Comparison

ESP RainMaker Home vs Chameleon Lighting

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ESP RainMaker Home

Features
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Transform your home into a smart ecosystem with ESP RainMaker Home - Built with React Native, a hybrid technology, for a seamless, native experience - Organize devices by rooms and homes for intuitive control - Create scenes to control multiple devices at once - Instant device state synchronization across all your devices - Control devices locally or through the ESP RainMaker cloud - Support for smart lights, sockets, switches, fans, and sensors - Quick device setup via QR code, BLE discovery, and SoftAP - Google and Apple Sign-In support - Real-time notifications for device status and system events - Built on open-source technologies with modular architecture

About

Chameleon Lighting

Control professional-grade addressable LED lights with pre-designed playlists and simple scheduling. Instantly apply holiday themes or dynamic animations without complex setup. Manage all your lights from a single dashboard.

Highlights
  • Professional playlists for instant light shows
  • Holiday-themed lighting presets
  • Dynamic animations and moods
  • Simple, automated scheduling
  • At-a-glance device status
  • Quick select favorites
  • Total power on/off control
Features
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Bring your home to life with Chameleon Lighting, the control center for your professional-grade addressable LED lights. No coding, no confusing setup, no light-by-light programming — just beautiful light, customized for you. ONE-TAP SHOWS, ALREADY DESIGNED A library of professionally designed playlists, ready to run. Holidays: Christmas, Halloween, Fourth of July, Easter and more, as complete multi-effect shows. Moods and animations: rainbows, ocean waves, firelight, aurora, and simple, elegant accent lighting. Dozens of effects — Fireworks, Twinkle Fade, Bouncing Balls, Meteor, Chase — each matched to a curated color palette. Browse the entire library before you ever create an account. SCHEDULING THAT RUNS ITSELF Add an event and it schedules itself. There is nothing else to set up. Holidays arrive on the right days every year, including the ones that move. Your team's colors run on game nights, following the real schedule. Sunrise and sunset are worked out for you, wherever you live. Choose your on and off times once and every event follows them — or give any single event its own. FAVORITES AND LIVE CONTROL Favorites on the Home screen: one tap puts a look on your lights right now, and turns them on if they were off. Now Playing shows what is running and what is coming up next, with brightness and speed you can move while it plays. Zones: split one controller across the roofline, the porch and the walkway, and send different content to each. Turn everything on or off from the main screen. MAKE IT YOUR OWN Studio: build your own playlists, patterns and color palettes — or start from anything in the library and change it. Quick Color: pick a color and it is on your lights immediately. See exactly how a pattern will lay out across your strip before it gets there. WORKS ON YOUR WI-FI, WITH OR WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Your controller runs on your own network. Find it, drive it, set its schedules and save its settings straight from the app — no account, no internet connection. When your internet is out, your lights carry on. Everything local stays free, always. BUILT FOR THE WHOLE HOUSE A free Chameleon account keeps your devices, schedules and creations in sync across every phone in the home. Set something up on one, and it is there on all of them. Your lights keep to their schedule whether the app is open or not. A Chameleon Cloud plan adds the cloud half: calendars that keep themselves current, live sports schedules, control from outside the house, the Ask Chameleon assistant and over-the-air firmware updates, for up to 5 controllers on your account. New accounts get a free 10-day trial when they add their first controller. Designed to work exclusively with Chameleon Lighting hardware. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Chameleon Cloud — Yearly: $24.99 per year, auto-renewing. Chameleon Cloud — Lifetime: $149.99, a one-time purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The Yearly plan renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. Prices are in US dollars and may vary by country. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Chameleon Terms: https://chameleon.lighting/terms Privacy Policy: https://chameleon.lighting/privacy-policy

Screenshots

ESP RainMaker Home4 screens
Chameleon Lighting4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Chameleon Lighting at every 4 days against ESP RainMaker Home's every 11 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ESP RainMaker Home ships an update every 11 days, Chameleon Lighting every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ESP RainMaker Home versus Chameleon Lighting: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterESP RainMaker HomeChameleon Lighting
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperESPRESSIF SYSTEMS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Jarrod Brown

In-app purchases

None

ESP RainMaker Home

No in-app purchases

None

Chameleon Lighting

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ESP RainMaker Home free?
ESP RainMaker Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chameleon Lighting free?
Chameleon Lighting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ESP RainMaker Home or Chameleon Lighting have ads?
Neither ESP RainMaker Home nor Chameleon Lighting shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ESP RainMaker Home or Chameleon Lighting?
ESP RainMaker Home ships an update every 11 days, and Chameleon Lighting every 4 days. Most recently, ESP RainMaker Home was updated on October 21, 2026 and Chameleon Lighting on October 21, 2026.

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