CloudyBay vs SmartFar
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.
SmartFar
Control Bluetooth-connected water pumps directly from your smartphone. Adjust start, stop, and flow settings with ease. This utility app offers a simple interface for managing your water pump devices.
- Bluetooth water pump control
- Start/stop pump functions
- Flow adjustment
- Device management
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This Bluetooth water pump app is designed specifically to control Bluetooth-connected water pump devices. Users can easily control the start, stop, and flow adjustment functions of the water pump through the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SmartFar at 4.0 against CloudyBay's 2.5. SmartFar also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 14.0). CloudyBay's advantage is ratings volume (84 vs 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.
SmartFar holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CloudyBay has 84 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CloudyBay ships an update every 7 months, SmartFar every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CloudyBay | SmartFar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (84 ratings) | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 203 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CloudyBay Inc. | 铱塔(深圳)科技有限公司 |
Customer experience
CloudyBay
SmartFar
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
SmartFar
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CloudyBay
No in-app purchases
SmartFar
No in-app purchases
