foldio vs Lume Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
foldio
Enhance your product photography with real-time background changes, brightness, and color temperature adjustments. This app allows you to edit photos with tools like eraser and crop, and share your creations with a global community.
- Real-time Chroma key
- Adjustable brightness and color temperature
- Editing tools (eraser, crop, zoom)
- Direct sharing to social media
- In-app community gallery
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Improve your product photography with the Foldio app. Change the background images and control the brightness and color temperature in real time. Take photographs with the Foldio app and share them with Foldio users worldwide by tagging them with #foldio Features: -Real time Chroma key -Easily controlled brightness and color temperature. -Editing tool (eraser, crop, zoom) -Sharing on Instagram, Facebook, and various other channels. -Instagram #foldio gallery. Foldio - foldable studio Foldio is an all-in one foldable and easily portable photo studio that includes all necessary equipment (lights, backdrop, power). It was successfully funded by backers worldwide in a Kickstarter campaign. You can take better photographs with the Foldio studio and the Foldio app. Please visit http://www.orangemonkie.com for more information.
Lume Control
Control your Lume Cube lighting directly from your smartphone. Adjust brightness, temperature, color, and effects. Access tutorials and inspiration to enhance your creative projects.
- Smartphone lighting control panel
- Adjust brightness, temperature, color
- Light grouping
- Special effects control
- Built-in tutorials
- How-to videos
- Inspirational content
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Maximize the potential of your Lume Cube lighting with the help of the Lume Control App. This intuitive app turns your smartphone into a convenient and portable lighting control panel accessible right at your fingertips. Easily adjust your settings, like brightness, temperature, color, light grouping, special effects, and more. The Lume Control app is more of a resource than ever, with built-in tutorials, how-to-videos, and inspirational content to help you bring your next creation to light.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: foldio at 4.0 against Lume Control's 3.0. foldio also leads on ratings volume (166 vs 22) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 14.0). Lume Control's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 41 months). On price, review sentiment, 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.
foldio holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: foldio has 166 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of foldio's written reviews are positive against 50% of Lume Control's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
foldio ships an update every 41 months, Lume Control monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | foldio | Lume Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (166 ratings) — better | 3.0 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.1% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 166 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 41 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ORANGEMONKIE | Kelly Mondora |
Customer experience
foldio
Lume Control
In-app purchases
foldio
No in-app purchases
Lume Control
No in-app purchases
