DipSwitch
Your lighting companion
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Now on Apple Watch with a complication, phone-to-watch sync, saved fixture profiles and patch lists you can share as a PDF. Compatible with the iPhone Duo.
Set a DMX address on a dip-switch block without doing binary in your head, in the dark, up a ladder.
Type the address, read the switches. DipSwitch draws the block the way it looks on the back of the fixture, so you can hold your phone next to the real thing and compare it switch for switch.
It has been doing this job since 2008.
ON THE FIXTURE
• Enter an address and see the switch pattern immediately
• The block is drawn to match real hardware, with the ON marking and channel weights
• Set the number of switches to match your fixture, from 1 to 16
• Swap and mirror for blocks that are printed the other way round
PLANNING A RIG
• Set the offset to your fixture's channel footprint and step the whole rig one button at a time
• See how many fixtures fit a 512-channel universe, and the last address you can use
• Save fixtures you use often as profiles, so the channel count is one tap away
• Know two addresses and need the rest? Enter both and the spacing does the work
• Tick off fixtures as you patch them, and share the finished list as a PDF
ON APPLE WATCH
• The whole calculator on your wrist, for when one hand is holding the fixture
• Tap the switch block and the Digital Crown sets the address — one click per offset
• A complication puts the current address on your watch face
• Address, offset and fixture profiles stay in sync with your iPhone
PRIVACY
No account, no tracking, no advertising identifiers. The app collects anonymous counts only — which tabs get used, how many switches — never an address, never a fixture name, never a device identifier. You can switch it off in About.
English, German and French. Free, no in-app purchases.
Built in Luxembourg by a lighting technician who got tired of counting bits.
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Bigger screens
• On iPhone Duo unfolded and on iPad, Sequence becomes a patch console: your rig down the left, the switch block for the fixture you are standing at on the right. No more carrying an address between two tabs in your head
• Dip Switches and About split into two columns, so the block stays on screen while you flip the switches
Patch sheets
• The PDF export is a button you can actually find, and it opens in a preview before you share it
• The sheet can print which switches are up for every fixture — the column that was missing
On every iPhone
• The block and the +/- buttons stay put while only the switch list scrolls
• Tap the icon beside any address in the Sequence list to see that fixture's block
• Fixtures ticked off as patched now survive closing the app, and a Clear button starts the round again
• Change the offset and Sequence offers to re-space the list to match
The developer, Bazinga sarl, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Provider
- Bazinga sarl
- Size
- 3.3 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.5 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.2 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.5 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 2 more
- English, French, German
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2008-2026 Tom Weber