Kichler Connects vs Oelo Anywhere
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kichler Connects
Effortlessly manage your outdoor landscape lighting from your smartphone or tablet. Create custom schedules, use preset options that adjust to daylight savings, or control your lights with your voice. Enjoy seamless integration with smart home devices and easy sharing with family members.
- Smartphone and tablet control
- Customizable and preset schedules
- Location-based and dusk-to-dawn scheduling
- Daylight savings time adjustment
- Voice control integration
- Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity
- On-board memory for offline control
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Kichler Connects Digitally control your landscape lighting from your smartphone or tablet in minutes with the Kichler Connects ™ app. Designed to work with our Kichler® Smart Control Timer, this app allows you to utilize one of our preset lighting schedules, or create custom schedules of your own. Preset schedules can align with your location, dusk-to-dawn, and adjust to daylight savings time– allowing you to be in control of the beauty of your outdoors. Easy to use and install, the Kichler Connects App: - Connects to your Smart Control Timer via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth - Create customizable or select easy preset on/off schedules - Select cloud and location-based control, including astronomical scheduling, to align with the daylight savings hours and the changing seasons - Voice control via smart home devices for whole-home integration - Easily share and control among family members - For use with low-voltage landscape lighting transformers (compatible with most styles) - On-board memory to control your lights even if your Wi-Fi connection is interrupted - Can be set up by installers or homeowners quickly– just plug your timer into your transformer and set-up the app.
Oelo Anywhere
Control and customize your permanent holiday lighting system with a wide range of colors and movement options. Save your favorite patterns, schedule them up to a year in advance, and manage your lights from anywhere in the world. Requires a specific hardware unit for operation.
- Multi-color lighting options
- Customizable lighting programs
- Movement effects
- Save favorite patterns
- Remote control from anywhere
- Schedule lighting up to 12 months in advance
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Unlike other permanent holiday lights, Oelo is the only multi-color system that lets you mix and match infinite color options while adding movement to create your own custom lighting programs. Our patented channel that fully encloses our lights enables them to be left up year round. With the app, you can save your favorite patterns for ease, and you can set your system to turn on (and off) by itself for added convenience. Control your lights from anywhere in the world seamlessly. Or schedule your patterns up to 12 months in advance. Oelo Cloud Control Unit Required for use of Oelo Anywhere app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Oelo Anywhere at 50% against Kichler Connects's 0%. Oelo Anywhere also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 16 months). Kichler Connects's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (704 vs 18). 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.
Kichler Connects holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kichler Connects has 704 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Kichler Connects's written reviews are positive against 50% of Oelo Anywhere's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Kichler Connects ships an update every 16 months, Oelo Anywhere every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Kichler Connects | Oelo Anywhere |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (704 ratings) — better | 3.4 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 704 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 243 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | L.D. Kichler CO..THE | Oelo LLC |
Customer experience
Kichler Connects
Oelo Anywhere
Bugs and requests
Kichler Connects
Reported bugs
3 issues- Schedules and presets not working as expected
- Inability to control lighting system through app or voice assistants
- Inconsistent performance, with lights not turning on/off as scheduled
Requested features
2 requests- Integration with Apple HomeKit
- Simpler and more intuitive app design
Oelo Anywhere
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Kichler Connects
No in-app purchases
Oelo Anywhere
No in-app purchases
Questions
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