Starfish Smart Lighting

Name: Starfish Smart Lighting
Rating: 4.7 (1001 reviews)
Author: Satco Products, INC

By: Satco Products, INC

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Features & Capabilities

Starfish Smart Lighting brings a simple, scalable lighting solution to your home. It supports voice control with Hey Google, Siri, and Alexa, plus SmartThings for total home integration. The app enables secure multi-device and multi-user access so the whole family can create scenes and schedules while you maintain control.

Enjoy millions of colors, dynamic scenes, and wellness-oriented lighting that adapts to daily activities and natural daylight. Automations and remote access keep you connected, safe, and in the mood, whether at home or away.

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By:

Satco Products, INC

Rating:

4.70

(1,001)

Version:

1.1.4 Last updated: 2026-02-25

Version code:

880936688

Creation date:

2020-04-26

Compatible devices:

Size:

246.28MB

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-05

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 57,974 ▲ 47

Other platforms

Starfish Smart Lighting (v1.1.4)

34,973 3.01

(116)

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Developed by:

Satco Products, INC

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/starfish-smart-lighting/id1507949233

User Reviews

Users praise easy setup, strong automation, good color options, and solid voice assistant integrations, plus scalability for large setups. However, many reports focus on ongoing connectivity and reliability problems, difficult onboarding, and a non-intuitive UI. Color automation can be unreliable, and the system often requires 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi (not 5 GHz). Documentation is sometimes confusing. Overall, the app has strong features but notable onboarding and stability issues.

Pros

Easy to set up and use with a user-friendly interface.
Strong automation options and voice assistant integrations (Siri Shortcuts, Google Home, Alexa).
Scales well to large setups (50+ lights across multiple rooms/homes).
Color options and ambient features (color changing, mood lighting, music-sync).
Perceived good value for money.

Cons

Frequent connectivity issues and unreliable performance, including disconnects and pairing problems.
Difficult initial setup and device linking; onboarding is clunky and error-prone.
Non-intuitive, clunky interface.
Requires 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and is not compatible with 5 GHz networks.
Color control and automation can be unreliable or limited (color in automations not working as expected).

Recent reviews

All of a sudden two out of my four Satco S11283 R20 lightbulbs in my bedroom have stopped connecting. I disconnected and tried to re-pair, and now none of them will connect. Completely useless.

by Ta*****, 2025-03-10

This app is very difficult to use and not at all intuitive, try creating a scene! It is also missing some basic functionality, such as setting the color for the lighting in an automation. I also think there is a bug in that when I turn the lights on, I set it to what I thought would have been the color it was when I turned them off, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. I have the undercabinet lighting. Lastly, the literature that I found on YouTube and received from the manufacturer doesn’t match this interface, and nowhere can I find what the do not disturb feature is.