Comparison

Flashlight | Night Light vs L.E.D. Lab

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

Head to head
About

Flashlight | Night Light

This app provides multiple lighting solutions, including a bright LED flashlight, a customizable screen light, and a reading lamp with a sleep timer. It offers gesture controls for brightness and color adjustments, making it versatile for various situations.

Highlights
  • Bright LED flashlight
  • Adjustable screen brightness
  • Zoomable screen light
  • Customizable color lighting
  • Reading lamp mode
  • Sleep timer
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The ultimate Flashlight, Night Light or Reading Lamp. It is free! It glows your Screen And Flashlight. It has a brightness control and a sleep timer! How many times do you have the situation that you need a flashlight on a dark way, something falls down or you just need a dimmed light to see and read? The flashlight App solves all these problems and is free of charge! You can use the flashlight and nApp in 3 different ways: ◉ BRIGHT FLASHLIGHT: Uses the flashlight of your iPhone. Simple activation through the flashlight symbol in the upper navigation bar. Change the brightness with the control. Just tap three times to turn the flashlight on and off. ◉ ZOOM FLASHLIGHT: The iPhone screen becomes a big white light cone. You can simply change the size of the light cone with two fingers. Adjust the flashlight to your optimal use. Flashlight in the dark, reading lamp, reference point. ◉ COLORED ZOOM FLASHLIGHT: Color selection between white, white-rose, white-blue, yellow, orange, green, red or a moon image. Simply select the preference button in the upper navigation bar or change the color at your iPhone settings. There you have the opportunity to change the light cone size as well, just with two fingers. ◉ READING LAMP: You can lock the screen to prevent accidental touches while reading a book. Furthermore we have integrated a sleep timer so you will never forget the time during reading. *** There is no other app, which combines so many features in a simple way. *** By gesture control you can select quickly a personal flashlight or reading lamp through zooming and sliding. *** Set different colors through the navigation bar. *** No registration required – all functions without limitation. We are looking forward to receive your comments, ideas and feedback to improve and enhance our flashlight App. THANK YOU in advance for your feedback to: flashlight@irtp.de. Enjoy the App! Kind regards, Your Flashlight application team! *** Please consider *** This App is ad supported. So please excuse the advertisement at your initial use. Maybe there will be something useful once in a while. Disclaimer: Continuous use of the iPhone camera flashlight may decrease battery life.

About

L.E.D. Lab

Create dynamic visual experiences for LED displays without custom programming. Animate images, videos, and particles, and synchronize them with music or external audio inputs. Ideal for artists, designers, and hobbyists looking to add animated color to various projects.

Highlights
  • Create and animate scenes with images, videos, and camera feeds
  • Animate particle color, velocity, and brightness for LED strips
  • Synchronize visuals with music from your library
  • Audio reactivity for parameter control
  • External control via MIDI, DMX, ArtNet, OSC
  • Color keying and tiling for advanced compositing
  • Supports various LED controllers and external monitors
Features
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L.E.D. Lab is the quickest, easiest, most powerful way to drive your LED display! Custom programming is no longer required to get up-and-running. It is ideal for artists, professional display designers, architects, VJs, lighting designers, hobbyists, and anyone wanting to add a little animated color to their sculpture, art car, home, business or wardrobe. L.E.D. Lab allows you to create a list of Scenes, which can be played back in order or shuffled. There are currently two kinds of Scenes: ● Pictures Scene - A montage of still images, videos, and live camera feeds is designed. The position, velocity, rotation, size, and coloring of each picture can be animated. You can use your own photos and videos, and the iPad camera. Rendering to odd-shaped displays is made possible with photographically-generated map files. ● Strips Scene - Particles of color are sent down each strip. The velocity, hue, saturation, and brightness of each particle can be animated. Other features include: ● Music - Create lists of Tracks. Each track plays a song from your music library, along with any number of Scenes. You can elaborately choreograph a song, or let the Scenes play in random order. ● Audio Reactivity - Any animatable parameter may be controlled by the amplitude of audio in a specified frequency range. ● External Control - Any animatable parameter may be controlled by MIDI, DMX, ArtNet, or OSC. ● Color Keying - An image, video file, or live video feed can be made selectively transparent, making it easy to mix in with other images. ● Tiling - Any image, video file, or live video feed can be tiled in any or all directions, with adjustable spacing and fade-out. ● Display Modes - Editing can be performed with or without the LEDs connected. The editing UI can also be hidden, allowing operation in a "kiosk" mode. So what kind of LED display can you make with L.E.D. Lab? Some Examples: http://ledlabs.co Any iOS device can be used to play Scene Lists. An iPad is best for full editing. L.E.D. Lab works with the following LED controllers: ● PixelPusher (our favorite) ● Art-Net ● sACN ● DDP/Minleon/TekLights ● RGB-123 ● FadeCandy/FCServer ● OpenPixel It can also display to an external monitor or projector, serving as a VJ app. Extensive help information is provided for the rich user-interface: ● Help Explorer - Displays help text for any knob, slider, button, popup, list, or view inside a magnifying glass you drag around the screen. (See this in the last screen shot.) ● Help Topics - Little chapters to read about some of the more detailed functionalities. ● Help Tutorials

