Glow Lamp vs Color Lights Flashing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Glow Lamp
Transform your device into a dynamic mood lamp using a water bottle. Create relaxing ambient light with shifting colors and customizable effects, reminiscent of a modern lava lamp.
- Device-based mood lamp
- Uses water bottle for light diffusion
- Shifting color circles
- Adjustable color speeds
- Orbital accent circles
- Customizable light effects
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Turn your iPhone or iPad into a glowing, pulsating mood lamp, perfect to warm up the darkness with a soft relaxing light! Place a bottle of water on one of Glow Lamp's bright circles to pull the light of your device up into the bottle. Circles shift between colors at varying speeds and you can add a smaller orbiting circle that zooms around the outside of the larger circle to add accents and fun. The effects are controlled by you - experiment with colors and speeds to discover the moods you can create! It's a lava lamp for the 21st century! For best results use in a darker space and place your Glow Lamp near a wall. The photo has not been retouched in any way! ----------------------------------- - Thanks to icons8.com for several in-app icons
Color Lights Flashing
Transform your phone into a versatile lighting tool. Enjoy a bright flashlight, customizable disco effects, and music synchronization for parties or mood lighting. It offers a user-friendly interface with battery optimization and privacy respect.
- Music synchronization
- Disco ball simulation
- Adjustable strobe frequency
- Mood lighting effects
- Battery optimized flashlight
- Clean and fast interface
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Color Lights brings you the world's most entertaining flashlight app, all in one app. A simple but complete tool in your phone with many useful features with music, color and flash. Color Lights app provide you with many more features synchronizing the camera led flashlight and the screen flashlight turning your phone in a color flashlight ensuring you're enjoying lighting, dancing and listening music. FEATURES: * Cool Interface: Stunning graphics with beautiful interface and clean layout make the operation simple, smooth and fast! * Colorful environment: Simulate a disco ball and another light effects, select your style, switch color mode and host your own personal ambient. * Optimized: Battery friendly, super bright flashlight and music integration. * No unnecessary permission, no data collections: Just camera to control the flashlight and microphone to beat to the rhythm of the music. We respect your privacy. USES: * Strobe/Blinking Lights: The brightest strobe lights with frequency adjustable can be used in your bike, in your car, to send a warning, to produce a nice effect in when recording a video. * Animate your music! Color Lights flashlight app can integrate music from Music Streamers(Spotify, Deezer, SoundCloud) and from Music Players and beat to the rhythm of the music! Cool! * Disco Light: Animate the moments with your friends with disco lights, like a color flashlight create a cool disco light effect that will turn your flash LED on and off with the surrounding sound like graphical equalizer or music visualizer. * Mood Light: Selecting slow speed transform your room in a mood lights, using your screen color as a night light displaying color lights of the rainbow that adding ambience and atmosphere to a room. Can help you meditate and relax an even release tension, stress or anxiety. Have fun! * Disclaimer: Strobe light can cause epileptic seizures in some people with history of epilepsy. Do not point to the face for long periods. --- MORE INFORMATION: Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://duperchic.wixsite.com/chic-apps/policy Contact us: chic.message@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Color Lights Flashing at none against Glow Lamp's shown. Color Lights Flashing also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (198 vs 36). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Glow Lamp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Color Lights Flashing sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Color Lights Flashing holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Lights Flashing has 198 ratings behind it against 36, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Glow Lamp's written reviews are positive against 81% of Color Lights Flashing's.
Glow Lamp ships an update every 4 months, Color Lights Flashing every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Glow Lamp | Color Lights Flashing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (36 ratings) | 4.6 (198 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.3% of reviews | 80.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 36 | 198 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Kaufman | Pavel Rojas |
Customer experience
Glow Lamp
Color Lights Flashing
Bugs and requests
Glow Lamp
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Color Lights Flashing
Reported bugs
6 issues- Free version is useless
- Paid features inaccessible
- Unable to restore purchases
- App bugged a lot
- App didn't work as shown in ads
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- Siphons cash from account
Requested features
6 requests- More affordable pricing or a free version
- Free trial option
- Unlock all features
- Brighter lights
- Wider light coverage
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- More features in the free version
In-app purchases
Glow Lamp
- Remove Ads$0.99
Color Lights Flashing
- FlashBeat – Weekly Access$1.997 Days
- MusicVibe Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Unlimited Weekly Access3 Days trial$9.997 Days
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- Infinity Lights – Yearly Pass7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Origin Lights – Launch Deal1 Year trial$49.991 Year
Questions
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