Bosso Lights vs Avid 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.
Avid Lighting
Control your home's permanent architectural lighting remotely. Choose from hundreds of pre-designed looks for holidays, seasons, and events, or create your own custom scenes. Schedule lighting changes and share control with household members.
- Remote lighting control
- Over 650 pre-made lighting looks
- Custom scene creation
- Individual light painting
- Scheduled lighting changes
- Sunrise/sunset automation
- Household sharing and control
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The Avid Lighting app controls the permanent architectural lighting installed on your home. One tap changes the whole house, whether you are on the couch or a thousand miles away. OVER 650 READY-MADE LOOKS Twenty holidays, each with six looks drawn from that holiday's own colors. Four seasons. Sixty-four solid colors spanning the spectrum. Team colors for 124 cities across four sports, filed by sport and city. Twenty looks inspired by screens and games. Plus accent lighting for ordinary evenings, occasion scenes for birthdays and parties, an effect gallery, and scenes that move with music. Every scene previews on a drawing of a house before you apply it, so you know what you are getting before the neighbors do. DESIGN YOUR OWN Build a scene from a color, a repeating pattern, or any of more than a hundred effects, with the speed and intensity under your control. Or open the individual light designer and paint the strip one light at a time. Save what you make and everyone in the house has it. SET IT AND FORGET IT Schedule scenes by the clock, or by sunrise and sunset as they actually fall at your address, on whichever days you choose. The lights come on at dusk without you thinking about it. SHARE WITH THE HOUSEHOLD Invite family by email and everyone gets the same scenes and the same control. Run more than one property from a single account. PIN WHAT YOU ACTUALLY USE The dashboard holds your favorites. Pin, reorder and clear them as the year turns. Requires Avid Lighting controllers installed at your home. Talk to Avid Home Services about installation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Avid Lighting at 100% against Bosso Lights's 54%. Avid Lighting also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and monetization model (free vs paid). Bosso Lights's advantage is ratings volume (139 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.
Avid Lighting holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bosso Lights has 139 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 Avid Lighting's.
Bosso Lights ships an update every 3 weeks, Avid Lighting every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bosso Lights | Avid Lighting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (139 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 139 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bosso | Avid Turf |
Customer experience
Bosso Lights
Avid 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
Avid Lighting
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bosso Lights
No in-app purchases
Avid Lighting
No in-app purchases
