Comparison

DARA Lighting vs Longer IR

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

Longer IR

Features
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The app is designed to use the BLE URC hardware to control the devices. The IR data can be learned or download from our database. This App should work with a URC hardware. For more details about product, please browse www.cldic.com and www.clurc.net.

Screenshots

DARA Lighting4 screens
Longer IR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Longer IR at every 3 weeks against DARA Lighting's every 3 months. Longer IR also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DARA Lighting ships an update every 3 months, Longer IR every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
DARA Lighting versus Longer IR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDARA LightingLonger IR
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGreentek Lighting SRLChangzhou Longer Electronics Co., Ltd

In-app purchases

None

DARA Lighting

No in-app purchases

None

Longer IR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DARA Lighting free?
DARA Lighting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Longer IR free?
Longer IR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DARA Lighting or Longer IR have ads?
Neither DARA Lighting nor Longer IR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DARA Lighting or Longer IR?
DARA Lighting ships an update every 3 months, and Longer IR every 3 weeks. Most recently, DARA Lighting was updated on July 5, 2026 and Longer IR on September 19, 2026.

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