Comparison

Stromboscope vs Color Lights Flashing

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

Head to head
About

Stromboscope

This app uses your device's flash to create a strobe light effect with adjustable frequency. It can also function as a powerful flashlight.

Highlights
  • Adjustable strobe frequency
  • Powerful flashlight mode
  • Uses device flash
  • Simple interface
Features
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Stromboscope utilise la ressource du flash de votre iPhone comme un stromboscope, dont vous pouvez régler la fréquence. Cette application peut également servir de puissante lampe de poche.

About

Color Lights Flashing

Transform your phone into a versatile lighting tool. Enjoy a bright flashlight, customizable disco effects, and music synchronization for parties or mood lighting. It offers a user-friendly interface with battery optimization and privacy respect.

Highlights
  • Music synchronization
  • Disco ball simulation
  • Adjustable strobe frequency
  • Mood lighting effects
  • Battery optimized flashlight
  • Clean and fast interface
Features
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Color Lights brings you the world's most entertaining flashlight app, all in one app. A simple but complete tool in your phone with many useful features with music, color and flash. Color Lights app provide you with many more features synchronizing the camera led flashlight and the screen flashlight turning your phone in a color flashlight ensuring you're enjoying lighting, dancing and listening music. FEATURES: * Cool Interface: Stunning graphics with beautiful interface and clean layout make the operation simple, smooth and fast! * Colorful environment: Simulate a disco ball and another light effects, select your style, switch color mode and host your own personal ambient. * Optimized: Battery friendly, super bright flashlight and music integration. * No unnecessary permission, no data collections: Just camera to control the flashlight and microphone to beat to the rhythm of the music. We respect your privacy. USES: * Strobe/Blinking Lights: The brightest strobe lights with frequency adjustable can be used in your bike, in your car, to send a warning, to produce a nice effect in when recording a video. * Animate your music! Color Lights flashlight app can integrate music from Music Streamers(Spotify, Deezer, SoundCloud) and from Music Players and beat to the rhythm of the music! Cool! * Disco Light: Animate the moments with your friends with disco lights, like a color flashlight create a cool disco light effect that will turn your flash LED on and off with the surrounding sound like graphical equalizer or music visualizer. * Mood Light: Selecting slow speed transform your room in a mood lights, using your screen color as a night light displaying color lights of the rainbow that adding ambience and atmosphere to a room. Can help you meditate and relax an even release tension, stress or anxiety. Have fun! * Disclaimer: Strobe light can cause epileptic seizures in some people with history of epilepsy. Do not point to the face for long periods. --- MORE INFORMATION: Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://duperchic.wixsite.com/chic-apps/policy Contact us: chic.message@gmail.com

Screenshots

Stromboscope3 screens
Color Lights Flashing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Color Lights Flashing at 4.6 against Stromboscope's 4.0. Color Lights Flashing also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 61 months). Stromboscope's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Color Lights Flashing sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Stromboscope asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Color Lights Flashing holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Lights Flashing has 185 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Stromboscope's written reviews are positive against 80% of Color Lights Flashing's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stromboscope ships an update every 61 months, Color Lights Flashing every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Stromboscope versus Color Lights Flashing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStromboscopeColor Lights Flashing
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (13 ratings)4.6 (185 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.6% of reviews79.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13185 — better
Update frequencyEvery 61 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB124 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFB PUBLISHING LLCPavel Rojas

Customer experience

Stromboscope

All ratings13 ratings
Positive76.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative23.1%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive60.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative39.4%

Color Lights Flashing

All ratings185 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral2.7%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive79.5%
Neutral4.5%
Negative15.9%

Bugs and requests

Stromboscope

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Color Lights Flashing

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Free version is useless
  • Paid features inaccessible
  • Unable to restore purchases
  • App bugged a lot
  • App didn't work as shown in ads
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  • Siphons cash from account

Requested features

6 requests
  • More affordable pricing or a free version
  • Free trial option
  • Unlock all features
  • Brighter lights
  • Wider light coverage
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  • More features in the free version

In-app purchases

None

Stromboscope

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Color Lights Flashing

Subscriptions5
  • FlashBeat – Weekly Access$1.997 Days
  • MusicVibe Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Unlimited Weekly Access3 Days trial$9.997 Days
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  • Infinity Lights – Yearly Pass7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Origin Lights – Launch Deal1 Year trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Stromboscope free?
Stromboscope is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Color Lights Flashing free?
Color Lights Flashing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Stromboscope or Color Lights Flashing?
Color Lights Flashing is rated higher. Stromboscope averages 4.0 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Color Lights Flashing averages 4.6 from 185 ratings.
Do Stromboscope or Color Lights Flashing have ads?
Stromboscope shows ads; Color Lights Flashing does not.
Which is updated more often, Stromboscope or Color Lights Flashing?
Stromboscope ships an update every 61 months, and Color Lights Flashing every 2 months. Most recently, Stromboscope was updated on October 16, 2026 and Color Lights Flashing on October 16, 2026.

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