Comparison

MANGOAL vs Lightphase

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

Head to head
About

MANGOAL

Access and manage photos and videos from your dashcam via WiFi. Process captured footage for various uses, including evidence collection and sharing.

Highlights
  • WiFi dashcam connection
  • Access photos and videos
  • Process captured footage
  • Forensic use of resources
  • Share video resources
Features
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MANGOAL App allows users to obtain pictures and video resources taken by the driving recorder through the WiFi connection of the driving recorder, and perform certain processing to meet the user's usage scenarios for resources, such as forensics, sharing, etc.

About

Lightphase

This app predicts and displays the timing of various light phases, including golden hour, civil twilight, and astronomical twilight. It helps photographers and outdoor enthusiasts plan their activities around optimal lighting conditions, offering detailed information and countdowns.

Highlights
  • Predicts golden hour and twilight times
  • Counts down to next light phase
  • Displays six distinct light phases
  • Visualizes the day's light curve
  • Interactive scrubbing through the day
  • Watch complications and widgets
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Lightphase is a clock for natural light. It tells you which light you are standing in, the minute it changes, and how long you have left. Shooting the overlook at golden hour? Lightphase gives you the minute it starts and the minute it ends. Hiking back after sunset? It tells you when Civil Twilight runs out, the last light you can walk by without a headlamp. Waiting for a dark sky? It shows when night begins, which is often more than an hour after sunset. Every phase of light, named Lightphase divides the day by the sun's angle into the phases photographers and hikers plan around, and names each one in plain words. Daylight. The sun is high, the light is flat and the shadows are short and hard. 35° Window. Low enough for directional light, with fuller color and more contrast than golden hour. The long, workable stretch of morning and afternoon. Golden Hour. Warm, low sun from the horizon to 6 degrees up. Long shadows and raking side light. Civil Twilight. The sun has set and the sky is still bright. Enough light to walk by, or to shoot handheld. Nautical Twilight. Deep blue sky over a faint horizon. Most of what people call blue hour happens here. Astronomical Twilight. The last glow before full dark. The stars are out, and a long exposure still picks up the horizon. Night. Full dark, with no usable light from the sun. The answer comes first The top of the screen holds the answer: the light you are in, when it began and ends, and how much of it is left. Below it sit the next golden hour and the next sunrise or sunset, with the time it gets dark or the first light before it. See the whole day at once Behind the answer, the screen takes the color of the sky at the sun's height where you are, with today's light drawn as a curve across it. Drag the sun along the curve and every reading follows your finger. Find out what the light will be doing at six before you decide where to be at six. Glance without opening anything The Home Screen widget shows the sky, the light you are in and how long it lasts. The medium size adds the next golden hour. On the Lock Screen, a widget shows the phase and when it changes. On your wrist, too The watch app comes with three complications. One names the light you are in and when it changes. One counts down to a light you choose, with a ring that empties as it runs. One draws today's arc with the sun where it stands right now. Readable in direct sun A light palette for bright sun and a dark one for dusk. Every phase is spelled out in words, so you never have to tell one color from another. Times that match the almanac Sunrise and sunset are timed to the sun's upper edge meeting the horizon, and the twilights use their standard angles. Almanacs use the same definitions, so the times agree with the ones you already trust, and the app shows where every number comes from. Works where the signal does not Lightphase works out the light on your iPhone from where you are and the time of day. It keeps working in airplane mode, in a canyon, and anywhere the bars run out. Your location stays on your iPhone, where only the latest position is kept for your widgets and complications. One price, everything in it One purchase covers the iPhone app, the watch app, every widget and every complication. There is no subscription and nothing to buy inside. The sun does not charge a monthly fee, so neither do we. Every light Lightphase tracks Sunrise, sunset, golden hour, blue hour, first light, last light, civil twilight, nautical twilight, astronomical twilight and night.

Screenshots

MANGOAL3 screens
Lightphase4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lightphase at 100% against MANGOAL's 47%. Lightphase also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). MANGOAL's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and ratings volume (486 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

MANGOAL is free to download; Lightphase costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lightphase holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MANGOAL has 486 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of MANGOAL's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lightphase's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MANGOAL ships an update every 2 months, Lightphase every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
MANGOAL versus Lightphase: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMANGOALLightphase
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.7 (486 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings486 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShenzhen Xiaozhen Technology Co.,Ltd.Onyx Mueller

Customer experience

MANGOAL

All ratings486 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral2.7%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive46.7%
Neutral3.3%
Negative50.0%

Lightphase

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

MANGOAL

No in-app purchases

None

Lightphase

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MANGOAL free?
MANGOAL is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lightphase free?
Lightphase costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MANGOAL or Lightphase?
Lightphase is rated higher. MANGOAL averages 4.7 out of 5 from 486 ratings, while Lightphase averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do MANGOAL or Lightphase have ads?
Neither MANGOAL nor Lightphase shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MANGOAL or Lightphase?
MANGOAL ships an update every 2 months, and Lightphase every 2 weeks. Most recently, MANGOAL was updated on October 22, 2026 and Lightphase on October 12, 2026.

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