Lightleap by Lightricks vs Album Trail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Album Trail
Organize, find, and revisit your photos and videos with smart search and map features. Create custom albums, add notes, and discover organizing suggestions. Photo recognition runs on your device for enhanced privacy.
- Create custom photo albums
- Search by photo content and text
- View photos on an interactive map
- On-device photo recognition
- Organizing suggestions
- Add notes to photos
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Album Trail connects your photos with the places and journeys behind them. Organize your library, revisit a trip and turn your memories into a map to share. Revisit your photos on a map Explore photo locations in Memories, see the regions your photos cover in Places, and follow a trip in Journeys. Create a journey from an album, date range or selected photos. Add stops, adjust their order and position, edit names, choose map photos and transport, or merge and split stops. Organize and find your photos Create albums, add notes and choose photos from album suggestions. Filter by date, media type and favorites, or search photo content, text in images, album names and notes. Recognition models are included with the app. Photo recognition and content search run on your device; photos and search text are not sent to a cloud recognition service. Recognition can miss or misidentify content. Share a map of your memories Memories, Places and Journeys share one Export & Share experience. Choose a 3:4, 4:3 or 1:1 format, inspect the complete image in a full-screen preview, then save it to Photos or use the iOS share sheet. Stay in control Limited photo access is supported, and no Album Trail account is required. Optional iCloud backup stores album organization and notes, not original photos, recognition indexes or journeys. Removing an Album Trail album or journey does not delete photos from your library. Deleting an original photo requires separate confirmation. Maps, place lookups, Places boundary data and photos stored only in iCloud need an internet connection. Recognition does not analyze video frames. See Profile → Privacy for details.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Album Trail at 100% against Lightleap by Lightricks's 40%. Album Trail also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Lightleap by Lightricks's advantage is ratings volume (99K vs 3). 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
Both are free to download. Lightleap by Lightricks sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Album Trail sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Album Trail holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lightleap by Lightricks has 99K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Lightleap by Lightricks's written reviews are positive against 100% of Album Trail's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lightleap by Lightricks | Album Trail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (99K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 99K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 287 MB | 245 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lightricks Ltd. | 雨青 李 |
Customer experience
Lightleap by Lightricks
Album Trail
Bugs and requests
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
Album Trail
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Album Trail
- A Postcard$0.99
- A Little Album$2.99
- A Roll of Film$4.99
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- Special Support$14.99
Questions
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