COLANDER vs Lightovation by DMC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
COLANDER
This business application helps restaurant owners manage their staff, track task progress, and foster team development. It provides tools for communication, goal setting, and performance reviews, ensuring smooth business operations and employee recognition.
- Staff goal management
- Task creation and assignment
- Task progress tracking
- Individual staff profiles
- Task-specific alarms
- Team development tools
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Colander is a simple productivity application for restaurants to help your staff grow and achieve their goals while ensuring your business is running smoothly. Created by a multi-unit Chef / Operator to help Owners run their restaurants and reward their team for their achievements. Stop putting off staff reviews and letting hard work go unnoticed. Colander is the one place you can manage your team and make sure your restaurant is running at full steam, from anywhere. Help your team help you by showing them you appreciate everything they do through better communication. Inspire your staff by being a great leader while helping them succeed with structured development. Get a snapshot of the progress of your restaurant on a “Task-board” section. You can also create a task with minimal effort and assign it to your staff. Under “Tasks” you can track the progress of all your tasks easily using the filter options and you can manage all your tasks on the go. You can take quick actions on the tasks to mark the status of the task like pause, complete, mark in-progress, blocked or comment on the task. You can view the all the details of the task under “Task detail” screen You can get more things done from a more detailed profile page for each individual. Simple profile view for better clarity and you can manage all your profile information from the “profile” section. Set different alarms per task to make sure your staff can dedicate the right amount of time when they are supposed to get things done. Put an end to forgetting things or starting and stopping a task, then wasting time.
Lightovation by DMC
Navigate the lighting market with up-to-date exhibitor and product information. Discover event schedules, dining options, and transportation details. Save your favorite exhibitors and add personal notes for a personalized market experience.
- Searchable exhibitor list
- Floor-sorted exhibitor listings
- Updated campus and floor maps
- Event listings
- Dining information
- Transportation schedules
- Favorites with notes and photos
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This is the official Lightovation by DMC App. It is designed with multiple tools to help buyers navigate Market with up-to-date information on lighting exhibitors, product, DMC schedules, news, and upcoming events. It includes the following features: - Searchable Exhibitor List - Exhibitor listing sorted by Floor - Updated campus and floor maps - Listing of Lightovation Events - Current Dining offerings campus wide locations and hours - Market Date calendar integration with device APIs - Campus Shuttle line and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) rail schedules and information - "My Favorites” profile that allows buyers to add Exhibitor and Line favorites; including a Note feature to add exhibitor information and photos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: COLANDER at none against Lightovation by DMC's shown. COLANDER also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). Lightovation by DMC's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for COLANDER against 5.0 for Lightovation by DMC. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
COLANDER ships an update every 5 weeks, Lightovation by DMC every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | COLANDER | Lightovation by DMC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Colander llc | Market Center Management Company, Ltd. |
Customer experience
COLANDER
Lightovation by DMC
In-app purchases
COLANDER
No in-app purchases
Lightovation by DMC
No in-app purchases
Questions
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