Comparison

Lighting Designer vs Green Screener

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

Head to head
About

Lighting Designer

Create professional overhead lighting plots for film, TV, theater, and events. Quickly illustrate and communicate lighting setups with a vast library of equipment and intuitive tools. Sync your work across all Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Create overhead lighting plots
  • Extensive equipment library (2000+ items)
  • Organize setups into Shows
  • Custom fixture creation with own images
  • Detailed light specifications
  • Floor plan drawing tools
  • Email editable Plots
Features
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Never draw a lighting setup on a scrap of paper again. Lighting Designer is a quick and intuitive way to create overhead lighting plots for film, theater, television, concerts, and anything else you can light. The wide selection of equipment and simple yet powerful interface makes it easier than ever to illustrate and communicate your lighting setups, from most Apple devices. Your Silicon Mac is powerful and gives you the most screen to work with; your iPad is large and versatile; your iPhone will go with you anywhere. And if you like, your work can sync among all your Apple devices using iCloud, so you can start plotting on one and finish on another. LD is perfect for tech scouts, working while traveling, or just choosing the couch over your desk chair. While expensive drafting programs can take hours to use and years to master, Lighting Designer is an accessible way to plan your next show! Features: • Organize your setups into Shows, with details like shooting dates and crew members • Choose from over 2000 built-in types of lights, grip equipment, camera gear, actors, and objects like furniture and musical instruments • With a Crescit Premium account, you can have access to an additional 25,000+ pieces of lighting equipment, gels, and gobo templates • Use your own images to create custom fixtures on your Plots (read the User Guide for image specs) • For each light, specify wattage, beam spread, light output, DMX address, color, and many other details • Certain fixtures include info for exposure approximation; all can be user-configured and have their exposure reverse-calculated from real-world readings • Use Groups to create flexible collections of lights • Notes allow you to describe every detail of your setup • Pack your Truck to share gear among multiple Plots • Draw a Floor Plan using basic shapes, and images from your device • Lights can target other objects, and objects can rig onto each other for easy adjustments • Email editable Plots to the crew, with images, equipment, and crew lists • Undo/Redo functionality • Dark Mode presents a dark workspace to reduce eyestrain and minimize your device's light in a dark environment

About

Green Screener

This app helps you achieve perfect green screen effects by visualizing unevenness and analyzing color quality. It includes a built-in chroma keyer and spill analyzer for live previews, and works with various cameras and imported media.

Highlights
  • Banding visualization for green screen issues
  • Live chroma keyer and spill analyzer
  • Color quality analyzer for backdrops
  • Works with all device cameras
  • Import images and backgrounds
  • Zoom, position, and flip foreground/background
  • Save composite snapshots
Features
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Get amazingly perfect green screen with Green Screener. For good chroma keying, green/blue screens must be extremely even, or fine edge detail like hair and transparency starts to become blotchy, which is the hallmark of bad green screen. Features: * See green screen problems with your own eyes using unique banding visualization. * Built-in chroma keyer and spill analyzer to preview composites live on the set. * Built-in color quality analyzer to verify if the color of a studio green screen, paint at the hardware store, or backdrops you're considering purchasing is good enough. * Works with all device cameras. * Free desktop version including to use with webcams or HDMI capture devices. * Works with imported images, and a built-in library of green and blue screen examples ranging from good to bad. * Works with imported backgrounds, or a library of backgrounds with a variety of lighting scenarios. * Zoom and position background. * Flip X and Y on both foreground and background. * Save snapshots of quick composites to the camera roll.

Screenshots

Lighting Designer4 screens
Green Screener4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Green Screener at $9.99 against Lighting Designer's $24.99. Green Screener also leads on review sentiment (56% vs 46%). Lighting Designer's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 58 months) and rating (4.0 vs 3.7). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Lighting Designer costs $24.99 and Green Screener $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lighting Designer holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lighting Designer has 144 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 46% of Lighting Designer's written reviews are positive against 56% of Green Screener's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lighting Designer ships an update every 3 weeks, Green Screener every 58 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Lighting Designer versus Green Screener: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLighting DesignerGreen Screener
Price$24.99$9.99 — better
Rating4.0 (144 ratings) — better3.7 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews46.3% of reviews55.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings144 — better21
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 58 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
Best chart rank#181 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB168 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperScenario Software LLCHollywood Camera Work SRL

Customer experience

Lighting Designer

All ratings144 ratings
Positive74.3%
Neutral6.3%
Negative19.4%
Written reviews80 reviews
Positive46.3%
Neutral18.8%
Negative35.0%

Green Screener

All ratings21 ratings
Positive61.9%
Neutral9.5%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews52 reviews
Positive55.8%
Neutral9.6%
Negative34.6%

In-app purchases

None

Lighting Designer

No in-app purchases

None

Green Screener

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lighting Designer free?
Lighting Designer costs $24.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Green Screener free?
Green Screener costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lighting Designer or Green Screener?
Lighting Designer is rated higher. Lighting Designer averages 4.0 out of 5 from 144 ratings, while Green Screener averages 3.7 from 21 ratings.
Do Lighting Designer or Green Screener have ads?
Neither Lighting Designer nor Green Screener shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lighting Designer or Green Screener?
Lighting Designer ships an update every 3 weeks, and Green Screener every 58 months. Most recently, Lighting Designer was updated on September 22, 2026 and Green Screener on September 23, 2026.

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