Comparison

Oelo vs IllumiLights

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Multi-color lighting system
  • Infinite color mixing
  • Add movement to lights
  • Create custom lighting programs
  • Save favorite patterns
  • Schedule automatic on/off times
Features
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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.

About

IllumiLights

Control your programmable LED lighting system with extensive customization. Create custom light shows, sync with music, and schedule illumination from anywhere. Transform your space with millions of color combinations and dynamic patterns.

Highlights
  • 16 million color combinations
  • Preset and custom light patterns
  • Music synchronization
  • Scheduling capabilities
  • Dimming and soft white light options
  • Remote control functionality
Features
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Welcome to IllumiLights, the ultimate app for controlling your permanent, programmable LED IllumiLights system with unparalleled customization and convenience. Whether it's holidays, birthdays, game days, or any celebration, IllumiLights empowers you to create the perfect ambiance with over 16 million color combinations. Our app offers a myriad of features to elevate your lighting experience. Choose from a variety of preset styles and patterns or unleash your creativity by designing your own. With animations like chasers, twinkling, waves, stacking, and many more, your lights will captivate and mesmerize. Dimming capabilities allow you to adjust the brightness to suit any mood or setting, while the dedicated soft white light provides additional versatility for ambient lighting that also serves as security accents. Schedule your lights and patterns effortlessly, ensuring they illuminate your space exactly when and how you want them to. But that's not all. With IllumiLights, you can sync your lights with music for a dynamic audio-visual experience that will dazzle your senses. And thanks to remote control functionality, you can manage your lights from anywhere, anytime. Say goodbye to limitations and hello to endless possibilities. Illuminate your world like never before and transform any space into a masterpiece of light and color. Light Up Life with IllumiLights.

Screenshots

Oelo4 screens
IllumiLights3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: IllumiLights at 100% against Oelo's 60%. IllumiLights also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). Oelo's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 2) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

IllumiLights holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Oelo has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Oelo's written reviews are positive against 100% of IllumiLights's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Oelo ships an update every 2 months, IllumiLights every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Oelo versus IllumiLights: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOeloIllumiLights
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (16 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings16 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB404 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOelo LLCIllumiLights, LLC

Customer experience

Oelo

All ratings16 ratings
Positive81.3%
Neutral6.3%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative30.0%

IllumiLights

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Oelo

No in-app purchases

None

IllumiLights

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Oelo free?
Oelo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IllumiLights free?
IllumiLights is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Oelo or IllumiLights?
IllumiLights is rated higher. Oelo averages 4.4 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while IllumiLights averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Oelo or IllumiLights have ads?
Neither Oelo nor IllumiLights shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Oelo or IllumiLights?
Oelo ships an update every 2 months, and IllumiLights every 3 months. Most recently, Oelo was updated on October 9, 2026 and IllumiLights on October 6, 2026.

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