My smartLED vs omgLEDs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My smartLED
Control compatible Bluetooth lighting products with features like device grouping, color and brightness adjustments, and dynamic lighting effects. It offers music-reactive lighting and an AI assistant for intuitive control. Basic functions work offline, while advanced features require an internet connection.
- Device and group organization
- Color and brightness control
- Customizable lighting effects
- Music-reactive lighting
- AI assistant for lighting needs
- Local data import/export
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MySmartLED controls compatible Bluetooth lighting products. • Devices and groups: organise lights by room or group, view connection status and control multiple lights together. • Colour and brightness: choose your colours, adjust brightness and save favourites. • Lighting effects: explore fades, breathing, jumps and flashing presets. • Music-reactive lighting: import local music or use your phone microphone to make lighting respond to sound. • AI assistant: describe your lighting needs with text or voice and confirm proposed actions when required. • Account and settings: email and Sign in with Apple, account linking, light/dark themes, and local data import and export. Basic Bluetooth control works offline without an account. AI and cloud services require an Internet connection. On-device speech recognition is preferred when supported, with cloud fallback. Available controls depend on the capabilities of your connected lighting hardware.
omgLEDs
Control your LED light strips with a variety of dynamic color effects. Personalize your lighting with custom DIY options, solid colors, and adjustable speed and brightness levels.
- 120 color moving effects
- Solid color slider
- DIY custom color creation
- Adjustable speed
- Adjustable brightness
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Your omgLEDs just got smarter! Access a variety of different effects to illuminate your life with the internet’s favorite LED Lights. omgLEDs offer 120 different color moving effects for your light strips to create a unique and colorful addition to any room or surface. Pair the application with your omgLEDs 2.0 Lights to unlock the illuminating moving effects along with a wide range of solid colors. Personalise your life by creating your own color using the DIY effect inside the app. LED EFFECTS: 120 Incredible Color Moving Effects Color Slider for Any Solid Color DIY for Custom Color Speed Level Brightness Level Illuminate your life with the colorful experience of omgLEDs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: omgLEDs at 2.9 against My smartLED's 2.4. omgLEDs also leads on review sentiment (43% vs 26%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). My smartLED's advantage is ratings volume (457 vs 27). 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.
omgLEDs holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My smartLED has 457 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of My smartLED's written reviews are positive against 43% of omgLEDs's.
My smartLED ships an update every 3 months, omgLEDs every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | My smartLED | omgLEDs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (457 ratings) | 2.9 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.7% of reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 457 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 光奇 李 | Balon Industries LLC |
Customer experience
My smartLED
omgLEDs
Bugs and requests
My smartLED
Reported bugs
5 issues- Twinkle mode not working
- Meteor control stopped working
- Light 1 and Light 2 buttons not functioning
- App not connecting to Bluetooth
- Lights revert to static settings when app is closed
Requested features
5 requests- Add custom color modes
- Integrate with Apple CarPlay
- Add ability to control individual lights
- Improve music sync functionality
- Slower twinkle mode options
omgLEDs
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
My smartLED
No in-app purchases
omgLEDs
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is My smartLED free?
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