Comparison

Shade's Lamp vs Shiluce

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

Head to head
About

Shade's Lamp

Features
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Shades Lamp is the companion app for your Shades LED lamp. Connect over Bluetooth and turn the lamp into living light: pick an effect, tune it in real time, save the looks you love and let the lamp cycle through them on its own. FEATURES • Marketplace — browse a growing catalog of light effects and install them on the lamp in a couple of taps • Live parameters — adjust colors, speed and other settings and see the result on the lamp instantly • Favorites — save the exact look you like as a snapshot and return to it later • Playlists — combine saved looks into playlists; the lamp rotates them by itself, even when your phone is away • Global brightness — one slider for the whole lamp • Device settings — rename the lamp, check storage, update firmware over Bluetooth • Works offline — your library and settings stay viewable when the lamp is out of range • Localized — English and Russian, following your system language REQUIREMENTS The app requires a Shades LED lamp running WasmLED firmware. Light programs are written in C and compiled to WebAssembly; new effects keep arriving in the catalog. No accounts, no tracking, no cloud: everything is stored on your phone and on the lamp.

About

Shiluce

Features
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Turn your phone into the remote your Bluetooth LED lamp always deserved. Shiluce gives you instant, reliable control of colorful LED lamps — desk lamps, strips, bulbs and ambient lights — with no accounts, no cloud and no subscriptions. CONTROL • Power on and off • Brightness and effect speed • 16 million colors on a precision wheel • Warm-to-cool white temperature • Built-in effects: fades, strobes, breathing and more SCENES Set several lamps at once — movie night, dinner, focus, party — and bring them back with a tap. SCHEDULES Wake up to light. Turn lamps on, off or launch a scene on the days you choose. EVERYWHERE YOU ARE • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Control Center toggles • Siri and Shortcuts — "Turn on the desk lamp" • Apple Watch: power and brightness from your wrist • Ambient mode: a breathing canvas that mirrors your lamp PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs locally over Bluetooth. No tracking, no ads, nothing leaves your home. Works with the most common Bluetooth LED lamp families sold online. Shiluce — light, made yours.

Screenshots

Shade's Lamp4 screens
Shiluce4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Shade's Lamp at 15.1 against Shiluce's 27.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Shade's Lamp versus Shiluce: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShade's LampShiluce
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander SelishchevKamlofsky

In-app purchases

None

Shade's Lamp

No in-app purchases

None

Shiluce

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shade's Lamp free?
Shade's Lamp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shiluce free?
Shiluce is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Shade's Lamp or Shiluce have ads?
Neither Shade's Lamp nor Shiluce shows ads.

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