Lightbooth vs After Stories
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lightbooth
This app provides a central place to view, download, and share all your photos and videos taken with Lightbooth. It allows you to create a profile, connect with friends, and discover personalized content from events and places.
- View and download all photos and videos
- Create a personalized profile
- Share moments with friends
- Discover personalized content feed
- Access Lightbooth map with offers
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This is the overview of all the photos and videos you have taken on Lightbooth. Lightbooth celebrates diversity and honest moments. The round beauty dish light creates the perfect light setting for photos and videos – and now you get access to all of them in one place. The Lightbooth app gives you a unique opportunity to share your moments with friends, and get access to the very best offers your favorite places have to offer. Choose your favorite photos & videos, post them on your wall, tag your friends and gain even more like-minded friends! • View and download all of your moments (photos & videos) ever taken on a Lightbooth! • Create your own Lightbooth profile, showcasing your activity • Watch an endless stream of moments from people visiting nightclubs, bars, fashion events – or from their shoppings sprees, concert venues, and stadium experiences. • Discover a personalised feed based on your own interests and the activity from your places and your friends. • Access your personalized Lightbooth map, showing the nearest Lightbooth, recent activity, and special offers. Welcome to the Lightbooth World!
After Stories
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After Stories is one private place for your group's plan: a dinner, a birthday, a night out, a weekend away, the kids' match. Plan it together, live it together, and wake up to the story. Group chats are where plans go to die. The answer to "what time was it again?" is 300 messages up, and the photos never leave everyone's phone. After Stories gives every plan its own event, with one clear next step. START FROM A TEMPLATE • Plan together: find the day, the place and the plan with your friends. • Party: invite, chat and share the photos. • Game day: the match, the meeting point and the car pool. Every parent sees who drives which child, out and home, and anyone can move a child. • Free form: choose what the event gets. • Give every event a cover picture that everyone in it sees. PLAN IT TOGETHER • Create an event. It only needs a name. • Invite people with a link, a code or a QR code. The link opens the app, from Messenger too. • Ask the group: which film, where to eat, which day. Vote right in the chat. • When something is settled, it moves to Event details at the top: the time, the place, who brings what. Nobody has to scroll back for it. • Share a place as a venue, with its address and a Maps link. • One evening or several days: a weekend or a festival gets one event, with what you decided shown day by day. LIVE IT TOGETHER • Start the event, and everything happens in one stream: messages, photos and places. • Like a photo or a message with one tap. • Always know what's next. WAKE UP TO THE STORY • The morning after, everyone gets the summary: the most-liked photo, the most-liked message, what you decided, and a few numbers. • Save all photos to your phone in one tap. PRIVATE. THEN IT'S GONE. • Only the people you invite can see an event. No feed, no followers, no strangers, no ads. • Never your location. Photos are stripped of location and camera data on your phone, before they are uploaded. • 48 hours after the event ends, it is deleted for everyone. Save the photos first: you'll get a reminder before it goes. • Sign in with Apple. Delete your account in the app at any time. Up to 50 people per event. Your next plan starts with a name. Create it now, and send the link to the group. Privacy policy: https://after-stories.com/privacy/ Terms of use: https://after-stories.com/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lightbooth at none against After Stories's 2. Lightbooth also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). After Stories's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 days). On price, 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. After Stories sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per year. Lightbooth asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lightbooth ships an update every 6 days, After Stories every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lightbooth | After Stories |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lightbooth | Robert Jensen |
In-app purchases
Lightbooth
No in-app purchases
After Stories
- After Stories Pro$5.991 Year
- Event Pass$2.99









