Comparison

Bosso Lights vs AFTERGLO Lighting

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

AFTERGLO Lighting

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Bosso Lights4 screens
AFTERGLO Lighting4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Bosso Lights versus AFTERGLO Lighting: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBosso LightsAFTERGLO Lighting
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (174 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews53.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings174 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBoss Lighting LLCAfterglo 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

None

Bosso Lights

No in-app purchases

None

AFTERGLO Lighting

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bosso Lights free?
Bosso Lights is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AFTERGLO Lighting free?
AFTERGLO Lighting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bosso Lights or AFTERGLO Lighting have ads?
Neither Bosso Lights nor AFTERGLO Lighting shows ads.

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