DAE vs AstroVitals
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DAE
Control and monitor Denkovi IP relay modules and controllers remotely. Manage digital and analog inputs/outputs, access sensor data, and automate tasks across various fields like home automation and industrial applications.
- Access multiple Denkovi IP devices
- Control digital outputs (relays)
- Monitor analog inputs with linearization
- View digital inputs and counters
- Adjust analog outputs (PWM)
- Access specialized sensor inputs
- Show/hide unused I/O
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It is developed to access all the Denkovi IP relay modules and controllers via smartphone - DAEnetIP2, DAEnetIP3, DAEnetIP4, smartDEN. Access relays, lights, fans, water jets or monitor sensors for temperature, humidity, pressure simply with several clicks. It can be used in fileds like home automation, industrials, sensor monitoring, remote control, data acquisition, robotics and many others. FEATURES: * Access many devices with single application: Access one or many Denkovi IP devices via single Smart Phone. You have to select the model of your device(s) from the drop-down list and add it to the device list. Once the device name, IP, port and password are saved, it is possible easily to control & monitor these devices. DAE-iModules will remember these settings. * Control Digital Outputs: These outputs are oftenly used for relays. They can be turned ON or OFF at once or one by one. Refesh the states manually just with one click. You can give a name to each output line and this name will be saved on your smartphone. Additionaly if the particular Denkovi module support this, the names will be synchronized with the hardware device as well. * Analog Inputs: Manual or auto refresh of the analog inputs values. Each analog input can be named and scaled to show values in user frienfly units (temperature, humidity, pressure...) which is so called linearization. * Digital Inputs/Counters: Manual or auto refresh of the digital inputs values. Usually these inputs have two possible states - ON and OFF which are shown in the application with different colors. Additionally some modules support counters for the digital inputs which will be also shown on the same screen. * Analog Outputs: This tab is for devices which support Analog Outputs (PWM). The sliders can be easily used for dimming lights for instance in your home. * Tab "Other" inputs: Here you can access spceific inputs for temperature, humidity, voltage, current and so on. Some of the devices support such special inputs where the input values are obtained in such units and the DAE-iModules app show them in this tab. * Show/Hide I/O: Very often not all the I/O lines are used. The application offers the capability hide unused I/O buttons or showings which can be easily bringed back with several clicks after that. DAE-iModules app is suitable for controlling and monitoring all Denkovi IP devices which can be found on this link: http://denkovi.com/ In order to use the application, the Denkovi IP device MAC address must start with E8:EA:DA.
AstroVitals
Monitor your telescope's vital signs remotely from your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. View guiding, focus, image quality, and sequence progress on a glanceable dashboard. Receive smart alerts and optionally control your imaging session.
- Live guiding graphs and stability scores
- Autofocus V-curve visualization
- Full sequence tree with progress
- 3D mount position and target altitude
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Smart alerts for image quality and guiding
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Your telescope is imaging all night. AstroVitals puts its vital signs on your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch — so you can check on the session from the couch, the tent, or your wrist at 3 AM. AstroVitals connects to N.I.N.A. (Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy) over your local network through the Advanced API plugin, and turns the numbers into a dark, glanceable night-vision dashboard. GUIDING AT A GLANCE • Flowing RA/Dec guide graph, just like your guiding software • Live total RMS plus session best, worst and stability score • Peak-error and pixel-scale readouts, adjustable time window FOCUS & IMAGE QUALITY • Watch autofocus V-curves build point by point, live • Best-focus position and HFR marked when the run completes • HFR and star-count trends across every sub of the session YOUR WHOLE SEQUENCE • The full Advanced Sequencer tree — instructions, triggers, loop conditions • The running step highlighted with live progress (87/250 exposures…) • Values shown inline: exposure length, filter, wait-until times and more THE STATS DASHBOARD • A live 3D model of your mount showing exactly where it points, with meridian-flip warning colors and flat-panel cover state • Target altitude path with transit time and astronomical darkness • Camera cooling, ambient temperature, power draw and input voltage • Rearrangeable tiles — drag them into your preferred layout ON YOUR WRIST • The full dashboard as a native Apple Watch app • Watch-face complications: meridian-flip countdown and subs done • iPhone home-screen and lock-screen widgets with a live flip timer SIMPLE SETUP • Auto-discovers your NINA machine on the local network • Demo mode simulates a full session — try every screen without a telescope SMART ALERTS & CONFIRMED CONTROL • Optional alerts for worsening or recovering image quality, lost guiding and meridian-flip progress while AstroVitals is active • Start, pause and stop the running sequence when Allow Control is enabled • A configurable panic plan can stop activity, park or home the mount, close a detected flat-panel cover and disable selected power outputs • Siri opens the review-and-slide confirmation screen; it never sends a command by itself Requires N.I.N.A. with the free Advanced API plugin (v2) on the same network. AstroVitals starts in Read-only mode. Control requires explicit opt-in and confirmation, and remains on the user's local network. No accounts, no analytics, no data leaves your network.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AstroVitals at 3.7 against DAE's 2.0. AstroVitals also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 33%). DAE's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 17.0). 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.
AstroVitals holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of DAE's written reviews are positive against 50% of AstroVitals's.
| Parameter | DAE | AstroVitals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (3 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DENKOVI ASSEMBLY ELECTRONICS OOD | MAXIMILIAN BOTEV |
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DAE
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In-app purchases
DAE
No in-app purchases
AstroVitals
No in-app purchases









