Comparison

Silhouette Go vs ChromaBay

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

Head to head
About

Silhouette Go

This app enables mobile use of your cutting machine, allowing you to select designs from your library and send them to the machine via Bluetooth. Customize designs with tools like Offset and Trace, and perform Print & Cut operations directly from your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Mobile cutting machine control
  • Bluetooth connectivity
  • Design selection from library
  • Customizable design tools (Offset, Warp, Trace)
  • Print & Cut functionality
  • Simple step-by-step workflow
Features
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Silhouette Go, the companion app for Silhouette Studio, allows you to be more mobile than ever. Use your Silhouette cutting machine in any room or on the go with just your mobile device. Quickly and easily select designs from your Silhouette Library and send them to a Silhouette cutting machine using a Bluetooth connection. ● SIMPLE FLOW Silhouette Go makes selecting and cutting your jobs easier than ever by walking you through each step. Simply open the application on your mobile device, select your design, select your cut settings, and send the job to your Silhouette machine. ● MODIFY YOUR DESIGN, ADD TEXT & TRACE New features for customising your designs on-the-go. Designers can now use Offset, Modify, Warp, new Trace options and more. ● PRINT & CUT Send print jobs to your printer and then cut them out using your Silhouette cutting machine, all from your mobile device.Send print jobs to your printer and then cut them out using your Silhouette cutting machine, all from your mobile device. ● PAID EDITION DESIGN FEATURES Silhouette Studio Paid Edition users now have access to paid features in Silhouette Go at no additional cost.

About

ChromaBay

Features
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ChromaBay turns addressable LED strips into a canvas. Build glowing, animated light with a visual node editor — no code. Chain generators and effects, dial in the look, and watch it render live before it ever reaches your lights. DESIGN • A node-based editor: start from generators (rainbow, plasma, noise, radial, moving blobs, raindrops, fire, gradients, interference, orbiting color "Venn", moving color bands, and a Wave), then stack modifiers (blur, sharpen/edge/emboss convolutions, blend, fade, glitch, hue-rotate, mirror, tile, scroll, posterize, invert, and video-style feedback for trails and tunnels). • Fill any SVG shape and spin, pulse, or drift it. • Automate any control with an LFO, noise, or random — turn a static value into living motion. PERFORM • An Interact screen with big knobs and a color wheel to play your lights live. • Make an automation's speed or range interactive, so you can jam in real time. CONTROL YOUR HARDWARE • Connect over Bluetooth to ESP32-based controllers driving addressable LEDs (WS2812/NeoPixel and friends). • Set brightness and push patterns instantly. • Sync a playlist that auto-cycles patterns in lockstep across multiple devices. • Update device firmware over the air. SHARE • Keep a personal pattern library that syncs to your account. • Share any pattern with a single link — the whole pattern travels in the URL. • Browse a community gallery and adopt others' patterns. You can explore the entire editor and live preview without any hardware — connect a device when you're ready to light up the room.

Screenshots

Silhouette Go4 screens
ChromaBay1 screens

Verdict

The call

Silhouette Go and ChromaBay are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Silhouette Go versus ChromaBay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSilhouette GoChromaBay
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (4.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews11.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size240 MB11 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperSILHOUETTE RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDGrant Patterson

Bugs and requests

Silhouette Go

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Constantly requires re-login
  • Designs disappear or don't load properly
  • Bluetooth connectivity issues
  • Cutting issues, blade not functioning correctly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add text editing and font options
  • Improve file management and library access
  • Expand design capabilities to match desktop version
  • Allow importing of various file formats

ChromaBay

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Silhouette Go

No in-app purchases

None

ChromaBay

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Silhouette Go free?
Silhouette Go is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ChromaBay free?
ChromaBay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Silhouette Go or ChromaBay have ads?
Neither Silhouette Go nor ChromaBay shows ads.

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