MOTOAUTO vs AUTHOR CONNECT 2.0
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MOTOAUTO
Control RGB and RGBW lights for your car or motorcycle. Customize color, speed, brightness, and modes, including music synchronization. Create a personalized lighting experience for underglow, interior, and wheel lights.
- Control RGB/RGBW lights
- Adjust color, speed, brightness
- Music synchronization
- 256 lighting modes
- Zone customization (underglow, interior, wheels)
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The MOTOAUTO APP is an easy-to-use APP. It allows you to control RGB/RGBW/RGB CHASE and RGBW CHASE Lights in one program. You can control the color, speed, brightness, modes and even the lights with music. There are 256 modes for the RGB/RGBW CHASE, you can collect your favorite modes there. With our APP, you can customize and control the lighting in various zones of your car or motorcycle, easily adjust the settings for underglow light, Interior Light, Wheel light and more. Get ready to turn heads and make a statement wherever you go!
AUTHOR CONNECT 2.0
Manage your car's anti-theft, security, and telematic features remotely via your smartphone. Monitor location, status, and control functions like engine blocking and remote start. Personalize your car's display and access multiple vehicles from one account.
- Car location monitoring
- Event feed display
- Alert notifications
- Car status monitoring (engine temp, voltage, fuel, mileage)
- Remote engine blocking and arming/disarming
- Scheduled remote engine start
- Multi-account and multi-car management
- Car personalization and dashboard customization
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Meet the new AUTHOR CONNECT 2.0 app designed for intelligent control of your car. We have retained all the familiar functionality of the previous version, but in a more advanced format, and also added a number of useful innovations. The AUTHOR CONNECT 2.0 app is a user-friendly and reliable tool to manage anti-theft, security and telematic features via your smartphone. Key features: - Monitors the car's location. - Displays the event feed. - Sends alerts. - Monitors the car's status: engine temperature, voltage of the on-board network, fuel, and total mileage. * - Allows the remote control of the car: engine blocking, arming/disarming. * - Allows you to set up the schedule of remote engine start. - Multi-account. Allows you to manage multiple cars and access other accounts via a single app. - Personalization. Allows you to choose the car's body and color for accurate display in the app and to customize the dashboard. - Offers advanced options of display on the map. * It depends on the car’s brand, model, and equipment. Looking forward to your feedback at support@author-alarm.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AUTHOR CONNECT 2.0 at 5.0 against MOTOAUTO's 1.6. AUTHOR CONNECT 2.0 also leads on review sentiment (36% vs 0%). MOTOAUTO's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
AUTHOR CONNECT 2.0 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MOTOAUTO has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of MOTOAUTO's written reviews are positive against 36% of AUTHOR CONNECT 2.0's.
MOTOAUTO ships an update every 4 weeks, AUTHOR CONNECT 2.0 every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MOTOAUTO | AUTHOR CONNECT 2.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 36.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 245 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 淑 杜 | AUTHOR-ALARM |
Customer experience
MOTOAUTO
AUTHOR CONNECT 2.0
In-app purchases
MOTOAUTO
No in-app purchases
AUTHOR CONNECT 2.0
No in-app purchases
