Comparison

Magic Lighting vs Noodle Gallery

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

Head to head
About

Magic Lighting

Features
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■ Beautifully decorate your photos with the lighting effects of "Spotlight" of various shapes and colors. ■ Mixed decoration with multiple lights ■ More than 100 types of spotlight shapes are available. [Features of the app] ◎ Practical: Focus effect with various lighting ◎ Amusement: Confirm lighting effects in real time ◎ High resolution: Save the edited photo at the original resolution ◎ Unique: Only this app can create elaborate lighting decorations [Source] - Camera shooting: photo - Camera Roll: Photos - Image paste: Copy and paste web images - File sharing: Can be sent from AirDrop, SNS, other apps [Real-time editing tool] - Lighting shape: more than 100 types - Lighting switch ON/OFF - Rotation angle: Slider control adjustment (0 to 360 degrees) - Lighting intensity: Slider control adjustment - Background Darkness: Slider control adjustment - RGB Mixing Ratio: Slider control adjustment - Color settings: Slider control adjustment (RGB values) [Touch operation] - Swipe: Move lighting - Pinch in/Pinch out: change lighting size [Output] - Save to Camera Roll: Photo - Photo sharing: AirDrop, LINE, Facebook, Dropbox, Instagram,...

About

Noodle Gallery

This app automatically backs up your photos and videos to your own server, offering powerful search capabilities and secure sharing options. Organize your library with albums, tags, and face recognition, all while maintaining full control over your data.

Highlights
  • Automatic photo and video backup
  • AI-powered smart search
  • Secure shared spaces with permissions
  • Face recognition for photo grouping
  • Map view of photo locations
  • Organize with albums, tags, and ratings
  • Duplicate detection and handling
Features
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• Automatic Backup Photos and videos from your phone back up automatically to your Gallery server. Works in the background, resumes on interruption, and never duplicates. • Powerful Search Find any photo instantly. Search by location, date, people, camera, tags, or even what's in the image using AI-powered smart search. • Shared Spaces Share photos with family, friends, or co-workers. Create spaces with different members, each with their own permissions. Activity log shows who added what. • Face Recognition Gallery automatically groups photos by person. Name the people you know and find all their photos instantly. • Map View See where your photos were taken on an interactive world map. • Albums & Tags Organise your library your way with albums, tags, favourites, and ratings. • Deduplication Never worry about duplicate uploads. Gallery detects and handles them automatically (photos and videos). • External Libraries Connect existing photo collections from network drives or disks without importing. • Full Control Every feature runs on your own server. No data leaves your network unless you explicitly share it. REQUIRES A GALLERY SERVER Gallery is a self-hosted solution. You need to run the Gallery server on your own hardware. Setup takes about 5 minutes using Docker. Learn more and get started at https://opennoodle.de OPEN SOURCE Gallery is free and open source, forked from Immich with additional features focused on shared spaces and privacy. Source code is available on GitHub. PRIVACY BY DESIGN • No analytics or tracking • No ads, ever • No cloud storage - your server, your data • End-to-end control over who sees what

Screenshots

Magic Lighting4 screens
Noodle Gallery4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Noodle Gallery at Free against Magic Lighting's $0.99. Noodle Gallery also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 20 months). Magic Lighting's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). 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

Noodle Gallery is free to download; Magic Lighting costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Magic Lighting ships an update every 20 months, Noodle Gallery weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Magic Lighting versus Noodle Gallery: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagic LightingNoodle Gallery
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 20 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB85 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperMasanori KatsutaDavid Pierre Marais

In-app purchases

None

Magic Lighting

No in-app purchases

None

Noodle Gallery

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Magic Lighting free?
Magic Lighting costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Noodle Gallery free?
Noodle Gallery is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Magic Lighting or Noodle Gallery have ads?
Neither Magic Lighting nor Noodle Gallery shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Magic Lighting or Noodle Gallery?
Magic Lighting ships an update every 20 months, and Noodle Gallery weekly. Most recently, Magic Lighting was updated on October 27, 2026 and Noodle Gallery on November 5, 2026.

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