Comparison

LIGHTIFY vs SYLVANIA Smart Home

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

Head to head
About

LIGHTIFY

Control your home and garden lighting from anywhere in the world with this mobile app. Customize colors, brightness, and create dynamic light effects to enhance your living space and improve safety, all while potentially reducing power consumption.

Highlights
  • Remote lighting control
  • Customizable colors and brightness
  • Create light effects
  • Control home and garden lighting
  • Remote access via internet
  • Energy saving features
Features
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Your mobile light control of the future The LIGHTIFY app is your mobile control center for the complete LIGHTIFY system. The app contains many exciting functions and settings, enabling you to customize your lighting. You can carry out a wide range of modifications to your home and garden lighting at any time, playfully with simple wiping movements on your mobile device: In a matter of seconds and via the Internet from anywhere in the world. LIGHTIFY: lighting has never been as much fun as this! And light has never been so individual, enriching and helpful. LIGHTIFY brings the future of lighting into your home and garden. Light controlled by a mobile app. Connected lighting that adapts at all times to your desires and lifestyle. More flexibility, color, excitement and emotion. A greater feeling of safety. And less power consumption. Let your creativity run free! Simply play around with your lighting. Try out new ideas. And surprise both yourself and your guests with really great light effects. It couldn´t be simpler: LIGHTIFY installation in 3 steps: 1. Download the free LIGHTIFY app on your smartphone or tablet PC 2. Insert the LIGHTIFY gateway into the socket and connect it to your WLAN router 3. Install your LIGHTIFY lamps and luminaires and follow the app instructions We’d appreciate it if you could review our privacy policy (https://www.osram.com/cb/lightify/lightify-privacy-policy/index.jsp) and terms of use (https://www.osram.com/cb/lightify/lightify-terms-of-use/index.jsp), which you need to accept before using the LIGHTIFY system.  It's important information about what you can and can't do with LIGHTIFY, and how we protect your privacy.

About

SYLVANIA Smart Home

Easily update your SYLVANIA SMART+ HomeKit accessories to the latest firmware. This app ensures your smart home devices have the newest features and improvements without needing a separate hub.

Highlights
  • Firmware updates for SMART+ accessories
  • HomeKit integration
  • No hub required
  • View accessory status
  • Automatic update process
Features
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The SYLVANIA Smart Home app allows Apple HomeKit users to easily update their SYLVANIA SMART+ accessories to the latest firmware version to incorporate new features and improvements as they become available. Setting up and upgrading your SYLVANIA SMART+ HomeKit-enabled accessories is quick and easy, with no hub required for use. After pairing your SMART+ accessories to HomeKit, use this app to check for firmware updates. Your paired SMART+ HomeKit accessories can be viewed within the app and a message will be displayed next to the accessory if an update is available. Select the accessory to update and the process will automatically begin.

Screenshots

LIGHTIFY4 screens
SYLVANIA Smart Home4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: LIGHTIFY at 4.0 against SYLVANIA Smart Home's 1.6. LIGHTIFY also leads on review sentiment (26% vs 11%) and ratings volume (2.4K vs 242). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LIGHTIFY holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LIGHTIFY has 2.4K ratings behind it against 242, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of LIGHTIFY's written reviews are positive against 11% of SYLVANIA Smart Home's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LIGHTIFY ships an update every 2 months, SYLVANIA Smart Home every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
LIGHTIFY versus SYLVANIA Smart Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLIGHTIFYSYLVANIA Smart Home
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2.4K ratings) — better1.6 (242 ratings)
Positive reviews25.7% of reviews — better10.8% of reviews
Number of ratings2.4K — better242
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size117 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOSRAM GmbHLEDVANCE LLC

Customer experience

LIGHTIFY

All ratings2,408 ratings
Positive74.0%
Neutral5.6%
Negative20.3%
Written reviews338 reviews
Positive25.7%
Neutral10.4%
Negative63.9%

SYLVANIA Smart Home

All ratings231 ratings
Positive13.0%
Neutral5.6%
Negative81.4%
Written reviews148 reviews
Positive10.8%
Neutral4.1%
Negative85.1%

User reviews

LIGHTIFY

From 2.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Great product
  • 🚀 Worked flawlessly
  • 👍 Awesome product
  • 👍 Very pleased

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Freezes on agree page
  • 🐛 No support to install app
  • 🐛 Completely abandoned
  • 🐛 Current update won't support lights
  • 🐛 Not intuitive

SYLVANIA Smart Home

From 242 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Works well
  • 👍 Flawless
  • 👍 Fairly good

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Constantly disconnecting
  • 🐛 Unresponsive
  • 🐛 Crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Buggy app
  • 🐛 Firmware updates don't work

Bugs and requests

LIGHTIFY

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Gateway firmware update breaks connectivity
  • Lights randomly turn on/off
  • Schedules disappear after bulb turns on
  • Lights default to cool white on power-on
  • Upgrade process disables all other features

Requested features

5 requests
  • Sunset/sunrise scheduling
  • Integration with smart assistants
  • Ability to set dynamic presets
  • Fading between scenes
  • Ping-based scene triggers

SYLVANIA Smart Home

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashes on launch
  • Firmware updates fail
  • Devices disappear from app
  • Inability to connect to Bluetooth
  • Lights behave erratically

Requested features

6 requests
  • Remove annoying pop-up notification
  • Add 'never see again' option for notifications
  • Improve app responsiveness and stability
  • Better integration with smart home platforms
  • Add scheduling/timer functionality
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  • Improve color control and customization options

In-app purchases

None

LIGHTIFY

No in-app purchases

None

SYLVANIA Smart Home

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LIGHTIFY free?
LIGHTIFY is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SYLVANIA Smart Home free?
SYLVANIA Smart Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LIGHTIFY or SYLVANIA Smart Home?
LIGHTIFY is rated higher. LIGHTIFY averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2.4K ratings, while SYLVANIA Smart Home averages 1.6 from 242 ratings.
Do LIGHTIFY or SYLVANIA Smart Home have ads?
Neither LIGHTIFY nor SYLVANIA Smart Home shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LIGHTIFY or SYLVANIA Smart Home?
LIGHTIFY ships an update every 2 months, and SYLVANIA Smart Home every 4 months. Most recently, LIGHTIFY was updated on October 24, 2026 and SYLVANIA Smart Home on October 24, 2026.

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