Comparison

Strobe Light vs Color Lights Flashing

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

Head to head
About

Strobe Light

Synchronize smartphone flashlights to create dynamic light shows for parties and performances. Enhance your gatherings with synchronized beats and lights from multiple devices.

Highlights
  • Synchronized light shows
  • Smartphone flashlight control
  • Music-based light patterns
  • Multi-device synchronization
  • Party and performance enhancement
Features
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Create amazing strobe lighting parties together with your friends. Make your house parties brighter! Flashbeats allows you to invite all your friends to create incredible synchronized light shows with the help of your smartphone’s flashlight. In the world of performance, live art and dancing, FlashBeats can help you in engaging your audience! FlashBeats produces a light show based on your choice of music and allows it to shape a custom light show with the united lights and beats of hundreds of people together! Caution! Blinding bright LED strobe lights may be harmful to the eyesight, and for some people, it might cause epileptic seizures! Enjoy your favourite music with your friends in a bright new way!

About

Color Lights Flashing

Transform your phone into a versatile lighting tool. Enjoy a bright flashlight, customizable disco effects, and music synchronization for parties or mood lighting. It offers a user-friendly interface with battery optimization and privacy respect.

Highlights
  • Music synchronization
  • Disco ball simulation
  • Adjustable strobe frequency
  • Mood lighting effects
  • Battery optimized flashlight
  • Clean and fast interface
Features
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Color Lights brings you the world's most entertaining flashlight app, all in one app. A simple but complete tool in your phone with many useful features with music, color and flash. Color Lights app provide you with many more features synchronizing the camera led flashlight and the screen flashlight turning your phone in a color flashlight ensuring you're enjoying lighting, dancing and listening music. FEATURES: * Cool Interface: Stunning graphics with beautiful interface and clean layout make the operation simple, smooth and fast! * Colorful environment: Simulate a disco ball and another light effects, select your style, switch color mode and host your own personal ambient. * Optimized: Battery friendly, super bright flashlight and music integration. * No unnecessary permission, no data collections: Just camera to control the flashlight and microphone to beat to the rhythm of the music. We respect your privacy. USES: * Strobe/Blinking Lights: The brightest strobe lights with frequency adjustable can be used in your bike, in your car, to send a warning, to produce a nice effect in when recording a video. * Animate your music! Color Lights flashlight app can integrate music from Music Streamers(Spotify, Deezer, SoundCloud) and from Music Players and beat to the rhythm of the music! Cool! * Disco Light: Animate the moments with your friends with disco lights, like a color flashlight create a cool disco light effect that will turn your flash LED on and off with the surrounding sound like graphical equalizer or music visualizer. * Mood Light: Selecting slow speed transform your room in a mood lights, using your screen color as a night light displaying color lights of the rainbow that adding ambience and atmosphere to a room. Can help you meditate and relax an even release tension, stress or anxiety. Have fun! * Disclaimer: Strobe light can cause epileptic seizures in some people with history of epilepsy. Do not point to the face for long periods. --- MORE INFORMATION: Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://duperchic.wixsite.com/chic-apps/policy Contact us: chic.message@gmail.com

Screenshots

Strobe Light4 screens
Color Lights Flashing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Color Lights Flashing at Free against Strobe Light's $9.99. Color Lights Flashing also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 50%) and ratings volume (185 vs 3). Strobe Light's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On rating, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Color Lights Flashing is free to download; Strobe Light costs $9.99 up front. Color Lights Flashing sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Strobe Light asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Strobe Light against 4.6 for Color Lights Flashing. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Lights Flashing has 185 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Strobe Light's written reviews are positive against 80% of Color Lights Flashing's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Strobe Light ships an update every 3 weeks, Color Lights Flashing every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Strobe Light versus Color Lights Flashing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrobe LightColor Lights Flashing
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better4.6 (185 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews79.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3185 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB124 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoman KirihetovPavel Rojas

Customer experience

Strobe Light

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Color Lights Flashing

All ratings185 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral2.7%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive79.5%
Neutral4.5%
Negative15.9%

Bugs and requests

Strobe Light

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Color Lights Flashing

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Free version is useless
  • Paid features inaccessible
  • Unable to restore purchases
  • App bugged a lot
  • App didn't work as shown in ads
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  • Siphons cash from account

Requested features

6 requests
  • More affordable pricing or a free version
  • Free trial option
  • Unlock all features
  • Brighter lights
  • Wider light coverage
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  • More features in the free version

In-app purchases

None

Strobe Light

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Color Lights Flashing

Subscriptions4
  • FlashBeat – Weekly Access$1.997 Days
  • Unlimited Weekly Access3 Days trial$9.997 Days
  • Infinity Lights – Yearly Pass7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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  • Origin Lights – Launch Deal1 Year trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Strobe Light free?
Strobe Light costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Color Lights Flashing free?
Color Lights Flashing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Strobe Light or Color Lights Flashing?
Strobe Light is rated higher. Strobe Light averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Color Lights Flashing averages 4.6 from 185 ratings.
Do Strobe Light or Color Lights Flashing have ads?
Neither Strobe Light nor Color Lights Flashing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Strobe Light or Color Lights Flashing?
Strobe Light ships an update every 3 weeks, and Color Lights Flashing every 2 months. Most recently, Strobe Light was updated on September 8, 2026 and Color Lights Flashing on September 24, 2026.

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