Pixel Dancer vs BH Installer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixel Dancer
Control your RGB lighting for holidays, permanent installations, and landscapes. Schedule custom color changes and animations for events and holidays well in advance. Compatible with specific Wi-Fi Effects Controllers and light strings.
- Control RGB lighting
- Schedule animations
- Custom color changes
- Event scheduling
- Holiday lighting control
- Landscape lighting control
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Control your holiday, permanent & landscape RGB lighting with Minleon USA’s Pixel Dancer, the enhanced UI for Minleon-Rainmin’s Gen3 Wi-Fi Effects Controller (WEC+3). Change colors & schedule animations for special events and holidays months in advance. Compatible with all Minleon-Rainmin RGB+Line light strings & fixtures, when set to the proper mode.
BH Installer
Control thousands of BLE Mesh devices like lights and fans locally or remotely. This app offers an intuitive interface for easy commissioning, scheduling, and secure account management for installers.
- BLE Mesh protocol control
- Local and remote device management
- Control thousands of devices
- Easy commissioning
- Scheduling capabilities
- Secured account sharing
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Every Color. Every Holiday. Every Job — Commissioned in Seconds. The BlueHopper Installer app is the professional commissioning and management platform built for installers of BlueHopper's permanent outdoor lighting. Whether you're wiring up a single-family rooftop or managing a 50-zone commercial or municipal rollout, this app turns hours of setup into minutes — and hands your client a fully configured, scene-ready system the moment you leave the job site. For Residential Installs Provision permanent roofline lighting, fence lighting, landscape lighting, and pool cage lighting in seconds with auto-discovery. Configure permanent Christmas lights and permanent holiday lighting presets before you ever leave the driveway, so your client's first impression is a perfect one. For Commercial & Municipal Projects Manage multi-zone, multi-location lighting installs from one dashboard. Group fixtures into virtual groups across buildings, parking structures, or entire city blocks, and apply brand-consistent scenes and schedules across every site — without driving to each one. Everything You Need to Commission, Configure, and Close — In One App 43% Faster Commissioning Provision each node in under 5 seconds. Less time on a ladder, more installs per day, better margins on every job. One-Touch Setup Auto-discovery syncs every fixture instantly — no manual pairing, no guesswork. Professional Handoff, Every Time Deliver a fully configured, scene-ready system to your client the moment the install is complete. Zero complicated client training, zero callbacks for "how do I change the color." Remote Diagnostics & Support Monitor any live installation remotely. Diagnose issues, push firmware updates, and adjust configurations without ever returning to the site. Lighting Blueprint Upload a photo of your client's property and apply any color, scene, or holiday preset directly onto the image in real time — so they see their own roofline in Christmas red and green, their own facade in warm white, before a single fixture goes up. Close the job before you climb the ladder. Virtual Groups Bring multiple zones or properties together into one virtual group for unified scheduling and control — built for large-scale commercial and municipal installations. Effects & Presets Hundreds of built-in lighting effects — fades, chases, sparkle, and synchronized holiday animations — ready to configure across a client's full permanent outdoor lighting system in seconds. RGBW Sliders & White Tuning Dial in 16 million+ colors and precise white-temperature tuning during commissioning, so every install ships exactly the way your client pictured it. Marketing & Sales Assets Access a full library of product videos, brochures, email templates, and sales collateral — everything you need to pitch, close, and upsell permanent outdoor lighting installs, right from the app. Build Recurring Revenue Every install creates an ongoing client relationship. Seasonal updates, expansion installs, and commercial upgrades keep clients coming back year after year. Join our professional installers network building high-margin, recurring-revenue businesses with BlueHopper. Need more information? Website: www.bluehopper.com Email: connect@bluehopper.com Become a Certified BlueHopper Installer: https://www.bluehopper.com/become-an-installer/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BH Installer at 4.7 against Pixel Dancer's 3.9. Pixel Dancer's advantage is review sentiment (72% vs 55%) and iOS requirement (15 vs 17.6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
BH Installer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 72 and 59 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Pixel Dancer's written reviews are positive against 55% of BH Installer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pixel Dancer ships an update every 2 months, BH Installer monthly. The most recent releases landed on August 27, 2026 and August 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pixel Dancer | BH Installer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (72 ratings) | 4.7 (59 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.1% of reviews — better | 54.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | 59 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 182 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 小艳 刘 | ilumi solutions |
Customer experience
Pixel Dancer
BH Installer
In-app purchases
Pixel Dancer
No in-app purchases
BH Installer
No in-app purchases
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