MaizeDMX vs Argus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MaizeDMX
This mobile application provides a full-featured DMX lighting control system for stage and event use. It allows users to create or manage lighting projects, offering professional console concepts and fixture profile support. A restricted mode is available for novice users.
- Professional lighting console concepts
- Fixture profile creation and library
- Support for 32 universes of DMX output
- Restricted mode for novice users
- Project creation and management
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MaizeDMX is a simple and easy to use DMX lighting control software. As beginner lighting operator or designer, you will find it’s perfect for your stage and event. This mobile app is a full featured standalone lighting control system, you can create a new project or open/download an existing project from the desktop editor. It has the following key features: - Professional lighting console concepts like programmer, preset, group, cuelist, executer, effect and layout. - Support creating new fixture profile, downloading one from our cloud library, or opening an existing GDTF file. - Support 32 universe of DMX output. - Restricted mode can lock the app down to a read only feature set for novice users. You will need a MaizeDMX bluetooth adapter or ArtNet/sACN compatible node to actually output DMX signal to lighting fixtures
Argus
Organize, search, and analyze your dashcam and Sentry Mode footage with on-device intelligence. Watch synced multi-camera playback, find events quickly with map view and filters, and get plain-language summaries. Your footage remains private, processed entirely on your device.
- Organized event library
- Synced multi-camera playback
- Searchable event timeline
- Map view of events
- On-device object detection
- Private data processing
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Argus turns your dashcam and Sentry Mode footage into an organized, searchable event library — with all analysis done privately on your device. Copy your TeslaCam folder from the USB drive, import it into Argus, and every Sentry and Saved event is automatically organized into a clean timeline you can browse, search, and map. WATCH EVERY ANGLE AT ONCE • Synced multi-camera playback — front, rear, and side repeaters play together, frame-aligned • Scrub one timeline and every camera follows • Export and share clips from any event FIND EVENTS FAST • Map view of all your events with smart clustering • Group events into trips automatically • Filter and search by date, location, tags, and what was detected • Add names, notes, and tags to any event ON-DEVICE INTELLIGENCE • Detects people and reads license plates in your footage — entirely on your device using Apple's Vision framework • Plain-language event summaries generated with on-device Apple Intelligence • Add plates to a personal watchlist (your own cars, or a plate from an incident) and get flagged when they appear in your footage • Set up geofences like “Home” or “Work” so events are labeled by place PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your footage never leaves your device — no servers, no accounts, no analytics • Optional iCloud sync keeps your event notes, tags, and watchlist in your private iCloud database; videos always stay local
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Argus at every 3 weeks against MaizeDMX's every 2 months. MaizeDMX's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MaizeDMX against 5.0 for Argus. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
MaizeDMX ships an update every 2 months, Argus every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MaizeDMX | Argus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Xiang Cao | Ansis Atteka |
Customer experience
MaizeDMX
Argus
In-app purchases
MaizeDMX
No in-app purchases
Argus
No in-app purchases









