Lighting Designer User Reviews

Name: Lighting Designer
Rating: 4 (144 reviews)

Lighting Designer

Scenario Software LLC

📊 Productivity

📷 Photo & Video

Customer Experience

Positive experience46.3% of reviews

Neutral18.8% of reviews

Negative experience35.0% of reviews

~ Based on 80 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Lighting Designer Safe?

Lighting Designer appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Lighting Designer is 79/100.

This assessment is based on 144 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4/5.

Safety Analysis

74.3% of ratings point to a safe experience

6.3% of ratings suggest some concerns

19.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 144 App Store ratings for Lighting Designer.

Is Lighting Designer Legit?

Lighting Designer appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Lighting Designer is 88/100.

Based on 88 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

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ROUBOOOO!

Simplesmente baixei o app e já foi cobrado um valor de 149$ na minha fatura? O app eu nem sei pra que serve!

OKunst22

5 months ago

Response from developer

Você pode solicitar um reembolso pela App Store, mas não tenho certeza de por que você comprou um aplicativo sem saber para que ele servia?

Crashes too much…. I really want it to work!

There is so much to like about this app. The. Layout, user interface, simplicity of design.
I’ve used it for over 5 years on and off, and I would use it more but it crashes too often for me to trust it for all my work. If it were more stable I would use it on every job.

Gaffer here

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hi gaffer, sorry you’re having trouble! Email me at lightingdesigner.app@gmail.com, or use the “Email Developer” feature in the app, and we’ll get you sorted out.

Crashes

This app keeps crashing just like others have stated

Lumiary Flux

3 years ago

Response from developer

Try our new platform, Scenario. It’s incredibly stable on any device!

Do NOT waste your money

App barely works. Yes the idea is great but the interface is fiddly, whole thing is buggy, and it crashes when you do basically anything. Can’t even render a simple lighting plot. App just keeps crashing every couple things I do. Paid way too much for an app that I can’t even use.

Kayso Dipp

4 years ago

Response from developer

Try out our new platform, Scenario. Everything you’ve described here is the reason we’ve built it from the ground up to be more stable and flexible!

Unstable

Will inmediatly ask for a refund.
The app is extremely unstable and crashes continuously.

t.schoeningh

4 years ago

Crashes when trying to render large plots

The app crashes when rendering plots larger than 36 pieces on my iPhone 12. Not a good choice for event lighting design if you’re trying to draw plans to scale.

FourTee2

4 years ago

Love the app and its potential but it’s BUGGY

I’ve used the app on and off for a few years. Unfortunately each time I give it a shot the crashes and frozen screens put me off and a number of times, I resorted back to hand-drawn lighting diagrams rather than dealing with the issues of this app.

While it offers so many possibilities, I’d love for it to be more stable.

Holymolymymom

4 years ago

It’s great

Makes camera positioning easy

Kool brezz

5 years ago

Great App In Theory

This app is really cool in the sense that I can create really organized lighting plots for my crew. However, it crashes so frequently that it becomes borderline un-usable. If the developer fixes the bugs this app would make a great tool, however it has a long way to go.

Ben Bowen

5 years ago

Response from developer

Typically I’d ask you to reach out over email to get more details, but I see you already have! Thanks!

Crashes

This App could really be fantastic, there’s a lot of useful features and I found it reasonably simple to work out. The crashing gets ridiculous though. Once I’d reached a certain point in putting together quite a simple plan, it started closing itself down literally every five minutes. The result is that it’s really too slow to be of much use, even on an ipad pro with pencil.

BLBooth

5 years ago

Response from developer

Sorry to hear that! Please email lightingdesigner.app@gmail.com, or email through the app, and we’ll get the problem worked out.

Clunky

Really regret wasting my cash on this app. It’s incredibly clunky and counter intuitive. Having to link things (like a gel) to a light by going into another menu as opposed to just writing it in a box is insane. Why can we select a 12x12 solid, for example, but if we want to show a 12x12 grid we need to “attach” another object?
Where are the reports of total units and total watts/amps?

