Comparison

GhostCam vs Lighting Designer

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

Head to head
About

GhostCam

Create "fake" ghost photographs with customizable ghost elements. Adjust the number, opacity, and size of ghosts, and precisely position them to fit your scene. Save your spooky creations directly to your device's photo library.

Highlights
  • Create fake ghost photos
  • Customize ghost number, opacity, and size
  • Select ghost placement area
  • Save photos to library
Features
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By using this GhostCam, you can take "Fake" ghost photographs. [Main Features] - Enable to specify number, opacity and size of ghosts. - Enable to select the area of ghost conforming with the scene of photographies. - Enable to save your ghost photographies to your photo library.

About

Lighting Designer

Create professional overhead lighting plots for film, TV, theater, and events. Quickly illustrate and communicate lighting setups with a vast library of equipment and intuitive tools. Sync your work across all Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Create overhead lighting plots
  • Extensive equipment library (2000+ items)
  • Organize setups into Shows
  • Custom fixture creation with own images
  • Detailed light specifications
  • Floor plan drawing tools
  • Email editable Plots
Features
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Never draw a lighting setup on a scrap of paper again. Lighting Designer is a quick and intuitive way to create overhead lighting plots for film, theater, television, concerts, and anything else you can light. The wide selection of equipment and simple yet powerful interface makes it easier than ever to illustrate and communicate your lighting setups, from most Apple devices. Your Silicon Mac is powerful and gives you the most screen to work with; your iPad is large and versatile; your iPhone will go with you anywhere. And if you like, your work can sync among all your Apple devices using iCloud, so you can start plotting on one and finish on another. LD is perfect for tech scouts, working while traveling, or just choosing the couch over your desk chair. While expensive drafting programs can take hours to use and years to master, Lighting Designer is an accessible way to plan your next show! Features: • Organize your setups into Shows, with details like shooting dates and crew members • Choose from over 2000 built-in types of lights, grip equipment, camera gear, actors, and objects like furniture and musical instruments • With a Crescit Premium account, you can have access to an additional 25,000+ pieces of lighting equipment, gels, and gobo templates • Use your own images to create custom fixtures on your Plots (read the User Guide for image specs) • For each light, specify wattage, beam spread, light output, DMX address, color, and many other details • Certain fixtures include info for exposure approximation; all can be user-configured and have their exposure reverse-calculated from real-world readings • Use Groups to create flexible collections of lights • Notes allow you to describe every detail of your setup • Pack your Truck to share gear among multiple Plots • Draw a Floor Plan using basic shapes, and images from your device • Lights can target other objects, and objects can rig onto each other for easy adjustments • Email editable Plots to the crew, with images, equipment, and crew lists • Undo/Redo functionality • Dark Mode presents a dark workspace to reduce eyestrain and minimize your device's light in a dark environment

Screenshots

GhostCam3 screens
Lighting Designer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: GhostCam at $0.99 against Lighting Designer's $24.99. GhostCam also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). Lighting Designer's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 2.3) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 15 months). On review sentiment, 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

GhostCam costs $0.99 and Lighting Designer $24.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lighting Designer holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lighting Designer has 145 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of GhostCam's written reviews are positive against 46% of Lighting Designer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GhostCam ships an update every 15 months, Lighting Designer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
GhostCam versus Lighting Designer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGhostCamLighting Designer
Price$0.99 — better$24.99
Rating2.3 (3 ratings)4.0 (145 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.5% of reviews — better46.3% of reviews
Number of ratings3145 — better
Update frequencyEvery 15 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB80 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperTahito AokiScenario Software LLC

Customer experience

GhostCam

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews129 reviews
Positive53.5%
Neutral10.9%
Negative35.7%

Lighting Designer

All ratings145 ratings
Positive74.5%
Neutral6.2%
Negative19.3%
Written reviews80 reviews
Positive46.3%
Neutral18.8%
Negative35.0%

In-app purchases

None

GhostCam

No in-app purchases

None

Lighting Designer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GhostCam free?
GhostCam costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lighting Designer free?
Lighting Designer costs $24.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GhostCam or Lighting Designer?
Lighting Designer is rated higher. GhostCam averages 2.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Lighting Designer averages 4.0 from 145 ratings.
Do GhostCam or Lighting Designer have ads?
Neither GhostCam nor Lighting Designer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GhostCam or Lighting Designer?
GhostCam ships an update every 15 months, and Lighting Designer every 3 weeks. Most recently, GhostCam was updated on October 12, 2026 and Lighting Designer on October 14, 2026.

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