Philips Motion Effects vs Storybound
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Philips Motion Effects
Control your Philips Illuminate™ lights to create custom light shows. Adjust color, brightness, and function, or sync lights to music and voice. Group up to four sets via Bluetooth for a dynamic lighting experience.
- Create custom light shows
- Control color and brightness
- Sync lights to music
- Sync lights to voice/microphone
- Group up to 4 light sets
- Set multiple timers
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Create your own light show using the Philips Motion Effects™ customizable lighting system. Control your lights from your smart phone or tablet using the Motion Effects™ app. The easy to use app allows you to adjust the color, brightness or function of your Illuminate™ lights. Simple Bluetooth connectivity allows for up to 4 sets to be grouped together, and you can choose from 16 functions on each set. Customize your light show: • Functions: Choose from one of 16 available functions, with brightness control available on some functions • Music: Make the lights move to music on your phone, using one of four predetermined flashing sensitivities • Microphone: Set the app to microphone and watch the lights flash to your voice, or turn on your favorite streaming service to get real-time reaction to music • Timer: Set multiple timers
Storybound
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Storybound creates personalized bedtime stories starring your child — with their name, their favorite sidekick, and a world you choose together. Every story is new, illustrated, and written at the right reading level. MADE FOR YOUR READER • Create a profile for each child with their name and age — stories are written at a reading level that fits • Pick a sidekick, a setting, and what the story should be about, or let them decide • Choose the tone and length to fit the night — calm and cozy, or a little more adventurous STORIES THAT KEEP GOING • Turn any story into a series and continue it night after night • Characters, places, and what happened before carry forward from chapter to chapter ILLUSTRATED AND READ ALOUD • Every story comes with original illustrations • Listen along with narration for wind-down time A LIBRARY THAT GROWS WITH THEM • Every story is saved to your library to reread anytime • Favorite the ones they ask for again and again • Sign in with Apple to back up your stories and restore them on a new device BUILT FOR FAMILIES • Every story is checked for age-appropriate content before it reaches you • No ads STORYBOUND+ Free accounts get 7 stories a week. Storybound+ gives you 21 stories a week, with 3 illustrations in every story — the beginning, middle, and end — shown as you read. Storybound+ is available as a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cwiggins11.github.io/storybound-privacy/ Questions or feedback: hello@storyboundapp.net
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Storybound at 5.0 against Philips Motion Effects's 2.8. Philips Motion Effects's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Storybound holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Philips Motion Effects has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Philips Motion Effects | Storybound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Seasonal Specialties LLC | Christopher Wiggins |
In-app purchases
Philips Motion Effects
No in-app purchases
Storybound
No in-app purchases
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