Comparison

livetoolkit vs DMX Engineering Cloud

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

Head to head
About

livetoolkit

This app provides essential calculations for live event technicians, including PA system setup, lighting fixture addressing, and electrical measurements. It helps speed up on-site setup by offering quick conversions and calculations directly on a mobile device.

Highlights
  • PA system delay time calculations
  • Subwoofer stacking distance calculations
  • Q-Factor to Bandwidth conversion
  • Limiter calculations for speaker capacity
  • Tap Tempo calculation
  • DMX fixture addressing
  • Unit conversions (feet/meter, lbs/kg)
Features
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Everybody working in the live concert business has experienced situations like this: You've just arrived at the venue. According to the local promoter everything should have been put up before you arrived, but it hasn't. Now it'll take an hour or more to set up the PA-System and Lighting-gear before you can start to do your actual work. All has to be done as fast as possible. You don't have time to get your laptop out of the car and working just to do some necessary calculations. Now you can just take your iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad® and start doing your calculations with LiveToolkit. LiveToolkit helps audio technicians to make relevant calculations directly with his or her iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad®, like: • Delay times for your PA-system: Conversion between time and distance. • Stacking distance of your subs: Conversion between frequency and wavelength. • Getting your PA-Settings into the controller: Conversion from Q-Factor to Bandwidth and back. • Setting up your controller: Limiter calculations depending on speaker capacity and amp output. • Getting the musicians tempo: Tap Tempo calculation with different note weightings. LiveToolkit helps lighting technicians to make relevant calculations directly with his or her iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad®, like: • Getting the start address for multiple fixtures based on quantity, channels, and first address used. • Setting the DMX-address right using a DIP-Switch, or identifying the address value of a DIP-Switch. LiveToolkit helps any technicians to make relevant calculations directly with his or her iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad®, like: • Universal useful conversion between feet and meter and lbs to kg. • Conversion between Watt, Ampere and Volt. • Calculate the voltage drop in your cable based on length and profile. • Trigonometric calculation on heights based on angle & distance. IMPORTANT NOTES: • Although good tested - this application remain a piece of Software: rockbaby engineering will not take any responsibility for any issues that may occur using LiveToolkit.

About

DMX Engineering Cloud

Features
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DMX Engineering is the companion app for DMX Engineering lighting products: casNEO LED controller, Omnibridge data bridge, and the DMX SuperMUX DMX multiplexer. • Finds your controllers on Wi-Fi automatically, or add them by IP address. • See what each unit is playing at a glance. • Open each controller's full web interface right inside the app. • Update firmware over the air — releases are saved on your phone, so an update works on a controller's own Wi-Fi with no internet. • Save your favourite looks and complete unit setups to your private DMX Engineering Cloud, and restore them to any unit — across phones. An account is optional: discover and manage units on your local network without signing in. The cloud library uses a free DMX Engineering Cloud account tied to your email. We never sell or share your data.

Screenshots

livetoolkit4 screens
DMX Engineering Cloud3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DMX Engineering Cloud at Free against livetoolkit's $3.99. DMX Engineering Cloud also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 11 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

DMX Engineering Cloud is free to download; livetoolkit costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

livetoolkit ships an update every 11 months, DMX Engineering Cloud every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
livetoolkit versus DMX Engineering Cloud: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterlivetoolkitDMX Engineering Cloud
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating2.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.1 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndreas ZehJim Rhodes

In-app purchases

None

livetoolkit

No in-app purchases

None

DMX Engineering Cloud

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is livetoolkit free?
livetoolkit costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is DMX Engineering Cloud free?
DMX Engineering Cloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do livetoolkit or DMX Engineering Cloud have ads?
Neither livetoolkit nor DMX Engineering Cloud shows ads.
Which is updated more often, livetoolkit or DMX Engineering Cloud?
livetoolkit ships an update every 11 months, and DMX Engineering Cloud every 4 days. Most recently, livetoolkit was updated on September 21, 2026 and DMX Engineering Cloud on September 18, 2026.

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