Comparison

LED Banner Maker vs Plain and Simple Tools

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

Head to head
About

LED Banner Maker

Transform your phone into a dynamic digital LED banner. Create custom text scrollers, electronic bulletin boards, and marquee signs with a variety of customization options and effects. Display advertisements or messages with full control over each word.

Highlights
  • Customizable text scrollers
  • Digital bulletin board creation
  • Support for emojis in text
  • Multiple display effects
  • Full word customization
Features
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Turn your phone into a stunning LED display! LED Banner is the easiest way to create scrolling text signs, digital marquees, and animated LED message boards — no design skills needed. Start with 100+ ready-to-use LED templates for every moment: Good Night, Birthday, Love, Festival, Back to School, Mid-Autumn, and more. Pick one, make it yours, and shine in seconds. 100+ BEAUTIFUL TEMPLATES - Professionally designed for every occasion and mood - Seasonal collections: holidays, festivals, celebrations - Fully editable — change text, colors, icons in one tap 488+ LED ASSETS - Hundreds of glowing LED icons and decorations - Hearts, stars, fireworks, food, animals, holiday icons and more - Drag, drop and dazzle in just a few taps POWERFUL ANIMATIONS - Animate text and icons: scroll, fade, zoom, blink - Layer control — animate each element individually - Timeline control: adjust duration, delay and sequence - Preview your animation in real time MAKE IT YOURS - Multiple LED fonts, full color control - Customize every single word: color, size, font, effect - Full emoji support - Adjustable scroll speed and direction EXPORT & SHARE - Save as VIDEO or GIF in high quality - Add music to your banner - Share anywhere: social media, messages, and more PERFECT FOR - Cheering at concerts and fan meetings - Birthday parties and celebrations - Business signs, promotions, and storefront displays - Good night messages and everyday moments Download LED Banner now — you imagine, we light it up! Terms of Service: https://led-banner.auralab.cc/term Privacy Policy: https://led-banner.auralab.cc/privacy

About

Plain and Simple Tools

Features
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A shelf of small tools, each doing one thing, with nothing attached. This is the one app here that is not about a single thing: a container that gains tools over time. Every tool says what it does, what it will ask you for, and what — if anything — it sends off your phone, before you tap it. Pin the ones you use to the tab bar. A tool you have never opened is never even started, and never asks you for anything. Three ship today. CHARGE — IS THAT CHARGER ANY GOOD? Plug the phone in and leave it a few minutes. Charge times how fast the battery is actually filling and tells you roughly how many watts are arriving, and whether that counts as fast or slow. There is a Lock Screen tile for the last one you tested. It is honest about the figure, which is the part most apps are not. iOS does not tell an app how many watts a charger is delivering — there is no way to ask, and any app showing you an instant number is making it up. Timing the fill is the only method available, it takes a few minutes, and it gets within about a fifth. The app shows that it is still measuring rather than inventing something, and explains the method on the screen. NEGATIVES — FILM, TURNED BACK INTO PHOTOGRAPHS Point the camera at a negative on a lightbox — or let a second phone be the lightbox — or pick one you have already photographed. Colour film, black and white, and slides. A single frame or a whole strip. The conversion happens on your phone, and the result saves straight into your own photo library. STEPS TO HA — YOUR STEP COUNT, ON YOUR OWN DASHBOARD If you run Home Assistant at home, this sends today's step count to it, so you can put it on a dashboard or use it in an automation. It reads your step count from Apple Health, read-only, and never writes anything back. It sends that number to the address you typed in, and nowhere else. There is no account and no server here. Nothing goes to Plain and Simple. Your Home Assistant address and webhook ID are kept in this phone's Keychain, marked device-only, so they are not in iCloud and do not travel to a new phone. If you do not run Home Assistant, this tool has nothing for you — and it stays switched off and silent. PERMISSIONS BELONG TO THE TOOLS, NOT TO THE APP The shell — the shelf, the tab bar, Settings — asks for nothing at all. Health is only requested once you open Steps to HA and choose to connect it. The camera is only ever on while Negatives is the screen you are looking at, or while you are scanning a pairing code, and it explains itself before iPhone asks. Saving a photograph uses the add-only permission, which lets the app put pictures into your library and never lets it see one that is already there. That is the least it could ask for; the cost is that it cannot file its results into an album, and that was accepted rather than asking for more. Tests read the app's own source and fail the build if permission code appears outside a tool, if the app declares a permission that no tool asked for, or if any tool other than Steps to HA gains the ability to reach the network. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO • No adverts, no purchases, no subscription • No account, no analytics, no tracking • One tool sends one number, to one address you chose. Nothing else in the app can reach the network at all, and a test fails the build if that changes • Nothing downloaded after you install it If none of the three is a job you have, this one has nothing for you yet. The shelf is honest about being short.

Screenshots

LED Banner Maker4 screens
Plain and Simple Tools4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plain and Simple Tools at none against LED Banner Maker's 1. Plain and Simple Tools also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). LED Banner Maker's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price 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

Both are free to download. LED Banner Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Plain and Simple Tools asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LED Banner Maker ships an update every 3 weeks, Plain and Simple Tools weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
LED Banner Maker versus Plain and Simple Tools: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLED Banner MakerPlain and Simple Tools
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (23 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBui Duc LamPlain and Simple Solutions LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

LED Banner Maker

One-time1
  • Premium$2.99
None

Plain and Simple Tools

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LED Banner Maker free?
LED Banner Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plain and Simple Tools free?
Plain and Simple Tools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LED Banner Maker or Plain and Simple Tools have ads?
LED Banner Maker shows ads; Plain and Simple Tools does not.
Which is updated more often, LED Banner Maker or Plain and Simple Tools?
LED Banner Maker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Plain and Simple Tools weekly. Most recently, LED Banner Maker was updated on October 27, 2026 and Plain and Simple Tools on October 29, 2026.

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