# LiDAR & Infrared Night Vision — user reviews > 85 indexed App Store user reviews of LiDAR & Infrared Night Vision by Sperry Labs LLC, rated 3.70/5 from 71 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lidar-and-infrared-night-vision/id1544262327/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lidar-and-infrared-night-vision/id1544262327.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 38 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 17 ## What do users think of LiDAR & Infrared Night Vision? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - ✨ Cool concept and idea - 💡 Good use of LiDAR/TrueDepth - 👍 Front camera works well - 💰 Worth the price (for some) - 🤩 Fun to use and play with - 🚀 Demonstrates phone capabilities - 🌟 Impressive technology demo **Cons** - 📉 Low resolution (rear camera) - 🐛 Glitchy and buggy (rear camera) - 🤔 Not true night vision - 💸 Not worth the money (for some) - ⚠️ Visual artifacts (rear camera) - 🚫 Poor performance in darkness - 😵 Blurry/unrecognizable images (rear) - 📉 Limited range/vague past 6 feet **Commonly reported bugs** - Rear sensor visual artifacts - Screen glitches every few seconds (iPhone 14 Pro) - App crashes (iPhone 11) - Image freezes after five seconds (TrueDepth) - Photos/videos not saving to albums - White screen - App crashes when pressing shutter - App crashes when taking photo (front camera) - App freezes when recording button pressed (iPad Pro) - Front camera shows distorted image - Main camera image very blurry **Most requested features** - Grayscale mode - Known distance-color mapping - 16-bit TIFF export - Panoramic or stitching mode - VR integration - Further range and greater resolution (rear) - Improved resolution algorithm/mask - Grayscale view - Ability to use camera with scanner - Watch app for viewing - Turn off phone screen when streaming - Landscape mode for video recording - Typical 'green' filter ## Newest reviews (15 of 85) ### 4/5 — Awesome app *2025-07-27, version 1.0.6* Awesome app for recording depth information. Using this for data capture, would be great to have: grayscale mode Known distance-color mapping These would make the video/images very useful for further processing. Thanks! ### 2/5 — Had promise, seemingly abandoned *2025-03-05, version 1.0.6* This app was awesome when it first came out some 4 odd years ago. But the updates stopped a year into its release. The front sensor works well, the rear sensor works too but it has had visual artifacts for the longest. Beware. ### 4/5 — It works mostly! For 99 cents can’t complain much. *2024-12-29, version 1.0.6* The front camera works perfectly. While the rear lidar has some glitches. I hope the developer updates it! I’d pay another dollar to help fund the development time! ### 4/5 — Neat and sorta mostly works *2024-06-20, version 1.0.6* The rear view is very low resolution, which the app intro does warn about. On an iPhone 14 Pro though, the screen glitches every couple seconds. The front facing view works fine and has much better resolution. It can capture decently between about 8 inches up to a few feet. Past 6 feet things get pretty vague and you’d probably have to already know what you’re looking at to make things out. For 99 cents I’m okay with the fun factor and supporting a small developer. However I do wish the back facing view wasn’t buggy at least. ### 3/5 — Keeps crashing.. but it’s a decent infrared app *2023-03-12, version 1.0.6* About one minute in it’ll crash i’m on iphone 11 btw ### 4/5 — Good use of lidar and truedepth camera *2022-11-15, version 1.0.6* the first few times i used the app with the truedepth camera the image always froze after five seconds, the normal lidar sensor worked okay. Somehow I tried again later and it’s working fine now and the quality is good. The resolution is low but that’s just the sensors fault. I’m using iphone 14 pro with ios 16.1, was hoping the lidar was upgraded from previous phones, but doesn’t look like it’s the case. ### 3/5 — Interesting App *2022-09-16, version 1.0.6* Please can you let me know where the photos and videos are stored? They aren’t saving to the usual albums ### 3/5 — App *2022-05-27, version 1.0.6* Good app works well pretty glichty in the dark and isn’t that good but it’s not bad for a buck ### 4/5 — Spaß-App *2022-02-06* Preis/Leistung super. Auf iPhone 13 Pro funktioniert alles wie erwartet. Einziger kleiner Bug: Das Display wird bei jedem Frontkameravideo maximal hell und bleibt es nach der Aufnahme auch. ### 2/5 — Buena idea, mal desarrollo *2021-12-28, version 1.0.6* La idea es muy interesante. A través de lo que el sensor LiDAR es “capaz de ver” puedas moverte en completa oscuridad. Tiene poca resolución. Menos que lo que muestran otras apps que no están desarrolladoras para este fin. Cuando enciendes la luz gana resolución, pero pierde su cometido que es “ver” de noche. Parece que el vídeo de ejemplo esta hecho con la luz encendida porque muestra más calidad que lo que yo he podido ver. Ánimo al desarrollador a que sida mejorando esta app para que se convierta en un referente, antes de que venga alguien y lo haga mejor. Echo de menos una vista en escala de grises y quizás se puedas incorporar un algoritmo que mejore la resolución o una máscara de enfoque. Por ahora es una app muy mediocre. La app Record3D tiene una visión más definida e interesante y no está pensada para ver de noche. ### 3/5 — Doesn’t use only LiDAR sensor *2021-12-14, version 1.0.6* This app is a waste of money it doesn’t use just the LiDAR sensor the photo of in the cave is not real it uses the camera give the image in a super dark room it will somewhat work but it is not clear at all. ### 4/5 — Works as advertised.. *2021-10-01* Works as advertised.. uses LiDAR