Screenshots

Flashlight | Night Light4 screens
L.E.D. Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flashlight | Night Light at none against L.E.D. Lab's 11. Flashlight | Night Light also leads on ratings volume (3.1K vs 15) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). L.E.D. Lab's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (81% vs 66%). On price, rating, update cadence 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

Both are free to download. L.E.D. Lab sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Flashlight | Night Light asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Flashlight | Night Light against 4.6 for L.E.D. Lab. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flashlight | Night Light has 3.1K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of Flashlight | Night Light's written reviews are positive against 81% of L.E.D. Lab's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flashlight | Night Light ships an update every 3 months, L.E.D. Lab every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and August 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Flashlight | Night Light versus L.E.D. Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlashlight | Night LightL.E.D. Lab
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (3.1K ratings)4.6 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.5% of reviews81.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.1K — better15
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSebastian Bub Software DistributionChristopher Schardt

Customer experience

Flashlight | Night Light

All ratings3,079 ratings
Positive87.4%
Neutral4.8%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews174 reviews
Positive65.5%
Neutral5.2%
Negative29.3%

L.E.D. Lab

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral12.5%
Negative6.3%

Bugs and requests

Flashlight | Night Light

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Flashlight doesn't turn on
  • Dimmer function doesn't work
  • Unexpected noises/pop-ups

Requested features

4 requests
  • Adjustable brightness
  • More color options
  • Ability to turn off flashlight
  • Keep light on when screen is locked

L.E.D. Lab

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Flashlight | Night Light

No in-app purchases

11 purchases

L.E.D. Lab

One-time11
  • Live Microphone$9.99
  • Live Video$9.99
  • LED Display$19.99
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  • External Control$19.99
  • Music$19.99
  • External Screen$39.99
  • Authoring$49.99
  • LED Artist Pack$59.99
  • VJ Pack$79.99
  • Advanced Mapping$84.99
  • Everything Pack$209.99

Questions

Is Flashlight | Night Light free?
Flashlight | Night Light is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is L.E.D. Lab free?
L.E.D. Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Flashlight | Night Light or L.E.D. Lab?
L.E.D. Lab is rated higher. Flashlight | Night Light averages 4.5 out of 5 from 3.1K ratings, while L.E.D. Lab averages 4.6 from 15 ratings.
Do Flashlight | Night Light or L.E.D. Lab have ads?
Flashlight | Night Light shows ads; L.E.D. Lab does not.
Which is updated more often, Flashlight | Night Light or L.E.D. Lab?
Flashlight | Night Light ships an update every 3 months, and L.E.D. Lab every 4 months. Most recently, Flashlight | Night Light was updated on September 25, 2026 and L.E.D. Lab on August 17, 2026.

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