AppLights vs Philips Motion Effects
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.
Philips Motion Effects
Control your Philips Illuminate™ lights to create custom light shows. Adjust color, brightness, and function, or sync lights to music and voice. Group up to four sets via Bluetooth for a dynamic lighting experience.
- Create custom light shows
- Control color and brightness
- Sync lights to music
- Sync lights to voice/microphone
- Group up to 4 light sets
- Set multiple timers
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Create your own light show using the Philips Motion Effects™ customizable lighting system. Control your lights from your smart phone or tablet using the Motion Effects™ app. The easy to use app allows you to adjust the color, brightness or function of your Illuminate™ lights. Simple Bluetooth connectivity allows for up to 4 sets to be grouped together, and you can choose from 16 functions on each set. Customize your light show: • Functions: Choose from one of 16 available functions, with brightness control available on some functions • Music: Make the lights move to music on your phone, using one of four predetermined flashing sensitivities • Microphone: Set the app to microphone and watch the lights flash to your voice, or turn on your favorite streaming service to get real-time reaction to music • Timer: Set multiple timers
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AppLights at 4.0 against Philips Motion Effects's 3.0. Philips Motion Effects's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 29%) and ratings volume (10 vs 3). 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 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 10 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 29% of AppLights's written reviews are positive against 50% of Philips Motion Effects's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | AppLights | Philips Motion Effects |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better | 3.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 29.4% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gemmy Industries Corporation | Seasonal Specialties LLC |
Customer experience
AppLights
Philips Motion Effects
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
Philips Motion Effects
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
AppLights
No in-app purchases
Philips Motion Effects
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is AppLights free?
Is Philips Motion Effects free?
Which has better reviews, AppLights or Philips Motion Effects?
Do AppLights or Philips Motion Effects have ads?
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