Comparison

Lighting Designer vs Omino Gobo

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

Omino Gobo

This tool allows you to use a video projector as a dynamic lighting system for live productions. Arrange and animate spotlights and graphics to create custom lighting effects for theater, music, and other events.

Highlights
  • Video projector as lighting system
  • Arrange spotlights and graphics
  • Animate between lighting states
  • Custom lighting effects
  • Live production tool
Features
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Omino Gobo is a tool for using a video projector as a lighting system in a theatrical, musical, or other live production. You can arrange spotlights and graphics, and animate between them.

Screenshots

Lighting Designer4 screens
Omino Gobo1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Omino Gobo at Free against Lighting Designer's $24.99. Omino Gobo also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). Lighting Designer's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 123 months) and ratings volume (145 vs 2). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Omino Gobo is free to download; Lighting Designer costs $24.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Omino Gobo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lighting Designer has 145 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lighting Designer ships an update every 3 weeks, Omino Gobo every 123 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Lighting Designer versus Omino Gobo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLighting DesignerOmino Gobo
Price$24.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (145 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings145 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 123 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperScenario Software LLComino

Customer experience

Lighting Designer

All ratings145 ratings
Positive74.5%
Neutral6.2%
Negative19.3%
Written reviews80 reviews
Positive46.3%
Neutral18.8%
Negative35.0%

Omino Gobo

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Lighting Designer

No in-app purchases

None

Omino Gobo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lighting Designer free?
Lighting Designer costs $24.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Omino Gobo free?
Omino Gobo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lighting Designer or Omino Gobo?
Omino Gobo is rated higher. Lighting Designer averages 4.0 out of 5 from 145 ratings, while Omino Gobo averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Lighting Designer or Omino Gobo have ads?
Neither Lighting Designer nor Omino Gobo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lighting Designer or Omino Gobo?
Lighting Designer ships an update every 3 weeks, and Omino Gobo every 123 months. Most recently, Lighting Designer was updated on October 19, 2026 and Omino Gobo on October 3, 2026.

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