Comparison

Astoria Lighting vs EarthBud

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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!

About

EarthBud

This app bridges the gap between environmental concern and action by educating users on planetary issues, calculating their personal impact, and providing actionable steps. It features progress tracking and an AI assistant to guide users on their sustainability journey.

Highlights
  • Environmental education with plain-language explanations
  • Personal carbon footprint calculator
  • Library of 20+ concrete environmental actions
  • Visual progress tracking
  • Environmentally focused AI assistant
  • No account required
Features
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Turn caring about the planet into something you actually do. Most of us want to help the environment but get stuck somewhere between worry and action. EarthBud closes that gap. It teaches you how the planet actually works, shows you your personal impact in real numbers, hands you concrete steps to take, and keeps you going with progress tracking and an AI assistant built around your journey. LEARN WHAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING Plain-language explanations of global climate change, with tutorials on the major Earth systems — no jargon, no doom. MEASURE YOUR FOOTPRINT A personal carbon footprint calculator covering transport, home energy, diet, and consumption. See a full breakdown of where your impact comes from, how many Earths your lifestyle would require, and how you compare to average. TAKE REAL ACTION A library of 20+ concrete steps — composting, biking, planting trees, eating less meat, switching to renewables, and more. Every action includes the background, why it matters, a step-by-step method, and what happens when many people do it together. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Visual progress tracking with encouraging feedback, showing both your individual impact and the predicted collective impact if others joined you. Share your progress to bring people with you. ASK ECOBOT An environmentally focused AI assistant that answers your questions and draws on your in-app activity to suggest what's next — further reading after a lesson, or a nudge back on track when consistency slips. WHY EARTHBUD • Built to encourage, not alarm — momentum beats guilt • Works on iPhone • Clean green-and-blue design • No account required — your progress stays on your device The environment doesn't need a handful of perfect people. It needs a lot of people doing something. Start with one action today.

Screenshots

Astoria Lighting4 screens
EarthBud4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: EarthBud at 5.0 against Astoria Lighting's 4.3. Astoria Lighting's advantage is ratings volume (66 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12 vs 15.1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

EarthBud holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Astoria Lighting has 66 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Astoria Lighting versus EarthBud: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAstoria LightingEarthBud
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (66 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings66 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAstoria Lighting Co LLCRajkumar Jayaprakash

In-app purchases

None

Astoria Lighting

No in-app purchases

None

EarthBud

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Astoria Lighting free?
Astoria Lighting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is EarthBud free?
EarthBud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Astoria Lighting or EarthBud?
EarthBud is rated higher. Astoria Lighting averages 4.3 out of 5 from 66 ratings, while EarthBud averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Astoria Lighting or EarthBud have ads?
Neither Astoria Lighting nor EarthBud shows ads.

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