Firefly Permanent Lights vs TruLight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Firefly Permanent Lights
Customize your home's accent lighting with millions of colors and over 100 preset patterns. Control individual lights and create schedules for holidays and daily routines. Showcase your home with unique, personalized light displays.
- Millions of color options
- 20+ movement and effect patterns
- 102 preset patterns
- Individual light control
- Customizable white hues
- Saveable timers and schedules
- Calendar event integration
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Choose from over 16 million colors to create custom patterns with 20+ movements and effects. Also select from 102 preset patterns. Control each light individually to create accent lighting that best showcases your home. Choose which lights to turn on and their colors, including any hue of white. You can save timers for nightly and weekly schedules, as well as calendar events for holidays and special occasions.
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
Firefly Permanent Lights and TruLight both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 90% of TruLight's written reviews are positive against 50% of Firefly Permanent Lights's. TruLight also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
Firefly Permanent Lights holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 17 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Firefly Permanent Lights's written reviews are positive against 90% of TruLight's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Firefly Permanent Lights ships an update every 3 weeks, TruLight every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Firefly Permanent Lights | TruLight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better | 4.5 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 17 — better |
| 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 | 14 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 409 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Firefly Solar & Lights LLC | The TruLight Solutions LLP |
Customer experience
Firefly Permanent Lights
TruLight
In-app purchases
Firefly Permanent Lights
No in-app purchases
TruLight
No in-app purchases
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