Chameleon Lighting vs Avid Lighting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chameleon Lighting
Control professional-grade addressable LED lights with pre-designed playlists and simple scheduling. Instantly apply holiday themes or dynamic animations without complex setup. Manage all your lights from a single dashboard.
- Professional playlists for instant light shows
- Holiday-themed lighting presets
- Dynamic animations and moods
- Simple, automated scheduling
- At-a-glance device status
- Quick select favorites
- Total power on/off control
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Bring your home to life with Chameleon Lighting, the control center for your professional-grade addressable LED lights. No coding, no confusing setup, no light-by-light programming — just beautiful light, customized for you. ONE-TAP SHOWS, ALREADY DESIGNED A library of professionally designed playlists, ready to run. Holidays: Christmas, Halloween, Fourth of July, Easter and more, as complete multi-effect shows. Moods and animations: rainbows, ocean waves, firelight, aurora, and simple, elegant accent lighting. Dozens of effects — Fireworks, Twinkle Fade, Bouncing Balls, Meteor, Chase — each matched to a curated color palette. Browse the entire library before you ever create an account. SCHEDULING THAT RUNS ITSELF Add an event and it schedules itself. There is nothing else to set up. Holidays arrive on the right days every year, including the ones that move. Your team's colors run on game nights, following the real schedule. Sunrise and sunset are worked out for you, wherever you live. Choose your on and off times once and every event follows them — or give any single event its own. FAVORITES AND LIVE CONTROL Favorites on the Home screen: one tap puts a look on your lights right now, and turns them on if they were off. Now Playing shows what is running and what is coming up next, with brightness and speed you can move while it plays. Zones: split one controller across the roofline, the porch and the walkway, and send different content to each. Turn everything on or off from the main screen. MAKE IT YOUR OWN Studio: build your own playlists, patterns and color palettes — or start from anything in the library and change it. Quick Color: pick a color and it is on your lights immediately. See exactly how a pattern will lay out across your strip before it gets there. WORKS ON YOUR WI-FI, WITH OR WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Your controller runs on your own network. Find it, drive it, set its schedules and save its settings straight from the app — no account, no internet connection. When your internet is out, your lights carry on. Everything local stays free, always. BUILT FOR THE WHOLE HOUSE A free Chameleon account keeps your devices, schedules and creations in sync across every phone in the home. Set something up on one, and it is there on all of them. Your lights keep to their schedule whether the app is open or not. A Chameleon Cloud plan adds the cloud half: calendars that keep themselves current, live sports schedules, control from outside the house, the Ask Chameleon assistant and over-the-air firmware updates, for up to 5 controllers on your account. New accounts get a free 10-day trial when they add their first controller. Designed to work exclusively with Chameleon Lighting hardware. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Chameleon Cloud — Yearly: $24.99 per year, auto-renewing. Chameleon Cloud — Lifetime: $149.99, a one-time purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The Yearly plan renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. Prices are in US dollars and may vary by country. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Chameleon Terms: https://chameleon.lighting/terms Privacy Policy: https://chameleon.lighting/privacy-policy
Avid Lighting
Control your home's permanent architectural lighting remotely. Choose from hundreds of pre-designed looks for holidays, seasons, and events, or create your own custom scenes. Schedule lighting changes and share control with household members.
- Remote lighting control
- Over 650 pre-made lighting looks
- Custom scene creation
- Individual light painting
- Scheduled lighting changes
- Sunrise/sunset automation
- Household sharing and control
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The Avid Lighting app controls the permanent architectural lighting installed on your home. One tap changes the whole house, whether you are on the couch or a thousand miles away. OVER 650 READY-MADE LOOKS Twenty holidays, each with six looks drawn from that holiday's own colors. Four seasons. Sixty-four solid colors spanning the spectrum. Team colors for 124 cities across four sports, filed by sport and city. Twenty looks inspired by screens and games. Plus accent lighting for ordinary evenings, occasion scenes for birthdays and parties, an effect gallery, and scenes that move with music. Every scene previews on a drawing of a house before you apply it, so you know what you are getting before the neighbors do. DESIGN YOUR OWN Build a scene from a color, a repeating pattern, or any of more than a hundred effects, with the speed and intensity under your control. Or open the individual light designer and paint the strip one light at a time. Save what you make and everyone in the house has it. SET IT AND FORGET IT Schedule scenes by the clock, or by sunrise and sunset as they actually fall at your address, on whichever days you choose. The lights come on at dusk without you thinking about it. SHARE WITH THE HOUSEHOLD Invite family by email and everyone gets the same scenes and the same control. Run more than one property from a single account. PIN WHAT YOU ACTUALLY USE The dashboard holds your favorites. Pin, reorder and clear them as the year turns. Requires Avid Lighting controllers installed at your home. Talk to Avid Home Services about installation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Chameleon Lighting at every 4 days against Avid Lighting's every 2 weeks. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Chameleon Lighting against 5.0 for Avid Lighting. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Chameleon Lighting ships an update every 4 days, Avid Lighting every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chameleon Lighting | Avid Lighting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jarrod Brown | Avid Turf |
Customer experience
Chameleon Lighting
Avid Lighting
In-app purchases
Chameleon Lighting
No in-app purchases
Avid Lighting
No in-app purchases
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