Sunnova vs MySmartLights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sunnova
Take charge of your home's energy consumption. This app integrates solar, storage, and electric vehicle management into a single platform. Monitor performance, optimize usage, and gain insights into your energy ecosystem.
- Manage solar, storage, and EV devices
- View energy performance (hourly, daily, monthly)
- Optimize home energy usage
- Centralized energy ecosystem management
- Control Sunnova Adaptive Home™
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The Sunnova App puts homeowners in control of their home energy by combining modern energy appliances, including solar, storage, and electric vehicles, in one, convenient app. Users can manage their devices; view hourly, daily, and monthly performance; and discover new ways to optimize their home. As the central place for managing a new kind of home energy ecosystem, the Sunnova app enables homeowners to manage and optimize their Sunnova Adaptive Home™.
MySmartLights
Control your home's permanent holiday lighting with vibrant, full-color LEDs. Customize presets for various holidays and sync lights to music for effortless celebrations. Manage all your lighting from your phone.
- Full-color LED control
- Customizable holiday presets
- Music synchronization
- Remote phone control
- Year-round curb appeal
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MySmartLights by QuietCool is the ultimate app to control your home’s permanent holiday lighting with ease and style. Featuring vibrant, full-color LEDs, customizable presets for every occasion, like Christmas, 4th of July, Valentine's Day, and more. And with the ability to sync lights to your favorite music, MySmartLights makes celebrating effortless. Whether you’re setting the mood for a party or adding year-round curb appeal, control it all right from your phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MySmartLights at 100% against Sunnova's 6%. MySmartLights also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9). Sunnova's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (844 vs 8). 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.
MySmartLights holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sunnova has 844 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of Sunnova's written reviews are positive against 100% of MySmartLights's.
Sunnova ships an update every 3 weeks, MySmartLights every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sunnova | MySmartLights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (844 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 844 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 14 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 406 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Sunnova Energy Corp | QC Manufacturing, Inc |
Customer experience
Sunnova
MySmartLights
Bugs and requests
Sunnova
Reported bugs
3 issues- App freezes on startup
- Incorrect or missing production data
- Billing information not updating properly
Requested features
3 requests- Custom date range for production data
- Real-time energy usage and generation data
- Ability to view individual panel performance
MySmartLights
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sunnova
No in-app purchases
MySmartLights
No in-app purchases
