JellyFish Designer Cloud vs Permanent Lights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
JellyFish Designer Cloud
Control and design your exterior accent and holiday lights with cloud connectivity. Create custom light shows with various effects and schedules for any occasion, or choose from pre-made holiday programs.
- Cloud connectivity for remote control
- Pre-made holiday light programs
- Customizable light sequences (Chase, Paint, etc.)
- Lightning and twinkle effects
- Scheduled and event-based lighting
- Multi-zone lighting control
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Introducing JellyFish Designer Cloud, the latest generation of the JellyFish Lighting app that brings your exterior accent and holiday lights to life with cloud connectivity, giving you the power to transform your home's ambiance with a simple touch on your mobile device. -Allows control and design of JellyFish Exterior Accent and Holiday Lights. -Includes programs for Christmas, Easter, Fall, Spring, Halloween, and Fourth of July. -Create your own programs with sequences such as Chase, Paint, Color, Stacker, Multi Paint, and Fireworks. -Add lightning and twinkle effect. -Easily modify patterns to progress from one color to another. -Start scheduled lights daily -Start lights on special events such as Holidays and Birthdays. -Different patterns or colors can be displayed at the same time on different parts of a house or business.
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 JellyFish Designer Cloud's 35%. Permanent Lights also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). JellyFish Designer Cloud's advantage is ratings volume (5.2K vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: JellyFish Designer Cloud has 5.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 35% of JellyFish Designer Cloud's written reviews are positive against 100% of Permanent Lights's.
JellyFish Designer Cloud ships an update every 2 months, Permanent Lights every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | JellyFish Designer Cloud | Permanent Lights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5.2K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.2K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 14 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 405 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Big Fish Automation | Permanent Lights USA LLC |
Customer experience
JellyFish Designer Cloud
Permanent Lights
Bugs and requests
JellyFish Designer Cloud
Reported bugs
2 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
Requested features
2 requests- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
Permanent Lights
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
JellyFish Designer Cloud
No in-app purchases
Permanent Lights
No in-app purchases
Questions
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