Gemstone Lights vs Canstar Lights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gemstone Lights
Control your smart lights with an intuitive interface. Create custom patterns, set sunrise/sunset timers, and sync your settings to the cloud. Transform your home's ambiance effortlessly.
- Real-time pattern status
- Sunrise/sunset timers
- Offline timer support
- Cloud syncing for folders and patterns
- Intuitive interface
- Customizable lighting patterns
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Revolutionize your lighting experience with the new Gemstone Lights Hub2. Seamlessly control your lights, create patterns, and transform your home into a personalized haven of brilliance. Experience lighting control like never before. Enjoy a smoother, more intuitive interface for customizing and managing your Gemstone Lights. Key features include real-time pattern status, sunrise/sunset timers with offline support, and cloud syncing for your folders and patterns. Our new app ensures effortless lighting management anytime and anywhere.
Canstar Lights
Control smart indoor and outdoor LED lights with a mobile app. Customize lighting for various purposes, including architectural, festive, and security needs, with millions of color options and preprogrammed effects.
- Indoor/outdoor smart light control
- Millions of color options
- 90+ lighting effects
- Preprogrammed festive lighting
- Architectural and security lighting modes
- Full house sync technology
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Canstar Light provides one of the most advanced lighting solutions. The Canstar Lights app controls smart indoor and outdoor Canstar lights. Our lights are low-voltage LEDs that can be controlled through the Canstar intelligent controller and APP. A single product can be used for multiple purposes. Canstar App has inbuilt features to use your lights as Luxurious Architectural Lights | Smart Pot Lights | Christmas Lights | Festival Lights | Game Lights | Security lights and much more. Our technology provides year-round lights and inbuilt Christmas, Halloween, Canada Day, Easter, and all other Canadian festival lights. Our app provides hundreds of preprogrammed favorites, 10 million+ color options, and full house sync technology with 90+ effects.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Gemstone Lights at 4.6K against Canstar Lights's 3. Canstar Lights's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 88%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Gemstone Lights against 5.0 for Canstar Lights. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gemstone Lights has 4.6K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Gemstone Lights's written reviews are positive against 100% of Canstar Lights's.
Gemstone Lights ships an update fortnightly, Canstar Lights every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gemstone Lights | Canstar Lights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (4.6K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.6K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 107 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 1995282 Alberta Ltd | Canstar Light Ltd |
Customer experience
Gemstone Lights
Canstar Lights
Bugs and requests
Gemstone Lights
Reported bugs
2 issues- Missing folders and patterns
- Sway pattern not working the same as original hub
Requested features
3 requests- Dark mode option
- Fireworks folder and ISO folder to be complete
- Adjusting speed should not start over, and most flow settings should have no pause
Canstar Lights
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Gemstone Lights
No in-app purchases
Canstar Lights
No in-app purchases
Questions
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