CloudyBay vs Ball Save
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.
Ball Save
This app helps pinball enthusiasts track their scores and find nearby machines. It offers offline score logging, personalized game history, and location-based machine discovery. Designed for privacy, all data is stored locally on your device.
- Offline score tracking
- Find nearby pinball machines
- Log scores by machine and location
- View personal bests and history
- Save favorite locations
- Private data storage
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Don't tilt. Track. Ball Save is a personal pinball score tracker that keeps everything on your device. No accounts, no sign-in, no cloud sync. Just you, the flippers, and your high scores. FIND YOUR NEXT GAME Search any city and browse nearby pinball machines powered by Pinball Map. See what's at each location before you walk in. TRACK EVERY BALL Log scores by machine and location. See your history, personal bests, and how you stack up against yourself over time. STAY ORGANIZED Sort by recent activity or score count, save your favorite spots, and browse skill shots and objectives tailored to your level. PRIVATE BY DESIGN All your data lives on your device. Nothing is uploaded, synced, or shared. No extra ball required. - No account required - No ads, no tracking - Dark and light mode - Works offline for score tracking Built by pinball players, for pinball players.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ball Save at 5.0 against CloudyBay's 2.5. Ball Save also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 7 months). CloudyBay's advantage is ratings volume (84 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). 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.
Ball Save holds the better App Store score, 5.0 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, Ball Save every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CloudyBay | Ball Save |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (84 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 203 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CloudyBay Inc. | steven collins |
Customer experience
CloudyBay
Ball Save
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
Ball Save
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CloudyBay
No in-app purchases
Ball Save
No in-app purchases
