DJI GO vs iLight：Smart lights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DJI GO
Control your DJI drones and gimbals with a live HD camera feed. Access dynamic maps, adjust camera settings, and manage your footage. Edit and share videos with smart tools and community features.
- Live HD camera view
- Dynamic map view
- Camera controls and settings
- Video and photo library
- Smart video editor
- Social media sharing
- YouTube live streaming
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Connect your mobile or tablet with your DJI Equipment and start filming! Supported Equipment: - The Inspire, Phantom and Matrice series flying platforms - The Osmo handheld gimbal and camera Features: - Live HD camera view - Dynamic map view - Camera controls and settings - Library section to view, edit and share your videos and photos - ‘Director’ smart video editor with built-in templates - Sharing on social media and messaging apps - SkyPixel aerial photography community - YouTube live streaming - Real-time flight records - Video tutorials and documentation Learn more: www.dji.com
iLight：Smart lights
Control smart lights from your phone, adjusting brightness and color. Enjoy dynamic lighting effects, music synchronization, and shake-activated controls. Features include a sleep assistant and timed wake-up alarms with gradual light and sound changes.
- Mobile light control (on/off, brightness, color)
- 4 colorful light effects
- Musical rhythm synchronization (local music, cloud resources)
- Shake controls for various settings
- Sleep assistant with gradual fade-out
- Timed wake-up with gradual fade-in
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Light Control: Lights controlled via mobile app on/off, altering brightness,colors Colorful light effect: 4 colorful light effects inside with the app, to meet your needs in different contexts. Musical Rhythm: Local music freely taken; TF card plugged anytime. Enjoy the massive unique cloud musical resources; Shake: shaking with kinds of settings as you need, such as random colors, on/off, next song. Sleep Assistant: sleepy shen night falls with dim lights and music gradually faded out. helps you sleep fast. Timing lights: Morning, bleary-eyed with light fade in, the music gradually up. wakes you up.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: iLight：Smart lights at free against DJI GO's free with in-app purchases. iLight：Smart lights also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 10.0). DJI GO's advantage is rating (2.3 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (3.3K vs 59). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
DJI GO holds the better App Store score, 2.3 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DJI GO has 3.3K ratings behind it against 59, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 15% of DJI GO's written reviews are positive against 21% of iLight：Smart lights's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
DJI GO ships an update every 2 months, iLight：Smart lights every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DJI GO | iLight：Smart lights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3.3K ratings) — better | 2.0 (59 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 14.7% of reviews | 20.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.3K — better | 59 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 530 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DJI | 涛 余 |
Customer experience
DJI GO
iLight：Smart lights
User reviews
DJI GO
From 3.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great app for controlling Osmo Mobile 2
- 🚀 Awesome stabilization and camera features
- 💡 Useful panorama, timelapse, and motion scenes
- ⭐️ Excellent app for Phantom 3 and Inspire 1 drones
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently, especially on newer iPhones
- 🔋 Drains battery quickly
- 💾 Poor media management, doesn't save to camera roll
- 🤖 Bluetooth connectivity issues, doesn't recognize devices
- 🤔 Confusing user interface and unintuitive controls
iLight：Smart lights
From 59 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 💡 Customizable lighting
- 🎵 Music playback
- ✨ Innovative features
- 🔊 Good speaker quality
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashing
- ❌ Bluetooth connectivity issues
- 😠 Ads intrusive
- 🚫 App not working
- 📉 Unreliable performance
Bugs and requests
DJI GO
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes when trying to record or edit videos
- Fails to recognize Bluetooth connection with devices
- Loses all recorded media after app reinstall or update
- Incompatible with latest iOS versions on newer iPhones
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for 4K 60fps video
- Allow use of iPhone's secondary camera lens
- Improve active tracking and stabilization algorithms
- Integrate with more third-party apps and software
iLight：Smart lights
Reported bugs
39 issues- App keeps shutting off
- Bluetooth connection issues
- App crashes when playing music
- Light only blinks
- Cannot connect to Bluetooth
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- Music plays briefly then crashes app
- App crashes within a minute
- App goes blank on opening
- Crashes when changing colors or Bluetooth
- App not working after update
- App freezes and does nothing
- Activation function won't work
- App shows 'go to' with no control
- App no longer syncs with speaker/light
- Bulb flickers when turned on
- Bluetooth in and out
- App glitchy, music starts/stops
- App doesn't work with iOS 11
- Speaker doesn't sync with phone
- Alarm light not working
- Timer doing strange things
- Update broke music link
- Alarm not working while phone locked
- Cannot use all music in app
- Crashing problem fixed
- App doesn't connect to control lighting
- Crashes every time
- App crashes on opening
- Music playback issues
- Light control issues
- App freezes
- Bluetooth connectivity issues
- Intrusive ads
- App not working
- Unreliable performance
- Poor user interface
- Music playback issues
- Light control issues
- App freezes
Requested features
11 requests- Add Apple Watch app
- Add desktop version
- Improve color switcher calibration
- Add Alexa/Google Home integration
- Make sound level selectable
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- Allow playlist access
- Add timer to turn off bulb
- Add default color setting
- Add radio tuner
- Add call answering function
- Allow multiple Bluetooth connections
In-app purchases
DJI GO
No in-app purchases
iLight：Smart lights
No in-app purchases
