Comparison

VideoLUT vs Lightpop

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

VideoLUT

Easily transform videos and photos with over 2500 cinematic color grading presets. Import, edit, and apply LUTs, or even record directly with applied looks. Create and share your own custom LUTs for ultimate creative control.

Highlights
  • 2500+ cinematic LUT presets
  • Import and apply .cube, .3dl, and .png LUTs
  • Record video with applied LUTs
  • Create and share custom LUTs
  • Advanced color grading tools (color wheels, curves)
  • Support for iCloud and Dropbox import/export
Features
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Transform your videos and images into cinematic masterpieces with VideoLUT, the ultimate color-grading app! With over 6000 presets, you can easily import, edit, and apply LUTs to create stunning videos and photos. Plus, VideoLUT allows you to record videos and take photos with your imported LUTs, giving you the ultimate creative control. 217 film emulations — Kodak Portra, Kodachrome, Ektar, Fuji Velvia, Provia, Ilford HP5, Tri-X and more. Import 20+ LUT formats — .cube, .3dl, .look, .csp, .clf, .spi3d, .icc, CDL, Hald PNG, Lightroom .xmp/.lrtemplate — and export float .cube, .3dl, .look. Whether you're a professional filmmaker or a casual iPhone photographer, VideoLUT is the perfect app for you. It comes with powerful editing tools that allow you to color grade your videos and images with ease. You can even create your own LUTs and share them with other users via QR codes or apps like Lumafusion. VideoLUT supports a variety of LUT formats, including DaVinci Resolve 3D Cube LUT (.cube) and Autodesk 3D LUT (.3dl). You can import .cube, .3dl, and 512x512 .png LUT tables, and save or import cube files to iCloud, Dropbox, and other storage apps. It also converts Adobe Lightroom preset files (`.xmp` and `.lrtemplate`) into LUTs during import. This feature is currently in beta; only supported colour adjustments and processing versions can be converted. But that's not all – VideoLUT also lets you visualize LUTs in 3D, export them as LUT images (.png), and share them as .cube 16, 32, or 33 (DaVinci Resolve 3D Cube LUT) with other apps or your desktop. You can also match colors from images and build new LUTs from the result, and use RGB, HSL, CMYK, LAB, and Skin Masks and Curves for added control. With VideoLUT's auto white balance, Macbeth table detection and correction, split toning, color wheels, and other adjust tools, you have everything you need to perfect your videos and images. Mix multiple LUTs to create new ones, convert Filmic Pro LUTS, and even preprocess RAW photos for added flexibility. Download VideoLUT today and transform your videos and images into true works of art! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Lightpop

Enhance your photos and videos with supernatural brightness and vibrant colors. AI-powered person extraction allows for selective editing of subjects and backgrounds, creating scroll-stopping content. Add ultra-bright borders for an illusion of depth.

Highlights
  • Supernatural brightness enhancement
  • AI person extraction for selective editing
  • Color enhancement for vibrant visuals
  • Ultra-bright border configurations
  • Supports high-resolution images and videos
  • HDR encoding for compatible displays
Features
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Engineered to make your content outshine everything else on the screen. With such supernatural bright 'light', your posts are sure to 'pop' off the feed. Lightpop Turns Your Content Into a Scroll-Stopping Masterpiece. Lightpop: • Lightpop’s proprietary technology drastically alters the true lumen brightness of your content, controlling the nits of individual pixels, making it appear brighter than anything else on-screen. This is accomplished by encoding your media in HDR and maximizing brightness values to super-natural levels, so that they can 'pop' off the screen of any compatible OLED device. Colorpop: • Our Colorpop technology increases chroma in a natural, photo-real way: enhancing color depth without overexposure or filters. Every frame glows with vibrance that feels cinematic yet authentic. The colors changes are symbiotic to brightness changes, with various Lightpop modes allowing for brightness to be adjusted based on the color of each area of your image or video. Person Extraction: • Our AI automatically detects and isolates YOU (or any person) in every frame, allowing for separate editing of the background scene and the foreground subjects. With this, you can apply rich color enhancement or brightness modification only to the background—and a much more natural effect to your skin or clothes. The result is stunning, vibrant content that looks beautifully enhanced without ever looking overly-edited. Border Configurations: • Lightpop supports ultra-bright borders to further enhance your contents ability to pop off the page. This works in conjunction with the Person Extraction technology, allowing for the border to go above the background, but beneath the primary subject, allowing you to pop further out of your content, not just with brightness, but with depth illusion. — Lightpop is compatible with images and videos. Lightpop does not limit content resolution, allowing for edits in the highest standard resolutions. Lightpop is intended for devices with OLED displays. Images are encoded in HEIC and have an optimized SDR fallback for devices without OLED display. Videos are encoded in MP4, have an optimized SDR fallback, and use PQ internally and HLG externally. All Media Encodings are designed for maximum compatibility with HDR-enabled social media platforms. — Lightpop Pro Membership Subscription Information: Lightpop is free to use for image editing. Video editing will requires the optional Lightpop Pro Membership. The cost and renewal period for Lightpop Pro Membership can be found inside the app. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. By subscribing to Lightpop Pro you agree to our Terms of Service and have read and understand our Privacy Policy. Our Terms of Service can be found at: https://tanzaniteapps.com/Lightpop/TermsOfService.html Our Privacy Policy can be found at: https://tanzaniteapps.com/Lightpop/PrivacyPolicy.html — Lightpop™ is a term of Tanzanite Industries LLC. X™ and the X logo are trademarks of X Corp. Lightpop is not affiliated with X.

Screenshots

VideoLUT4 screens
Lightpop2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lightpop at 100% against VideoLUT's 68%. Lightpop also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3). VideoLUT's advantage is ratings volume (356 vs 8). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. VideoLUT sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Lightpop sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lightpop holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VideoLUT has 356 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of VideoLUT's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lightpop's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VideoLUT ships an update every 3 days, Lightpop every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
VideoLUT versus Lightpop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVideoLUTLightpop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (356 ratings)4.6 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews67.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings356 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size176 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEnrique GarciaTanzanite Industries, LLC

Customer experience

VideoLUT

All ratings356 ratings
Positive81.7%
Neutral5.6%
Negative12.6%
Written reviews441 reviews
Positive67.6%
Neutral8.8%
Negative23.6%

Lightpop

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

VideoLUT

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inability to import custom LUTs
  • Saved presets disappearing
  • Exporting issues with certain video formats
  • Compatibility problems with newer devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Batch video processing
  • Undo/redo functionality
  • Higher resolution export
  • iPad-native interface
  • Improved LUT management

Lightpop

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

VideoLUT

Subscriptions2
  • VideoLUT PRO3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • VideoLUT PRO3 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • VideoLUT PRO$9.99
1 purchases

Lightpop

Subscriptions1
  • Lightpop Pro (Onyx)$3.997 Days

Questions

Is VideoLUT free?
VideoLUT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lightpop free?
Lightpop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, VideoLUT or Lightpop?
Lightpop is rated higher. VideoLUT averages 4.3 out of 5 from 356 ratings, while Lightpop averages 4.6 from 8 ratings.
Do VideoLUT or Lightpop have ads?
Neither VideoLUT nor Lightpop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, VideoLUT or Lightpop?
VideoLUT ships an update every 3 days, and Lightpop every 2 days. Most recently, VideoLUT was updated on October 24, 2026 and Lightpop on October 24, 2026.

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