Comparison

BEGA Smart vs DARA Lighting

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BEGA Smart

Control your home's smart lighting with this intuitive app. Manage indoor and outdoor lights, create custom scenes, and automate settings without needing an internet connection. Expandable and easy to set up, it offers flexible lighting solutions for any home.

Highlights
  • Switching, dimming, and color adjustment
  • Create custom lighting scenes and groups
  • Control via app, remote, or automation
  • Offline operation, independent of internet
  • Supports indoor and outdoor lighting
  • Automatic updates and new product integration
  • Support for up to 35 devices per system
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BEGA Smart gives you a convenient start to smart lighting in your home. Everything works simply, intuitively and clearly with the help of the free BEGA Smart app. Download and get started: with a wide range of devices, functions and application options. BEGA Smart is an ideal solution for local control of indoor and outdoor lighting without an internet connection. • Flexible system Switching, dimming and colour adjustment - as a systemic solution, BEGA Smart is the central control element of a holistic range for a smart home - flexible and expandable at any time. • Individualisation The smart BEGA solution is versatile and customisable: create groups, apply lighting scenes, define individual events and give them names. • Versatile lighting control Via app, remote control, Smart Rotary Dimmer or automation - BEGA Smart systems can be controlled both stationary and conveniently from the couch or automatically. • Versatile application options Security is created by both on-demand lighting and presence simulation. Smart-controlled lighting saves energy and increases efficiency, protecting the environment and your wallet in equal measure. • Simple set-up Smart means uncomplicated. That's why all devices and functions can be configured and controlled simply, intuitively and clearly in one place: in the free BEGA Smart app. • Updates and extensions Geared towards the smart future: automatic updates and the addition of new products are standard with BEGA Smart. • Independence from the internet A connection from the app to the devices: Permanent independence from centralised components or the internet is made possible by offline use. • Indoors and outdoors BEGA Smart brings the outside and inside together. Lighting solutions in and around the house and for the garden can be freely combined and controlled together. Support for up to 35 devices per system. The app is compatible with devices that support Bluetooth 4.2 or newer (iPhone 6 and newer). In other cases, connections may be unstable.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

BEGA Smart4 screens
DARA Lighting4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: DARA Lighting at 12.0 against BEGA Smart's 16.6. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.0 for BEGA Smart against 1.0 for DARA Lighting. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BEGA Smart ships an update every 2 months, DARA Lighting every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
BEGA Smart versus DARA Lighting: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBEGA SmartDARA Lighting
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)1.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB106 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBEGA Gantenbrink-Leuchten KGGreentek Lighting SRL

Customer experience

BEGA Smart

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

DARA Lighting

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

BEGA Smart

No in-app purchases

None

DARA Lighting

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BEGA Smart free?
BEGA Smart is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DARA Lighting free?
DARA Lighting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BEGA Smart or DARA Lighting?
BEGA Smart and DARA Lighting are both rated 1.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do BEGA Smart or DARA Lighting have ads?
Neither BEGA Smart nor DARA Lighting shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BEGA Smart or DARA Lighting?
BEGA Smart ships an update every 2 months, and DARA Lighting every 3 months. Most recently, BEGA Smart was updated on October 22, 2026 and DARA Lighting on October 16, 2026.

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