Comparison

Light Panel Pro vs Even Longer

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

Head to head
About

Light Panel Pro

Transform your device into a professional lighting tool for creative projects, film scanning, and video calls. Adjust brightness, color temperature, and RGB hues to enhance any scene. Give your existing technology a vibrant new purpose.

Highlights
  • Pocket-sized professional light
  • Creative lighting control
  • Film scanning
  • Video call enhancement
  • Brightness adjustment
  • Kelvin temperature control
  • RGB color control
Features
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Light Panel Pro: Transform your device into a professional studio light. Perfect for creative lighting, film scanning and video calls. Control screen brightness, Kelvin temperature and full RGB color on any Apple device. • Light Panel Pro turns your mobile device into a portable light panel - one that you always have with you as a small fill light for photography or videography. • Light Panel Pro is a perfect backlight for scanning film with its dedicated scanning mask. It can also be used as a light table or light box with the built-in alignment grid. • Light Panel Pro is a great light for video calls. • Control screen brightness and temperature. Display & save arbitrary colors for creative lighting effects. • Automatically match the color temperature of the ambient light. • Lock screen settings from accidental touch input. • Create complex or remote lighting setups with the optional Remote Control feature. • There are many other potential uses whenever you need extra light: reading light, mood light, torch etc. • Give your old tech a brilliant second life - great for transforming old devices that can't run recent versions of iOS (iPad Air 1st gen & iPhone 5s onwards) into high-quality light panels, offering a highly cost-effective solution by repurposing hardware that might otherwise go unused. • Available as a universal purchase for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac, Apple TV & Vision Pro. • Print magazine PC Professionale recommended Light Panel Pro as "Original and unexpectedly useful" in the July 2021 edition! Join 5000 happy users and download Light Panel Pro now !

About

Even Longer

This app transforms your iPhone into a professional long exposure camera. It offers multiple capture modes for motion blur, light trails, and star trails, with advanced features available through an optional PRO membership.

Highlights
  • Frame Averaging Mode
  • Light Trails Mode
  • Star Trails Mode
  • RAW Support
  • Intervalometer
  • Save Interim Results
  • Longest capture times
Features
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Even Longer is a professional long-exposure camera for iPhone and iPad — and the first long-exposure app on the App Store to shoot 48 MP and Apple ProRAW. You set the exposure — a duration or a frame count. The camera captures a continuous frame sequence to that target and merges it live on the GPU, under full manual control. Thirty seconds or three hours is a number you enter, not a shutter you hold. What lands in your library is a real RAW. iPHONE 18 PRO VARIABLE APERTURE Supported from day one: an aperture button and ruler on the camera screen, every stop the lens offers, and the f-number in your files. On iPhones with a fixed iris the control simply stays hidden. 48 MP AND APPLE PRORAW Long exposures at the sensor's full 48-megapixel readout, and merged results written as Apple ProRAW. Maximum resolution works in frame averaging with ProRAW, TIFF, HEIC or JPEG on iPhones with a 48 MP sensor; ProRAW needs a ProRAW-capable iPhone. RAW OUTPUT, AND SHADOWIQ Merged results save as RAW (DNG), Apple ProRAW, TIFF, HEIC or JPEG — with a fallback order you control. When a lens or mode can't produce the format you picked, the camera saves the next one it can and tells you why, without ever changing your choice. The RAW is worth the wait: dramatically more detail in the shadows and cleaner blacks than any earlier version, and ShadowIQ goes further still: shadow detail with even less noise, and no need to bracket exposures any more. WHAT YOU CAN SHOOT • Frame averaging — silky water, cleaner night shots, crowds that fade away (a computed ND filter) • Light Trails — traffic, light painting, fireworks • Star Trails — with a celestial overlay that projects the pole, constellations and the expected trails onto your viewfinder before you commit FULL MANUAL CONTROL ISO, shutter, focus, white balance, EV and aperture — with live histogram, grid and spirit level overlays, tap-to-focus and a loupe. Per-lens focal length, sensor size and crop factor are measured on your hardware, so your metadata is right. PLAN AND AUTOMATE Schedule a capture for sunset or astronomical night on the built-in sun-altitude timeline, run the intervalometer for sequences, and let interim saves protect long exposures against interruptions. REMOTE CONTROL AND APPLE WATCH Pair the Even Longer Remote app (iPhone, iPad or Mac) and control the camera from a distance: live viewfinder, full manual control, live progress, and finished files delivered to the controller. Pairing is TLS-secured on your local network; an off-grid hotspot mode works in the field without any router. The Apple Watch app — live viewfinder, shutter, progress — comes with the app. THE APP, AND PRO — READ BEFORE BUYING Even Longer is a paid app: one purchase, no ads, no data collection, nothing sold on. It gets you the whole camera — every accumulation mode, JPEG and HEIC output including 48 MP, variable aperture, histogram, grid and spirit level, the Apple Watch app and the iPad layout. PRO is an optional in-app purchase that upgrades this app — monthly, yearly, or once and forever. These features are NOT included without PRO: RAW (DNG), Apple ProRAW and TIFF output, ShadowIQ, the celestial overlay, remote control, scheduled capture, the intervalometer, interim saves and anamorphic desqueeze. They are marked PRO in the app. Entitlements are checked on device, so PRO keeps working where there is no signal. TWO APPS, ONE CAMERA • Even Longer — this app: the camera, paid, with the optional PRO upgrade. • Even Longer Remote — the controller for iPhone, iPad and Mac. It needs an Even Longer camera with remote control (PRO) switched on. Built for photographers who plan the shot — and want the file to be worth the wait.

