Shining Glasses vs LEDCanvas
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shining Glasses
Control your LED full-color display screen with this app. Customize text, expressions, colors, and effects. Create unique patterns, music rhythms, and graffiti for a personalized device experience.
- Control LED full-color display
- Change display text and expressions
- Variety of color schemes
- Display and pattern effects
- Music rhythm effects
- Custom graffiti and display effects
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Shining glasses is a cool app that controls the LED full-color display screen. It can change the display text and expression in the app, provide a variety of color schemes and display effects, pattern effects, music rhythm effects, and customize graffiti and display effects as you like. With cool and diverse play methods, your device is unique. Shining Glasses是一款控制LED全彩显示屏的酷炫App,实现在app中更改显示文字和表情，提供多种配色方案以及显示效果，图案效果,音乐律动效果,可以随心所欲自定义涂鸦及显示效果，酷炫多样的玩法，让您的设备独一无二。
LEDCanvas
Create custom images, animations, and text displays for dot-matrix screens. Convert text to patterns, design clock effects, and visualize music. This tool enhances digital art and interactive display possibilities.
- Create custom GIF animations
- Design personalized dot-matrix images
- Convert text to dot-matrix format
- Generate clock and music visualization effects
- Customize remote control content
- Utilize preset images and animations
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LEDCanvas is a creative tool specifically designed for dot-matrix display systems, offering a rich visual creation experience. In addition to a variety of preset images and animated GIFs, it allows users to freely create personalized GIF animations, custom images, and dot-matrix patterns. Users can convert text into dot-matrix display format, create clock and music visualization effects, and even customize content for remote controls. This application opens up new possibilities for digital art creation and interactive displays.
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Verdict
Shining Glasses and LEDCanvas both sit at 3.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 43% of Shining Glasses's written reviews are positive against 0% of LEDCanvas's. Shining Glasses also leads on ratings volume (61 vs 3) and iOS requirement (9.1 vs 11.0). LEDCanvas's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for Shining Glasses against 3.0 for LEDCanvas. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shining Glasses has 61 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 43% of Shining Glasses's written reviews are positive against 0% of LEDCanvas's.
Shining Glasses ships an update every 2 months, LEDCanvas every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 14, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shining Glasses | LEDCanvas |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (61 ratings) | 3.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 141 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Heaton Technology Co., Ltd. | Shanghai Yiyou Wenchuang Technology |
Customer experience
Shining Glasses
LEDCanvas
In-app purchases
Shining Glasses
No in-app purchases
LEDCanvas
No in-app purchases
