Lumitec Poco vs AirmarCAST™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lumitec Poco
Control Lumitec lights from your smart device. Create custom scenes, select colors, and manage lighting functions wirelessly. This app works with a compatible control module for seamless on-board lighting management.
- Custom button functions
- Color selection
- Lighting scene creation
- Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity
- Stand-alone or MFD sync
- PLI-enabled light control
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Poco Digital Lighting Control delivers powerful, low cost on-board lighting control of all above and below water Lumitec lights through a compatible MFD or connected smart device and a simple, easy to install control module. The Poco App provides even more functionality to this already powerful lighting control system and allows for control of Lumitec PLI-enabled lighting from your smart device. Create and control custom button functions, color selection and lighting scenes straight from your phone of tablet. Poco is easy to configure and connects via Bluetooth or WiFi and can work in sync with a compatible MDF or as a stand-alone Poco lighting controller. Requires the Poco Control Module to be installed on your boat with Lumitec PLI-enabled lights.
AirmarCAST™
Configure and calibrate your boat's Bluetooth-enabled multisensors and modules directly from your mobile device. View real-time data on detailed gauges and perform advanced calibrations for speed, temperature, and attitude without extra hardware.
- Bluetooth sensor connection
- Real-time data display
- Intuitive navigation
- Speed, temperature, attitude calibration
- On-board GPS speed comparison
- Advanced speed calibration wizards
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Airmar® CAST™ connects to the Bluetooth®-enabled DST810, DX900+, WX300 multisensors and SmartBoat® modules on your boat, making sensor configuration and calibration easy with intuitive app navigation and real-time data from your multisensor. View data on detailed gauges and digital data screens, and perform speed, temperature, and attitude calibrations without the need for additional converters or cables. With CAST, you can configure your multisensor directly, regardless of the other displays and gauges on board. All data configurations and calibrations are stored in the multisensor and delivered on the NMEA2000® network. When used with DST810, you can calibrate basic or heel-compensated speed through water using your on-board GPS speed for comparison. Intuitive wizards guide you through multiple runs to correct for current. Or take it a step further to advanced speed calibration, with up to five heel angles and ten reference speeds. Until now, advanced speed calibration was only possible through expensive PC based software. With Airmar’s SmartBoat® modules, the CAST app delivers the fastest connection to the SmartView software for system configuration.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Lumitec Poco at 3.7 against AirmarCAST™'s 2.6. Lumitec Poco also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16). AirmarCAST™'s advantage is review sentiment (25% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 6 months). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lumitec Poco holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Lumitec Poco's written reviews are positive against 25% of AirmarCAST™'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Lumitec Poco ships an update every 6 months, AirmarCAST™ every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Lumitec Poco | AirmarCAST™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better | 2.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lumitec LLC. | Airmar Technology Inc. |
Customer experience
Lumitec Poco
AirmarCAST™
In-app purchases
Lumitec Poco
No in-app purchases
AirmarCAST™
No in-app purchases
Questions
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