CloudyBay vs BRlight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CloudyBay
Control your smart lighting devices with a mobile app. Customize colors, brightness, and scenes for any room. Manage your lights remotely and integrate with voice control systems for a seamless smart home experience.
- 16 million color options
- Precise color and brightness adjustment
- Customizable lighting scenes
- Remote control from anywhere
- Voice control integration
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CloudyBay smart lighting devices, give different intelligent settings for every room, providing a smart lighting experience. 1. 16 million colors, meets every kind of your needs. 2. Accurate and smooth setting of color, dimming, cool and warm light etc. 3. Various scenes. One-touch to change different lighting atmospheres, easily transform your living room into a dance floor.. 4. Control your smart light regardless of distance. As long as you have a network, you can use smart phone to control the lights anytime, anywhere. 5. It can easily access your existing intelligent voice control system, enjoy hands-free and intelligent life from now on.
BRlight
Control Bluetooth LED lights for daily or atmospheric lighting without needing a network or registration. Manage individual lights, groups, or all lights with shortcut keys. Set custom on/off times and create personalized lighting scenes for various occasions.
- Bluetooth LED light control
- No network or registration required
- Area and individual light control
- Customizable scenes
- Built-in timing chips for automatic on/off
- Control up to 64 lights
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Bluetooth LED light with APP control, No network, No registration. Can be used for daily lighting and atmosphere lighting. Concise and practical control page: the lights can be divided into areas, the whole, individual or selective control of the light can be achieved through shortcut keys, which is very convenient and quick. Can control up to 64 lights. Built-in Newly Developed Timing Chips: You can set your favorite color to turn on and off on time everyday automatically. Scene: You can individually set the color or mode for each light, combine it into your favorite scene and save it, and one key to start when you need. Scenes can be renamed, such as party, barbecue, yoga, dinner, game, theater, etc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BRlight at fortnightly against CloudyBay's every 7 months. BRlight also leads on review sentiment (42% vs 18%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). CloudyBay's advantage is ratings volume (84 vs 22). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.5 for CloudyBay against 2.3 for BRlight. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 84 and 22 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 18% of CloudyBay's written reviews are positive against 42% of BRlight's.
CloudyBay ships an update every 7 months, BRlight fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | CloudyBay | BRlight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (84 ratings) — better | 2.3 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews | 42.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 203 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CloudyBay Inc. | 壁珠 田 |
Customer experience
CloudyBay
BRlight
Bugs and requests
CloudyBay
Reported bugs
15 issues- Lights stuck in pairing mode
- Lights disconnect and won't reconnect
- App only works a few days a week
- Lights disconnect every time
- App loses connection with lights, requires reset
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- Smart scenes don't work
- Group control portion of the app never works
- Connection times out during setup
- Lights randomly stop working
- Lights randomly lose connection
- Lights blink constantly
- Lights reset from warm light to bright white
- Lights go offline every single day
- Some lights don't connect to the app or are uncontrollable
- App doesn't remember custom settings after power on
Requested features
12 requests- More app options and customization for light patterns and colors
- Ability to change color on a schedule
- Add feature to group lights and modify them on the fly
- Rhythm feature should be available for groups of lights
- Anything set for individual lights should be available for groups
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- Add number value for white color adjustment
- Fix update issues where connection times out
- Make app intuitive and entertaining like Philips Hue
- Improve app/firmware to prevent lights from going offline
- Fix power on behavior so it remembers custom settings
- Provide an iPad version of the app
- Automate scenes again, don't require manual selection daily
BRlight
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CloudyBay
No in-app purchases
BRlight
No in-app purchases
