Draw Lights vs Lighten Up Lights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Draw Lights
Decorate your photos with festive holiday lights. Choose from a variety of Christmas and Halloween light styles, solid or flashing, and add them to your own pictures or included backgrounds. Save your creations to the app's album, camera roll, or share them with friends.
- Add Christmas and Halloween lights
- Solid or flashing light options
- Includes holiday-themed backgrounds
- Save to app album or camera roll
- Share creations with friends
- Retina-quality graphics
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Decorate your photos with Christmas lights! Choose from your own photos, or one of the background pictures included... then use your finger to draw holiday lights on the image! * 30 different Christmas lights to choose from! * 20 different mini Halloween lights! * Solid or flashing lights * 9 holiday-themed backgrounds, plus 3 spooky backgrounds * Retina-quality graphics When you're done, save it to your lights album in the app, or save to your camera roll or share it with friends!
Lighten Up Lights
Control your permanent house lights with this app. It offers extensive RGB color support, musical programming capabilities, and pre-set holiday themes for easy customization.
- Extensive RGB support
- Musical programming
- Holiday settings
- Permanent house light control
- Easy customization
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Fully featured app for your Lighten Up permanent house lights. Includes extensive RGB support, musical programming, and holiday settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Lighten Up Lights at Free against Draw Lights's $0.99. Lighten Up Lights also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 55 months). Draw Lights's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Lighten Up Lights is free to download; Draw Lights costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lighten Up Lights holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 3 respectively.
Draw Lights ships an update every 55 months, Lighten Up Lights every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 4, 2026 and August 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Draw Lights | Lighten Up Lights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 55 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 405 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lightsphere LLC | Karl Joseph Stephens |
Customer experience
Draw Lights
Lighten Up Lights
In-app purchases
Draw Lights
No in-app purchases
Lighten Up Lights
No in-app purchases
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