CloudyBay vs Touchstone Fireplace
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.
Touchstone Fireplace
Control your smart fireplace remotely with this app. Adjust flame colors, heat settings, and set timers. It offers easy Bluetooth setup and supports multiple fireplaces.
- Bluetooth setup
- Remote control
- Programmable flame colors
- Adjustable ember bed colors
- Heater on/off and output control
- Thermostat adjustment
- Programmable timer
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Connect and control your Touchstone Fireplace with your mobile or smart home voice control device. This app can support multiple smart Touchstone Fireplaces. 1. Easy Setup – Pair fireplace via Bluetooth connection to your home network 2. Remote Control – Control your fireplace directly from the app. 3. Programmable Flame and Ember Bed Colors – Select different flame colors and select different ember bed colors. 4. Turn On/Off Heater – Turn On/Off the heater right from the app and change the heat output setting. 5. Thermostat – Change the temperate of the thermostat directly from the app. 6. Programmable Timer – Set a start and/or shutoff time for the fireplace.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Touchstone Fireplace at 3.0 against CloudyBay's 2.5. CloudyBay's advantage is review sentiment (18% vs 0%) and ratings volume (83 vs 10). On price, update cadence, 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.
Touchstone Fireplace holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CloudyBay has 83 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 18% of CloudyBay's written reviews are positive against 0% of Touchstone Fireplace's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CloudyBay ships an update every 7 months, Touchstone Fireplace every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CloudyBay | Touchstone Fireplace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (83 ratings) | 3.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 83 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 203 MB | 213 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | CloudyBay Inc. | Touchstone Home Products, Inc. |
Customer experience
CloudyBay
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In-app purchases
CloudyBay
No in-app purchases
Touchstone Fireplace
No in-app purchases
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