Atom vs CDOT Lighting Management
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Atom
This workforce management app helps organizations streamline operations by creating and managing work orders, tracking inventory, and scheduling teams. It offers real-time insights into user activity, time, and costs, with robust reporting and budgeting tools.
- Work order creation and management
- Real-time inventory tracking
- User and group management with permissions
- Calendar and resource scheduling
- Customizable reporting and analytics
- Budgeting with alerts
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Be one of the many small, medium, and large organizations changing the way they work today with Atom. Atom is a workforce management application built by Google engineers and leading software designers. Work on and offline: Users are able to quickly create maintenance, inspection, and other work orders for mobile and desktop users. Inventory management: Build and manage your data seamlessly. Track both dynamic and static assets real-time and budget accordingly. Users and Groups: Build teams and enable users to login based on permissions. Track users real-time and understand time and cost spent on work. Calendar and Scheduling: Schedule teams and resources while understanding and identifying priority. Project manage by skillset, availability, and proximity. Reporting and Analytics: Build custom and user-specific reports of any data within Atom. Print and export those reports for additional context and predictive analysis. Budgeting within Atom: Build your budget against people, work, assets, and more. Atom also allows users the ability to configure alerting against their budget relative to being over and/or under their budget.
CDOT Lighting Management
This platform offers a customizable solution for managing smart streetlight projects. It provides an out-of-the-box experience that is field-proven and award-winning, while also allowing for extensive personalization to fit specific project needs and branding.
- Smart streetlight project management
- Customizable platform
- Field-proven solution
- Award-winning
- Branding options
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THE FAST, FIELD-PROVEN SOLUTION FOR YOUR SMART STREETLIGHT PROJECTS CDOT Lighting Management gives your smart streetlight projects the best of both worlds. CDOT Lighting Management is an out-of-the-box, field-proven, award-winning smart streetlight management platform AND entirely customizable to your project, workflow, and branding requirements.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Atom at 4.5 against CDOT Lighting Management's 4.0. Atom also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (44 vs 4). CDOT Lighting Management's advantage is iOS requirement (14.2 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Atom holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Atom has 44 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Atom ships an update weekly, CDOT Lighting Management every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Atom | CDOT Lighting Management |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (44 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 44 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AtomAI Solutions Inc. | TerraGo |
Customer experience
Atom
CDOT Lighting Management
In-app purchases
Atom
No in-app purchases
CDOT Lighting Management
No in-app purchases
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