Comparison

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.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Music synchronization
  • Disco ball simulation
  • Adjustable strobe frequency
  • Mood lighting effects
  • Battery optimized flashlight
  • Clean and fast interface
Features
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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

Screenshots

iLight:Smart lights4 screens
Color Lights Flashing4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
iLight:Smart lights versus Color Lights Flashing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriLight:Smart lightsColor Lights Flashing
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (59 ratings)4.6 (198 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.5% of reviews80.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings59198 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS8.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB124 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer涛 余Pavel Rojas

Customer experience

iLight:Smart lights

All ratings58 ratings
Positive24.1%
Neutral5.2%
Negative70.7%
Written reviews73 reviews
Positive20.5%
Neutral20.5%
Negative58.9%

Color Lights Flashing

All ratings197 ratings
Positive90.4%
Neutral3.6%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews47 reviews
Positive80.9%
Neutral4.3%
Negative14.9%

User reviews

iLight:Smart lights

From 59 App Store ratings

What 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 ratings

What 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
Show 6 more
  • 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
Show 1 more
  • 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
Show 1 more
  • More features in the free version

In-app purchases

None

iLight:Smart lights

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Color Lights Flashing

Subscriptions5
  • 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

Is iLight:Smart lights free?
iLight:Smart lights is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Color Lights Flashing free?
Color Lights Flashing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iLight:Smart lights or Color Lights Flashing?
Color Lights Flashing is rated higher. iLight:Smart lights averages 2.0 out of 5 from 59 ratings, while Color Lights Flashing averages 4.6 from 198 ratings.
Do iLight:Smart lights or Color Lights Flashing have ads?
Neither iLight:Smart lights nor Color Lights Flashing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iLight:Smart lights or Color Lights Flashing?
iLight:Smart lights ships an update every 6 weeks, and Color Lights Flashing every 2 months. Most recently, iLight:Smart lights was updated on November 1, 2026 and Color Lights Flashing on November 3, 2026.

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