Brilliance Smart vs U
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brilliance Smart
Control your LED lighting with this app. Adjust brightness, set timers, and change colors for various compatible LED products. Manage your smart lighting experience easily.
- LED control
- Dimming
- Timers
- Color adjustment
- On/Off control
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Use the Brilliance APP to control all of your LED needs; dimming, timers, on/off, colors, etc. Compatible with BLED WiFi Smart Socket, BLED smart MR-16 or PAR-36, G-4, S-14 and BLED Smart dimmer.
U
Control your smart lighting system with this app. Set custom schedules for different zones, turn lights on/off manually, and name your zones for easy management. It's a convenient interface for Universal Lighting Systems' Zone Control transformers.
- Set zone schedules
- Manual zone control
- Name custom zones
- Individual zone timing
- System on/off control
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U-SYNC APP is a Wifi enabled smart device app for Universal Lighting Systems, Inc. Zone Control transformers. The App works as an interface to set schedules for zones on the U-SYNC Zone Control products, as well as manually turning the entire system on/off, or multiple zones on/off. Zones can be named and customized to run on individual times for specific durations of time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Brilliance Smart at 4.8 against U's 3.0. Brilliance Smart also leads on ratings volume (3.2K vs 1). U's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
Brilliance Smart holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brilliance Smart has 3.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of Brilliance Smart's written reviews are positive against 50% of U's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Brilliance Smart ships an update every 3 months, U every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brilliance Smart | U |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.2K ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.5% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.2K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 189 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brilliance LED, LLC | Universal Lighting System |
Customer experience
Brilliance Smart
U
Bugs and requests
Brilliance Smart
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes after updates
- Automations not saving properly
- Inconsistent WiFi connectivity
- Login credentials not working
Requested features
4 requests- Allow users to input location for sunrise/sunset automation
- Add ability to directly enter RGB values for light color control
- Improve automation creation and management
- Enhance multi-user support and guest access
U
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Brilliance Smart
No in-app purchases
U
No in-app purchases
Questions
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