Comparison

Casambi vs Koolmesh

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

Head to head
About

Casambi

Effortlessly personalize your lighting with wireless control. Create custom scenes, animations, and automate your lights from a smartphone or tablet. Seamlessly manage multiple devices and share access with others.

Highlights
  • Wireless lighting control
  • Customizable scenes and animations
  • Daylight and timed control
  • Visual control from photos
  • Network sharing with access rights
  • Control up to 250 devices per network
Features
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People today want to personalize their lighting experience and to do so in an instant. Casambi’s simple wireless lighting control system opens up a whole new world of possibilities in this respect. This uncomplicated yet feature-rich application enables you to seamlessly control your lighting from a smartphone or tablet. From daylight control to timed scenes, animations, and more… everything can be configured in this app. It contains everything you need for intelligent, flexible, and fully automated lighting controls. At your fingertips. Easy Commissioning: All Casambi-enabled products are configured and used with the Casambi app. The app’s intuitive design makes commissioning tasks so simple that they can be easily handled by nearly anyone. The pairing process is quick: The app will search for all powered Casambi-enabled devices within Bluetooth range of your mobile device. Control your entire lighting system from one app: Casambi provides one platform from which to control multiple components from luminaires to sensors, blinds, and more. Within the Casambi app, it is possible to create luminaire groups within a network, and then create multiple networks that can all link together. A single Casambi network can contain up to 250 devices and an endless number of networks can be created in a single site. From a single room, it is easy to upscale to building-level functionality and even expand to outdoor lighting. Control your lights from a photo: The app allows you to control lighting visually from a photo. Simply take a photo of the room in which the lights you wish to control are, upload it to the Gallery, and drag the desired control commands over the lighting fixtures within the picture. No need to remember which luminaire is which, you have a visual guide for decision-making ease. Create scenes for different lighting situations: The Scenes tab allows you to create and recall personalized lighting set-ups. One scene can control any variation of luminaires in your network, and luminaires can be used in multiple scenes. From simple lighting scenarios (such as circadian or daylight scenes) to animated and timed scenes, virtually any set-up can be configured, saved, and recalled in the app. Share your network and allow other devices to control your lighting: It is possible to control access rights to your lighting network and to define who interacts with it. An assigned ‘administrator’ can make all network changes and give access rights to new users. A ‘manager’ can make changes to all lighting control functionalities but cannot get access to passwords or decide who can access the network. A ‘user’ can only use the network but not make any changes. If you have several users and devices using the same network, any changes made with one device will be automatically adopted across all other devices using Casambi’s cloud service.

About

Koolmesh

Features
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Use Bluetooth mesh network. 1. You can control the brightness 2. You can set the motion sensor and daylight sensor 3. You can set a variety of scenes and schedules 4. You can set the BLE panel or Push switch for manual control

Screenshots

Casambi4 screens
Koolmesh4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Koolmesh at none against Casambi's shown. On price, update cadence, 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on July 4, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Casambi versus Koolmesh: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCasambiKoolmesh
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews46.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCasambi Technologies OyKOOLMESH TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD

In-app purchases

None

Casambi

No in-app purchases

None

Koolmesh

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Casambi free?
Casambi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Koolmesh free?
Koolmesh is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Casambi or Koolmesh have ads?
Casambi shows ads; Koolmesh does not.
Which is updated more often, Casambi or Koolmesh?
Casambi ships an update monthly, and Koolmesh monthly. Most recently, Casambi was updated on July 4, 2026 and Koolmesh on September 17, 2026.

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