Comparison

Let it Light! vs Focos

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

Head to head
About

Let it Light!

Enhance your photos with a wide array of lighting filters and editing tools. Easily add light leak effects and adjust image properties like brightness and contrast. Share your edited creations directly to social media or save them to your device.

Highlights
  • Single tap lighting filters
  • Adjust opacity, brightness, and contrast
  • Blur and focus tools
  • Rotate, crop, and resize
  • Direct social media sharing
  • Save to photo library
  • Send via email
Features
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*** One of the best camera app for taking picture with light! *** The app include huge collection of lighting filters and editing tools. Enjoy dressing up your pictures with amazing filters! If you want to use light leak effects with ordinary camera, it requires a very advanced technique. But you can enjoy them just in a few taps with this app! Of course, you can share your creation with your friends via SNS service. Features: - Easy-to-use single tap lighting filters - Adjust opacity - Adjust brightness - Adjust contrast - Blur and focus - Rotate, crop and resizing - Share to Twitter, Instagram or Facebook - Save to Photo Library - Send photo by mail

About

Focos

Transform your iPhone and iPad photos with DSLR-like bokeh and depth-of-field effects. This app uses computational photography to let you refocus, adjust aperture, and add multiple lights in 3D space, unlocking endless creative possibilities.

Highlights
  • AI-powered depth calculation
  • Adjustable aperture and bokeh effects
  • Refocus photos after capture
  • Add and control multiple 3D lights
  • Simulate lens characteristics
  • 3D depth map visualization
  • Augmented reality preview
Features
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Focos is a big step into the future of computational photography and light-field camera, bringing DSLR-like photography to your iPhone and iPad Pro, with beautiful bokeh effects usually achievable only with professional large aperture cameras. With the technology of computational photography, you can make unlimited changes to your photos, focus after the fact, change the aperture repeatedly, and add multiple lights in 3D space, exceeding the limits of any editing tools you’ve known before. The creative potential unleashed by Focos is endless. The Verge, "Focos has long been one of the most ambitious photo-editing apps on iOS, turning any photo into a 'portrait mode'-style image with fully adjustable depth of field, no matter what kind of camera you took it with." MAIN FEATURES - Take photos with shallow depth of field, without manually painting or making selections. - The AI engine can calculate depth of field automatically for all photos. - True 3D imaging. - Simulate large apertures to create real bokeh effects normally only possible with DSLR cameras and expensive lenses. - Import all existing photos and customize the bokeh effect. - Re-focus portrait photos that have already been taken, with a simple tap. - Choose from various simulated aperture diaphragms to generate different bokeh spot effects. - Professional options to simulate lens characteristics, such as creamy, bilinear, swirly, and reflex effects, and more. - Visualize the depth of areas within your portrait photos in a 3D view, and intuitively add depth filters. - Add multiple lights in a 3D space, and adjust the color, brightness and so on for each light. - Check the portrait picture in the real world with augmented reality technique. - It is possible to patch the depth map precisely on iPad with Apple Pencil. - Intuitive and easy to use, with built-in video tutorials. - An essential tool for all iPhones and iPads. Do you have questions or suggestions? Contact us via support @ focos . me.

Screenshots

Let it Light!4 screens
Focos4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Focos at 4.7 against Let it Light!'s 3.0. Focos also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (51K vs 2). Let it Light!'s advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 14.0). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Let it Light! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Focos sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Focos holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focos has 51K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 50% and 51% positive.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Let it Light! versus Focos: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLet it Light!Focos
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)4.7 (51K ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews50.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings251K — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS7.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB332 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQuantis,Inc.Mosaic S.r.l.

Customer experience

Let it Light!

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Focos

All ratings51,408 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews754 reviews
Positive50.5%
Neutral5.2%
Negative44.3%

Bugs and requests

Let it Light!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Focos

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App freezes or crashes when editing certain photos
  • Depth adjustments not saving properly
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between editing modes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to save edited photos with depth map
  • More precise brush tools for depth editing
  • Improved hair/fine detail handling
  • Faster processing and loading times
  • Easier organization and management of edited photos

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Let it Light!

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99
9 purchases

Focos

Subscriptions7
  • Focos Pro Weekly7 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Focos Pro Weekly7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Focos Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
Show 4 more
  • Weekly Subscription - Standard$3.997 Days
  • Standard Weekly - Free Trial7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Weekly Creator Bundle - FT7 Days trial2 variants$9.997 Days
  • Weekly Creator Bundle$9.997 Days
One-time2
  • Monthly subscription$1.99
  • Lifetime unlimited access$12.99

Questions

Is Let it Light! free?
Let it Light! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focos free?
Focos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Let it Light! or Focos?
Focos is rated higher. Let it Light! averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Focos averages 4.7 from 51K ratings.
Do Let it Light! or Focos have ads?
Let it Light! shows ads; Focos does not.

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