Triones vs i
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Triones
Control smart lights with extensive color and brightness options. Create custom scenes, sync with music, and manage multiple devices remotely. Schedule lighting and personalize your environment.
- Personalized color and brightness control
- Scene creation and music sync
- Multi-device and group management
- Remote operation and scheduling
- Photo color selection
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1. Personalized Color Control: Supports 16 million color adjustments and brightness tuning, allowing you to switch light colors via shaking your phone, selecting hues from photos, or rotating the color wheel, with intelligent storage of frequently used color preferences; 2. Scene Smart Interaction: Pre-set multiple modes, enabling lights to sync with music rhythm or respond to voice commands for dynamic changes; 3. Multi-device Management: Supports simultaneous connection and group control of multiple fixtures, adapting to various scenarios such as home, commercial, and automotive modifications; 4. Flexible and Convenient Control: Remote operation without directional restrictions, supporting scheduled on/off task settings; 5. Rich themes: Multiple backgrounds can be switched to meet user needs.
i
Control your device's lantern with custom colors and scene modes. Play local music through the Bluetooth peripheral and set regular on/off timers for lights and music.
- Bluetooth Low Energy control
- Customizable lantern colors
- Multiple scene modes
- Local music playback
- Scheduled on/off timers
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The app controls the device with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), using the iOS device as a remote control. 1. Lantern: It can be used to control the color change of the lantern, and a variety of scene modes are available 2. Music: You can use the Bluetooth peripheral to play the user's local mobile phone music 3. Timing: Lights, music can be turned on and off regularly
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Triones at 2.4 against i's 1.6. Triones also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 months) and review sentiment (19% vs 0%). i's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Triones holds the better App Store score, 2.4 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 47 and 34 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of Triones's written reviews are positive against 0% of i's.
Triones ships an update fortnightly, i every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Triones | i |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (47 ratings) — better | 1.6 (34 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 18.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 兴魁 胡 | 鹏 姜 |
Customer experience
Triones
i
In-app purchases
Triones
No in-app purchases
i
No in-app purchases
