Pixel Dancer vs FPPMon
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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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.
FPPMon
Monitor and control FPP instances remotely or on your local network. View the status of all your FPP devices on a single screen and configure them directly from the app.
- Monitor FPP instances
- Control FPP instances remotely
- View status on a single screen
- Local network monitoring
- Remote network monitoring
- Configure FPP devices
Read full descriptionHide full description
FPPMon is an app that can monitor and control FPP instances on your local network or remotely. Using a plugin installed on the FPP instance, FPP can communicate its status to the cloud and FPPMon can use that information to display the status of all the FPP instances on a single screen. FPPMon also allows you to click into the FPP instance and configure and control the device remotely.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pixel Dancer at 72% against FPPMon's 0%. Pixel Dancer also leads on ratings volume (72 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15 vs 17.0). FPPMon's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
FPPMon holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixel Dancer has 72 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Pixel Dancer's written reviews are positive against 0% of FPPMon'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, FPPMon every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 27, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pixel Dancer | FPPMon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (72 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.1% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 小艳 刘 | Kulp Lights LLC |
Customer experience
Pixel Dancer
FPPMon
In-app purchases
Pixel Dancer
No in-app purchases
FPPMon
No in-app purchases
