Astoria Lighting vs Forever Fireflies
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!
Forever Fireflies
Capture fleeting childhood moments with a simple voice journal. Record your child's words and your own reflections in under a minute, with automatic transcripts. Relive precious memories anytime, organized by child or saved to a special collection.
- Record voice memories in under a minute
- Automatic clean transcriptions
- Search memories by spoken words
- Separate journals for each child
- Save favorite memories to a Firefly Jar
- Gentle bedtime reminders
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Your kids say something every day that you swear you'll remember. By Friday, it's gone. Forever Fireflies is a voice journal for those moments — the small, ordinary, unrepeatable things. Tap the mic, say what happened, and it's saved. Your voice and their words, kept forever. No setup. No organizing. No pressure to write paragraphs at the end of a long day. Sixty seconds is all it takes. HOW IT WORKS • Tap record and talk — about what they said, what they did, what you don't want to forget • Your recording is saved with a clean, readable transcript • Find any memory later by searching for the words they actually said WHAT YOU CAN DO • Capture moments by voice in under a minute • Read them back as text, or hear your own voice again • Keep a separate journal for each child • Save the ones you love most to your Firefly Jar • Get a gentle nudge at bedtime — never a guilt trip, never a streak to keep NOT EVERY MOMENT IS A MILESTONE The first steps and first words get remembered anyway. It's the in-between — the way she mispronounces "spaghetti," the reason he gave for why the moon was following the car — that slips away. This is for those. Your memories are private. They belong to you, and you can take them with you anytime. Start tonight. Record one thing worth keeping. Forever Fireflies is free to try for 7 days. After that, recording new memories and playing back audio need a subscription. Memories you've already saved stay readable either way. Terms of Use: https://foreverfireflies.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://foreverfireflies.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Forever Fireflies at 5.0 against Astoria Lighting's 4.3. Astoria Lighting's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (67 vs 3). On price, ads and device support 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. Forever Fireflies sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Astoria Lighting asks for nothing beyond the download.
Forever Fireflies holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Astoria Lighting has 67 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Astoria Lighting | Forever Fireflies |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (67 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 67 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Astoria Lighting Co LLC | Forever Fireflies LLC |
In-app purchases
Astoria Lighting
No in-app purchases
Forever Fireflies
- Forever Fireflies Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Forever Fireflies Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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