Comparison

BlueHopper vs Avira Lighting

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

Head to head
About

BlueHopper

Effortlessly control and customize your permanent outdoor lighting from your iOS device. Automate schedules, choose from millions of colors, and apply dynamic effects for any occasion, from holidays to everyday ambiance. Voice control and multi-user management are also available.

Highlights
  • Automate with schedules
  • Customize colors and whites
  • Voice control
  • Apply effects and presets
  • Control multiple users and zones
  • Web app for large-scale control
Features
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Every color. Every holiday. Every occasion. Controlled by the most intelligent smart outdoor lighting app ever built for permanent outdoor lighting. BlueHopper app is the smart control platform powering every BlueHopper permanent outdoor lighting system — the app that sits behind your rooflines, fences, landscape, and pool cage lights, giving you complete, real-time control over color, scenes, schedules, and security from your phone, your voice, or a pre-set automation. Exclusive to BlueHopper's permanent outdoor lighting ecosystem. Available free with every installation. For Homeowners App-controlled permanent Christmas lights and year-round lighting — change colors, set schedules, celebrate every occasion with a single tap. No reinstall, no ladders, no effort. For Businesses & Municipalities Brand-consistent and celebration-ready. Outdoor lighting control across one location or fifty. Push holiday scenes, manage zones, schedule seasonal lighting — centrally, instantly, from any device. Everything You Need to Control Your Permanent Outdoor Lighting — In One App Talk to Your Lights - Say the word — your permanent outdoor lighting responds instantly. Any command, any fixture, any scene. Hands-free, every time. One-Click Scenes - The world's first one-click holiday scene system for permanent outdoor lighting. Christmas, Halloween, 4th of July, New Year's — one tap transforms your entire exterior. Schedules & Automation - Program your permanent Christmas lights to activate at dusk, switch holiday presets on specific dates, and return to warm white at dawn — fully automated, zero manual input. Effects & Presets - Hundreds of built-in lighting effects — smooth fades, chase sequences, sparkle effects, and synchronized holiday animations across your full permanent outdoor lighting in seconds. RGBW Sliders & White Tuning: 16 million+ RGBW colors at your fingertips. Dial in exact shades with precision sliders and white-temperature tuning — from warm amber to cool white to vibrant holiday red. Lighting Blueprint: Upload a photo of your property to ee exactly how your permanent outdoor lighting will look before committing — the only app that does this. Security Lighting - Perfect for homeowners and owners of commercial spaces like restaurants and car dealerships seeking both robust security and aesthetic appeal Marketing 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. Everything You Need to Control Your Permanent Outdoor Lighting — In One App Need more information? Website: www.bluehopper.com Email: connect@bluehopper.com

About

Avira Lighting

Features
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Avira turns your home's exterior into a canvas — refined architectural ambiance one night, full seasonal celebration the next, all from your phone. The Avira app is the control center for the Avira architectural holiday lighting system: a professionally installed platform built around patented dual-LED bulb technology and a precision aluminum track system (patent pending). Avira's patent pending dual-display design puts two independent lighting systems in one — a rear-facing display for soft architectural illumination that gives your home an elevated evening presence year-round, and a front-facing display for the color, animation, and warmth of holidays and celebrations. Run them separately or together. ONE APP. EVERY PROPERTY. Manage your home, office, vacation home, or cabin from a single account. Each property connects through its own Avira controller, so you can adjust your lighting whether you're standing in the driveway or halfway across the country. THEMES FOR EVERY MOMENT Save complete lighting experiences as Themes and apply them to one Atmosphere or all of them at once. Halloween. Thanksgiving. Christmas. A birthday. An ordinary Tuesday that deserves something warmer. Customize colors, effects, animation patterns, brightness, and timing — then bring a Theme back with a single tap. SET IT AND FORGET IT Schedule Shows and Themes by time or occasion so your home is lit the way you want it without opening the app at all. DESIGNED AROUND YOUR SYSTEM Avira's 48V low-voltage architecture, patent-pending plug-and-play components, and concealed track were engineered alongside this app as one platform — and it's built to grow. Future landscape, tree, and whole-property products connect into the same ecosystem and the same app. GETTING STARTED The Avira app requires an installed Avira architectural holiday lighting system with an Avira controller. Avira is sold and installed exclusively through authorized professional dealers. To find one near you, visit www.aviralighting.com. Avira™ is a product of Village Lighting Co. Protected by U.S. Patent and additional patents pending. See www.aviralighting.com/patents.

Screenshots

BlueHopper4 screens
Avira Lighting4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Avira Lighting at 15.0 against BlueHopper's 17.6. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
BlueHopper versus Avira Lighting: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlueHopperAvira Lighting
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (357 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings357 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size183 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerilumi solutionsVillage Lighting

Bugs and requests

BlueHopper

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App sits at X clock permanently
  • Latest update caused presets to disappear
  • Always buffering, requires proximity to device

Requested features

4 requests
  • More holiday presets
  • Aurora effect with selected colors
  • Simplified controller version of the app
  • More pre-installed effects selections

Avira Lighting

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

BlueHopper

No in-app purchases

None

Avira Lighting

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BlueHopper free?
BlueHopper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Avira Lighting free?
Avira Lighting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BlueHopper or Avira Lighting have ads?
Neither BlueHopper nor Avira Lighting shows ads.

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