SquareGlow vs Taptic d/Deaf Support
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SquareGlow
Easily manage your smart lights by organizing them into rooms, setting schedules, and transforming your space with custom scenes and millions of colors. Automate your lighting for waking up, going to sleep, or when you're away from home.
- Organize lights into rooms
- Remote control for home/away
- Transform rooms with scenes
- Millions of color options
- Automated wake/sleep routines
- Share device access
- Real-time safety alerts
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1.Control your lights with Ease – With the SquareGlow App, you can easily organize your individual lights into rooms. Switch rooms on/off or change the color or brightness of all your lights to match your mood or your activity. It’s easy to control no matter how many lights you have. 2.Home and Away – Set it and forget it. Your lights will allow you to turn on or off when you are home or when you are not home. 3.Add and control SquareGlow devices at once simultaneously with SquareGlow App control. 4.Transform rooms with one tap – Enjoy the dusk in Bermuda or a night out at the Champ de Maris in Paris. Simply tap the scene to transform your room. The SquareGlow App features 8 scene with unique effects. 5.Play with a million colors – transform your lighting into an extraordinary experience with our color palette. Effortlessly choose from the million colors or any shade of white light. 6.Wake up and Go to Sleep – Configure your lights to help you fall asleep at night and wake up energized. Create your own personal sleep routine to automatically off the light in the evening. 7.Easily share devices among family members. 8.Receive real-time alerts to ensure safety.
Taptic d/Deaf Support
This app provides customizable alerts for sound-based notifications, offering vibration, flashlight, or standard notifications. It also features a text-to-speech and speech-to-text function for communication, with real-time transcription and the ability to save conversations.
- Customizable sound alerts
- Vibration, notification, and flashlight alerts
- Text-to-speech communication
- Real-time speech transcription
- Save conversation transcripts
- Alerts when phone is off
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Sound Tab: Select the sounds you want to be notified by. Customize alerts: vibration, notification, flashlight. Receive alerts even when your phone is off. Text Tab: Type a message. Typed responses are displayed in a flipped orientation and automatically spoken out loud. Press record to listen to speech and receive accurate real-time transcriptions. Save transcripts. https://www.tapticapp.com/terms-and-conditions https://www.tapticapp.com/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SquareGlow at none against Taptic d/Deaf Support's 2. SquareGlow also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (106 vs 11). Taptic d/Deaf Support's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 42 months). On price, ads and device support 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. Taptic d/Deaf Support sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. SquareGlow asks for nothing beyond the download.
SquareGlow holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SquareGlow has 106 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of SquareGlow's written reviews are positive against 40% of Taptic d/Deaf Support's.
SquareGlow ships an update every 42 months, Taptic d/Deaf Support weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SquareGlow | Taptic d/Deaf Support |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (106 ratings) — better | 4.4 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 106 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 42 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 174 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Julio Rodriguez | Micah Roberson |
Customer experience
SquareGlow
Taptic d/Deaf Support
In-app purchases
SquareGlow
No in-app purchases
Taptic d/Deaf Support
- Taptic +$4.991 Month
- Taptic +$49.991 Year
Questions
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