AsteraApp vs Vodafone KVIFF Guide
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.
Vodafone KVIFF Guide
This official festival app helps visitors navigate the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. It provides a film catalog, trailers, festival program, and allows registered users to plan their schedule and favorite films. Ticket reservations are available for pass holders and accredited guests.
- Film catalog with trailers
- Festival program and schedule
- Personalized film lists
- Ticket reservation for pass holders
- Maps and festival tips
- News and important notifications
- Live festival TV stream
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Vodafone KVIFF Guide is the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s new mobile app, designed to guide visitors throughout the entire festival. Besides a complete catalogue of films, it also contains trailers and the festival program. Registered users can plan their own program and create lists of their favorite films. Holders of a Festival Pass and accredited guests can also use the app to reserve tickets. In addition to the film program, users will also find detailed information about the program of accompanying events, maps, tips, advice, and news – all designed to help them navigate the festival. The app also delivers notifications about the most important information that audiences definitely should not miss out on. And as a bonus, users of the Vodafone KVIFF Guide app can follow the festival’s non-stop official television station, KVIFF.TV LIVE, featuring live broadcasts from the red carpet, interviews, film introductions, news and reports about events at the festival, a guide with Janek Rubeš, polls with Karel Kovy Kovář, contests, discussions, surveys, and much more. Vodafone KVIFF Guide is simply an app you can’t do without at KVIFF!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Vodafone KVIFF Guide at 4.1 against AsteraApp's 2.3. Vodafone KVIFF Guide also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). AsteraApp's advantage is review sentiment (28% vs 0%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Vodafone KVIFF Guide holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 51 and 26 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 28% of AsteraApp's written reviews are positive against 0% of Vodafone KVIFF Guide's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
AsteraApp ships an update every 3 weeks, Vodafone KVIFF Guide every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AsteraApp | Vodafone KVIFF Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (51 ratings) | 4.1 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 51 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.3 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Astera LED Technology GmbH | KVIFF Group a.s. |
Customer experience
AsteraApp
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In-app purchases
AsteraApp
No in-app purchases
Vodafone KVIFF Guide
No in-app purchases
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