Shining Glasses vs LightElf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shining Glasses
Control your LED full-color display screen with this app. Customize text, expressions, colors, and effects. Create unique patterns, music rhythms, and graffiti for a personalized device experience.
- Control LED full-color display
- Change display text and expressions
- Variety of color schemes
- Display and pattern effects
- Music rhythm effects
- Custom graffiti and display effects
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Shining glasses is a cool app that controls the LED full-color display screen. It can change the display text and expression in the app, provide a variety of color schemes and display effects, pattern effects, music rhythm effects, and customize graffiti and display effects as you like. With cool and diverse play methods, your device is unique. Shining Glasses是一款控制LED全彩显示屏的酷炫App,实现在app中更改显示文字和表情，提供多种配色方案以及显示效果，图案效果,音乐律动效果,可以随心所欲自定义涂鸦及显示效果，酷炫多样的玩法，让您的设备独一无二。
LightElf
Control Bluetooth-connected laser light devices to customize display parameters. Features include hand-drawn graffiti functionality for personalized light shows.
- Bluetooth laser light control
- Display parameter customization
- Hand-drawn graffiti feature
- Personalized light shows
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该软件通过蓝牙连接的激光灯设备，控制激光灯设备的显示参数，并且支持手绘涂鸦。
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Verdict
Shining Glasses and LightElf both sit at 3.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 43% of Shining Glasses's written reviews are positive against 15% of LightElf's. Shining Glasses also leads on ratings volume (62 vs 20) and iOS requirement (9.1 vs 13.0). LightElf's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for Shining Glasses against 3.0 for LightElf. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 62 and 20 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 43% of Shining Glasses's written reviews are positive against 15% of LightElf's.
Shining Glasses ships an update every 2 months, LightElf every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shining Glasses | LightElf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (62 ratings) | 3.0 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better | 15.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 141 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Heaton Technology Co., Ltd. | 广文 李 |
Customer experience
Shining Glasses
LightElf
In-app purchases
Shining Glasses
No in-app purchases
LightElf
No in-app purchases
