My smartLED vs APP Lighting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My smartLED
Control your wireless LED lights via Bluetooth. Adjust colors, brightness, and dynamic lighting effects like jump, fade, and strobe. Explore unique modes such as voice, twinkle, and meteor for personalized ambiance.
- Bluetooth connectivity
- Color adjustment
- Brightness control
- Dynamic light modes (jump, fade, strobe)
- Special modes (voice, twinkle, meteor)
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This is an LED Bluetooth lighting control software. Connect to our wireless devices. You can adjust the color of the lights as needed, such as red, green, blue, yellow, purple, cyan, white, etc. It can also adjust the brightness. You can also adjust the light change mode, such as jump, fade, strobe, etc. You can set the light voice mode, twinkle mode, Meteor mode and so on. This software is relatively simple to use, first open our Bluetooth light fixtures, make sure that the mobile phone Bluetooth is turned on, open our software, our software automatically links to our Bluetooth light fixtures. If the connection is successful, you can control the lighting effects through your phone. Thank you
APP Lighting
Control your APP Lighting devices via Bluetooth. Offers an unlimited color wheel and 14 animation modes for enhanced light performance. Requires Bluetooth 4.0 or higher.
- Bluetooth connectivity
- Unlimited color wheel
- 14 animation modes
- Light performance customization
- Requires Bluetooth 4.0+
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APP Lighting app is designed for APP Lighting Bluetooth® connection and control. It has unlimited color wheel and 14 various animations for more light performance options, required Bluetooth 4.0 or above.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: APP Lighting at 5.0 against My smartLED's 2.4. APP Lighting also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). My smartLED's advantage is ratings volume (443 vs 1). 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.
APP Lighting holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My smartLED has 443 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
My smartLED ships an update every 3 months, APP Lighting every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My smartLED | APP Lighting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (443 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 443 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 光奇 李 | DONGGUAN SHENGQIN ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD |
Customer experience
My smartLED
APP Lighting
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
APP Lighting
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
My smartLED
No in-app purchases
APP Lighting
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is My smartLED free?
Is APP Lighting free?
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