Comparison

SpectacleStadium vs AsteraNext

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

Head to head
About

SpectacleStadium

Experience the vibrant ambiance of professional sports stadiums directly in your home. This application offers authentic color sets for football, hockey, and basketball venues, enhancing your viewing experience.

Highlights
  • 93 professional stadium color sets
  • Football, hockey, and basketball themes
  • Philips Hue integration
  • Home entertainment ambiance
  • Authentic venue colors
Features
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Bring home the colors and atmosphere of your favorite sports venues with Philips Hue. Choose from all 93 professional home stadium color sets for football, hockey and basketball.

About

AsteraNext

Control complex lighting setups with intuitive tools for creating custom programs and effects. Manage DMX addresses, diagnose and update fixtures, and ensure seamless runtime for your productions.

Highlights
  • Intuitive lighting control
  • Customizable programs and effects
  • DMX address and footprint setup
  • Fixture diagnosis and updates
  • Layer effects for pixel control
  • Scheduled standby mode
Features
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The AsteraNext offers intuitive and fast control of complex lighting setups of current and upcoming Astera products. It provides fully customizable programs and effects and also it is designed to work seamlessly with other control methods. It can set up DMX addresses and footprints for CRMX control. In addition, lamps can be diagnosed, updated or reset from the AsteraNext. Here are some of the features: Layer Effects It is now easier than ever to control pixels of your Astera lights and create complex effects. CRMX Support That would make it much easier for customers to understand how the DMX works, also easier to operate the CRMX module. Talkback+ Detect all available lights, set them up, check their status, configure DMX addresses and DMX profiles. Seamless Runtime Set the length of your production and be sure that your lights won`t run out while still getting the maximum brightness. Effects Quickly build programs out of colors and effects, trigger them or make them match a beat. Targets Quickly create groups of lights, assign positions and select which lights should receive commands. Scheduled StandBy Switch lights into power-saving standby and schedule them to wake up when the production starts. Dynamic PowerBoost This exclusive feature makes the light able to display the maximum brightness at all time and intensify non-white colors. Green/Magenta Correction Adjust green/magenta during content creation to reduce postproduction work. Emergency Lights Switches to white light when AC power is cut to keep your event save DJ Feature Auto BPM analyzes the beat and matches programs to it, flash buttons can trigger special effects while being held down. Other Features The AsteraNext is packed with many additional items and new features are frequently added via software update.

Screenshots

SpectacleStadium4 screens
AsteraNext4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SpectacleStadium at 5.0 against AsteraNext's 2.3. AsteraNext's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

SpectacleStadium holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AsteraNext has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SpectacleStadium ships an update every 5 months, AsteraNext every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SpectacleStadium versus AsteraNext: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpectacleStadiumAsteraNext
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better2.3 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews—50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.2
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB166 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSpectacle, IncorporatedAstera LED Technology GmbH

Customer experience

SpectacleStadium

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

AsteraNext

All ratings8 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

SpectacleStadium

No in-app purchases

None

AsteraNext

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SpectacleStadium free?
SpectacleStadium is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AsteraNext free?
AsteraNext is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SpectacleStadium or AsteraNext?
SpectacleStadium is rated higher. SpectacleStadium averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while AsteraNext averages 2.3 from 8 ratings.
Do SpectacleStadium or AsteraNext have ads?
Neither SpectacleStadium nor AsteraNext shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SpectacleStadium or AsteraNext?
SpectacleStadium ships an update every 5 months, and AsteraNext every 3 weeks. Most recently, SpectacleStadium was updated on November 2, 2026 and AsteraNext on November 3, 2026.

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