SmartBeam® Luminance Camera vs Tiny Smart
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmartBeam® Luminance Camera
This app transforms your iOS device into a professional luminance camera, enabling quick assessments of surface brightness. It uses a calibrated false-color filter to visualize light variations, aiding lighting designers, architects, and engineers. The tool also allows for saving and sharing images for reports and collaboration.
- Surface and point luminance measurement
- Live false color display
- Luminance selfie mode
- Multiple luminance scales (Cd/m2, cd/ft2, fl)
- Auto and manual exposure control
- Image sharing and saving
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The SmartBeam® Luminance Camera app solves the problem of how to make quick and meaningful assessments of surface light levels. The app turns your iOS device into a professional luminance camera wherever you are. Luminance is a fundamental measure of the brightness of a given surface or the amount of light emitted or reflected off that surface. It also indicates how much luminous power can be perceived by the human eye. The SmartBeam® Luminance Camera app augments the human visual system and increases the dynamic range and ability of the eye to perceive variations in luminance by representing images from the smartphone camera through a calibrated false color filter in real-time. This accentuates the differences in luminance in an easy to read manner. The app is intended as a useful, quick and easy to use tool for lighting designers, architects and lighting engineers who are specifying, using, or planning to use, LED lighting fixtures. It is also designed to help the lighting product development process. For instance, the app can be used to quickly measure beam distributions produced by LED lighting products offering considerable time and cost savings over other techniques. A key feature of the app is the ability to share images directly from your smartphone to help collaboration on lighting installations or new lighting product development. Images can also be posted directly to social media. The app also includes the ability to save images for inclusion in reports. For fun, the app can be used to produced luminance photographic maps of your favorite places or people and even fun selfies! Features · Surface and point measurement of luminance · Live false color display of luminance variations · Luminance point measurement · Luminance selfie mode · Choice of Cd/m2, cd/ft2, and fl scales · Auto and manual exposure · Calibration options · Share of false color and normal images · Save of false color and normal images By using this app, you agree to Apple's Standard End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Tiny Smart
Control your smart devices via Bluetooth. This utility app allows seamless connection and management of your connected gadgets through a distribution network.
- Bluetooth smart device connection
- Device control via app
- Smart device management
- Distribution network integration
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This application can be connected to our smart devices through Bluetooth distribution network, and use this application to control.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SmartBeam® Luminance Camera at 3.7 against Tiny Smart's 1.3. Tiny Smart's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (27 vs 6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. SmartBeam® Luminance Camera sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Tiny Smart asks for nothing beyond the download.
SmartBeam® Luminance Camera holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 1.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 27 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of SmartBeam® Luminance Camera's written reviews are positive against 6% of Tiny Smart's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SmartBeam® Luminance Camera ships an update every 3 weeks, Tiny Smart fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmartBeam® Luminance Camera | Tiny Smart |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (6 ratings) — better | 1.3 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 6.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 118 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TEYEO LLC | Shenzhen Jingyuan Micro Control Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
SmartBeam® Luminance Camera
Tiny Smart
In-app purchases
SmartBeam® Luminance Camera
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Pro Version$14.99
Tiny Smart
No in-app purchases
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