CloudyBay vs Lemon23
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.
Lemon23
Monitor your device status in real time and connect new devices quickly. Control your connected devices remotely and enjoy dynamic lighting effects. Offers fast and efficient customer service for support.
- Real-time device status check
- Quick new device connection
- Artistic lighting effects
- Remote device control
- Efficient customer service
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1. Check the status of your device in real time 2. Connect new devices in seconds 3. Enjoy the artistry& magic of lighting effects 4. Remotely control your connected devices 5. Fast and efficient customer service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CloudyBay at 2.5 against Lemon23's 1.6. CloudyBay also leads on review sentiment (18% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 7 months vs every 14 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
CloudyBay holds the better App Store score, 2.5 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 84 and 32 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of CloudyBay's written reviews are positive against 0% of Lemon23's.
CloudyBay ships an update every 7 months, Lemon23 every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CloudyBay | Lemon23 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (84 ratings) — better | 1.6 (32 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 32 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 14 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 | 204 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | CloudyBay Inc. | Shenzhen Xigao Technology Co,Ltd. |
Customer experience
CloudyBay
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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
Lemon23
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CloudyBay
No in-app purchases
Lemon23
No in-app purchases
