Oelo vs Forever Lighting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Oelo
Design custom holiday lighting with a multi-color system that allows infinite color mixing and movement. Save favorite patterns and schedule your lights to turn on and off automatically for convenience.
- Multi-color lighting system
- Infinite color mixing
- Add movement to lights
- Create custom lighting programs
- Save favorite patterns
- Schedule automatic on/off times
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Unlike other permanent holiday lights, Oelo is the only multi-color system that lets you mix and match infinite color options while adding movement to create your own custom lighting programs. With the app, you can save your favorite patterns for ease, and you can set your system to turn on (and off) by itself for added convenience.
Forever Lighting
Control your cloud-linked lighting system remotely. Schedule and manage your lighting schemes from any location with secure cloud access. Compatible with the Forever Lighting Track system.
- Cloud-linked controller compatibility
- Schedule lighting arrangements
- Remote control from any location
- Secure cloud access
- Manage lighting schemes
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The specialized Forever Lighting application is designed to perfectly complement our most up-to-date cloud-linked controller. Users acquire the capability to effectively oversee and arrange schedules for the Forever Lighting Track system. Access cloud-related functionalities with utmost security. Effectively control your lighting scheme from any location, whether it's connected through a network or cellular service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Forever Lighting at 4.8 against Oelo's 4.4. Oelo's advantage is review sentiment (60% vs 50%) and ratings volume (16 vs 4). On price, update cadence, 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.
Forever Lighting holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Oelo's written reviews are positive against 50% of Forever Lighting's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Oelo ships an update every 2 months, Forever Lighting monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Oelo | Forever Lighting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (16 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oelo LLC | Nu Tsai Capital, LLC |
Customer experience
Oelo
Forever Lighting
In-app purchases
Oelo
No in-app purchases
Forever Lighting
No in-app purchases
