iLight:Smart lights vs Color Lights Flashing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
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 review sentiment: Color Lights Flashing at 81% against iLight:Smart lights's 21%. Color Lights Flashing also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (198 vs 59). iLight:Smart lights's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Color Lights Flashing sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. iLight:Smart lights asks for nothing beyond the download.
Color Lights Flashing holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 59 and 198 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of iLight:Smart lights's written reviews are positive against 81% of Color Lights Flashing's.
iLight:Smart lights ships an update every 6 weeks, Color Lights Flashing every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iLight:Smart lights | Color Lights Flashing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (59 ratings) | 4.6 (198 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.5% of reviews | 80.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 59 | 198 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 涛 余 | Pavel Rojas |
Customer experience
iLight:Smart lights
Color Lights Flashing
User reviews
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
Color Lights Flashing
From 198 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤩 Fun and enjoyable experience
- 💡 Creative exploration features
- 🌈 Colorful and vibrant lights
- 👍 Easy to use interface
- 🎶 Syncs with music (paid version)
Room to improve
- 💸 Expensive paid features
- 🆓 Free version is limited/useless
- 💡 Wish all features were unlocked
- 💡 Desire for more affordable options
- 💡 Wish for a free version with more features
Bugs and requests
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
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
iLight:Smart lights
No in-app purchases
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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Is Color Lights Flashing free?
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