AppLights vs auraLED
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AppLights
Create and control stunning holiday light displays directly from your smartphone. This app offers a wide range of effects, colors, and themes for both indoor and outdoor decorating, making custom holiday lighting easy to manage.
- Smartphone control
- Dozens of effects and colors
- Multiple holiday themes
- Customizable color options
- Easy setup and management
- Indoor and outdoor use
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Put on a dazzling holiday light display–and control it all from your smartphone. The AppLights® app works exclusively with AppLights® holiday lighting products to control dozens of effects and colors directly from your smartphone. It’s super easy to set up and manage. Choose from multiple holiday themes, lighting technologies and color options for each lighting product. Perfect for outdoor or indoor holiday decorating, AppLights® delivers the latest in holiday decorating technology for a custom look that’s a breeze to manage.
auraLED
Control RGB LED strips with this app to adjust brightness and color. Explore built-in color and brightness patterns, rhythm effects, and set timers for lights to turn on and off.
- Control brightness and color
- Built-in color patterns
- Brightness conversion patterns
- Rhythm effects
- Timer for light on/off
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auraLED is an APP to control LED RGB strip, to control the brightness and color. and more, it has lots of build in color and brightness conversion patterns, rhythm effect, timer for light on and off, etc,.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AppLights at 4.0 against auraLED's 2.5. auraLED's advantage is ratings volume (670 vs 3) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
AppLights holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: auraLED has 670 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 29% of AppLights's written reviews are positive against 46% of auraLED's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
AppLights ships an update every 2 months, auraLED every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 6, 2026.
| Parameter | AppLights | auraLED |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better | 2.5 (670 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 29.4% of reviews | 45.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 670 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gemmy Industries Corporation | Tzumi Electronics LLC. |
Customer experience
AppLights
auraLED
User reviews
AppLights
From 3 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Works great
- 🎨 Variety of lighting effects
- ⏱️ Lights last for years
- 👍 Easy to use app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Connectivity issues
- 🔧 Unreliable/unstable
- 💡 Limited customization
- 🕰️ No timer feature
- 🔍 App not updated/supported
auraLED
From 670 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Connects quickly
- 💡 Useful for lost remotes
- 🎨 Lots of color options
Room to improve
- 🐛 Connectivity issues
- 🔨 Poor app functionality
- 🎨 Limited color selection
- 🔊 Lackluster music features
Bugs and requests
AppLights
Reported bugs
4 issues- Lights not responding to app commands
- Lights stuck in demo/default mode
- Bluetooth connectivity problems
- Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Custom color/pattern creation
- Ability to sync multiple strings
- Timer/scheduling functionality
- More lighting effects/modes
- Improved app UI/UX
auraLED
Reported bugs
4 issues- Lights randomly change modes
- App fails to detect devices
- Bluetooth disconnects frequently
- Lights stop working after a while
Requested features
4 requests- Add more music options
- Improve app interface
- Fix Bluetooth connectivity
- Expand color capabilities
In-app purchases
AppLights
No in-app purchases
auraLED
No in-app purchases
