Comparison

RedLight Bill vs Rubi

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

Head to head
About

RedLight Bill

Features
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Red light is an app that runs on an iPad to control three Bluetooth modules inside the Lumara red light sculpting base station. Each of the three Bluetooths controls three channels. Therefore a total of nine red light mats can have independent brightness levels. The app includes a countdown timer. That can be set for any length of time. When the countdown timer reaches zero all pads’ brightness is set to off. The app also provides capability to set each pad at a different brightness and to save different brightness settings in a profile for easy recall.

About

Rubi

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Rubi turns your iPhone or iPad into a calm, deep-red light for the end of your day. One tap starts a 20-minute wind-down ritual: the screen fills with gentle red light, an optional breath pacer keeps you company, and when the timer ends the light fades slowly to black — it will never flash white in a dark room. WHY RED? Bright, blue-heavy screens in the evening tell your brain it is still daytime. Red sits at the low-energy end of the spectrum and has the smallest alerting effect of any screen color. Rubi swaps the late-night feed for twenty quiet minutes of soft red light. ONE TAP, THEN NOTHING • Start your ritual with a single tap — no buried accessibility settings, no triple-click hacks • Session timers from ten minutes to open-ended, always ending in a slow fade to black • Rubi raises your screen brightness for the session and always restores it afterwards • The screen stays awake for the whole session, no tapping to keep it alive MADE FOR REAL NIGHTS • Baby Light: a touch-locked red light for night feeds and checks — the screen ignores every touch until you hold for three seconds, so it can never flash white in the nursery • Five light colors from deep red to warm white, plus a custom color picker • Six gentle sounds — rain, brown noise, ocean, thunderstorm, crickets, soft fan — that mix politely with your music and podcasts instead of muting them • An optional breath pacer (four seconds in, six seconds out) for winding down BUILD THE HABIT • A quiet log of your evenings: streaks, sessions, and calm minutes • One gentle daily reminder if you want it — the only notification Rubi will ever send • Own a real red light panel? Rubi works just as well as the session timer and consistency tracker beside it THE HONEST SCIENCE A phone screen cannot replace a red light therapy panel, and Rubi will never pretend it can — no skin, collagen, or pain-relief claims, ever. What your screen can honestly give you: gentler light, a bounded ritual, and a reason to put the feed down. The full, sober explanation lives one tap away inside the app. A FAIR PRICE AND A QUIET APP • The core ritual is free forever: the 20-minute timer, deep red light, touch lock, and two sounds • Rubi Pro is one price, once — no subscription, no ads • No accounts, no tracking, nothing ever leaves your phone Wind down tonight. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://trcoapps.com/privacy

Screenshots

RedLight Bill3 screens
Rubi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RedLight Bill at none against Rubi's 4. RedLight Bill also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Rubi sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. RedLight Bill asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 2 level
RedLight Bill versus Rubi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRedLight BillRubi
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSPARKLEO (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITEDTimothy Richardson

In-app purchases

None

RedLight Bill

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Rubi

One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
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  • Rubi Pro Forever$9.99

Questions

Is RedLight Bill free?
RedLight Bill is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rubi free?
Rubi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do RedLight Bill or Rubi have ads?
Neither RedLight Bill nor Rubi shows ads.

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