Surplife vs Permanent Lights
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.
Permanent Lights
Control your lighting system from your phone. Select pre-made designs, build your own, and set timers for your lights. Manage multiple zones or even different homes with ease.
- Holiday and accent lighting presets
- Custom pattern creation
- Multi-zone and multi-home management
- Brightness and speed adjustment
- Scheduling and timers
- Save favorite settings
- Quick on/off control
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Permanent Lights makes it easy to control your Permanent Lights USA lighting system right from your phone. Choose from presets, create custom patterns, set schedules, and manage multiple lighting zones — all in one simple, modern app. Features: • Pre-built holiday and accent lighting presets • Create your own custom patterns • Control multiple zones or homes • Brightness and speed control • Scheduling / timers • Save your favorites • Quick on/off control
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Permanent Lights at 100% against Surplife's 54%. Permanent Lights also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Surplife's advantage is ratings volume (1.2K vs 1) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). 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.
Permanent Lights 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Surplife's written reviews are positive against 100% of Permanent Lights's.
Surplife ships an update fortnightly, Permanent Lights every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Surplife | Permanent Lights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.2K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #158 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 14 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 479 MB | 405 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 明长 周 | Permanent Lights USA LLC |
Customer experience
Surplife
Permanent Lights
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
Permanent Lights
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Surplife
No in-app purchases
Permanent Lights
No in-app purchases
