LUX Control vs Bear Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Bear Control
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Boreal Bruin Control is the app offered by Boreal Bruin for monitoring your tank. You'll stay informed about the level of your tank and also be able to see an approximate date for when it will be emptied.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bear Control at every 3 months against LUX Control's every 6 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
LUX Control ships an update every 6 months, Bear Control every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LUX Control | Bear Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (73 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 211 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GMLighting | luis tejados |
In-app purchases
LUX Control
No in-app purchases
Bear Control
No in-app purchases
