Comparison

L vs LUX Control

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

Head to head
About

L

This app provides a comprehensive smart home control system. It allows users to manage lighting, home appliances, and create automated routines based on environmental factors. Users can also share control with family members for a connected living experience.

Highlights
  • Whole house smart control center
  • Smart lighting management
  • Home appliance control
  • Automated routines via sensors
  • Remote control sharing
Features
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L-Home, builds the whole house smart control system •Super Panel, whole house smart control center •Smart lighting, manages the lighting in your home easily, and more efficiently; make it easy to dim, adjust color temperature, and change the color of light; create the right ambiance in your home, and meet various demands of lighting. •Home appliance module, allows you to add multiple home appliances and to gain easy control of them. •Smart linkage, by obtaining your current position, temperature and time, the sensor will detect your presence within the home and run the smart devices automatically. •Share control of your home, allows your family to control your home from anywhere and to enjoy the great convenience of truly smart life.

About

LUX Control

Control GM Lighting's smart products to customize your home or workspace. Create preset scenes, set schedules, and adjust brightness and color for the perfect ambiance. Compatible with voice assistants.

Highlights
  • Control GM Lighting Smart Products
  • Create preset scenes
  • Set schedules
  • Adjust brightness and color
  • Voice assistant compatibility (Alexa, Google Home)
  • Control RGBW and V120 tape lights
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LUX Control™ App allows you to control all of your GM Lighting's Smart Products and Controls to fully experience the quality and beauty that GM Lighting offering brings to your home or workspace. With the LUX Control™ App, you can create preset scenes, set schedules for your GM Smart Products, switch lights ON/OFF and control the brightness and color of your lights to create the ideal mood or ambiance that you desire and to compliment your circadian rhythms all from the convenience of your phone or tablet. LUX Control™ App is compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Home voice assistants. The app allows you to control GM Lighting’s RGBW tape lights, line voltage V120 tape as well as our low voltage LED Tape and a variety of other GM Lighting’s Smart Products.

Screenshots

L3 screens
LUX Control4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: L at monthly against LUX Control's every 6 months. LUX Control's advantage is ratings volume (73 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for L against 4.9 for LUX Control. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LUX Control has 73 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

L ships an update monthly, LUX Control every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
L versus LUX Control: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLLUX Control
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.9 (73 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings173 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.014.0
Further details — not scored
Size243 MB211 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperZhuhai Ltech Technology Co., Ltd.GMLighting

Customer experience

L

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

LUX Control

All ratings73 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral2.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

L

No in-app purchases

None

LUX Control

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is L free?
L is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LUX Control free?
LUX Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, L or LUX Control?
L is rated higher. L averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while LUX Control averages 4.9 from 73 ratings.
Do L or LUX Control have ads?
Neither L nor LUX Control shows ads.
Which is updated more often, L or LUX Control?
L ships an update monthly, and LUX Control every 6 months. Most recently, L was updated on September 8, 2026 and LUX Control on September 16, 2026.

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