Best apps like Lightsynth

32+ similar apps compared and reviewed

4.5 avg rating

2 free apps

Updated October 2026

Tae ho Lee

📷 Photo & Video

Lightsynth is great, but it's not the only option. Explore 32+ similar apps for iPhone and iPad, each reviewed and rated by real users. Find free alternatives, premium upgrades, and hidden gems.

Top Alternatives to Lightsynth

#1

Inpaint Magic - Photo Retouch by Dongwook Cho

One step object removal

Editor's Choice

📷 Photo & Video

4.3(12 ratings)

$2.99

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Effortlessly remove unwanted objects from your photos with a single touch. This tool uses an advanced algorithm to achieve natural-looking results quickly and efficiently. Perfect for quick edits and achieving cleaner images.

#2

Apollo: Immersive illumination by INDICE S.A.

Relight your selfies & photos

Strong Contender

📷 Photo & Video

4.2😐(447 ratings)

$2.99

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Enhance your Portrait Mode photos by adding and manipulating light sources after the shot. This app reconstructs a 3D map of your image, allowing real-time adjustments to color, intensity, and distance of lights for professional-looking results.

What We Love

💡 Unique lighting effects
🚀 Impressive depth-based editing
👍 Intuitive user interface
🎨 Ability to create dramatic photos

Room to Improve

🐛 Compatibility issues with older iPhones
🔒 Limited to portrait mode photos only
⚠️ Crashes and freezes reported
🤔 Confusing tutorial prompts

#3

Simply HDR by JixiPix, LLC

Add extended range of light

Worth Considering

📷 Photo & Video

4.8😐(1.5K ratings)

$2.99

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Transform ordinary photos into vibrant HDR images with exceptional light and detail. This app offers a powerful HDR engine, presets, and adjustable controls to create stunning, artistic, or realistic HDR effects easily.

What We Love

👍 Easy to use
🎨 Great photo effects
💫 Produces stunning results
🔥 Addictive app
🌟 Excellent HDR app

Room to Improve

🐛 Crashes/doesn't work
🚫 Not true HDR
📉 Poor image quality
🔍 Limited features
🔧 Needs more customization

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Blur background.

Blur background.

Blur background.

Easily add a professional-looking blurred background to your photos, mimicking the effect of dual-camera portrait modes. This machine learning-powered app lets you enhance existing images or those taken with a single lens, offering various blur styles and adjustable intensity.

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DSLR Camera: ProRAW & ProRes

This manual camera app offers DSLR-like controls for iPhone and iPad, enabling users to capture high-quality photos and videos. It provides advanced features like ProRAW, ProRes, and manual adjustments for exposure, ISO, and focus, catering to both beginners and professionals.

DSLR-like manual controlsProRAW and ProRes supportAdjustable exposure, ISO, white balance

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Light | Long Exposure

Light | Long Exposure

Light | Long Exposure

Create stunning long exposure photos with dynamic motion effects. Capture light trails from moving objects, freeze clouds, or illustrate water flow. Experiment with limitless exposure times to unleash your creativity.

Light trails photographyLong exposure effectsCapture moving objects

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Image Eraser - Inpaint & heal

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Remove unwanted objects

Easily remove unwanted objects from your photos, such as power lines, people, logos, or text. Advanced algorithms intelligently fill in the background for seamless edits. Perfect for cleaning up images and restoring old photos.

Delete unwanted people from photoErase wires and power linesErase wrinkles and skin blemishes

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MovieSpirit - Movie Maker Pro

MovieSpirit - Movie Maker Pro

MovieSpirit - Movie Maker Pro

Professional Video Editor

Create professional-quality movies by combining videos, photos, music, and text. Add special effects, transitions, and animations to bring your vision to life. This app offers advanced editing tools for a seamless video creation experience.

Combine videos, photos, music, text, and graffitiOverlay multi-layer video (Picture-in-picture)Professional video ratios and scalable timeline

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JPEG / RAW Editor & Manager

This app offers advanced RAW image processing and organization for your photo library. It allows for precise, non-destructive editing with a wide range of tools, and syncs changes across devices. Manage albums, filter images, and enhance photos with features like Depth Effect.

Advanced RAW processingNon-destructive editingPhoto library organization

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HDR Max - Photo Editor

HDR Max - Photo Editor

HDR Max - Photo Editor

Powerful Editing Made Simple

Enhance your photos with powerful HDR effects and a comprehensive suite of editing tools. This app simplifies professional-level edits with real-time previews and a streamlined interface, allowing you to create detailed and unique images.

Powerful HDR effectsIntegrated photo galleryExtensive color filters

📷 Photo & Video

free with in-app purchases

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