Pocket Light Meter vs Minimal Light Meter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pocket Light Meter
This app functions as a portable light meter, essential for film photographers using manual cameras. It accurately measures reflected light and provides reciprocity calculations for precise exposure control.
- Portable light meter
- Reflected light measurement
- Reciprocity calculations
- Indispensable for film photography
- Manual camera compatible
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A light meter that is always in your pocket. It is indispensable for film photography with all manual camera. Measures reflected light, and allows reciprocity calculations.
Minimal Light Meter
This app offers precise light metering with a streamlined interface and a dimmable camera view. It allows for fully customizable ISO settings, ensuring accuracy with non-standard film stocks.
- Accurate light metering
- Intuitive user interface
- Dimmable camera view
- Custom ISO settings
- Support for non-standard ISO
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It provides accurate light metering with an intuitive UI and a dimmable camera view to focus only on what's important. Additionally, it supports a fully custom ISO setting so you can be confident working with non-standard ISO ratings on old or expired film stocks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Minimal Light Meter at $0.99 against Pocket Light Meter's $9.99. Minimal Light Meter also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Pocket Light Meter's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 19 months) and ratings volume (1K vs 1). On ads 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
Pocket Light Meter costs $9.99 and Minimal Light Meter $0.99 up front. Pocket Light Meter sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Minimal Light Meter asks for nothing beyond the download.
Minimal Light Meter holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Light Meter has 1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pocket Light Meter ships an update fortnightly, Minimal Light Meter every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Light Meter | Minimal Light Meter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (1K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #46 — better | #195 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nuwaste studios | Jack Kroll |
Customer experience
Pocket Light Meter
Minimal Light Meter
Bugs and requests
Pocket Light Meter
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes or freezes with recent iOS updates
- Inconsistent metering in low light conditions
- Issues with saving metering data to photos
Requested features
6 requests- Add histogram display
- Implement manual mode to lock aperture/shutter
- Support for flash metering
- Improve low-light performance
- Provide more metering mode options (spot, center-weighted, etc.)
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- Add option to save metering data to photo metadata
Minimal Light Meter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pocket Light Meter
- ads remover$1.99
- pint for the developer and get rid of the ads$5.99
- donation to the developer$5.99
Minimal Light Meter
No in-app purchases
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