See Twinkly Lights in person and you’ll understand how far Christmas lights have come from the dusty, blinking ball of wires and bulbs you dragged outside every year. Yes, Twinkly products are expensive, but they are also the best Christmas lights you can find.
They connect via Wi-Fi to the free Twinkly app, which allows you to control them and play effects – of your own design or preset. Once wrapped around the tree, you can scan the arrangement of the lights, giving you more accurate pattern control. You can set a timer, group them into sets with other Twinkly lights and control them together – or have them synced to music if you buy the Twinkly Music dongle. If you use a voice assistant, you can even turn it on and off with voice commands.
There is also a button on the power cord, so that family members can turn the lights on and off and change the pattern without an app.
But it’s not just what you can do with it that’s a big step forward. They are a significant step up in quality from standard bulbs, with rich colors (16 million in fact) and opalescent white.
There are numerous lengths available, and there is help on the website to choose the right length for the size of your tree – or to buy a longer wire to decorate an entire room. We tested the 400 LED set, but Twinkly offers several clever Christmas lighting designs, including icicles, candles, curtains and more. You can view them all on Twinkly’s website.