xLite vs TasmoShelf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
xLite
This app allows you to remotely detect and control compatible lights within a 100-foot range using Bluetooth. Adjust brightness, dimming, and power modes, and customize the white light spectrum from warm to cool tones.
- Bluetooth light detection up to 100 feet
- Brightness and dimming control
- On/off functionality
- High power burst mode
- Adjustable white spectrum (warm to cool)
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- Detect xLite residental and comerical lights up to 100' away with Bluetooth Low Energy - Control brightness, dimming, and on/off - Enable high power burst mode for the extra lumonisity when needed - Control the white spectrum from warm(2700k) -> cool(6000k)
TasmoShelf
Control Tasmota devices directly over your local Wi-Fi network without cloud services. It automatically discovers devices and provides tailored controls for various hardware, including smart lights, sensors, and energy monitors. Integrates with Apple Home and Siri for seamless voice control.
- Local Wi-Fi control
- Automatic device discovery
- Customizable device controls
- Apple Home and Siri integration
- Offline functionality
- Community template catalog
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TasmoShelf controls your Tasmota devices over your own Wi-Fi. No account, no cloud, no MQTT broker, no Home Assistant — the app talks HTTP directly to each device, and nothing about you or your home leaves the phone. FINDS YOUR DEVICES Most Tasmota builds don't announce themselves on the network, so TasmoShelf searches by address. It sweeps your subnet twice: once quickly, then again over everything that stayed silent, because a device in power-saving mode answers a ping instantly but takes seconds to accept a connection. Devices on another subnet or VLAN? Set the range yourself, or add any device by IP. Password-protected devices are found too — unlock them in place, the password stays in your keychain. REAL CONTROLS, NOT A WEB PAGE IN A FRAME Every Tasmota device describes itself when asked, and TasmoShelf draws the matching control: • Relays: one switch per output, labelled with your own names • Dimmable lights: brightness slider plus precise steps • Colour bulbs: hue and saturation with live preview • Tunable whites: warm-to-cool in kelvin • RGBCCT: colour, colour temperature and the separate white channel • Shutters: open, stop, close and a live position slider • Fans: the fixed steps the hardware actually has • Energy plugs: live watts in the list, today/yesterday/total, voltage, current, an hour of history, counter resets • Sensors: every reading the device publishes, in the device's own units APPLE HOME AND SIRI Newer Tasmota firmware speaks Matter, and Apple Home understands Matter directly. TasmoShelf reads chip and firmware of every device and tells you which ones can join Apple Home right away (ESP32 with Tasmota 13 or newer), which need a Tasmota Matter bridge, and which want a firmware update first. One tap opens pairing and shows the QR code and setup code right in the app. From then on, Siri and your Home scenes switch the device. Apple marks Tasmota as an uncertified accessory once during setup; that is expected for community firmware. KNOWS WHAT YOU OWN A copy of the community template catalogue ships inside the app, so TasmoShelf can name about 2,600 products without asking the internet anything. Hardware nobody has catalogued still works — controls come from what the device reports, not from a list. HONEST ABOUT PRIVACY There is no server of ours. The app opens connections to exactly one kind of address: the devices on your own network. Your purchase is checked on the phone, offline. You never have to be online to keep the app working. FREE FOR THREE DEVICES The free version is not cut down: every control, the energy view and the whole catalogue are included. If you have more than three devices, a single 9.99 € purchase removes the limit forever. Nothing recurring, and nothing advertised. TasmoShelf is not affiliated with the Tasmota project. Device catalogue data comes from the community template repository (EPL-2.0).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TasmoShelf at daily against xLite's every 12 months. xLite's advantage is iOS requirement (11.3 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for xLite against 5.0 for TasmoShelf. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
xLite ships an update every 12 months, TasmoShelf daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | xLite | TasmoShelf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.3 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Moss | Christof Müller |
Customer experience
xLite
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In-app purchases
xLite
No in-app purchases
TasmoShelf
No in-app purchases









