Govee, on the other hand, has only recently gotten into wall-hanging light fixtures with the Glide Wall Light, Glide Triangles, and Glide Hex. Nanoleaf did offer standard bulbs years back but shifted to innovating its light panels to bring an updated bulb back into the lineup in 2020. Nanoleaf's Essentials line brought back more traditional LED light strips and bulbs to the brand. You can even play some games like Whack-A-Mole on them, which my kids love playing on our Nanoleaf Canvas. Some models are touch-sensitive, so you can control them with swipes and taps. The company has hexagons and triangles in different sizes, squares, and lines that are all controllable via the app or voice with Google Assistant, Alexa, or Siri. Nanoleaf has long been the de facto smart light brand for wall-mountable panels, making some of the best smart lights for gaming.

This is because while Govee and Nanoleaf each sell light strips and bulbs, it's the other products that come in other shapes and sizes that really fill out their portfolios. Also, you may have noticed that I keep saying lighting fixtures. Both also have a variety of lighting fixtures with different strengths. So, we've established that both brands have excellent lighting quality, which we expect from some of the best smart lights on the market. (Image credit: Chris Wedel/Android Central) While talking about the colors and how they move may not seem like an ecosystem point, it's good to know that there are a bunch of smart lighting brands with color-changing lights, but few offer the level of quality Nanoleaf and Govee do. The Lyra gave me the same vibrant colors with fluid transitions that reflected off of the wall. I had a similar experience when I reviewed the Govee Lyra Corner Lamp. The flow of colors from one to another is memorizing, and I can just watch them for hours. I had grown accustomed to seeing the moment an LED changed from a blue to a green with pixelated-like movement, and Nanoleaf offered more. The first time I experienced Nanoleaf's light panels, I remember being enamored by the richness of the colors but perhaps even more by the way each color seemed to perfectly transition to the next, almost like there was flowing water inside the panel. Because these are smart lights, users have complete control over the fixtures' saturation, brightness, hue, and power state using the companion apps. Both offer smart lights capable of producing an entire rainbow of vivid, saturated colors. (Image credit: Nick Sutrich/Android Central)įirstly, nothing is boring about either Nanoleaf or Govee's lighting capabilities.

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