ShadowBox vs RGB Lights Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShadowBox
Control your wireless LED lamps with this app. Adjust color, brightness, and create custom modes. Connect multiple lamps and manage them individually or in groups.
- Color wheel and button pad
- Custom color creation
- Brightness adjustment
- Preset color transition modes
- Custom mode creation
- Control up to 30 lamps
- Individual and group lamp control
Read full descriptionHide full description
The ShadowBox app is designed to work in conjunction with ShadowBox LED lamps from VividLite. Connect to a ShadowHub Controller through your phones Wi-Fi and use the ShadowBox App to control the color, brightness, or many other modes of your ShadowBox wireless LED lamp. Features: Color wheel, Color button pad, custom color creation/selection, brightness adjust, preset color transitions modes (smooth/flash/strobe). Custom mode creation. Connect up to 30 ShadowBox lamps. Control and target individual lamps or group them together all using your smart device. Instruction: Power on your ShadowHub Controller (optionally, plug it into your wireless router for to network it into an existing network). Connect your phones WiFi to the ShadowHubs WiFi (ShadowHubxxxxx) or to your wireless router network if the ShadowHub is connected directly to that. Once connected, start the Shadowbox App, and you're ready to go! For more information, please refer to your ShadowBox manual or visit www.VividLite.com.
RGB Lights Control
Read full descriptionHide full description
RGB Lights turns your iPhone into a proper remote for the inexpensive Bluetooth LED strips sold under names like LEDBLE, ELK-BLE, and Triones. Pick a color, run a scene, sync the lights to your music, or put the whole thing on a schedule. PICK ANY COLOR Spin the color wheel, type exact RGB values, or pull a color straight out of a photo. Brightness has a slider of its own. These strips have no brightness command, so the app scales the color down and sends dimmed values instead. TWENTY BUILT IN SCENES Fades, strobes, and jumps, in single colors or the full rainbow. Set the speed once and the strip keeps running the scene on its own, even after you close the app. Press and hold a strobe to set exactly how long it stays lit and how long it stays dark. SYNC TO MUSIC Play a song from your library and the lights follow its waveform, so they stay in time even through headphones. Or let the phone microphone listen to the room. Strips with a microphone of their own can run in that mode too. BUILD YOUR OWN PROGRAMS Chain colors and scenes into a sequence, give each step a hold time, and loop it. Sunrise, Police, Ocean, Breathe, and Candle are there from the start. SCHEDULES AND TIMERS Turn the lights on or off at a set time on the days you choose. Start a countdown when you want them to shut themselves off after a while. SIRI AND SHORTCUTS Ask Siri to set a color, change the brightness, run a scene, start a program, or say what the lights are doing. All seven actions work in the Shortcuts app too, so they can drop into any automation you build. EVERY LIGHT REMEMBERED Connect more than one strip and each keeps its own color, brightness, and scene. Reconnect later and it comes back exactly the way you left it. SHAKE FOR A COLOR Turn it on in Settings and a shake jumps the lights to a random color, with sensitivity you can set yourself. TRY IT WITHOUT A STRIP No hardware yet? Open Devices and tap Demo Light. Every control works on screen, so you can see the whole app before you buy anything. RGB Lights talks to your strip directly over Bluetooth. There is no account, no sign in, no cloud, and no data collection of any kind.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ShadowBox at 6.0 against RGB Lights Control's 26.0. On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | ShadowBox | RGB Lights Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | VividLite | Sachin Agrawal |
In-app purchases
ShadowBox
No in-app purchases
RGB Lights Control
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is ShadowBox free?
Is RGB Lights Control free?
Do ShadowBox or RGB Lights Control have ads?
Other comparisons















