Comparison

BN vs Brizlabs Life

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

Head to head
About

BN

Control your home appliances remotely from anywhere using your smartphone. Manage multiple devices simultaneously, set timers for automated functions, and easily share access with family members for convenient smart home management.

Highlights
  • Remote appliance control
  • Simultaneous multi-device control
  • Customizable timers
  • Family device sharing
  • Quick device connection
Features
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1. Remote control: control home appliances from anywhere 2. Simultaneously control: control multiple devices within one App 3. Timer: set timer to perform multiple functions 4. Device sharing: one tap to share devices among family members 5. Easy connections: easily and quickly connect App to devices

About

Brizlabs Life

Control and personalize your smart lighting system to enhance any occasion. Create custom automations, adjust colors and brightness remotely, and even use voice commands for hands-free operation. Transform your home's ambiance for holidays, parties, or everyday life.

Highlights
  • Personalize lighting effects
  • Organize smart lights by room/zone
  • Remote control of brightness, color temperature, and color
  • Customizable automations for daily routines
  • Hands-free voice control with Alexa/Google Assistant
  • Control multiple lights simultaneously
Features
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BrizLabs goes beyond traditional holiday lights and lighting products to deliver products that entertain and connect people's lives. At BrizLabs, we combine the latest innovations with our products, to enable consumers an easy way to experience the connected home. We feature a smart design that gives you the ability to personalize your lighting effects and lives for an even greater experience. The BrizLabs app, the smart light decoration and lighting system make your Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Wedding, Party and more events unforgettable. Organize your smart lights your way Whether you use just a few lights or have completely outfitted your home in BrizLabs app, you can organize your smart lights with ease. Easily control your lights - from anywhere Adjust your lights' brightness, color temperature, color and control multiple lights across Rooms or Zones all from the BrizLabs app. Personalize with automations Make your smart lights work around your daily routine. Whether you want your lights to gently wake you up in the morning or greet you when you get home, setting up customisable automations in the BrizLabs app is effortless and fun! Hands-free voice control Use Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant to control your smart lights with just your voice. Simple voice commands let you turn lights on and off, dim and brighten or even change colors without you ever lifting a finger. Find out more about the official BrizLabs app: www.brizlabs.com/app

Screenshots

BN4 screens
Brizlabs Life4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: BN at 4.7 against Brizlabs Life's 1.9. BN also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 14 months) and ratings volume (1.9K vs 57). On price, review sentiment, 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

BN holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BN has 1.9K ratings behind it against 57, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of BN's written reviews are positive against 17% of Brizlabs Life's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BN ships an update every 3 months, Brizlabs Life every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
BN versus Brizlabs Life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBNBrizlabs Life
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.9K ratings) — better1.9 (57 ratings)
Positive reviews18.8% of reviews — better17.1% of reviews
Number of ratings1.9K — better57
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 14 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.2 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size164 MB201 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCENTURY PRODUCTS INCShenzhen LinkTop Iot Co.,Ltd

Customer experience

BN

All ratings1,873 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral2.0%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews80 reviews
Positive18.8%
Neutral12.5%
Negative68.8%

Brizlabs Life

All ratings48 ratings
Positive14.6%
Neutral2.1%
Negative83.3%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive17.1%
Neutral2.4%
Negative80.5%

User reviews

BN

From 1.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to set up
  • 🚀 Reliable performance
  • 💡 Customizable schedules

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Connectivity issues
  • 🔒 Privacy concerns
  • 🔍 Confusing app interface
  • 💸 Ads and notifications

Brizlabs Life

From 57 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 User friendly (one review)
  • ✨ Beautiful and fancy lights
  • 🚀 Works as designed with recommendations
  • 💡 Great fit for needs
  • 🌟 Awesome app, has everything wanted

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App doesn't connect to lights
  • 🐛 Cannot set color patterns
  • 🐛 Missing advertised functions (Scenes, personal colors)
  • 🐛 Lights won't connect to WiFi
  • 🐛 App looks nothing like preview

Bugs and requests

BN

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Devices randomly disconnecting
  • Schedules not working as expected
  • App crashes and freezes

Requested features

3 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Improved scheduling features
  • Better integration with smart home platforms

Brizlabs Life

Reported bugs

45 issues
  • App doesn't let user connect to lights
  • Cannot set color patterns for some lights
  • Lights won't connect to WiFi
  • Failed to connect to router error
  • Incorrect password error
Show 40 more
  • Cannot get app to find lights
  • Music sync won't work
  • Device stopped working
  • App rarely works correctly
  • Color changes every couple days
  • On/off timer is not correct
  • Takes a while to turn lights off
  • Won't send verification code
  • Cannot find out how to do 90% of pictures
  • App falls apart at times
  • Failing to send commands
  • Cannot choose exact colors of patterns
  • Cannot save custom colors
  • Lights default back to a color when app is re-entered
  • App does not look like preview
  • Connecting to lights can be tricky
  • Dimmer doesn't work until slider is released
  • Dimmer bar disappears on certain color combinations
  • Unable to choose custom bi- and tri-color schema
  • Lights don't turn on
  • Cannot change created scenes
  • Scene always reverts to the first created holiday
  • Says not connected to WiFi when user is connected
  • Won't connect to router
  • Strand reprogrammed to a random setting after WiFi outage
  • Another strand is unresponsive and changed to a different setting
  • App will not pair
  • Each time app is opened, it says not able to pair, no device found
  • App is nothing like what is described on download page
  • App is very limited
  • Cannot play one customized scheme after the other
  • App doesn't work
  • Step-by-step process does not work
  • App thinks user isn't connected to Wi-Fi when they are
  • Lights could be decent but app is terrible
  • Lights will not connect to this app
  • Prompted to download an update immediately after installing
  • Way too buggy
  • App keeps crashing after simplest commands
  • App has selectable scenes, but scenes with options other than speed are limited to 6 basic colors

Requested features

19 requests
  • Ability to pick personal choice color in motion
  • Add Scenes (e.g., Christmas)
  • Improve app to match App Store preview
  • Fix music sync
  • Allow saving custom color presets
Show 14 more
  • Add ability to fade colors instead of blink
  • Allow custom bi- and tri-color schemas
  • Real-time dimmer adjustment
  • Dimmer to work on all color combinations
  • Allow saving more than 7 custom settings
  • Allow playing customized schemes sequentially
  • Allow choosing own colors for patterns
  • Improve app interface
  • Fix timer function
  • Fix ability to turn lights off easily
  • Allow choosing exact colors for patterns
  • Allow saving custom presets
  • Allow custom color selection for patterns
  • Improve app features to match preview

In-app purchases

None

BN

No in-app purchases

None

Brizlabs Life

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BN free?
BN is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brizlabs Life free?
Brizlabs Life is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BN or Brizlabs Life?
BN is rated higher. BN averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.9K ratings, while Brizlabs Life averages 1.9 from 57 ratings.
Do BN or Brizlabs Life have ads?
Neither BN nor Brizlabs Life shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BN or Brizlabs Life?
BN ships an update every 3 months, and Brizlabs Life every 14 months. Most recently, BN was updated on October 24, 2026 and Brizlabs Life on October 22, 2026.

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