AsteraApp vs Checkinera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AsteraApp
Control complex lighting setups with customizable programs and effects. Prepare lights for wireless DMX, diagnose, update, and reset them. Features include beat-synced effects, group management, and power-saving standby.
- Customizable programs and effects
- Wireless DMX preparation
- Light diagnostics and updates
- Beat-synced effects (Auto BPM)
- Group management (Targets)
- Scheduled Standby
- Dynamic PowerBoost
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The AsteraApp™ offers intuitive and fast control of complex lighting setups with fully customizable programs and effects. The App is also used to prepare Astera lights for wireless DMX by sending addresses and profilesto them. In addition, lamps can be diagnosed, updated or reset from the AsteraApp™. Here are some of the features: Talkback+ Detect all available lights, set them up, check their status, configure DMX addresses and DMX profiles. Seamless Runtime Set the length of your production and be sure that your lights won`t run out while still getting the maximum brightness. Effects Quickly build programs out of colors and effects, trigger them or make them match a beat. Targets Quickly create groups of lights, assign positions and select which lights should receive commands. Scheduled StandBy Switch lights into power-saving standby and schedule them to wake up when the production starts. Dynamic PowerBoost This exclusive feature makes the light able to display the maximum brightness at all time and intensify non-white colors. Green/Magenta Correction Adjust green/magenta during content creation to reduce postproduction work. Emergency Lights Switches to white light when AC power is cut to keep your event save DJ Feature Auto BPM analyzes the beat and matches programs to it, flash buttons can trigger special effects while being held down. Other Features The AsteraApp™ is packed with many additional items and new features are frequently added via software update.
Checkinera
Streamline event check-ins by scanning barcodes or QR codes, or by searching the attendee list. This tool integrates with the Tickera event ticketing system for efficient attendee management.
- Barcode scanning
- QR code scanning
- Attendee list search
- Tickera integration
- Event management
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Check in your event attendees quickly and easily by scanning barcodes or QR codes as well as searching the attendee list. This app works with Tickera event ticketing system.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Checkinera at 5.0 against AsteraApp's 2.3. Checkinera also leads on review sentiment (38% vs 28%). AsteraApp's advantage is ratings volume (51 vs 3). 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.
Checkinera holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AsteraApp has 51 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of AsteraApp's written reviews are positive against 38% of Checkinera's.
| Parameter | AsteraApp | Checkinera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (51 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.2% of reviews | 37.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 51 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.3 — better | 11.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Astera LED Technology GmbH | Marko Miljus |
Customer experience
AsteraApp
Checkinera
In-app purchases
AsteraApp
No in-app purchases
Checkinera
No in-app purchases









