Comparison

LEDit vs Ledify

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

Head to head
About

LEDit

Transform your device's screen into a vibrant, scrolling LED banner. Ideal for making messages visible in noisy environments, expressing yourself, or creating dynamic visual displays for various events and situations.

Highlights
  • Live LED banner display
  • Scrolling message maker
  • Silent communication tool
  • Attention-grabbing visuals
  • Customizable text banners
Features
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Featured by Apple in Staff Picks. #1 in more than 20 countries. Type a message and your iPhone becomes a bright, scrolling LED sign. Hold it up at a concert, cheer from the stands or find your friend at arrivals. Everyone sees it, nobody has to shout. PERFECT FOR • Concerts and festivals: cheer for your favorite artist • Sports: back your team from the stands • Airport pickups and finding each other in a crowd • Birthdays, weddings and parties • Silent messages in class, in meetings or across a loud bar MAKE IT YOURS • Pixel fonts designed for LED displays, plus classic typefaces • Any color, speed and size, with true black for a real LED look • Blink, mirror and invert effects, round or square LED dots • Haptics let you know when your message has scrolled by • Optional max brightness so it shines even in daylight SHARE IT • Export your banner as a GIF or video • Start a banner with Siri, Shortcuts or the share sheet • Save the messages you use again and again • Apple Watch app for a banner on your wrist • Made for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo, in landscape or portrait FREE TO START Create and show LED banners for free. LEDit Pro unlocks every font, saved messages, blink, color brightness, custom app icons and exports without a watermark, with a subscription or a one-time purchase. Download LEDit and light up your next message. -- Terms of Use: https://ledit.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://ledit.app/privacy

About

Ledify

Create and customize scrolling LED banner messages for any occasion. Express yourself with various fonts, colors, and emojis. Upgrade for animated backgrounds, HD resolution, and an ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable scrolling messages
  • Multiple font styles and sizes
  • Adjustable scroll speed
  • Background color options
  • Thousands of emoji support
  • Animated backgrounds (Pro)
  • HD resolution (Pro)
Features
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Everyone brought a voice. You brought a light show. Ledify turns the phone already in your hand into a glowing LED marquee. Type their name. Pick a look. Turn it sideways and hold it up, and your message scrolls across the full screen in light, bright enough to read from rows away. Thirty seconds of work. Best sign in the building. NOBODY CAN HEAR YOU IN HERE That has never stopped anyone from trying. Fifty thousand people all shouting the same thing, and not one of them gets through. Light works differently. Light carries to the back row, over the heads of everyone still yelling, and lands on exactly the person you meant it for. WHEREVER THE CROWD IS The stadium. Call out a player by name, run the score, start the chant that catches. The pit. Show the band exactly who came out tonight. The festival field at 1am when nobody can find anybody. The arena floor at a tournament, and the couch watching the same match at home. Then everywhere else. Arrivals gates. Finish lines. Birthdays. Proposals. The school pickup line. Anywhere being impossible to miss is the entire point. AND IT LISTENS Turn on Sound Reactive and Ledify picks the room up through the mic, driving the animation live off whatever is happening around you. The bass. The chant. The second the whole place comes apart. Every other sign in the section just sits there. Yours moves with it. 46 LOOKS. PICK YOUR VOLUME. Sparkle, Classic, Party, Ambient and Seasonal. Keep it clean and cutting so it reads from the top row, or stack fire, rain, waves, ripples, neon glow and animated gradients until it looks like a marquee off a Vegas strip. Set the LED shape, the size and the font until it is unmistakably yours. THE STAGE IS SACRED Ledify is two screens with two jobs. The Studio is where you build, with a live preview of the exact thing the crowd is going to see. The Stage is where you perform. Full screen, no ads, no popups, no daily caps, nothing waiting to interrupt you. Once that sign goes up, it is just you and the moment. THE CLIP IS HALF THE POINT Save the whole performance as a video or a GIF, straight to your camera roll, posted before you have even sat back down. Pro exports come out clean, no watermark. NOTHING IS HIDDEN Every Pro look switches on and plays live in the Studio. No blurred thumbnails, no locked previews, no guessing what you are paying for. Try all of it. Decide at Play. FREE Six presets, the full Studio, unlimited performances, and export with a watermark. PRO All 46 presets, Sound Reactive, animated backgrounds, watermark-free export, no ads. Monthly, annual, or pay once and own it. iPhone and iPad. Ten languages. Everyone else can shout. Save your voice. SUBSCRIPTIONS Pro is available as an auto-renewing Monthly or Annual subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase you own outright. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and can be managed or cancelled anytime in your App Store account settings. Exact pricing for the monthly, annual and lifetime options is shown on the in-app purchase screen before you buy. Privacy Policy: https://whizbangapps.github.io/Ledify/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

LEDit4 screens
Ledify4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: LEDit at none against Ledify's shown. Ledify's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. LEDit sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Ledify sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LEDit ships an update every 9 days, Ledify every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
LEDit versus Ledify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLEDitLedify
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4.3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews89.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.3K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWessley RocheWhizbang

Customer experience

LEDit

All ratings4,283 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.7%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews1,394 reviews
Positive89.3%
Neutral4.4%
Negative6.3%

Ledify

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

LEDit

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Vibrate function not working as expected
  • Issues with sharing messages to social media
  • Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add support for right-to-left text display
  • Implement a static display mode
  • Allow for custom font sizes
  • Integrate more emojis and symbols

Ledify

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

15 purchases

LEDit

Subscriptions4
  • LEDit Pro (1 Month)$0.991 Month
  • LEDit Pro (1 year)3 Days trial$5.991 Year
  • LEDit Pro (1 year)3 Days trial$9.991 Year
Show 1 more
  • LEDit Pro (1 year)3 Days trial$12.991 Year
One-time11
  • Game Over$0.99
  • Do the Robot$0.99
  • LEDit Sans HD$0.99
Show 8 more
  • Mineworks$0.99
  • Bubblegum$0.99
  • Format C$0.99
  • LEDit Sans Condensed$0.99
  • Cathode Font$0.99
  • All the Fonts$1.99
  • Lifetime$14.99
  • Lifetime$29.99
3 purchases

Ledify

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
  • Annual$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Ledify Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is LEDit free?
LEDit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ledify free?
Ledify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LEDit or Ledify have ads?
Ledify shows ads; LEDit does not.
Which is updated more often, LEDit or Ledify?
LEDit ships an update every 9 days, and Ledify every 2 weeks. Most recently, LEDit was updated on October 30, 2026 and Ledify on October 24, 2026.

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