Screenshots

Light Panel Pro4 screens
Even Longer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Light Panel Pro at 85% against Even Longer's 56%. Light Panel Pro also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and device support (5 vs 3). Even Longer's advantage is chart position (#112 vs unranked) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On ads, 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

Light Panel Pro costs $4.99 and Even Longer $3.99 up front. Light Panel Pro sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Even Longer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Light Panel Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 68 and 221 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Light Panel Pro's written reviews are positive against 56% of Even Longer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Light Panel Pro ships an update every 6 weeks, Even Longer every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Light Panel Pro versus Even Longer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLight Panel ProEven Longer
Price$4.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.5 (68 ratings) — better4.1 (221 ratings)
Positive reviews85.0% of reviews — better56.2% of reviews
Number of ratings68221 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank—#112 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMike WoolleyMario Tomiak

Customer experience

Light Panel Pro

All ratings68 ratings
Positive85.3%
Neutral2.9%
Negative11.8%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive85.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.0%

Even Longer

All ratings221 ratings
Positive76.5%
Neutral7.7%
Negative15.8%
Written reviews121 reviews
Positive56.2%
Neutral10.7%
Negative33.1%

Bugs and requests

Light Panel Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Even Longer

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • App crashes after ~200 photos in interval mode
  • Blank camera screen until photo is taken
  • Photos not found in camera roll or files
  • App crashes on iPhone 17 Pro Max after upgrade
  • Pro membership not reinstating after crashes
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  • Autofocus crosshairs take 3+ seconds to appear
  • Shutter button becomes unresponsive
  • Red/magenta color cast on subsequent photos
  • Exposure preview doesn't match final output
  • Photos appear blurry despite tripod use
  • App requires service connection for Pro features
  • Focus system behaves differently in night mode
  • Charged incorrect amount during purchase
  • Subscription charged despite 'free' promotion

Requested features

12 requests
  • Camera level function for alignment
  • HDR support for better dynamic range
  • 48MP RAW file support for newer iPhones
  • Apple Watch app for remote shooting
  • Better exposure preview matching final output
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  • Astrophotography mode with star tracking
  • 16:9 aspect ratio option for star trails
  • Individual image saving option without stacking
  • Fine-tune focus buttons for night mode
  • Higher ISO control options
  • Better user guides and tutorials
  • Multi-device license support

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Light Panel Pro

One-time2
  • Buy Me A Coffee$2.99
  • Remote Control$9.99
3 purchases

Even Longer

Subscriptions2
  • PRO Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
  • PRO Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • PRO Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Light Panel Pro free?
Light Panel Pro costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Even Longer free?
Even Longer costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Light Panel Pro or Even Longer?
Light Panel Pro is rated higher. Light Panel Pro averages 4.5 out of 5 from 68 ratings, while Even Longer averages 4.1 from 221 ratings.
Do Light Panel Pro or Even Longer have ads?
Neither Light Panel Pro nor Even Longer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Light Panel Pro or Even Longer?
Light Panel Pro ships an update every 6 weeks, and Even Longer every 3 weeks. Most recently, Light Panel Pro was updated on October 14, 2026 and Even Longer on October 14, 2026.

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