Scanner and Face ID scanner to produce images.. Note: LiDAR camera images aren’t as sharp but gets the job done ### 2/5 — 不值这个价 *2021-08-19* 功能少，样式少 ### 3/5 — Difference between front and back cam *2021-06-16* Die Frontkamera zeigt ein Spitzenklasse Bild. Die Kamera auf der Rückseite ist ein Graus. Kann ich nicht ganz nachvollziehen, da ich der Meinung war, dass das bessere Equipment auf der Rückseite zu finden ist. 3 Sterne aber für die Funktion auf der Frontseite. Lese gerade in der App beschrieben, dass meine Vermutung falsch war. Schade. Aber dennoch funktioniert die Frontkamera erstaunlich gut. ### 4/5 — Exactly what it says it is *2021-04-24* The screenshots in the description seem to be the best case scenario. App works as described, nothing more 3D maps and then assigns a colour based on distance. Fun ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Works poorly *2023-09-30, version 1.0.6* Very very buggy and glitchy ### 1/5 — App doesn’t work *2022-07-24, version 1.0.6* Pay meh back ### 1/5 — Just say no *2022-06-30, version 1.0.6* Not worth the money ### 1/5 — Fail *2022-01-30, version 1.0.6* Didn’t work, white screen ### 1/5 — Infrared vision doesn’t work *2022-01-27, version 1.0.6* I have several lights that emit infrared and this app doesn’t detect any of them. False advertising. ### 1/5 — Utterly useless *2021-06-28, version 1.0.5* Asked Apple for refund. 99 cents? Wouldn't spend a thing. Just takes up space and these must be fake reviews😩😩😩 ### 1/5 — No puedes usarlo para ver de noche *2021-05-03, version 1.0.4* Decepción absoluta, tanto como si la utilizas con lidar,Como si la utilizas con el Face ID. Es imposible moverse por una estancia en plena oscuridad con esta herramienta, de verdad que no merece la pena no tires tu dinero ### 1/5 — Waste of money *2021-04-13, version 1.0.4* The pictures I took, look nothing like the ones the app says it can do. I think the words in the title NIGHT VISION is very false advertising ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2021-03-04, version 1.0.2* Doesn’t work on my iPhone 12 Pro Max ### 1/5 — Not really... *2021-02-06, version 1.0.2* Couldn’t even see the thumbs down I was giving it. And that was only from a foot away.. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Nice to use the phone’s capabilities *2023-04-09, version 1.0.6* But it also shows the lack of resolution on the LiDAR, hopefully apple upgrades the sensors in the future, great app however ### 5/5 — 16 bits TIFF export *2022-03-12* Great app, please allow an export from the sensor of 16 bits per pixels in gray levels of the computed map. A panoramic or stitching mode would be killer too, for 3D computer graphics use as a displacement map in applications like Blender, RenderMan, etc. 🙏 ### 5/5 — Awesome app! *2021-09-27, version 1.0.5* The good reviews are NOT fake. If you want the rear night vision to work, you need an iPhone 12 Pro or better. This app is really cool and really fun to use! I don’t know if it’s possible, but if it is, it would be great to have further range and greater resolution when in total darkness (for rear camera). A bug I noticed on iPhone 13 Pro Max when using the rear (total darkness): the view will glitch out, and it takes a moment before what’s on screen becomes recognizable. Once these are implemented, this app will be perfect! This is an awesome app, and I’m glad I could support the people who made it. What would also be amazing is if this could be in VR! ### 5/5 — Artsy 🙂 *2021-07-14* Ich habe die App gerade gekauft und bin komplett begeistert 🤩 ### 5/5 — Mit Frontkamera top *2021-05-24* Mit der Frontkamera funktioniert es super. 👍 **Developer response:** Die Frontkamera verwendet Infrarotlichtsensoren und hat eine viel höhere Auflösung. Die Rückkamera verwendet einen höherfrequenten LiDAR-Sensor mit niedrigerer Auflösung. Entschuldigung, dass wir Ihre Erwartungen nicht erfüllt haben. ### 5/5 — Works in the dark!!! *2021-03-22, version 1.0.3* Went in pitch black bathroom and this actually works!!! It’s an amazing tool for only 2mb and 99cents WORTH IT!!! ### 5/5 — Suggestion *2021-03-02, version 1.0.2* I really like the app, but is kind of hard to use on a device with out a back lidar sensor, It would be cool if we could live screen mirror to another device so as we could see in front of us...it would also be great the when streaming you can turn off the touch screen and make the screen dark on the main device so that you can grip it without taking pictures or videos or having a light from the main device. The screen mirroring could be done through a separate app that is compatible with old(and new) iPhones. ### 5/5 — Awesomely scary *2021-02-24, version 1.0.2* On my iPhone 12pro I fought to figure walking in front of me I literally peeeed my pants. This is scary I think it opens a new 5th dimension. I keep getting human figures walking in front of me at night when I test this app. ### 5/5 — Carrément bien *2021-02-20* Perso je trouve ça fantastique, je n’avais jamais pensé à cette utilisation. Je pense que ça me sera utile par exemple pour savoir où est mon chat dehors la nuit, s’il bouge bien sûr.. L’image lidar si on l’a est mieux que truedepth mais avoir la fonction aussi avec truedepth est un must. Bluffant ! Bravo !!!! ### 5/5 — I was surprised *2021-01-20, version 0.1.0* I thought this would be like every other “night vision” App but no once I found out it doesn’t actually use the cameras and only uses the LiDAR scanner I was generally surprised. It would be nice if you could toggle some settings to be able to use the camera as well, along with the scanner for even if there is low light. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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