Flashlight.® vs L.E.D. Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flashlight.®
This application provides a powerful and fast LED flashlight for your device. It offers adjustable brightness, a strobe mode with frequency control, and a built-in SOS signal for emergencies. Its elegant design ensures a user-friendly experience.
- Brightest LED illuminator
- Fastest startup
- Elegant design
- Strobe mode with frequency control
- Built-in SOS signal
- LED brightness control
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The brightest, fastest, and most handy flashlight you will ever have! The one you will never forget to bring when in need! With the most elegant design and the fastest startup, it definitely outruns the real flashlight. What's more? STROBE is also available! Get your own Flashlight now! It'll shine with its all devotion! Features: - The brightest illuminator ever. - Fastest startup. - Elegant design. - Strobe mode with sensitive frequency controller. - Use the cam light. - Built-in SOS signal. - LED brightness control. - Full support for iPhone5 big screen. Disclaimer: Continued use of the flashlight may dramatically decrease battery life.
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flashlight.® at none against L.E.D. Lab's 11. Flashlight.® also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (465 vs 15). L.E.D. Lab's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. L.E.D. Lab sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Flashlight.® asks for nothing beyond the download.
L.E.D. Lab holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flashlight.® has 465 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Flashlight.®'s written reviews are positive against 81% of L.E.D. Lab's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Flashlight.® ships an update every 3 weeks, L.E.D. Lab every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and August 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flashlight.® | L.E.D. Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (465 ratings) | 4.6 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.8% of reviews — better | 81.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 465 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mobile Flame | Christopher Schardt |
Customer experience
Flashlight.®
L.E.D. Lab
Bugs and requests
Flashlight.®
Reported bugs
3 issues- Flashlight turns off unexpectedly
- App crashes when opening
- Screen just turns white instead of lighting up
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to control brightness and strobe speed
- Option to disable sound effects
- Compatibility improvements for older devices
L.E.D. Lab
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flashlight.®
No in-app purchases
L.E.D. Lab
- 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
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