BrizLabs vs Desandar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BrizLabs
Control and customize smart lighting for any occasion, from holidays to everyday ambiance. This app offers an intuitive interface for designing and scheduling lighting effects, making it easy to personalize your home's illumination year-round.
- Customizable lighting for any occasion
- Schedule lighting effects
- Intuitive user interface
- Control smart holiday lights
- Permanent light setup
- Ambiance with curtain lights and smart bulbs
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BrizLabs - Redefining Smart Lighting and Smart Holiday Lights for Every Occasion Discover the ultimate in smart lighting with BrizLabs, the leader in innovative design for smart holiday lights and everyday illumination. Whether you're decorating for Christmas, setting up Permanent lights, or creating ambiance with Curtain lights and Smart Bulbs, the BrizLabs App offers a seamless, user-friendly experience tailored to your needs. Why Choose BrizLabs? Customizable for Every Occasion: Design and schedule your lighting for any holiday or daily use, with a wide range of settings and effects to choose from. User-Centric Experience: Our intuitive interface makes it easy to control and personalize your lights, ensuring that your home shines exactly how you envision it. Year-Round Versatility: From festive celebrations to everyday comfort, BrizLabs delivers the perfect lighting solutions for any situation. Light up your life with BrizLabs and enjoy smart lighting that adapts to you.
Desandar
This app allows users to journal through writing or voice recordings, offering AI-powered reflection and summarization features. It helps users revisit past entries, discover recurring themes, and organize their thoughts with rich formatting and tagging options. All processing is done on-device for enhanced privacy.
- Write or record journal entries
- AI-powered chat reflection
- On-device transcription and summarization
- Organize with journals, tags, and places
- Import and export journal data
- Create daily, weekly, and monthly recaps
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I created Desandar after more than six years of journaling. I had accumulated hundreds of entries, but they had become difficult to meaningfully revisit. I could search for a word or scroll through old writing, but I wanted to understand what kept returning, see how I had changed, and reconnect with moments I might otherwise forget. Desandar is a Spanish verb meaning “to retrace your steps”—to return to the path you have taken and see it from a new perspective. That idea is at the heart of Reflect, which lets you chat with your journal. Ask about something you remember, follow up on an answer, explore recurring themes, or revisit the people and experiences you’ve written about. Reflect draws on your entries and links back to its sources, helping you reconnect with your own words. Desandar also makes it easier to capture the moments you’ll want to return to. Write naturally, or just talk when writing feels like a chore. Record a voice entry, transcribe it privately on your device, and preview a cleaned-up, organized, or summarized version. Your original recording and full transcript stay with the entry, giving your voice memos a lasting home in your journal. With Desandar, you can: • Write or record entries, with photos, places, weather, and moments from your day. • Transcribe recordings privately on your device and import audio shared from other apps. • Preview cleanup, organization, or transcript summaries while preserving your originals. • Start entries from templates and save your own refinement prompts for each journal. • Format entries with headings and nested lists, and find words within an entry. • Chat with your journal through Reflect and revisit the entries behind its answers. • Search by meaning, discover related entries, and return to past memories. • Create daily, weekly, and monthly recaps. • Organize with journals, tags, places, and favorites. • Import your existing entries from Day One. • Export your journal whenever you choose. Your journal belongs to you. Reflect and AI writing tools use Apple’s intelligence models and require a compatible device with Apple Intelligence enabled. Processing runs on your device by default. On supported systems, you can opt in to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute for selected features. It is off by default, with separate controls for Reflect and Deeper Recaps, Organize, Light Cleanup, and Summarize. Each control explains what text is sent, and generated results show where they ran. Desandar uses no third-party AI, third-party transcription, advertising, or tracking. There are no developer-operated servers storing or analyzing your journal. Reflect conversation history and semantic search stay on your device. You can choose to sync your journal through your own private iCloud account and protect access with Face ID or your device passcode. Apple Intelligence features require supported hardware and Apple Intelligence enabled. Core journaling remains available without it. Capture what’s happening now. Return to it with a new perspective.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Desandar at 5.0 against BrizLabs's 2.8. Desandar also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 64%) and update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly). BrizLabs's advantage is ratings volume (77 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). 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.
Desandar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BrizLabs has 77 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of BrizLabs's written reviews are positive against 100% of Desandar's.
BrizLabs ships an update monthly, Desandar every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BrizLabs | Desandar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (77 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 77 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 217 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen LinkTop Iot Co.,Ltd | Paul DeSalvo |
Customer experience
BrizLabs
Desandar
Bugs and requests
BrizLabs
Reported bugs
32 issues- Update messes with connection
- Requires resetting lights to repair
- Disconnects from Alexa
- App says 'already paired' when not working
- Unable to repair with device
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- Randomly text won't appear
- App bugs out
- Provision failed
- Device says it's offline
- Error every time when logging in
- Animations like timings don't work
- Lights get automatically removed from device
- Doesn't appear possible to add back/reset lights
- Scheduling lights hasn't worked
- Alexa commands don't work unless said multiple times
- Music connection is useless and not synced
- Ability to change color not as custom as expected
- Lack of functionality to set a custom color static 'scheme'
- Lights don't work
- Lights won't connect
- App doesn't have all functionality depicted in app store images
- Holiday sections are gone
- Customization is gone
- Hex code field is just for information purposes
- Color match to selected app color is poor
- When lightening a color, it goes to bright blue white light
- Timer never works
- Won't connect to phone app
- Can't even create an account
- Service not found error
- Lights won't connect
- Cannot pair the lights
Requested features
4 requests- Add dark mode option
- Add more preset scenes (Halloween, Christmas, Fire cracker)
- Ability to input specific hex numbers
- Copy coding from the 'life' app
Desandar
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BrizLabs
No in-app purchases
Desandar
No in-app purchases









