SureShade Control vs SoundExtreme
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SureShade Control
Control your boat's telescoping shade system remotely via Bluetooth. Manage shade extension, retraction, and access diagnostics, usage history, and reset functions from your smart device. Supports multiple devices for an enhanced boating experience.
- Bluetooth Wireless Connection
- Shade Extension & Retraction
- Diagnostics
- Usage Tracking
- Reset Calibration
- Multiple Device Support
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The SureShade Control App allows the user to control their telescoping boat shade systems via a Bluetooth connection. The App provides extension, retraction, diagnostics, usage, and reset from your smart device. Multiple devices are supported making the boating experience even better Features: Bluetooth Wireless Connection Full Deck Range Coverage Diagnostics Usage Reset Calibration
SoundExtreme
Control your LED lighting systems with this app. Adjust brightness, colors, patterns, and speed. Group devices, save custom lighting scenes, and manage device names. Password protection ensures secure access to your lighting controls.
- Adjust brightness, colors, patterns, and speed
- Group multiple devices for simultaneous control
- Create and save custom lighting scenes
- Customize device and zone names
- Password protection for secure access
- Controls entire SoundExtreme device family
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The SoundExtreme LED remote control app is a next generation app. The app allows users to select the brightness, colors, patterns, and speed of the LED’s, create custom patterns and advanced features such as: • Group multiple devices together to make changes on all speakers, soundbars, and LED lights at one time. • Create and save lighting scenes. A lighting scene is like a preset for a radio. You can program each of your device’s and zone’s LEDs to a specific color and action for quick access. Such as create Christmas, 4th of July, Halloween, nighttime, and party scenes for a 1 button access later. • Change and customize the name of your devices and zones, such as: Rear speakers, Soundbar, subwoofer, cabin lights, under glows, roof lights, whips etc. • Password protected so others cannot gain access and control your lighting system. • Controls the entire family of SoundExtreme devices; soundbars, subwoofers, tower speakers, roll cage speakers, LED strips, WHIPS, rock lights, marine lights, accent lights, marine radios, wired speakers etc. • The LED controller is not compatible with ECOXGEAR generation 1 soundbars or non SoundExtreme branded products.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SureShade Control at 4.0 against SoundExtreme's 2.5. SoundExtreme's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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.
SureShade Control holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SoundExtreme has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SureShade Control ships an update every 3 months, SoundExtreme every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | SureShade Control | SoundExtreme |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.5 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lippert Components, Inc. | Grace Digital Inc. |
Customer experience
SureShade Control
SoundExtreme
In-app purchases
SureShade Control
No in-app purchases
SoundExtreme
No in-app purchases
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