LuvLink vs Smiling Faces
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LuvLink
Control and customize your LuvLink devices with this app. Manage groups, adjust settings like color and brightness, and send colors remotely. Stay connected with loved ones through shared device experiences.
- Device setup and management
- Color and brightness control
- Secret code creation
- Remote color sending
- Group management and invitations
- Sleep mode settings
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Set up and manage your LuvLink™ devices through our mobile app. Get access to a range of new features and settings for your device and create / manage your groups all in the one place! Change colors, brightness, create a secret code, send a color on the go, extend dimming times and manage sleep mode. See who is on your group and invite more to join!
Smiling Faces
A simple, calming practice for busy minds. Focus on finding a single smiling face among many, with no timers or scores. Designed to reduce stress and promote well-being in just a few minutes.
- Positive attention practice
- Find the smiling face
- No timers or scores
- Reduces stress
- Promotes well-being
- Private and ad-free
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Smiling Faces is a small, gentle positive attention practice for busy minds. Among a crowd of faces, one is smiling. Your only task is to find it. No timer racing against you, no score to beat, no streak to maintain. Just a quiet moment of focused attention, whenever you need one. Take two minutes, find the smile, find your calm. It's built on a simple idea from attention research: gently directing your focus toward positive cues can help settle a restless mind, decrease stress and increase feelings of wellbeing. A calmer few minutes: No pressure, no penalties. Play for as long or as little as you like. Positive by design: Every round ends on a smile. The practice is quiet, warm, and made to leave you a little steadier than you started. Yours, privately: No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Just you and a moment of calm. Best as a small daily habit, but there's no wrong way to use it, and no judgement either.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Smiling Faces at 100% against LuvLink's 55%. Smiling Faces also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). LuvLink's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and ratings volume (11K vs 5). On update cadence, 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
LuvLink is free to download; Smiling Faces costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Smiling Faces holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LuvLink has 11K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of LuvLink's written reviews are positive against 100% of Smiling Faces's.
LuvLink ships an update every 3 weeks, Smiling Faces every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LuvLink | Smiling Faces |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (11K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dig8tal Pty Ltd | Anthropic Advisory, LLC |
Customer experience
LuvLink
Smiling Faces
Bugs and requests
LuvLink
Reported bugs
4 issues- App freezes during sign-up
- Lamp disconnects from WiFi
- Inconsistent color changes
- Timezone issues with sleep timer
Requested features
5 requests- Notification history in app
- Ability to customize color patterns
- Battery-powered option
- Improved WiFi connectivity
- Easier setup process
Smiling Faces
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
LuvLink
No in-app purchases
Smiling Faces
No in-app purchases
