LUX Control vs Woodworker's Toolbox
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.
Woodworker's Toolbox
This app provides essential tools for woodworkers, including a fraction calculator that handles measurements in fractions, decimals, or metric. It also features a board feet calculator for lumber cost estimation and a drill bit selector to find the right size bit for your needs.
- Fraction calculator
- Board feet calculator
- Drill bit selector
- Large buttons for shop use
- One-handed operation
- No account or data collection
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Stop doing shop math in your head. Woodworker's Toolbox is a complete set of workshop calculators built for real woodworkers — fraction math, board feet, drill bits, Janka hardness, and more. Large buttons, one-handed operation, no account required. CALCULATORS • Fraction Calculator — add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions without converting to decimals. • Board Feet Estimator — calculate board feet and lumber cost by the piece or by the project. • Pocket Hole Guide — select material type, enter thickness, get the right screw length and thread type every time. • Wood Movement — predict shrinkage and expansion based on species, cut, and moisture change. REFERENCE • Wood Species Database — 280+ species with Janka hardness ratings. Know how hard a wood is before you buy it. • Drill Bit Selector — enter your screw size, get the right bit rounded up to the nearest standard size. • Pilot Hole Chart — quick reference for pilot holes, clearance holes, and countersinks by screw size. • Drill Index — complete reference organized by fractional, numbered, lettered, and metric sizes. • Imperial ↔ Metric Converter — no mental gymnastics. DESIGNED FOR THE SHOP Dark mode. Works offline. No ads, no subscription, no account.
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Verdict
LUX Control and Woodworker's Toolbox both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of LUX Control's written reviews are positive against 50% of Woodworker's Toolbox's. LUX Control also leads on price (Free vs $9.99) and ratings volume (73 vs 4). Woodworker's Toolbox's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 6 months). On rating, 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
LUX Control is free to download; Woodworker's Toolbox costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for LUX Control against 5.0 for Woodworker's Toolbox. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LUX Control has 73 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of LUX Control's written reviews are positive against 50% of Woodworker's Toolbox's.
LUX Control ships an update every 6 months, Woodworker's Toolbox every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LUX Control | Woodworker's Toolbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (73 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 211 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GMLighting | Jeffrey Paquette |
Customer experience
LUX Control
Woodworker's Toolbox
In-app purchases
LUX Control
No in-app purchases
Woodworker's Toolbox
No in-app purchases
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