Soft Box Color vs Light Panel Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Soft Box Color
Enhance your photography with a portable lighting studio on your iPad. Choose from various color filters to set the perfect mood for your shots. This app is designed to complement your existing camera, not replace it.
- Portable lighting studio
- Range of color filters
- Set mood for photos
- Enhance photography
- Screen brightness adjustment
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Transform your iPad into a portable lighting studio with Soft Box - the ultimate photo shoot companion. With a range of color filters to choose from, easily set the mood and enhance your photos. Just remember to adjust your screen brightness before using the app. Perfect for photographers on the go, use Soft Box to showcase your portfolio and elevate your photography game. Note: This app does not take photos, use your iPhone or professional camera for capturing images ** This app does NOT take pictures. Use your iPhone or a professional camera to take the photos.
Light Panel Pro
Transform your device into a professional lighting tool for creative projects, film scanning, and video calls. Adjust brightness, color temperature, and RGB hues to enhance any scene. Give your existing technology a vibrant new purpose.
- Pocket-sized professional light
- Creative lighting control
- Film scanning
- Video call enhancement
- Brightness adjustment
- Kelvin temperature control
- RGB color control
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Light Panel Pro: Transform your device into a professional studio light. Perfect for creative lighting, film scanning and video calls. Control screen brightness, Kelvin temperature and full RGB color on any Apple device. • Light Panel Pro turns your mobile device into a portable light panel - one that you always have with you as a small fill light for photography or videography. • Light Panel Pro is a perfect backlight for scanning film with its dedicated scanning mask. It can also be used as a light table or light box with the built-in alignment grid. • Light Panel Pro is a great light for video calls. • Control screen brightness and temperature. Display & save arbitrary colors for creative lighting effects. • Automatically match the color temperature of the ambient light. • Lock screen settings from accidental touch input. • Create complex or remote lighting setups with the optional Remote Control feature. • There are many other potential uses whenever you need extra light: reading light, mood light, torch etc. • Give your old tech a brilliant second life - great for transforming old devices that can't run recent versions of iOS (iPad Air 1st gen & iPhone 5s onwards) into high-quality light panels, offering a highly cost-effective solution by repurposing hardware that might otherwise go unused. • Available as a universal purchase for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac, Apple TV & Vision Pro. • Print magazine PC Professionale recommended Light Panel Pro as "Original and unexpectedly useful" in the July 2021 edition! Join 5000 happy users and download Light Panel Pro now !
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Soft Box Color at Free against Light Panel Pro's $4.99. Soft Box Color also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Light Panel Pro's advantage is review sentiment (85% vs 46%) and ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume 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
Soft Box Color is free to download; Light Panel Pro costs $4.99 up front. Light Panel Pro sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Soft Box Color asks for nothing beyond the download.
Light Panel Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 133 and 68 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Soft Box Color's written reviews are positive against 85% of Light Panel Pro's.
Soft Box Color ships an update every 30 months, Light Panel Pro every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Soft Box Color | Light Panel Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (133 ratings) | 4.5 (68 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | 85.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 133 — better | 68 |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Rouda | Mike Woolley |
Customer experience
Soft Box Color
Light Panel Pro
In-app purchases
Soft Box Color
No in-app purchases
Light Panel Pro
- Buy Me A Coffee$2.99
- Remote Control$9.99
Questions
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