Astoria Lighting vs TruLight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Astoria Lighting
Control your permanent outdoor LED lights, bistro lights, and color-changing landscape lighting from any location. Customize animations, colors, and patterns for holidays and events. Integrates music and voice control for a dynamic lighting experience.
- Remote control for outdoor lights
- 24 animation modes
- Holiday and event patterns
- 16 million color creation
- Music and voice control
- Timers and sharing
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The Astoria Lighting smartphone app allows you to control your Permanent Outdoor LED lights, Bistro lights, and color-changing LED landscape lighting via your device from any location. Features include: — 24 different animation modes — 44 pre-programmed holiday and event folders with hundreds of different patterns — mix RGB values to create 16 million colors — music control, voice control, timers, sharing, and more. It is available for various IC types. Get Astoria Lighting smart lights and light up your life!
TruLight
Control smart lighting devices with a wide range of patterns and customization options. Connect via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi to manage music and voice control, set schedules, and share devices with others.
- 160 standard patterns
- 52 holiday patterns
- Music and voice control
- Scheduling
- Multi-group management
- Device sharing
- Wi-Fi reset
- Firmware updates
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Trulight is an intelligent app offering various features that connect through Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. It includes 160 standard patterns and 52 holiday-themed patterns. Key functions of the app include music and voice control, scheduling, multi-group management, device sharing, Wi-Fi reset, firmware updates, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TruLight at 4.8 against Astoria Lighting's 4.3. TruLight also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 73%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
TruLight holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 66 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Astoria Lighting's written reviews are positive against 93% of TruLight's.
Astoria Lighting ships an update every 3 weeks, TruLight every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Astoria Lighting | TruLight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (66 ratings) | 4.8 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | 93.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 66 — better | 26 |
| 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 | 12 — better | 13 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Astoria Lighting Co LLC | The TruLight Solutions LLP |
Customer experience
Astoria Lighting
TruLight
In-app purchases
Astoria Lighting
No in-app purchases
TruLight
No in-app purchases
