DARA Lighting vs SmartLicht
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
SmartLicht
This app provides a professional intelligent lighting solution for homes and businesses. It integrates various protocols for seamless control and management of lighting systems, offering features like scene-based control and automation.
- Intelligent lighting system solution
- Integrates DALI, KNX, BLE Mesh, Matter
- SaaS management and control
- Configuration and debugging
- Mobile control for users and personnel
- Scene-based lighting control
- Automation creation
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SmartLicht Intelligent Lighting System Solution is a professional intelligent lighting solution for high-end residences, villas, and commercial applications. To meet the needs of complex scenarios, the solution seamlessly integrates various protocols such as DALI, KNX, BLE Mesh and Matter. It provides a systematic upgrade to the DALI wired intelligent lighting system and realizes SaaS management and control of various devices in the DALI protocol. SmartLicht App is an application within the SmartLicht Intelligent Lighting System Solutions. It meets the configuration management, debugging, and mobile control needs of both construction personnel and users. The App supports: 1. Free control of devices and areas: Create various lighting effects according to your needs. 2. Control based on lighting scenes: Meet the lighting needs of different scenarios. 3. Create various types of automation: Realize the automatic upgrade of lighting control. 4. Support DALI device access to the Matter ecosystem: Perfectly integrate wired lighting products with the wireless IoT platform.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SmartLicht at 5.0 against DARA Lighting's 1.0. On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
SmartLicht holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
DARA Lighting ships an update every 3 months, SmartLicht every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DARA Lighting | SmartLicht |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Greentek Lighting SRL | 深圳市智光系统技术有限公司 |
Customer experience
DARA Lighting
SmartLicht
In-app purchases
DARA Lighting
No in-app purchases
SmartLicht
No in-app purchases








