Bosso Lights vs Legacy Lighting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bosso Lights
Transform your home's exterior with customizable smart lighting. Create vibrant displays for holidays, game days, or everyday ambiance. Enjoy permanent, user-friendly accent and security lighting solutions.
- Accent lighting
- Security lighting
- Festive lighting
- Customizable displays
- Permanent home lighting
- User experience focused
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Enhance your home with accent, security, festive lighting, and more with Bosso Smart Lighting. Showcase your home with Bosso, the top choice for permanent home lighting. We've created a brand that puts your experience first and where every detail is carefully considered. Whether you want to show off on game day, celebrate the holidays, or provide an illuminating ambiance, you'll be able to customize your lights however you like, whenever you like.
Legacy Lighting
Control permanent holiday lights installed on your home. Easily change colors, create custom patterns, and schedule displays for any occasion. Enjoy personalized lighting year-round from a user-friendly interface.
- Change light colors
- Create custom patterns
- Schedule lighting displays
- Year-round festive home
- User-friendly interface
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Legacy Lighting is an intuitive app designed to control permanent holiday or Christmas lights installed on your home. With Legacy Lighting, you can easily change the colors of your lights, create custom lighting patterns, and schedule displays for any occasion. Whether you want to celebrate a holiday, match your home’s aesthetic, or simply add a splash of color, Legacy Lighting gives you complete control at your fingertips. Enjoy a vibrant and festive home year-round with the convenience of personalized lighting, all managed from a user-friendly interface.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bosso Lights at 54% against Legacy Lighting's 0%. Bosso Lights also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months) and rating (3.6 vs 3.3). Legacy Lighting's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bosso Lights holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bosso Lights has 140 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Bosso Lights's written reviews are positive against 0% of Legacy Lighting's.
Bosso Lights ships an update every 3 weeks, Legacy Lighting every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bosso Lights | Legacy Lighting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (140 ratings) — better | 3.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 53.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 140 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bosso | Checketts Enterprises |
Customer experience
Bosso Lights
Legacy Lighting
Bugs and requests
Bosso Lights
Reported bugs
14 issues- Schedule settings fail to execute properly
- Lights turn on/off inconsistently or partially
- App requires re-entering WiFi credentials after updates
- Manual button presses require multiple attempts to register
- App freezes intermittently
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- End date validation allows invalid date ranges
- Lights malfunction after 2 months of use
- Rogue light programs run without user scheduling
- SSID entry screen causes login failures
- Save button cut off on phone screens
- Schedule presets not applying correctly across multiple systems
- App crashes or becomes unresponsive
- Lights display wrong preset than scheduled
- Default scene settings removed in recent update
Requested features
14 requests- Music synchronization feature
- Virtual linking of multiple controllers
- Face ID or biometric login option
- Save login credentials functionality
- Advanced effects similar to Light-O-Rama
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- More preset designs and patterns
- Default scene settings restoration
- Priority scheduling for overlapping events
- Lower brightness level settings
- Copy/paste functionality between zones
- Custom preset folder organization
- Ability to modify existing schedules
- Skip button for tutorial videos
- Automatic login persistence
Legacy Lighting
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bosso Lights
No in-app purchases
Legacy Lighting
No in-app purchases
