Yeelight Classic vs Terncy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yeelight Classic
Control a wide range of Yeelight smart home devices, including bulbs, strips, and lamps. Manage your lighting and fan lights remotely for a connected home experience.
- Control smart bulbs
- Manage smart strips
- Operate ceiling lights
- Control fan lights
- Use table lamps
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Yeelight consumer smart home products can be controlled with Yeelight App, including bulbs, strips, ceilling lights, fan lighst, table lamps etc.
Terncy
Control and manage your Terncy smart home devices with ease. This app allows you to add, remove, and configure devices, and even update their firmware. Enjoy seamless integration with Siri for voice commands.
- Control Terncy home automation devices via Siri
- Update Terncy device firmware
- Add and remove devices
- Configure devices
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Manage, configure and control Terncy home automation devices Main features: - Support control Terncy home automation devices via Siri - Support Terncy home automation device firmware upgrading - Support adding, removing devices
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Terncy at 3.0 against Yeelight Classic's 2.3. Terncy also leads on review sentiment (25% vs 14%). Yeelight Classic's advantage is ratings volume (351 vs 7). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Terncy holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yeelight Classic has 351 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of Yeelight Classic's written reviews are positive against 25% of Terncy's.
Yeelight Classic ships an update every 2 months, Terncy every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yeelight Classic | Terncy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (351 ratings) | 3.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.0% of reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 351 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 165 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qingdao Yeelink Information Technology Co., Ltd. | Shanghai Xiaoyan Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Yeelight Classic
Terncy
Bugs and requests
Yeelight Classic
Reported bugs
5 issues- Devices not showing up
- Scenes not saving
- Frequent log-outs
- Inability to select Wi-Fi network
- Incompatibility with new iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Better HomeKit integration
- Improved scheduling options
- Sunrise/sunset triggers
- Siri/Alexa integration
Terncy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Yeelight Classic
No in-app purchases
Terncy
No in-app purchases
