CloudyBay vs dewenwils
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.
dewenwils
Control your smart home devices remotely and connect them for a seamless experience. Monitor device status from anywhere and share access with family members. Discover and purchase new smart products through the integrated online mall.
- Remote device control
- Smart home connection
- Family device sharing
- Real-time status feedback
- Online smart product mall
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Life is simple from now on. 1、Device Control: remote control, build a "smart family". 2、Smart Connection: fast connection, enjoy the extremely speed experience. 3、Shared Devices: make it easy for the whole family to enjoy smart life. 4、Information Feedback: gain insight into the status of your home devices, anytime, anywhere. 5、Online Mall: enter the mall to buy smart products.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: dewenwils at 4.6 against CloudyBay's 2.5. dewenwils also leads on review sentiment (32% vs 18%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
dewenwils holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 84 and 237 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of CloudyBay's written reviews are positive against 32% of dewenwils's.
CloudyBay ships an update every 7 months, dewenwils every 10 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | CloudyBay | dewenwils |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (84 ratings) | 4.6 (237 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews | 31.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 84 | 237 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 203 MB | 179 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CloudyBay Inc. | Dewenwils Inc. |
Customer experience
CloudyBay
dewenwils
User reviews
CloudyBay
From 84 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Nice product, can change color
- 👍 Great product, easy setup
- 💡 Works great for years, uses Alexa
- 💡 Seamless installation and great performance
- 💡 Great product, can control via app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Lights stop working
- 🐛 App is lazily made, lacks features
- 🐛 No color schedule option
- 🐛 App is inconsistent and unreliable
- 🐛 Lights disconnect randomly
dewenwils
From 237 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 App works well
- 👍 Connects easily
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Manual function works fine
- 👍 Highly recommend these units
Room to improve
- 🐛 Timer switch consistently turns off
- 🐛 App is confusing
- 🐛 UI is not intuitive
- 🐛 Password saving unclear
- 🐛 Constantly logged out
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
dewenwils
Reported bugs
16 issues- Device switch locations move on 'All Devices' page
- Timer switch consistently turns off on its own
- App constantly logs out users
- Astronomical mode doesn't work
- Cannot adjust for sunrise/sunset times
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- Scheduler interface is unordered and hard to check
- Connecting to WiFi requires disabling 5G
- App only turns transformer on and off, no circuit separation
- Schedule function doesn't work
- Timer function does not turn devices on or off
- GUI doesn't reflect zone changes
- Cannot turn zones off with the app
- App has stopped working for pool motor timer
- Cannot set on and off times anymore
- App loses the network consistently
- Scenes do not activate when saved
Requested features
7 requests- Indication on 'AllDevices' page if each is On or Off
- Bigger back arrow
- Clarify device prompt labels
- Widgets or shortcut commands
- Apple Home integration
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- iPhone widget for easy access
- Feature to set timer to turn on for a certain amount of time then go off
In-app purchases
CloudyBay
No in-app purchases
dewenwils
No in-app purchases