It also seems the units are not to scale

adrian sierkowski

5 years ago

Response from developer

Adrian, thanks for your feedback. You can reach out over email if you want to discuss more improvements! In the meantime: there are various ways of adding Gels, and one of them actually IS writing it in a box (in the Patch table). I also agree that adding frames could be a smoother process, and I’m planning to add electrical distribution and calculation in a future update. You can get total fixture counts using the Truck feature and in the equipment list. The units are to manufacturer’s specifications. What are you comparing them against? If it’s a floor plan image, that might be what’s not to scale. You can use the “Calculate Image Size” feature to fix that. If you have more ideas, please email me and we’ll talk!

Buggy to the point of being unusable

Yup that’s it

Julianable

6 years ago

Response from developer

I’d love to hear more about these bugs so I can get them fixed! Please email me at lightingdesigner.app@gmail.com, or use the “Email Developer” feature in the app, so we can track them down.

Keeps crashing while naming fixtures

Jimjambass

6 years ago

Response from developer

Sorry to hear that! Please email me at lightingdesigner.app@gmail.com, or use the “Email Developer” feature in the app, and we’ll figure out what the problem is.

Mac

This app could be great if it didn’t crash as often and I would love to be able to import scale drawings and just have to add the lighting also the ability to use it on my Mac as well as my iPad would make it amassing

londongaffer

6 years ago

Response from developer

You actually can add scale drawings! Use any image that you can get into your device’s photos, then use the LD “Calculate Size” feature. You can set two points on the image, tell the app how far apart they SHOULD be, and LD will rescale the image to match the app scale. Email if you need any help!

Crashes all the time

Running on a iPad Pro, latest OS. Crashes all the time, awful. Feel robbed.

Jimjam1967

7 years ago

Response from developer

Sorry to hear that! I’d recommend deleting and re-downloading. After that it should work normally. Send me an email at lightingdesigner.app@gmail.com if you have any other questions!

Excellent but still doesn’t have all of the basics

I love this for making plots super quick BUT, it is limited to 4 universes. When rigs now have way beyond that. So I cannot do this for larger rigs or even distributed rigs. Such a bummer I had to put this app on the back burner for now.

miketluu

7 years ago

Response from developer

Not to worry; starting with v3.6.0, the app allows you to address fixtures up to 48 universes and 9999 channels. Let me know if you want more!

Buggy und it crasches

I bought this App to create Lightning Plans for Movie Sets. The Problem is That its impossible to work with this App, because of permanent rasches. And as i Tried to add dmx adresses , it failed completley. So in my opinion ist not Worth the Money. Never had a buggy app like this , sorry.

moviecircus

7 years ago

Response from developer

Sorry to hear that! It sounds like your download might have been corrupted in some way. I’d suggest deleting and re-downloading the app; after that, it should function correctly. I’ve received a few reports like this over the years, and a re-download has always done the trick. Email me at lightingdesigner.app@gmail.com, or use the Email Developer function built into the app, or the contact form on the website, to let me know how it works out!

Continuous crashing and overpriced

This IS a great app and app idea. There is some intuitiveness to it although without a user guide accessible on iPhone (it’s there just a blank screen though) within the app you already have to have some familiarity with draft and design. The price tag is not justifiable due to crashes as I can’t even generate a test plot without losing my mind! Maybe it’s better on iPad but if I had an Ipad out I may as well have had a computer out and plotted that way.

Dingodogbref

7 years ago

Response from developer

It’s certainly better on iPad, but it seemed wrong to not make it available for iPhone as well. I highly recommend iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil, and I built in keyboard shortcuts as well! The User Guide requires an internet connection to use, so just make sure that’s available.

Idea

I think having some templates or demo shows might help make it easier to understand at first

JoshLawson

7 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks! I’ll think about the best way to make that happen! Some video tutorials are certainly long overdue, but I’m sure anyone working in film/tv/theater will understand the laughability of finding the “free time” to do it :)

Great program, very helpful

Just started using this program and thus far, I’m a huge fan. I feel like a laptop version is critical, but small steps...

I really appreciate the level of control and the density of the functionality and detail you can add and manipulate. Clearly a lot of time and thought went into this. Haven’t gotten deep enough to add truck/ crews / contact info but am looking forward to seeing how that works.

Having done my plots and layouts by hand previously this is a huge help.

Bry Thomas Sanders
Director of Photography

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