DropCopy vs Brightly Lights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DropCopy
Easily share files between your Apple devices on the same Wi-Fi network. Simply launch the app on multiple devices and select files to transfer. It's designed for intuitive, quick file sharing without complex setup.
- Automatic device discovery on Wi-Fi
- Simple file selection and transfer
- Drag-and-drop to Mac menubar dropzone
- Cross-device file sharing
- Intuitive user interface
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Easily and quickly send files and folders to multiple destinations across your network by simply dragging files onto recipients in a popup window. DropCopy is simply easiest way to get things from one place to another quickly without dialogs, passwords or confirmations. Bonus: you may pass the contents of your clipboard between machines in a similarly simple fashion. "Copy on one machine; Paste on another." Need more help? Check out our FAQ at https://10base-t.com/support/#dropcopy-faq Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Brightly Lights
Control smart holiday lights from your phone to create custom colors and patterns. These lights blend with your home decor when off, allowing year-round use for any occasion, from holidays to sporting events.
- Customizable colors
- Programmable patterns
- Smartphone control
- Year-round decor
- Holiday and event themes
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Brightly Lights are programmable holiday lights you control with your smartphone. You can light them up in any color and any pattern. When turned off, they blend in with your home, so you can leave them up year-round. Now you can celebrate any holiday (Halloween, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Independence Day, Christmas, Hanukkah, birthdays), any cause (light your house pink during Race for the Cure), or any sporting event (flash your team colors during rivalry games)! What will you celebrate today?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Brightly Lights at 5.0 against DropCopy's 4.4. Brightly Lights also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). DropCopy's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 50%) and ratings volume (10 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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. DropCopy sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Brightly Lights asks for nothing beyond the download.
Brightly Lights holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DropCopy has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 91% of DropCopy's written reviews are positive against 50% of Brightly Lights's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
DropCopy ships an update every 5 weeks, Brightly Lights every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DropCopy | Brightly Lights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 227 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matia labs, inc. | 512 Innovation LLC |
Customer experience
DropCopy
Brightly Lights
Bugs and requests
DropCopy
Reported bugs
3 issues- No local destinations shown
- Transfer fails when target Mac is asleep
- Inconsistent behavior with concurrent transfers
Requested features
4 requests- Increase file size limit
- Add desktop file transfer option
- Improve messaging/notification system
- Allow customization of hotkeys
Brightly Lights
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DropCopy
- Secure Remote Send$0.991 Month
Brightly Lights
No in-app purchases
Questions
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