Surplife vs MySmartLights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Surplife
Control your smart lighting devices with ease. Add and manage multiple lights from a single application, allowing you to adjust settings remotely from any location.
- Add multiple devices
- Control multiple devices
- Remote device control
- Easy device management
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Surplife is a smart lighting control APP. Add and control multiple devices to the App so easy. Remotely control devices from anywhere.
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 Surplife's 53%. MySmartLights also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Surplife's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (1.2K 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 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Surplife has 1.2K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Surplife's written reviews are positive against 100% of MySmartLights's.
Surplife ships an update fortnightly, MySmartLights every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Surplife | MySmartLights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.2K ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #115 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 14 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 479 MB | 406 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 明长 周 | QC Manufacturing, Inc |
Customer experience
Surplife
MySmartLights
Bugs and requests
Surplife
Reported bugs
5 issues- Lights turning on/off randomly
- Inability to save custom settings
- App crashing or not opening
- Lights not responding to app commands
- Scheduling feature not working as expected
Requested features
5 requests- More holiday and theme options
- Ability to save custom scenes
- Improved app UI and navigation
- Multi-device syncing and control
- Integration with smart home platforms
MySmartLights
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Surplife
No in-app purchases
MySmartLights
No in-app purchases
