Gemstone Lights vs X Lights LED
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.
X Lights LED
Control your X Lights exterior lighting products with this app. Customize color patterns, sync lights to music, and set timers for architectural, holiday, deck, and landscape lights. Manage multiple controllers easily via Bluetooth or Wifi.
- Control permanent LED architectural and holiday lights
- Manage deck, spotlights, landscape, and hardscape lights
- Connect via Bluetooth or Wifi
- Customizable color patterns
- Music-coordinated light sequences
- Programmable timers, speed, and dimmer functions
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The X Lights LED app controls all your X Lights exterior lighting products including permanent LED architectural and holiday track lights, deck lights, spotlights, landscape and hardscape lights. Connecting via Bluetooth or Wifi, multiple controllers are conveniently under the command of this single, easy to use app. The X Lights LED app features downloadable and fully customizable color patterns including music coordinated light sequences as well as programmable timers, speed and dimmer functions. Come experience the X Lights LED app premium difference.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Gemstone Lights at 4.5K against X Lights LED's 1. X Lights LED's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 88%) and iOS requirement (11.2 vs 15.0). 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 X Lights LED. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gemstone Lights has 4.5K ratings behind it against 1, 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 X Lights LED's.
Gemstone Lights ships an update fortnightly, X Lights LED every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gemstone Lights | X Lights LED |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (4.5K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.5K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 107 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gemstone Lights | X Lights Ltd. |
Customer experience
Gemstone Lights
X Lights LED
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
X Lights LED
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Gemstone Lights
No in-app purchases
X Lights LED
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Gemstone Lights free?
Is X Lights LED free?
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Do Gemstone Lights or X Lights LED have ads?
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