Brilliance Smart vs Bosso Lights
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.
Bosso Lights
Control and customize your home's accent, security, and festive lighting. Create unique ambiances for any occasion, from game days to holidays, with extensive color options and scheduling features.
- Accent, security, and festive lighting control
- 16+ million color customization
- Schedule and preset creation
- Remote control from anywhere
- Multiple zone control
- Preview feature for lights
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Enhance your home with accent, security, festive lighting, and more with Bosso Smart Lighting. Showcase your home with Bosso, the top choice for permanent home lighting. We've created a brand that puts your experience first and where every detail is carefully considered. Whether you want to show off on game day, celebrate the holidays, or provide an illuminating ambiance, you'll be able to customize your lights however you like, whenever you like.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Brilliance Smart at 4.7 against Bosso Lights's 3.4. Brilliance Smart also leads on ratings volume (3.2K vs 174) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). Bosso Lights's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (54% vs 43%). 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.
Brilliance Smart holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brilliance Smart has 3.2K ratings behind it against 174, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of Brilliance Smart's written reviews are positive against 54% of Bosso Lights'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, Bosso Lights every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brilliance Smart | Bosso Lights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.2K ratings) — better | 3.4 (174 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.5% of reviews | 53.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.2K — better | 174 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 189 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brilliance LED, LLC | Boss Lighting LLC |
Customer experience
Brilliance Smart
Bosso Lights
User reviews
Brilliance Smart
From 3.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Fast setup
- 💡 Helpful customer support
- 🔒 Reliable connectivity
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent login issues
- 🐛 Automation problems
- 🐛 Connectivity problems
- 👎 Not user-friendly
Bosso Lights
From 174 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
- 🎨 Extensive customization options with 16+ million colors
- 👀 Preview feature to test lights before applying
- 🔄 Easy scheduling and preset creation
- 🌐 Remote control from anywhere
Room to improve
- 🐛 Unreliable schedule execution (60% failure rate reported)
- 🔐 Forced login required every time app opens
- 📺 Intrusive mandatory video ads blocking app access
- ⚠️ Poor customer support and communication
- 🔧 Frequent app updates causing usability issues
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
Bosso Lights
Reported bugs
14 issues- Schedule settings fail to execute properly
- Lights turn on/off inconsistently or partially
- App requires re-entering WiFi credentials after updates
- Manual button presses require multiple attempts to register
- App freezes intermittently
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- End date validation allows invalid date ranges
- Lights malfunction after 2 months of use
- Rogue light programs run without user scheduling
- SSID entry screen causes login failures
- Save button cut off on phone screens
- Schedule presets not applying correctly across multiple systems
- App crashes or becomes unresponsive
- Lights display wrong preset than scheduled
- Default scene settings removed in recent update
Requested features
14 requests- Music synchronization feature
- Virtual linking of multiple controllers
- Face ID or biometric login option
- Save login credentials functionality
- Advanced effects similar to Light-O-Rama
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- More preset designs and patterns
- Default scene settings restoration
- Priority scheduling for overlapping events
- Lower brightness level settings
- Copy/paste functionality between zones
- Custom preset folder organization
- Ability to modify existing schedules
- Skip button for tutorial videos
- Automatic login persistence
In-app purchases
Brilliance Smart
No in-app purchases
Bosso Lights
No in-app purchases
