uLamp vs OIYN
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
uLamp
Control your LED light strips with your phone. Adjust color, brightness, and color temperature. Create dynamic flashing patterns and sync lights to music.
- Intelligent color control
- Brightness adjustment
- Color temperature settings
- Flashing pattern presets
- Music synchronization
- Bluetooth connectivity
- Timing tasks
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Through the mobile phone APP, you can intelligently control the color, brightness and color temperature of the LED light strip, and you can also set various flashing patterns, and you can make the LED light strip rhythm with the rhythm of the music. Just keep the Symphony LED light strip powered on, open the mobile phone uLamp APP intelligent control software, and connect one or more LED light strips through Bluetooth, so as to realize various settings and control of multiple LED light strips,and set timing tasks. The operation is very simple, easy to learn and use!
OIYN
Control your lights via Bluetooth. This app identifies lighting fixtures, displays signal strength, and allows for dimming, color, and scene adjustments. It also features a music rhythm mode and supports multi-device control through scenarios.
- Bluetooth BLE control
- Lighting fixture recognition
- Signal strength display
- Dimming and color settings
- Scene and mode presets
- Music rhythm synchronization
- Multi-device scenario control
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OIYN is an app that controls lights through Bluetooth Ble. The APP has the ability to recognize the type of lighting fixtures and supports displaying signal strength, making it convenient for users to search for devices. The APP supports device dimming, color, scene and mode settings, and supports music rhythm mode. Music rhythm has device command mode, as well as the rhythm effect of mobile phone microphone and mobile phone music. In addition to single device control, the APP also supports setting up scenarios to achieve multi device control.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: OIYN at 4.2 against uLamp's 1.7. OIYN also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). uLamp's advantage is ratings volume (78 vs 5) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). 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.
OIYN holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: uLamp has 78 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
uLamp ships an update every 2 months, OIYN every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | uLamp | OIYN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (78 ratings) | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 78 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Universal Ascent Holdings Limited | Shenzhen Giant Lighting Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
uLamp
OIYN
In-app purchases
uLamp
No in-app purchases
OIYN
No in-app purchases
