Ransom vs Glow Lamp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ransom
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Create vibrant color ransom notes. Save or email notes to friends. Fully customizable colors, fonts, sizes and backgrounds.
Glow Lamp
Transform your device into a dynamic mood lamp using a water bottle. Create relaxing ambient light with shifting colors and customizable effects, reminiscent of a modern lava lamp.
- Device-based mood lamp
- Uses water bottle for light diffusion
- Shifting color circles
- Adjustable color speeds
- Orbital accent circles
- Customizable light effects
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Turn your iPhone or iPad into a glowing, pulsating mood lamp, perfect to warm up the darkness with a soft relaxing light! Place a bottle of water on one of Glow Lamp's bright circles to pull the light of your device up into the bottle. Circles shift between colors at varying speeds and you can add a smaller orbiting circle that zooms around the outside of the larger circle to add accents and fun. The effects are controlled by you - experiment with colors and speeds to discover the moods you can create! It's a lava lamp for the 21st century! For best results use in a darker space and place your Glow Lamp near a wall. The photo has not been retouched in any way! ----------------------------------- - Thanks to icons8.com for several in-app icons
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Glow Lamp at Free against Ransom's $1.99. Glow Lamp also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 23 months) and ratings volume (36 vs 1). Ransom's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On 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
Glow Lamp is free to download; Ransom costs $1.99 up front. Glow Lamp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ransom asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ransom holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Glow Lamp has 36 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Ransom ships an update every 23 months, Glow Lamp every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ransom | Glow Lamp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.4 (36 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 76.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 36 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 23 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Smilanick | Michael Kaufman |
In-app purchases
Ransom
No in-app purchases
Glow Lamp
- Remove Ads$0.99
