lighting solution for your home, providing an ideal lighting experience and convenient control. It features low latency, localized control, and broad compatibility with major IoT platforms.
- Whole-house smart lighting environment
- Low latency and localized control
- HomeKit, Google Home, Alexa, Matter integration
- Works with Sonos certified partner
- Control Sonos speakers via app
- Use Sonos in automations and scenes
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The Yeelight Pro product line is dedicated to creating the best quality whole-house smart lighting environment, bringing users the most ideal lighting experience and the most convenient smart control. The Yeelight Pro control system has performance characteristics such as localisation, low latency, and controllable large-scale deployment, while the system natively accesses IoT platforms such as Homekit, Google Home, Alexa, Smarthings, Matter, Xiaomi. Yeelight is the certified partner of Works with Sonos. The Sonos + Yeelight Pro integration allows users to control Sonos speakers via the Yeelight Pro App and also enables them to use Sonos speakers in automations and scenes with other Yeelight Pro devices in their home.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Yeelight Pro at 3.7 against Cololight's 1.8. Yeelight Pro also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 10%). Cololight's advantage is ratings volume (200 vs 10). 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.
Yeelight Pro holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cololight has 200 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of Cololight's written reviews are positive against 33% of Yeelight Pro's.
Cololight ships an update every 5 weeks, Yeelight Pro every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cololight | Yeelight Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (200 ratings) | 3.7 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.1% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 200 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 194 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LifeSmart, Inc | Qingdao Yeelink Information Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Cololight
Yeelight Pro
Bugs and requests
Cololight
Reported bugs
5 issues- App not opening/launching
- Inability to connect to WiFi
- Lights not responding to app commands
- Firmware update failures
- Unexpected device behavior after updates
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to create custom color palettes
- More preset dynamic effects
- Integration with smart home platforms
- Improved app responsiveness
- Ability to save custom scenes
Yeelight Pro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cololight
No in-app purchases
Yeelight Pro
No in-app purchases
