Comparison

Brizlabs Life vs Mileage Ledger

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Brizlabs Life

Control and personalize your smart lighting system to enhance any occasion. Create custom automations, adjust colors and brightness remotely, and even use voice commands for hands-free operation. Transform your home's ambiance for holidays, parties, or everyday life.

Highlights
  • Personalize lighting effects
  • Organize smart lights by room/zone
  • Remote control of brightness, color temperature, and color
  • Customizable automations for daily routines
  • Hands-free voice control with Alexa/Google Assistant
  • Control multiple lights simultaneously
Features
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BrizLabs goes beyond traditional holiday lights and lighting products to deliver products that entertain and connect people's lives. At BrizLabs, we combine the latest innovations with our products, to enable consumers an easy way to experience the connected home. We feature a smart design that gives you the ability to personalize your lighting effects and lives for an even greater experience. The BrizLabs app, the smart light decoration and lighting system make your Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Wedding, Party and more events unforgettable. Organize your smart lights your way Whether you use just a few lights or have completely outfitted your home in BrizLabs app, you can organize your smart lights with ease. Easily control your lights - from anywhere Adjust your lights' brightness, color temperature, color and control multiple lights across Rooms or Zones all from the BrizLabs app. Personalize with automations Make your smart lights work around your daily routine. Whether you want your lights to gently wake you up in the morning or greet you when you get home, setting up customisable automations in the BrizLabs app is effortless and fun! Hands-free voice control Use Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant to control your smart lights with just your voice. Simple voice commands let you turn lights on and off, dim and brighten or even change colors without you ever lifting a finger. Find out more about the official BrizLabs app: www.brizlabs.com/app

About

Mileage Ledger

This app provides a private, offline mileage log for professionals. Manually record trips with odometer readings, categorize them by business or personal use, and manage multiple vehicles. Generate reports and estimate tax deductions without any cloud services or data sharing.

Highlights
  • Offline-only mileage tracking
  • Separate business and personal trips
  • Support for multiple vehicles
  • Yearly and monthly mileage summaries
  • Estimated tax deductions
  • Export reports as CSV or PDF
  • App Lock with Face ID / Touch ID
Features
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Mileage Ledger is a simple, private mileage log built for professionals who want full control of their data. Log trips manually using odometer readings or use automatic GPS trip tracking to record routes, distance, and trip locations. KEY FEATURES • Manual and automatic mileage tracking • Separate business and personal trips • GPS route mapping with start and end locations • Support for multiple vehicles • Yearly and monthly mileage summaries • Estimated tax deductions • Export reports as CSV or PDF • App Lock with Face ID / Touch ID • Delete all data anytime PRIVACY FIRST Mileage Ledger uses location data only to provide mileage and route-tracking features. Your mileage records are stored on your device, and Mileage Ledger does not require an account or subscription. Perfect for freelancers, contractors, small business owners, and anyone who needs a reliable mileage log without ads or unnecessary data sharing.

Screenshots

Brizlabs Life4 screens
Mileage Ledger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mileage Ledger at 100% against Brizlabs Life's 17%. Mileage Ledger also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.9) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 14 months). Brizlabs Life's advantage is price (Free vs $7.99) and ratings volume (57 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Brizlabs Life is free to download; Mileage Ledger costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mileage Ledger holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brizlabs Life has 57 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Brizlabs Life's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mileage Ledger's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brizlabs Life ships an update every 14 months, Mileage Ledger every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Brizlabs Life versus Mileage Ledger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrizlabs LifeMileage Ledger
PriceFree — better$7.99
Rating1.9 (57 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews17.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings57 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size201 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShenzhen LinkTop Iot Co.,LtdKehTai Systems LLC

Customer experience

Brizlabs Life

All ratings48 ratings
Positive14.6%
Neutral2.1%
Negative83.3%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive17.1%
Neutral2.4%
Negative80.5%

Mileage Ledger

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Brizlabs Life

Reported bugs

45 issues
  • App doesn't let user connect to lights
  • Cannot set color patterns for some lights
  • Lights won't connect to WiFi
  • Failed to connect to router error
  • Incorrect password error
Show 40 more
  • Cannot get app to find lights
  • Music sync won't work
  • Device stopped working
  • App rarely works correctly
  • Color changes every couple days
  • On/off timer is not correct
  • Takes a while to turn lights off
  • Won't send verification code
  • Cannot find out how to do 90% of pictures
  • App falls apart at times
  • Failing to send commands
  • Cannot choose exact colors of patterns
  • Cannot save custom colors
  • Lights default back to a color when app is re-entered
  • App does not look like preview
  • Connecting to lights can be tricky
  • Dimmer doesn't work until slider is released
  • Dimmer bar disappears on certain color combinations
  • Unable to choose custom bi- and tri-color schema
  • Lights don't turn on
  • Cannot change created scenes
  • Scene always reverts to the first created holiday
  • Says not connected to WiFi when user is connected
  • Won't connect to router
  • Strand reprogrammed to a random setting after WiFi outage
  • Another strand is unresponsive and changed to a different setting
  • App will not pair
  • Each time app is opened, it says not able to pair, no device found
  • App is nothing like what is described on download page
  • App is very limited
  • Cannot play one customized scheme after the other
  • App doesn't work
  • Step-by-step process does not work
  • App thinks user isn't connected to Wi-Fi when they are
  • Lights could be decent but app is terrible
  • Lights will not connect to this app
  • Prompted to download an update immediately after installing
  • Way too buggy
  • App keeps crashing after simplest commands
  • App has selectable scenes, but scenes with options other than speed are limited to 6 basic colors

Requested features

19 requests
  • Ability to pick personal choice color in motion
  • Add Scenes (e.g., Christmas)
  • Improve app to match App Store preview
  • Fix music sync
  • Allow saving custom color presets
Show 14 more
  • Add ability to fade colors instead of blink
  • Allow custom bi- and tri-color schemas
  • Real-time dimmer adjustment
  • Dimmer to work on all color combinations
  • Allow saving more than 7 custom settings
  • Allow playing customized schemes sequentially
  • Allow choosing own colors for patterns
  • Improve app interface
  • Fix timer function
  • Fix ability to turn lights off easily
  • Allow choosing exact colors for patterns
  • Allow saving custom presets
  • Allow custom color selection for patterns
  • Improve app features to match preview

Mileage Ledger

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Brizlabs Life

No in-app purchases

None

Mileage Ledger

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Brizlabs Life free?
Brizlabs Life is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mileage Ledger free?
Mileage Ledger costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Brizlabs Life or Mileage Ledger?
Mileage Ledger is rated higher. Brizlabs Life averages 1.9 out of 5 from 57 ratings, while Mileage Ledger averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Brizlabs Life or Mileage Ledger have ads?
Neither Brizlabs Life nor Mileage Ledger shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brizlabs Life or Mileage Ledger?
Brizlabs Life ships an update every 14 months, and Mileage Ledger every 4 months. Most recently, Brizlabs Life was updated on November 3, 2026 and Mileage Ledger on November 5, 2026.

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