CloudyBay vs KNOBWELL
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.
KNOBWELL
This app offers a selection of smart door locks, handles, knobs, and cabinet hardware. It focuses on high quality, beautiful design, and affordable prices, with smart locks featuring fingerprint, app, and passcode access for convenience and security.
- Smart door locks
- Fingerprint access
- App control
- Passcode entry
- Door handles and knobs
- Cabinet pulls and hinges
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KNOBWELL home hardware provides variety of smart door locks, door handles and knobs, cabinet pulls, hinges, drawer slides in black/oil rubbed bronze. We offer a large range of choices of products with high quality, beautiful design and affordable prices without worry. We pay attention to people's lifestyle priorities in product design and development, continually improve the materials and processing of our products. KNOBWELL smart door locks are proof-positive that fashion and function can peacefully and beautifully co-exist. Your finger is the Key! Our smart locks offer the convenience of fingerprint, app control, and passcode, ensuring your life is both convenient and secure. KNOBWELL - Your Home Improvement Expert!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CloudyBay at 2.5 against KNOBWELL's 1.0. CloudyBay also leads on ratings volume (84 vs 1). KNOBWELL's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 7 months). 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 84 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CloudyBay ships an update every 7 months, KNOBWELL every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CloudyBay | KNOBWELL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (84 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 days — better |
| 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 | 156 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CloudyBay Inc. | Suzhou Wuqueqiao trading Co., LTD |
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
KNOBWELL
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CloudyBay
No in-app purchases
KNOBWELL
No in-app purchases
