Bosso Lights vs AFTERGLO Lighting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bosso Lights
Control and customize your home's accent, security, and festive lighting. Create unique ambiances for any occasion, from game days to holidays, with extensive color options and scheduling features.
- Accent, security, and festive lighting control
- 16+ million color customization
- Schedule and preset creation
- Remote control from anywhere
- Multiple zone control
- Preview feature for lights
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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.
AFTERGLO Lighting
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The AFTERGLO app is how you run your AFTERGLO permanent roofline lighting from your phone. If you've got our controllers installed on your house, this is what turns them on, picks the color, sets the schedule, and queues up the music-synced shows for Halloween, Christmas, and the rest of the calendar. What you can do here: Find and control every controller on your home Wi-Fi. The app discovers them the first time you open it. Tap one to set a solid color, run an effect (chase, twinkle, fade, shimmer, and more), or jump to one of the preset looks the firmware ships with. Schedule the lights. Set on and off times for any day of the week, or have them follow sunset and sunrise. Holidays get their own schedule. Set Christmas once and forget about it. Update your controllers over the air. When new firmware ships, the app offers it the next time you open it on your home Wi-Fi. No cables, no menus. A few practical notes: The app needs to be on the same Wi-Fi as your controllers to find them. Guest networks with client isolation won't work. We declare five network permissions and nothing else. No location, no camera, no contacts. The device list lives on your phone, not in the cloud. Built in Salt Lake City. If something is broken, tell us. We answer support emails at afterglolights@gmail.com, usually within a day.
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Verdict
Bosso Lights and AFTERGLO Lighting are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | Bosso Lights | AFTERGLO Lighting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (174 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 53.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 174 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Boss Lighting LLC | Afterglo Lighting Co |
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
AFTERGLO Lighting
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bosso Lights
No in-app purchases
AFTERGLO Lighting
No in-app purchases









