Trimlight vs Bosso Lights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trimlight
This app controls a permanent holiday lighting system, offering millions of color and pattern combinations. Schedule lights for any holiday or special event, or create custom displays. Enjoy a seamless, wire-hidden lighting solution for your home or structure.
- 16 million color options
- Millions of patterns and combinations
- Individual light control
- Custom pattern creation
- 365-day calendar scheduling
- Daily timer functionality
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Trimlight is the original and still the best lighting system for permanent holiday lights available. Trimlight perfectly hides all the wires during the day while providing any building, home, deck, or structure amazing lighting at night. With 16 million color options and millions of different patterns, combinations of colors, and features your lights will look amazing from every angle. Our patented channel holds all the lights and wires securely to blend into the architectural features of any structure. This app works exclusively with the Trimlight Select Plus lighting system for the user to have full control of each individual light. With this very intuitive app the user can customize exact patterns and quantity of the diodes to custom create any pattern imaginable. This app includes a full 365 day calendar and a daily timer to customize which lights you want on for every holiday or you can set custom patterns and colors for any day of the year. Trimlight makes remembering holidays and special events like birthdays and anniversaries a breeze. Forget the hassle of putting lights up and taking them down every year. With Trimlight Select Plus you will have custom set lighting features for every holiday, forever!
Bosso Lights
Transform your home's exterior with customizable smart lighting. Create vibrant displays for holidays, game days, or everyday ambiance. Enjoy permanent, user-friendly accent and security lighting solutions.
- Accent lighting
- Security lighting
- Festive lighting
- Customizable displays
- Permanent home lighting
- User experience focused
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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: Bosso Lights at 3.7 against Trimlight's 3.0. Bosso Lights also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (54% vs 41%). Trimlight's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Bosso Lights holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 122 and 132 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Trimlight's written reviews are positive against 54% of Bosso Lights's.
Trimlight ships an update every 3 months, Bosso Lights every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 1, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trimlight | Bosso Lights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (122 ratings) | 3.7 (132 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.5% of reviews | 53.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 122 | 132 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Sperll Optoelectronic Technology Co., Ltd. | Bosso |
Customer experience
Trimlight
Bosso Lights
Bugs and requests
Trimlight
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Trimlight
No in-app purchases
Bosso Lights
No in-app purchases
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