Comparison

iLlumination vs Get Sauce

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

Head to head
About

iLlumination

This universal flashlight app uses your device's LED or screen to provide illumination. It offers features like tap-to-toggle, strobe modes, and Morse code, with additional options for color and contrast adjustment.

Highlights
  • LED and screen flashlight
  • Tap-mode control
  • Strobe light modes
  • Morse code functionality
  • Color picker
  • Contrast adjustment
  • Screen lock
Features
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iLlumination — The Classic Flashlight, Reborn The flashlight app thousands relied on is back — rebuilt from the ground up for modern iPhone. Same simple idea, a completely new design, and every feature refined for today's devices. Why fumble in the dark? iLlumination turns your iPhone's LED flash — or its screen — into a fast, reliable light, with proper controls for the moments you actually need them. Lighting modes • Flashlight — instant, ultra-bright steady light. • Tap mode — press and hold to shine, release to stop. The fastest way to signal. • Strobe — rhythmic flashing with selectable speeds, from slow to ultra-fast. • Morse code — type any message and flash it with correctly timed pulses, with a built-in SOS and loop. Choose your light source Use the LED flash, the Screen, or Dual (both at once) in any mode — pick a default in Settings. Built for control • Brightness — fine-tune the LED level and screen brightness with a slider, or swipe on the screen light to dim it on the fly. • Color picker — eight screen-light colors (white, warm, amber, red, green, blue, violet, pink). Remembers your last choice. • Screen lock — dim the screen and lock it so a stray tap never kills your light. Double-tap to unlock. • Auto-on — switch the light on the instant the app launches. • Dark, Light & Auto appearance. No ads. Just light, done properly. Strobe lighting can trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy. Please use with care. Note: Sustained use of the LED flash will drain your battery faster. I'm always improving iLlumination and I genuinely read every message. For bug reports, feature ideas, or to help translate the app into your language, email me: iphone@erikstorli.net.

About

Get Sauce

Easily find the original source of any image, including anime artwork and screenshots, using 13 different search engines. Supports share sheet integration and basic image editing before searching.

Highlights
  • 13 search engines
  • Anime artwork search
  • Screenshot search
  • Share sheet integration
  • Image editing (crop, rotate)
  • Find original sources
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Reverse Image Search with 13 Different Search Engines. Also best for anime artworks and screenshots! Get Sauce makes it easy to find the source (original articles, artwork pages, user posts, etc.) of your images. It also supports searching on the share sheet, so you don’t have to open the app every time! Supported Search Engines: • Google Images • Google Lens • Bing Visual Search • Baidu Image Recognition • Yandex Images • Lenso.ai • TinEye • Pinterest Lens • Reddit Repost Sleuth • SauceNAO • IQDB • Ascii2d • WAIT: What Anime Is This? You can make simple edits to the image, such as cropping and rotating, before searching. -- Privacy Policy: https://get.sauce.jp/ios/privacy.html License Agreement: https://get.sauce.jp/ios/tos.html

Screenshots

iLlumination3 screens
Get Sauce4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Get Sauce at Free against iLlumination's $3.99. Get Sauce also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). iLlumination's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown).

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

Get Sauce is free to download; iLlumination costs $3.99 up front. Get Sauce sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. iLlumination asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Get Sauce holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Get Sauce has 25 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of iLlumination's written reviews are positive against 74% of Get Sauce's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iLlumination ships an update every 2 months, Get Sauce every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard10 real differences · 0 level
iLlumination versus Get Sauce: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriLluminationGet Sauce
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)4.6 (25 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.3% of reviews — better74.2% of reviews
Number of ratings125 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS17.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB23 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperErik StorliYusuke Yamada

Customer experience

iLlumination

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive90.3%
Neutral3.2%
Negative6.5%

Get Sauce

All ratings25 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.0%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive74.2%
Neutral3.2%
Negative22.6%

In-app purchases

None

iLlumination

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Get Sauce

One-time4
  • Bronze Tip$0.99
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • Silver Tip$2.99
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  • Gold Tip$9.99

Questions

Is iLlumination free?
iLlumination costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Get Sauce free?
Get Sauce is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iLlumination or Get Sauce?
Get Sauce is rated higher. iLlumination averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Get Sauce averages 4.6 from 25 ratings.
Do iLlumination or Get Sauce have ads?
Get Sauce shows ads; iLlumination does not.
Which is updated more often, iLlumination or Get Sauce?
iLlumination ships an update every 2 months, and Get Sauce every 2 weeks. Most recently, iLlumination was updated on October 13, 2026 and Get Sauce on October 5, 2026.

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