CloudyBay vs Core
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.
Core
Control your fan lights remotely using Bluetooth. This utility app offers a simple and smart device control experience for your home.
- Bluetooth fan light control
- Smart device management
- Easy to use interface
- Household integration
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An application that uses Bluetooth to control fan lights. Paired with a device, it is easy to use and provides a smart device control experience for households
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CloudyBay at 2.5 against Core's 1.0. CloudyBay also leads on review sentiment (18% vs 0%) and ratings volume (83 vs 5). Core's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). 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.
CloudyBay holds the better App Store score, 2.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CloudyBay has 83 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of CloudyBay's written reviews are positive against 0% of Core's.
CloudyBay ships an update every 7 months, Core every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CloudyBay | Core |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (83 ratings) — better | 1.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 83 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 203 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CloudyBay Inc. | Shenzhen Jingyuan Micro Control Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
CloudyBay
Core
In-app purchases
CloudyBay
No in-app purchases
Core
No in-app purchases
