SkyLab Photo Editor vs Lightleap by Lightricks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SkyLab Photo Editor
Easily replace the sky in your photos with stunning options. Add clouds, trees, and birds to enhance your images. Save projects across devices with iCloud support.
- Sky replacement
- Huge sky collection
- Add clouds, trees, birds
- iCloud support
- Simple editing tools
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SkyLab is the one and only sky-replacement app. Imagine dropping stunning skies on your photos with this innovative new app. FEATURES - Drop beautiful skies on your photos - Huge collection of skies - Add clouds, trees, and birds too - iCloud support: Save projects across all of your devices This app is driven by my own love of beautiful skies and fascinating cloud formations. My goal is to capture those moments when you stop in your tracks and just stare at a gorgeous sunset, beautiful blue sky, or epic storm. Create these moments right on your iPhone with powerful yet simple editing tools. SkyLab comes with a huge collection of curated skies from sunny, cloudy, stormy, and night shots. Want to add some clouds to your sky? SkyLab also includes Elements to add to your photos, such as clouds, trees, and the moon. Create beautiful skies with SkyLab.
Lightleap by Lightricks
Transform your photos with powerful editing tools. Easily enhance lighting, replace backgrounds, and remove unwanted elements to create professional-looking images without complex software. Achieve stunning results with pre-set filters and effects.
- AI-powered photo editing
- Sky replacement
- Object removal (Heal tool)
- Diverse filters and looks
- Special effects
- Adjustable intensity
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Finally, you can take the photo you actually meant to take! Lightleap (formerly Quickshot) is a photo editor that proves you no longer need to be a professional photographer to take amazing photos. Let’s face it - your photos don't always come out the way you expected. You pull out your phone to capture something awesome, but the photo you take just doesn't do the scene justice. The background is too blurry, the lighting is just all wrong, or maybe the scenery needs a retouch – something only an experienced editor can do, right? The Lightleap app is here to change that! With this editor app, you can capture the beauty and magic you see with your own eyes – or enhance it. You become the editor with filters, effects, and retouch tools at your fingertips. There’s no need to spend hours pulling your hair out as you learn how to use professional editor software. The Lightleap image editor app takes moments to retouch your photos into eye-catching images with professional vibes, using stunning pre-set filters and effects. With unique, easy-to-use features like background Sky, Heal, Effects, Filters and Looks, every photo you take from now on will be picture perfect. If you’ve dreamed of taking Instagram-worthy images to inspire the world, this is your chance. Brought to you by Lightricks, the award-winning app developer, Lightleap photo editor app is part of the Enlight Creativity Suite, including Pixaloop, Videoleap and Photofox. We help you harness your creativity in every photo. App user favourite features from Lightleap include: Sky Replace the background in your photos with a brand-new sky! - With one tap, you can change the background with a new sky. - Select from 60+ high-quality sky backgrounds. - Choose from sunny, dusk, sunset, storm, and even fantasy skies! Heal Remove unwanted people, background smudges, and easily retouch your image with the heal function, like a true editor. - Select and erase items in the forefront and background of your image. - Smooth over bumps and quickly correct photo mistakes. - Undo retouches with a single tap to restore your image! Filters No photo is complete without one of Lightleap's gorgeous filters - one of our top features. - Find filters by theme, whether you’re looking for warm, black and white, urban, fade and many other filters. - Easily adjust the intensity of your filters over your image. - Achieve the effects you desire in moments! Looks Change the vibe of your photo like a true editor in one tap. - Choose a predefined look as filters for your image. - Create a signature style for your Instagram feed with our designer editor looks. - Give your images a golden hour glow, or set the mood with dusk, black and white, shadows and fantasy looks. Effects Add tons of special effects to retouch dull areas and bring your background to life. - Overlay shadow effects, sparkles, lens flares and more to enhance your photo. - Change the weather effects and add seasonal themes. - Access our extremely popular mood elements and adjust the magic level of your photo effects! Adjust The full collection of essential editor tools is at your fingertips. - Every minor retouch adjustment can be made, including light and contrast to temperature, tint and hue editors. - Crop your photo, retouch, and edit all within the app. - Sharpen, adjust the depth, structure, and grain as a professional photography editor! With Lightleap, you become a photo editor in moments. Fix and retouch your photos with filters and effects to truly capture the magic of the moment you experienced. Download the app to discover how you can become a pro photo editor! - Terms of use: https://static.lightricks.com/legal/terms-of-use.pdf - Privacy policy: https://static.lightricks.com/legal/privacy-policy.pdf
