milight vs Corluma
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
milight
Control your smart lights remotely via Wi-Fi. This application allows you to manage your lighting setup from anywhere, offering convenient control over your home's ambiance.
- Wi-Fi control
- Remote management
- Smart lighting control
- Ambiance management
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Wifi Controller for milight
Corluma
Manage all your smart lights from a single application. Effortlessly change colors, apply dynamic effects, and group lights for synchronized control. Save favorite settings and access advanced features like screen mirroring for specific devices.
- Unified control for multiple smart light brands
- Color wheels, swatches, and palettes
- Dynamic effects and color streams
- Group lights for simultaneous control
- Save and recall favorite light settings
- Screen mirroring for Nanoleaf 4D
- Local Wi-Fi communication, no account needed
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Control all the smartlights in your home from one app! Use color wheels, swatches, or palettes to change the color of your lights. You can also use effects and streams to change colors over time. Do you have too many lights? Simplify managing them by grouping them and controlling them all at once. Save your favorite settings and reset them back to their exact state at any time with just a few clicks, add timeouts, access light specific features such as screen mirroring for Nanoleaf 4D lights, and more! Corluma does not require an account, external servers, or additional permissions such as location to use your lights. The app is fully featured from the start with no In-App purchases. All communication is done on local wifi. Compatibility: - Hues: all lights supported, bridge required - LIFX: all bulbs, multizone, and tiles supported - Nanoleafs: all lights except the Nanoleaf Essentials line supported - Arduinos: supports the ArduCor sketch, which can use NeoPixels, Rainbowduinos, and standard LEDs - WLED: supports basic features with pass through to web interface
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Corluma at 100% against milight's 30%. Corluma also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.8). milight's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 17). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Corluma holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of milight's written reviews are positive against 100% of Corluma's.
milight ships an update every 9 days, Corluma every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | milight | Corluma |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Xincaiyi Technology Co., Ltd. | Timothy Seemann |
Customer experience
milight
Corluma
Bugs and requests
milight
Reported bugs
15 issues- Latest update broke app, missing menu buttons
- Removed icons from bottom of app
- 3G/4G intermittent or not working
- Unable to connect to Wi-Fi network
- Cannot select router or enter password
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- App not working with latest phone software
- Password field not visible in iOS 7
- App bugged on 3G/4G
- No icon appears when Wi-Fi switch is off
- App searches and finds nothing
- Cannot get app to find light
- Does not work remotely on 4G
- No longer works on 3G signal
- Cannot pair Wi-Fi box to router on iOS 7
- No text field for SSID password in iOS 7
Requested features
16 requests- Add timer functionality
- Upgrade the app
- Add music control
- Add preset settings
- Add dark mode
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- Add scene control
- Add ramp speed control
- Add proximity feature
- Add manual 100% light control
- Add white light button
- Add RGB value input and saving
- Set default interface
- Remove unused interfaces
- Support newer strip controllers (RGBW)
- Improve UI design
- Change app icon
Corluma
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
milight
No in-app purchases
Corluma
No in-app purchases
