Bosso Lights vs Zeus Lights
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.
Zeus Lights
Showcases real-world installations of permanent LED lighting systems for homes. Explore transformed rooflines, entryways, and facades for holidays, ambiance, and security. One system offers endless aesthetic possibilities.
- Real installation examples
- Holiday lighting
- Everyday ambiance
- Security lighting
- Permanent LED systems
- Customizable looks
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Every home is different. These are real Zeus Lighting installations across the Austin area — rooflines, entryways, and facades transformed with permanent LED lighting that works for holidays, everyday ambiance, and security. One system, endless looks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Zeus Lights at 100% against Bosso Lights's 54%. Zeus Lights also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.4). Bosso Lights's advantage is ratings volume (174 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Zeus Lights holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bosso Lights has 174 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 100% of Zeus Lights's.
Bosso Lights ships an update every 3 weeks, Zeus Lights every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bosso Lights | Zeus Lights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (174 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 174 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Boss Lighting LLC | Zeus Illumination, LLC |
Customer experience
Bosso Lights
Zeus Lights
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
Zeus Lights
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bosso Lights
No in-app purchases
Zeus Lights
No in-app purchases
