Oasis

Review by eFreeware

If you own lighting from Mixtiles' Oasis range, this app is the piece that ties those products together. It puts control of the lights in one place and runs a daily cycle for you, so the brightness and color temperature shift on their own rather than waiting for you to change a setting.

The appeal is the absence of fiddling. The developer's pitch is light that adapts through the day without you lifting a finger, and the app is built around that idea rather than around manual switches. If you have ever set up a lamp routine and abandoned it after a week, that framing is likely to sound familiar.

It is free, carries no ads and has no in-app purchases, which keeps the decision simple for anyone already using Oasis hardware. The app is rated 4.8 from 285 ratings, with more than 10,000 installs, and it was released in May 2025.

Who the Oasis app is built for

This is a companion app, so its audience starts with people who already own Oasis products. The app exists to control those lights, and the whole experience assumes they are in the room. If you are shopping for lighting software on its own, there is nothing here to control yet.

Within that group, the fit is broad. Anyone who wants their home lighting to follow the shape of the day, brighter and cooler when they are active and softer when they are winding down, is the natural user. The developer also presents the cycle as a way to relax and sleep better, which points to bedrooms and evening routines as much as to workspaces.

The app is also a reasonable fit for people who dislike managing schedules. There are no schedules to maintain, so the daily pattern runs on its own once it is set up. That suits households where nobody wants to open an app every morning.

A light cycle that runs through the day

The core of the app is a daily light cycle. In the morning the lights come up gently to wake you, during the day they shift toward a warm, energizing tone, and in the evening they settle into a cozy amber glow. The developer describes the whole sequence as happening without any input from you.

What I like about the arrangement is that it treats lighting as something that changes rather than something you set once. Morning light and evening light are genuinely different jobs, and the app handles the transition between them instead of leaving you to remember it. The recent update mentions better light cycle scheduling, so this is the part the developer has been refining.

The developer's claims about relaxation and sleep are the kind of promise that depends on your room, your fixtures and your habits. I would treat them as the intent behind the design rather than a guaranteed outcome.

Adjusting brightness, warmth and timing

Automatic does not mean fixed. The app lets you change brightness, warmth and timing when the default cycle does not match how you actually live. That matters for shift workers, early risers and anyone whose evenings start later than the standard pattern assumes.

Setup is described as simple and finished in minutes, which fits the overall tone. There is no suggestion of a long configuration process, and the app is positioned so that the automatic behavior does most of the work. The recent update also mentions an improved experience, so the app has been refined alongside the light controls.

Between the automatic cycle and the manual adjustments, the app covers both the set-and-forget user and the person who wants to tune the details. That combination is what makes it more than a remote control for a lamp.

What it costs

The app itself is free. There are no ads and no in-app purchases, so nothing suggests a charge to reach any part of the light controls. You install it and use it.

The real cost sits in the hardware. Oasis is a companion app for Oasis products, so the money goes to the lights rather than to the software. That is worth keeping in mind when weighing the app against the price of the fixtures it drives.

For anyone who already owns the products, the software side adds nothing to the bill. That is a clean arrangement and one of the more straightforward parts of the whole proposition.

How it compares with other lighting setups

The obvious alternative is a general smart-home platform that controls bulbs from several brands in one place. Those apps tend to be broader, covering plugs, sensors and cameras alongside lighting, but they usually leave the daily light pattern to you or to rules you build yourself. Oasis trades that breadth for a cycle that is ready out of the box.

A second option is a dedicated lighting app from another manufacturer, which works the same way in reverse: excellent for its own hardware, closed to everything else. The pattern is familiar across the category, and it means the choice usually follows the lights you own rather than the software you prefer.

The third comparison is doing nothing at all and using ordinary lamps. That costs less and requires no setup, but it also means the lighting stays where you left it. The Oasis app is for people who want the day's rhythm reflected in their light without building that system themselves.

A companion app worth having if you own the lights

For owners of Oasis products, this app is the natural way to run them. It is free, free of ads and free of purchases, and it handles the part of lighting that is easy to neglect: the change from morning to evening. The automatic cycle, with brightness, warmth and timing adjustments when you need them, covers both the hands-off user and the tinkerer.

The limitation is structural rather than a flaw. The app controls Oasis products, so its value depends entirely on having them. Anyone without the hardware has nothing to connect, and no amount of software polish changes that.

If you own the lights, I would install it and let the cycle run for a while before adjusting anything. If you do not, the app is not the place to start; the lights are.

What's new in version 2.9.2

• Better light cycle scheduling • Improved app shop experience