“Paywall — Has a paywall for everything”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 503 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.1 ★11,345 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
230 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Universal Led Light Controller - Connect and control all your smart led lights from multiple brands with ease: - Philips Hue, Wiz, Govee, CYNC, Nanoleaf, LIFX, Yeelight, Wyze, Tenmiro - Geeni, Sengled, Merkury, Mohuaan, Monster, Daybetter, Onn and more!
Looking for a comprehensive smart led light remote control app for your home? This app allows you to group your lights into Areas for easy access, making it simple to control all the lights in a room with just a few taps.
- Easy On-Off, dim light by room or single led light. - SYNC LIGHT WITH MUSIC.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 2.8.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.8.5, updated 2026-09-16.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 21 distinct reviewers (4.2% of 503 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
What we saw: Constant upsell pressure: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 503 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (6 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“worst lighting app — You can’t even change the colors and mostly everything is locked away from a subscription. I don’t have an actual remote to use so I have to use my phone, and the app seems like it’s mostly promoting you to use it…”
“It sucks — I love the lights but you have to pay for everything in the app you have to pay to change the color you have to pay to TURN THEM OFF which is stupid I’m about to just replace them with dollar tree lights at this point it’s…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.8.5.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.