Comparison

Lume Control vs LumenMeter

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

LumenMeter

Features
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LumenMeter turns your phone into a real reflected-light meter for film photography — point it at your scene, and get an exposure reading built for the specific film and camera you're actually shooting. METER LIKE YOUR CAMERA DOES Choose spot, center-weighted, matrix, or highlight-priority metering, and watch the reading update live through your phone's camera. SEE YOUR EXPOSURE, DON'T GUESS IT A false-color (zebra-style) overlay renders live over your camera feed, color-coding every part of the scene by exposure zone in real time. Instantly see what's about to clip to black or blow out to white — zoned to your specific film stock's actual shadow and highlight latitude, not a generic exposure curve. BUILT ON REAL FILM DATA, NOT GUESSES 45 film stocks from Kodak, Ilford, Fujifilm, Kentmere, CineStill, Foma, Rollei, AgfaPhoto, Lomography, and more — each with its own ISO, exposure latitude, and reciprocity failure correction for long exposures. Where a manufacturer publishes real reciprocity data, LumenMeter uses it. Where they don't, it says so instead of making a number up. SHOOT THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY SHOOT Lock shutter or aperture priority and let the other wheel do the math as light changes. Set ISO, shutter, and aperture to independent stop increments — 1/3, 1/2, or full stop on each wheel — because real cameras and lenses don't always click the same way. Save camera presets with their own aspect ratio and shutter/aperture ranges, prefillable from 19 reference classic film cameras, so the wheels only ever show what your gear can actually do. TRACK A WHOLE ROLL Start a roll, generate a QR code for it, and every reading you take gets tagged to that roll automatically — along with GPS location, color temperature, push/pull stops, and an optional reference photo shot straight from the app with EXIF data preserved. Add filter compensation for ND, polarizers, and contrast filters on the fly. YOUR OWN EXPOSURE JOURNAL Every reading is logged automatically — searchable, filterable, and exportable whenever you want your data out. No account, no server, nothing leaves your phone unless you share it yourself. Built for anyone who still loads real film — from a first roll of 35mm to medium format work with decades-old glass — and wants a meter that respects what that actually requires.

Screenshots

Lume Control4 screens
LumenMeter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: LumenMeter at every 2 days against Lume Control's monthly. Lume Control's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

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, LumenMeter every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Lume Control versus LumenMeter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLume ControlLumenMeter
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (22 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKelly MondoraJames Pennucci

In-app purchases

None

Lume Control

No in-app purchases

None

LumenMeter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lume Control free?
Lume Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LumenMeter free?
LumenMeter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lume Control or LumenMeter have ads?
Neither Lume Control nor LumenMeter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lume Control or LumenMeter?
Lume Control ships an update monthly, and LumenMeter every 2 days. Most recently, Lume Control was updated on October 2, 2026 and LumenMeter on October 1, 2026.

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