Comparison

DARA Lighting vs Mesh Home Panel

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

Head to head
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.

About

Mesh Home Panel

Easily plan, provision, and control your Bluetooth Mesh network. This app offers a user-friendly interface for managing groups and nodes, with features like voice control, customizable node images, and scheduling.

Highlights
  • Friendly Mesh network planning
  • Rapid node provisioning
  • Modern graphical user interface
  • Voice control and feedback
  • Support for various Mesh node types
  • Timer scheduling for automation
  • TCP/IP network control
Features
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This App supports Syntronix Bluetooth Mesh network which compliant to Bluetooth SIG Mesh, to perform the provision and full control of the Mesh nodes. Features: • Friendly Mesh network planning: Construct Mesh groups and add the nodes to the groups without entering any number, just few clicks! • Rapid provision: Provision the nodes to construct the Mesh network is quite easy and quick, single click and wait only 2 seconds! • Modern user operation interface: Full graphical user interface to operate each group or node. Additionally, group or node pictures could be customized to bind to your creativity photos! • Voice control and feedback: Control through voice like "turn on kitchen" or "turn off living room" is possible! Furthermore, voice feedback "kitchen is turned on" or "living room is turned on" is also provided - control everything just like conversation! • Support various types of Mesh nodes: Not only simple light on/off but also RGB color lightbulb, multi switch wall plates, white goods...etc could be controlled through this App! • Support timer: Group/node on or off could be scheduled for automation. • Control through TCP/IP network: If Mesh/TCPIP gateway is utilized, Mesh control through TCP/IP network is possible - no matter where you are! Hardware support: • To full utilize this App, Syntronix Mesh solution (including ASIC hardware and SDK software) is necessary. • To find a Syntronix Mesh ready product or further collaborations, please refer to Syntronix website or contact Syntronix sales.

Screenshots

DARA Lighting4 screens
Mesh Home Panel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Mesh Home Panel at 3.0 against DARA Lighting's 1.0. Mesh Home Panel also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). DARA Lighting's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). 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

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

Mesh Home Panel holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DARA Lighting ships an update every 3 months, Mesh Home Panel every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
DARA Lighting versus Mesh Home Panel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDARA LightingMesh Home Panel
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)3.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGreentek Lighting SRLSyntronix Corporation

Customer experience

DARA Lighting

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

Mesh Home Panel

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

DARA Lighting

No in-app purchases

None

Mesh Home Panel

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DARA Lighting free?
DARA Lighting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mesh Home Panel free?
Mesh Home Panel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DARA Lighting or Mesh Home Panel?
Mesh Home Panel is rated higher. DARA Lighting averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Mesh Home Panel averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do DARA Lighting or Mesh Home Panel have ads?
Neither DARA Lighting nor Mesh Home Panel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DARA Lighting or Mesh Home Panel?
DARA Lighting ships an update every 3 months, and Mesh Home Panel every 2 weeks. Most recently, DARA Lighting was updated on October 16, 2026 and Mesh Home Panel on October 20, 2026.

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