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Lightleap by Lightricks at Free against SkyLab Photo Editor's $4.99. Lightleap by Lightricks also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (99K vs 32). SkyLab Photo Editor's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 18). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and device support 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
Lightleap by Lightricks is free to download; SkyLab Photo Editor costs $4.99 up front. Lightleap by Lightricks sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. SkyLab Photo Editor asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lightleap by Lightricks holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lightleap by Lightricks has 99K ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 48% of SkyLab Photo Editor's written reviews are positive against 40% of Lightleap by Lightricks's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SkyLab Photo Editor ships an update every 2 months, Lightleap by Lightricks monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SkyLab Photo Editor | Lightleap by Lightricks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (32 ratings) | 4.7 (99K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.6% of reviews — better | 40.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 32 | 99K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 209 MB | 287 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Grote | Lightricks Ltd. |
Customer experience
SkyLab Photo Editor
Lightleap by Lightricks
User reviews
SkyLab Photo Editor
From 32 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Beautiful and realistic sky options
- 👍 User-friendly interface and easy to use
- ⚡ Quick and efficient sky replacement
- 🎭 Great variety of effects and filters
- 💰 No subscription required, one-time purchase
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and app instability
- 🔧 Masking tool not functioning properly
- 📐 Sky layers cover entire image instead of just background
- ❌ Poor performance with complex horizons and objects
- ⚠️ Crashes when saving or completing edits
Lightleap by Lightricks
From 99K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Consistently good app
- 🎨 Great photo editing
- 👍 Worth to buy
- 🌟 Amazing app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🔒 Locked behind paywall
- 💰 Expensive subscription
- 🤖 Misleading advertising
- 🔍 Limited free features
Bugs and requests
SkyLab Photo Editor
Reported bugs
16 issues- App crashes when opening photos
- App crashes when clicking mask tool
- App crashes when saving or pressing Done
- Masking tool does not apply changes
- Auto-mask feature fails to detect objects properly
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- Manual mask adjustments cause entire image to be covered
- Freezing when zooming during masking
- Crashes on iOS 15.6.1 and other iOS versions
- App becomes unresponsive during editing
- Endless loop when adding photos
- Photo selection not working properly
- Intermittent scrolling issues
- Tutorial mode cannot be exited
- Edit tool shows original photo instead of preview
- Crashes on iPad but not iPhone
- Performance degradation on older devices
Requested features
14 requests- Fix and improve masking tool functionality
- Add ability to use custom/personal sky images
- Implement sky rotation capability
- Add more blending modes (multiply, overlay, luminosity)
- Include feathering option for better edge blending
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- Add undo/redo functionality
- Support for landscape mode on iPhone
- Ability to rotate skies to match horizon angles
- More comprehensive tutorials for advanced features
- Add more diverse sky options
- Intelligent edge detection for complex skylines
- Out of focus adjustment slider
- Support for video editing
- Ability to add other landscape elements (mountains, seas)
Lightleap by Lightricks
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to access photos after update
- Freezing and crashing during editing
- Distortion and artifacts when removing objects
Requested features
7 requests- Ability to save edited photos without subscription
- More free editing tools and features
- Improved object removal/healing tool
- Ability to add text to photos
- Preset saving and applying
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- Sky eraser tool
- RAW image support
In-app purchases
SkyLab Photo Editor
No in-app purchases
Lightleap by Lightricks
- Unlimited access$3.991 Month
- Lightleap unlimited access$3.991 Month
- Lightleap unlimited access3 Days trial$3.991 Month
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- Lightleap unlimited access$4.991 Month
- Lightleap unlimited access$5.991 Month
- Lightleap unlimited access$9.991 Month
- Lightleap unlimited access$19.991 Year
- Lightleap unlimited access3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lightleap unlimited access7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lightleap unlimited access1 Year trial$23.991 Year
- Lightleap unlimited access7 Days trial$23.991 Year
- Lightleap unlimited access7 Days trial$26.991 Year
- Lightleap unlimited access2 variants$49.991 Year
- Lightleap unlimited access$77.991 Year
- Quickshot unlimited access$199.99
- Lightleap unlimited access$199.99
Questions
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