Pictagrid vs Light Lamb
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pictagrid
Easily create stunning, swipable gallery walls for social media without needing complex editing software. Offers various layout options and in-app purchases to expand creative possibilities.
- Create swipable gallery walls
- Multiple layout options
- In-app purchases for enhanced creativity
- Export images for social media
- No Photoshop required
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Pictagrid provides you with the tools to easily create beautiful, swipable gallery walls without the need for photoshop. Pictagrid comes loaded with several layout options you can combine create engaging layouts and offers several in-app purchases to enhance your creative limits. When you are done with your layout, Pictagrid will export the images ready to post on your favorite social media platform.
Light Lamb
This app acts as a light meter for film photographers, offering both automatic and manual control over camera settings. It helps ensure correct exposure by suggesting adjustments based on your chosen parameters and scene conditions. Features include spot metering, safe shutter speed awareness, and the ability to save settings with scene photos.
- Automatic exposure mode for film cameras
- Assisted manual control of aperture, shutter, ISO
- Histogram for exposure visualization
- Safe shutter speed matching
- Spot metering with 5x zoom
- Customizable ISO, aperture, shutter speed ranges
- Save settings with scene photos and location
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Light Lamb is a free photographers’ light meter app for iOS. You can let Light Lamb decide everything for you like getting an auto mode for your manual film camera, or you could have full manual control of the parameters, or whatever you want in between. - Now with histogram (New in 1.3.0) Use the histogram to make sure the scene is exposed just like how you envisioned. - From full auto to assisted manual control In most cameras if you pick a parameter like aperture, shutter, or ISO, the camera would stick to your chosen values even if it's too dark or too bright for the scene. The reason we made Light Lamb is to have a light meter that would suggest different settings if the chosen parameters are not suitable. For example, you can keep your settings at f/8 and 1/125 for deep depth of field and fast shutter speed, but if it's too dark, Light Lamb would suggest brighter values to make sure it's correctly exposed. Or say you want to set the aperture to f/1.4 for shallow depth of field, and if it's bright outside and the shutter is already at its fastest speed, Light Lamb would suggest a smaller aperture. Just set the parameters to what you want and Light Lamb will handle the rest. - Safe shutter-aware Pick a preferred slowest shutter speed you want and Light Lamb will match it. If the scene is too dark, Light Lamb automatically pick a slower shutter speed beyond the safe shutter to achieve the correct exposure. - Spot metering Zoom in 5x to focus the measurements to small areas in contrasting scenes. - Match your equipment Choose the range and increment of ISO, aperture, and shutter speed to match your equipment. Choose between whole-stop, half-stop, and one-third EV increments for each parameter. - Keep a memo Keep a memo of the settings used, including a photo of the scene and the location. Export it as a beautiful picture note formatted in 4:5 aspect ratio, great for posting to Instagram along with your photo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Light Lamb at none against Pictagrid's 5. Light Lamb also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Pictagrid's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Pictagrid sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Light Lamb asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pictagrid against 5.0 for Light Lamb. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pictagrid has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Pictagrid's written reviews are positive against 100% of Light Lamb's.
Pictagrid ships an update weekly, Light Lamb every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pictagrid | Light Lamb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jake Landon | CHUN YIN FUNG |
Customer experience
Pictagrid
Light Lamb
In-app purchases
Pictagrid
- Scale To Fit$0.99
- Remainder Fill$0.99
- Custom Layouts$1.99
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- Free Floating Item$1.99
- Layout Tools Bundle$3.99
Light Lamb
No in-app purchases









