Comparison

Lume Control vs Photo Point

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

Head to head
About

Lume Control

Control your Lume Cube lighting directly from your smartphone. Adjust brightness, temperature, color, and effects. Access tutorials and inspiration to enhance your creative projects.

Highlights
  • Smartphone lighting control panel
  • Adjust brightness, temperature, color
  • Light grouping
  • Special effects control
  • Built-in tutorials
  • How-to videos
  • Inspirational content
Features
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Maximize the potential of your Lume Cube lighting with the help of the Lume Control App. This intuitive app turns your smartphone into a convenient and portable lighting control panel accessible right at your fingertips. Easily adjust your settings, like brightness, temperature, color, light grouping, special effects, and more. The Lume Control app is more of a resource than ever, with built-in tutorials, how-to-videos, and inspirational content to help you bring your next creation to light.

About

Photo Point

Features
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Photo Point finds, plans, and saves the places worth photographing — from a one-tap save on the side of the road to a week-long road trip planned around the best light. DISCOVER WHAT'S ALONG YOUR ROUTE Driving Route 66, a coastal highway, or just across the state? Paste your route from Google Maps, waypoints and all, then choose what you're into — roadside oddities, ghost towns, vintage neon, murals, classic diners, abandoned places, or anything you type — and Photo Point hands you a ready-made prompt for any AI chat, one stretch of road at a time. Paste the replies back and every find lands on your route in driving order, marked with the mile it falls at and how far off the road it is, each with a picture. The obscure stops people mention in forums and road-trip blogs, without hours of searching. PLAN THE TRIP IN MINUTES Answer a few quick questions and the trip wizard builds it: drive straight there, stop when you're tired, or plan every stop. Build Itinerary fits your stops into days around your daily driving limit and suggests where each night ends. On iPad and Mac, the Trip Planner shows your arrival time at every stop against its best light, flags when you'll be early or late for it, adds cloud forecasts, and prints a shot sheet for the road. KNOW WHEN THE LIGHT WILL BE RIGHT Every spot shows its best golden-hour moment for the direction you were facing. On iPad and Mac, turn on the sun overlay to see exactly where the sun sits — and where the shadows fall — at every spot, for any date and time. SAVE A SPOT IN ONE TAP Spot something worth coming back to? Save it from the app, the Lock Screen widget, your Apple Watch, or hands-free with "Hey Siri, save this spot." Photo Point records your location, the direction you're facing, and the time. Share a photo or Street View screenshot from any app straight into a spot. BUILD OUT EVERY LOCATION - Photos and reference images, plus Look Around street-level previews - Notes, parking, a shot list, and the gear each spot needs - Tags and trips, with the whole collection on a map that shows each spot's photo up close PACK FOR IT A gear library with kits — Landscape, Drone, Road trip basics — builds each trip's packing list, flags gear your stops need, and syncs so you can build the list on your iPad and check it off on your iPhone. A quick gear check as you leave each stop keeps the tripod from staying behind. GET THERE Open any spot in Apple Maps, Google Maps, or Waze, send a whole day's stops to Google Maps as a route, or export to Google My Maps. EVERYWHERE YOU ARE iPhone for the field, iPad and Mac for planning, Apple Watch for one-tap saves — all synced privately through your own iCloud. No account, no server of ours, no ads. Built for photographers, videographers, and anyone who likes a road trip with better stops.

Screenshots

Lume Control4 screens
Photo Point4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Photo Point at weekly against Lume Control's monthly. Photo Point also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Lume Control's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lume Control ships an update monthly, Photo Point weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lume Control versus Photo Point: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLume ControlPhoto Point
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (22 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKelly MondoraJames Pennucci

In-app purchases

None

Lume Control

No in-app purchases

None

Photo Point

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lume Control free?
Lume Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Photo Point free?
Photo Point is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lume Control or Photo Point have ads?
Neither Lume Control nor Photo Point shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lume Control or Photo Point?
Lume Control ships an update monthly, and Photo Point weekly. Most recently, Lume Control was updated on October 2, 2026 and Photo Point on October 10, 2026.

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