Ledify vs Big Text Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Ledify
Create and customize scrolling LED banner messages for any occasion. Express yourself with various fonts, colors, and emojis. Upgrade for animated backgrounds, HD resolution, and an ad-free experience.
- Customizable scrolling messages
- Multiple font styles and sizes
- Adjustable scroll speed
- Background color options
- Thousands of emoji support
- Animated backgrounds (Pro)
- HD resolution (Pro)
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Everyone brought a voice. You brought a light show. Ledify turns the phone already in your hand into a glowing LED marquee. Type their name. Pick a look. Turn it sideways and hold it up, and your message scrolls across the full screen in light, bright enough to read from rows away. Thirty seconds of work. Best sign in the building. NOBODY CAN HEAR YOU IN HERE That has never stopped anyone from trying. Fifty thousand people all shouting the same thing, and not one of them gets through. Light works differently. Light carries to the back row, over the heads of everyone still yelling, and lands on exactly the person you meant it for. WHEREVER THE CROWD IS The stadium. Call out a player by name, run the score, start the chant that catches. The pit. Show the band exactly who came out tonight. The festival field at 1am when nobody can find anybody. The arena floor at a tournament, and the couch watching the same match at home. Then everywhere else. Arrivals gates. Finish lines. Birthdays. Proposals. The school pickup line. Anywhere being impossible to miss is the entire point. AND IT LISTENS Turn on Sound Reactive and Ledify picks the room up through the mic, driving the animation live off whatever is happening around you. The bass. The chant. The second the whole place comes apart. Every other sign in the section just sits there. Yours moves with it. 46 LOOKS. PICK YOUR VOLUME. Sparkle, Classic, Party, Ambient and Seasonal. Keep it clean and cutting so it reads from the top row, or stack fire, rain, waves, ripples, neon glow and animated gradients until it looks like a marquee off a Vegas strip. Set the LED shape, the size and the font until it is unmistakably yours. THE STAGE IS SACRED Ledify is two screens with two jobs. The Studio is where you build, with a live preview of the exact thing the crowd is going to see. The Stage is where you perform. Full screen, no ads, no popups, no daily caps, nothing waiting to interrupt you. Once that sign goes up, it is just you and the moment. THE CLIP IS HALF THE POINT Save the whole performance as a video or a GIF, straight to your camera roll, posted before you have even sat back down. Pro exports come out clean, no watermark. NOTHING IS HIDDEN Every Pro look switches on and plays live in the Studio. No blurred thumbnails, no locked previews, no guessing what you are paying for. Try all of it. Decide at Play. FREE Six presets, the full Studio, unlimited performances, and export with a watermark. PRO All 46 presets, Sound Reactive, animated backgrounds, watermark-free export, no ads. Monthly, annual, or pay once and own it. iPhone and iPad. Ten languages. Everyone else can shout. Save your voice. SUBSCRIPTIONS Pro is available as an auto-renewing Monthly or Annual subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase you own outright. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and can be managed or cancelled anytime in your App Store account settings. Exact pricing for the monthly, annual and lifetime options is shown on the in-app purchase screen before you buy. Privacy Policy: https://whizbangapps.github.io/Ledify/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Big Text Maker
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Turn your iPhone or iPad into a bright scrolling LED sign. Type a message, tap Display and hold it up: at a concert, a game, the airport pickup gate, a party or a shop window. 400+ READY-MADE TEMPLATES Choose from more than 400 animated templates in 30+ categories, including Birthday, Concert, Sports, Party, Love, Flirt, Wedding, Graduation, Christmas, Halloween, New Year, Sale, Pickup, Road, Gaming, Gym, Cafรฉ, Funny and SOS. Plus Crazy Banners light scenes, LED clocks and countdowns. MAKE IT YOURS โข 12 pixel typefaces, from Classic and Digital to Stencil, Slab and Outline โข Scroll, Typewriter, Wave, Pulse, Sparkle and more, at the speed and direction you want โข Solid colors, a different color per letter, animated gradients, or a gradient you build yourself โข Round, square, heart, star and other bulb shapes in three sizes โข Neon, rainbow and chase frames, glow, blink and color sweep โข Animated backdrops, or turn a photo from your library into LED lights โข A phrase library for quick messages FULL-SCREEN DISPLAY Your banner fills the screen at full brightness and the screen stays on. Lock the display so a stray tap doesn't stop it, mirror it, or tap the sign to send a ripple across the bulbs. LED CLOCK AND COUNTDOWNS Put a live LED clock on your nightstand, or count down to a birthday, a kickoff or New Year's Eve. DRAW BANNER Paint your own pixel art with mirror and radial symmetry, then play it back on the LED board. TELEPROMPTER Read your script off the screen while you record or speak. Set the pace, size and colors, highlight the current word, and mirror the text for prompter glass. SAVE AND SHARE Keep your banners, drawings and scripts in My Banners. Export a banner as an HD video or an animated GIF and share it to Messages, AirDrop, Files or your photo library. FOR iPHONE AND iPAD Every screen has a layout designed for iPad too. The app is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Korean and Portuguese. FREE AND PRO Big Text Maker is free to download and shows ads. In the free version, you watch a short ad to show a banner full screen, start the Teleprompter or use some templates. LED Banner Pro unlocks every template, typeface and effect, adds video and GIF export, and removes all ads. LED Banner Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. The price, billing period and any free trial are shown before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://wave.studio/privacy-policy/ios.led Terms of Use: https://wave.studio/terms-and-conditions/ios.led
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ledify at every 2 weeks against Big Text Maker's every 6 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Ledify sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Big Text Maker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ledify ships an update every 2 weeks, Big Text Maker every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ledify | Big Text Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks โ better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Whizbang | Wave Design Studio |
In-app purchases
Ledify
- Pro Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Ledify Pro Lifetime$29.99
Big Text Maker
- Pro Version LED Banner$7.997 Days
- Remove Ads$7.99
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