XKalpha vs MOTOAUTO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
XKalpha
This app controls advanced automotive RGBW LED lighting systems, allowing for custom chasing effects and animations. It offers extensive color customization, music synchronization, and safety features like brake light integration.
- Custom chasing lighting effects
- 16 million colors + pure white
- Music and speed synchronization
- Color capture via camera
- Brake light and turn signal sync
- 10 independent zones per controller
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The XKalpha automotive RGBW lighting system is the most advanced addressable LED lighting system on the market. With its unique system, XKalpha allows you to create custom chasing lighting effects and animations that are impossible with other systems. Control Features: - Up to 10 independent zones per controller. - 16 million colors + dedicated pure white color at your finger tip. - Customize light animation with more than 25 chasing patterns, adjustable speed, brightness and more. - Sync light to music or speed with equalizer style patterns. - Capture a color with camera and paint your vehicle with it. - Customizable startup theme. - 3 configurable sensor wires. Safety Feature: - Turn the entire lighting kit into RED color when you brake. - Sync underglow with turn signal. System Features - Compatible with both native XKalpha RGBW lights and XKchrome RGB lights. - Add power injector to expand the controller limit - XKalpha controller or light system is required for using this app.
MOTOAUTO
Control RGB and RGBW lights for your car or motorcycle. Customize color, speed, brightness, and modes, including music synchronization. Create a personalized lighting experience for underglow, interior, and wheel lights.
- Control RGB/RGBW lights
- Adjust color, speed, brightness
- Music synchronization
- 256 lighting modes
- Zone customization (underglow, interior, wheels)
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The MOTOAUTO APP is an easy-to-use APP. It allows you to control RGB/RGBW/RGB CHASE and RGBW CHASE Lights in one program. You can control the color, speed, brightness, modes and even the lights with music. There are 256 modes for the RGB/RGBW CHASE, you can collect your favorite modes there. With our APP, you can customize and control the lighting in various zones of your car or motorcycle, easily adjust the settings for underglow light, Interior Light, Wheel light and more. Get ready to turn heads and make a statement wherever you go!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: XKalpha at 100% against MOTOAUTO's 0%. XKalpha also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0). MOTOAUTO's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
XKalpha holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of XKalpha's written reviews are positive against 0% of MOTOAUTO's.
XKalpha ships an update every 6 weeks, MOTOAUTO every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | XKalpha | MOTOAUTO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 2.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | XKGLOW LLC | 淑 杜 |
Customer experience
XKalpha
MOTOAUTO
In-app purchases
XKalpha
No in-app purchases
MOTOAUTO
No in-app purchases








