HATO ONE vs DARA Lighting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HATO ONE
This utility app measures key light aspects crucial for poultry welfare and performance. It allows comparison with industry standards and export of data for analysis. Remote measurement capabilities enhance user convenience.
- Measures light intensity
- Measures critical color temperature
- Measures light spectrum
- Measures color rendering index
- Measures light flicker
- Compares measurements to standards
- Exports data to PC
- Remote measurement
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The HATO ONE is an all-in-one light meter. A must-have for every poultry specialist who is aiming to improve animal welfare and performances by means of lighting. This product is able to measure all key aspects of light that matter for poultry: • Light intensity • Critical Colour Temperature • Light spectrum • Colour Rendering Index • Light flicker After measurement, the HATO ONE enables you to compare specific measurement results with poultry needs, human needs or other lamps on the spot to directly allocate points of improvement. All measurement data can be exported to a PC for further analysis as well. The results after measurement can immediately be seen at the HATO ONE App. Furthermore, the HATO ONE APP makes it possible to measure from a distance, so you don’t have to keep the meter in your hands all the time. Improve performances, start measuring! More information? www.hato.one
DARA Lighting
Easily manage your business's lighting to reduce energy costs. Control individual lights or groups, create custom lighting scenarios, and share network access with different user levels. Offers reliable and redundant control over large areas.
- Individual and group light control
- Customizable lighting scenarios
- Energy consumption reduction
- Multi-level user access
- Mesh networking for reliability
- BLE and Wi-Fi dual control
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DARA Lighting is the easiest way to control your lights and reduce energy bills. The solution is highly flexible, suitable for any type of business – from office spaces, manufacturing, industrial and logistic applications all the way to the largest of retailers. With just a few taps you can control luminaires one by one or as a group. For example you can set up a group for the office space and another one for a meeting room or a kitchenette and dim up or down lights in each of these spaces. You can also create scenarios depending on the day of the week, time of the day or other relevant events. Set the lights at a higher dim level for the office space and a lower dim level for the corridors and save all these settings in a scenario. Or set all lights to dim down once office hours or retail open hours are over. Share your network with other users and let them adjust the lighting. Dara Lighting has several levels of users (network owner, administrator or simple user), each with their own corresponding lights. DARA Lighting has mesh capabilities, thus the functionality is dependable, redundant and resilient over hundreds of square meters. Due to its dual control – both BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) for DALI communication and Wi-Fi, – a user can individually control a large number of luminaires. With this solution any business has the power to tailor its lighting preferences and, at the same time, greatly reduce its energy expenses by making sure light is present only when needed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HATO ONE at 2.0 against DARA Lighting's 1.0. HATO ONE also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). DARA Lighting's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 8 months). 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.
HATO ONE holds the better App Store score, 2.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HATO ONE has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
HATO ONE ships an update every 8 months, DARA Lighting every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HATO ONE | DARA Lighting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (5 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | United Power Research Technology Corporation | Greentek Lighting SRL |
Customer experience
HATO ONE
DARA Lighting
In-app purchases
HATO ONE
No in-app purchases
DARA Lighting
No in-app purchases







