Tiny Softbox vs Color Light
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tiny Softbox
This utility app provides adjustable lighting for various needs, from photography and video calls to reading and tracing. Customize brightness, color temperature, and filters, with options to save presets and hide controls for a clean interface.
- Adjustable brightness
- Color temperature control (Kelvin)
- Adjustable color filters
- Saveable presets
- Hideable controls
- Cross-device availability
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A simple app with many use cases, from lighting up your face during video calls to helping you set the perfect light for your photography. App features: → Brightness slider → Temperature slider in Kelvin → Color filter with adjustable intensity → Presets for saving your favorite settings → Hide controls with a single tap or click → Available on all your devices Examples of use cases: → Softbox or accent light for photography → Support light for video calls in dark environments → Light box when tracing and drawing → Reading light → Mood light → Flashlight → Whenever else you might need some extra light Tiny Softbox is available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Please reach out at hi@alexandersandberg.com if you have any questions, feedback, or just want to say hi! Made with love in Austria.
Color Light
This app provides a versatile lighting tool for photography, allowing users to adjust hue, saturation, and brightness. It offers various fill light types including square, gradient, and customizable shapes to enhance photos.
- Adjustable hue, saturation, and brightness
- Square fill light
- Gradient fill light presets
- Customizable shape lighting
- Immediate lighting results
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Light is critical to normal photography. However, the most uncontrollable factor is the control of light, and if you want to shoot good-looking works, Light Art is a must-have application for us. Light Art allows you to easily adjust Hue, Saturation, and Brightness to help you light up quickly with immediate results. Fill Light Types Selection: -Square With any brightness and saturation, a variety of light perceptions can be achieved. -Gradient Preset popular purple light, white light, warm light and other colors. -Shape Customize and combine multiple colors to create neon lighting patterns. Subscription Plans： Monthly Subscription: $9.99 / month with 3-day free trial. Subscription will automatically renew 24 hours prior to the end of each term (month or year correspondingly) and your card will be charged through your iTunes account. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time in your iTunes account settings, but refunds will not be provided for any unused period of the term. Terms Of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/lightart-terms-of-use/home Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/lightart-privacy-policy/home
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tiny Softbox at 75% against Color Light's 25%. Tiny Softbox also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and device support (4 vs 2). Color Light's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and ratings volume (335 vs 4). On 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
Color Light is free to download; Tiny Softbox costs $1.99 up front. Color Light sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Tiny Softbox asks for nothing beyond the download.
Color Light holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Light has 335 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Tiny Softbox's written reviews are positive against 25% of Color Light's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tiny Softbox ships an update every 2 weeks, Color Light every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiny Softbox | Color Light |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) | 4.0 (335 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 335 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Sandberg | 林月 张 |
Customer experience
Tiny Softbox
Color Light
Bugs and requests
Tiny Softbox
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Color Light
Reported bugs
2 issues- App doesn't work after payment
- Flashlight doesn't work, only screen
Requested features
2 requests- Allow trying paid features before purchase
- More free effects
In-app purchases
Tiny Softbox
No in-app purchases
Color Light
- Light Art Week$2.997 Days
- Light Art Pro Month3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Light Art Pro Month$9.991 Month
Questions
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