ShredLights vs Apex Student
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShredLights
Wirelessly control and customize your ShredLights+ devices with a single tap. This app offers seamless integration for managing your lighting setup.
- Wireless control
- Device customization
- Single-tap operation
- Seamless integration
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The ShredLights app allows you to customize and control all of your ShredLights+ with a single tap.
Apex Student
This AI-powered app optimizes student schedules and study plans based on individual learning styles and lifestyle factors. It helps users balance academics with personal interests to achieve peak performance and thrive throughout their academic journey.
- AI-driven personalized schedules
- Adaptive study plan implementation
- Performance pattern tracking
- Integration of lifestyle factors
- Syllabus scanning for deadlines
- Behavior shaping for growth
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Advancing student performance in all aspects of life. Apex combines the growth mindset of high-performing students with the personalized and adaptive algorithms for success. Apex is the AI operating system for students who want to make the most of their academics and time. Not to survive the semester, but prosper in it. It provides the framework that supports your lifestyle and goals with room for independence. By personalizing and optimizing everything, Apex shapes behavior oriented around growth. Apex constructs your schedule around various lifestyle factors- family, friends, athletics, passions- not just academics. Balancing all aspects of life allows you to thrive in them. Tracking performance patterns and valuing short term goals puts your hardest work exactly when its most beneficial and influential. Scan a syllabus once. Every exam, deadline, and assignment is locked into your schedule with study plans already being implemented based on how you learn best. Then, you can choose how to tailor and optimize the schedule further to you. Apex isn't here to keep you company. It's here to make sure nothing stands between you and the top of the curve.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Apex Student at 5.0 against ShredLights's 4.1. Apex Student also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). ShredLights's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 3) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.2). 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.
Apex Student holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 3 respectively.
ShredLights ships an update every 6 weeks, Apex Student fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShredLights | Apex Student |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ShredLights inc. | Elias Hadjipanayis |
Customer experience
ShredLights
Apex Student
In-app purchases
ShredLights
No in-app purchases
Apex Student
No in-app purchases
