Span Installer vs SPJ Smart Lighting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Span Installer
This app streamlines the installation and servicing of new and existing SPAN panels. It offers enhanced navigation, an improved breaker labeling process, and integrated troubleshooting support. Users can also confirm communications with battery systems and program setpoints for energy management.
- Faster new SPAN Panel commissioning
- Simplified user navigation
- Improved breaker labeling
- Integrated troubleshooting and support
- Confirm hardware communications
- Program setpoints with SPAN PowerUp
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The new and improved SPAN Installer App supports the seamless installation of new SPAN panels. The SPAN Installer App also allows for seamless service calls of existing SPAN Panel installations. - Set up and commission a new SPAN Panel faster than ever before - Enhanced and simplified user navigation and design - New and Improved breaker labelling process making it even easier to install SPAN - Seamless troubleshooting and support integrated into the app - Confirm communications with battery systems and other hardware like SPAN Drive - Program setpoints to help customers avoid service upgrades with SPAN PowerUpTM Shift to smarter, cleaner energy with SPAN and ensure quality installations for your customers. **You must be a SPAN Authorized Installer to login to the SPAN Installer App.**
SPJ Smart Lighting
Control your outdoor landscape lighting with this smartphone-based system. Adjust colors from RGBW to warm or cool white for custom ambiance. The system offers advanced yet simple control for your lighting designs.
- Smartphone controlled lighting
- RGBW color control
- Warm to cool white adjustment
- Customizable lighting designs
- Simple and flexible system
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Bring your outdoor lighting designs to life with our new state of the art FLEX-LINK PRO system. SPJ LIGHTING INC, brings you the most advanced yet SIMPLE and FLEXIBLE smart phone controlled landscape lighting system available on the market today. Control color RGBW plus WARM WHITE to COOL WHITE.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SPJ Smart Lighting at 100% against Span Installer's 0%. SPJ Smart Lighting also leads on rating (3.7 vs 3.3) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). Span Installer's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (15 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
SPJ Smart Lighting holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Span Installer has 15 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Span Installer's written reviews are positive against 100% of SPJ Smart Lighting's.
Span Installer ships an update fortnightly, SPJ Smart Lighting every 8 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Span Installer | SPJ Smart Lighting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (15 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 228 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Span.io, Inc | SPJ Lighting, INC. |
Customer experience
Span Installer
SPJ Smart Lighting
In-app purchases
Span Installer
No in-app purchases
SPJ Smart Lighting
No in-app purchases
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