Reviews of Bosso Lights

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List of user reviews and ratings for Bosso Lights

Total ratings

3.80 (Rating count: 125)

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Review summary

Bosso Lights' app is widely praised for being intuitive and feature-rich, with strong scheduling and presets. However, recurring schedule reliability problems, intrusive ad/video prompts, and update-driven UX regressions, along with slow support, are the main downsides. When it works, it’s easy to use and powerful; the key opportunity is improving reliability and the update experience.

Pros

Extremely user-friendly and intuitive UI
Powerful scheduling and presets with year-long planning
Wide library of designs and customizable presets
Active development with frequent updates and improvements
Overall positive experience when the app functions as intended

Cons

Scheduling is unreliable across zones and dates; issues with holidays and remaining schedules
Updates include forced ads/upsell and login prompts, making access frustrating
UI changes and feature removals after updates disrupt usability
Customer support is slow or unresponsive

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 3.20

All time rating average: 3.80

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32% (16)

Date	Author	Comment
2026-04-14	da*****	Easy functionality and lets you do everything you want. Perfect app
Easy functionality and lets you do everything you want. Perfect app
2026-03-24	Sc*****	Worst app I have ever encountered. Hate it. Wish I would have gone with a different company.
Worst app I have ever encountered. Hate it. Wish I would have gone with a different company.
2026-02-27	In*****	Don’t bother they don’t support their product.
Don’t bother they don’t support their product.
2026-02-04	Su*****	I have had the system for a few months now and find the schedule setting unreliable. In the past month at least 60% of the time one of my zones do not come on using the schedule setting. Have to manually turn on. Also found that once you make a schedule it cannot be modified. For example at xmas had xmas lights tried to change lights to an everyday light and schedule kept going back to xmas lights. Had to creat another schedule. Now i have two zones not working at all. Shouldnt be this difficult.
I have had the system for a few months now and find the schedule setting unreliable. In the past month at least 60% of the time one of my zones do not come on using the schedule setting. Have to manually turn on. Also found that once you make a schedule it cannot be modified. For example at xmas had xmas lights tried to change lights to an everyday light and schedule kept going back to xmas lights. Had to creat another schedule. Now i have two zones not working at all. Shouldnt be this difficult.
2026-01-20	Ve*****	Bosso Lights app has been overall a great experience. Being able to apply schedules, do light selections, the nice presets, plus my wife likes the menus so she uses it. My only gripe is that my installer used two controllers for our property and I have to separately choose each controller and apply presets. Since the house is wired in left to right, it would be nice if they allowed virtual linking of the controllers as one whole unit. This would also allow patterns to flow over into the next controller and not look separated.
Bosso Lights app has been overall a great experience. Being able to apply schedules, do light selections, the nice presets, plus my wife likes the menus so she uses it. My only gripe is that my installer used two controllers for our property and I have to separately choose each controller and apply presets. Since the house is wired in left to right, it would be nice if they allowed virtual linking of the controllers as one whole unit. This would also allow patterns to flow over into the next controller and not look separated.
2026-01-06	Ke*****	The accent lighting is supposed to remain solid; however, the lights are malfunctioning. We are becoming increasingly frustrated, as we were informed that someone would be out today to fix either issues with the app, lights or both, yet we received no notification that no one would be arriving. As a result, we spent the entire day at home waiting. We understand that unexpected issues can arise, but timely communication is essential. We have had these lights for approximately two months, and they have only functioned properly for about five weeks. Given the $3,200 investment, this situation is understandably difficult and disappointing. Please let us know how and when this will be addressed. We would like this resolved as soon as possible.
The accent lighting is supposed to remain solid; however, the lights are malfunctioning. We are becoming increasingly frustrated, as we were informed that someone would be out today to fix either issues with the app, lights or both, yet we received no notification that no one would be arriving. As a result, we spent the entire day at home waiting. We understand that unexpected issues can arise, but timely communication is essential. We have had these lights for approximately two months, and they have only functioned properly for about five weeks. Given the $3,200 investment, this situation is understandably difficult and disappointing. Please let us know how and when this will be addressed. We would like this resolved as soon as possible.
2025-12-31	Gr*****	Marco installed our lights and was very knowledgeable and helpful. It was very cold 21 degrees and Marco never complained about anything.
Marco installed our lights and was very knowledgeable and helpful. It was very cold 21 degrees and Marco never complained about anything.
2025-12-19	D&*****	Love it
Love it
2025-12-06	Bl*****	I genuinely don’t think any of these 1 star reviews have used the app ever. This is the most intuitive permanent lighting app on the market. Love my Bosso app so easy to use and I can book out my whole year in it so I never have to manually turn off or turn on my lights ever!
I genuinely don’t think any of these 1 star reviews have used the app ever. This is the most intuitive permanent lighting app on the market. Love my Bosso app so easy to use and I can book out my whole year in it so I never have to manually turn off or turn on my lights ever!
2025-12-03	sc*****	Can’t have a system run on an app that works on a thread.
Can’t have a system run on an app that works on a thread.