DragonLight Mobile vs StarEdit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DragonLight Mobile
This app transforms your mobile device into a professional flat field illumination panel for astrophotography. It helps remove image artifacts like dust spots and vignetting, enabling cleaner, more professional-looking deep sky and planetary images.
- Precision brightness control with 4,096 levels
- Full automation with astronomy software integration
- Remote brightness control via web interface
- Adjustable aperture mask for even illumination
- Network device finder
- Red flashlight mode for night vision
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DragonLIGHT Mobile transforms your iPhone or iPad into a professional flat field illumination panel for astrophotography. WHAT ARE FLAT FRAMES? When you photograph deep sky objects, your images contain dust spots, vignetting, and optical imperfections. Flat frames are calibration images that let your processing software remove these artifacts, revealing clean, professional astrophotographs. WHY DRAGONLIGHT? Instead of buying expensive dedicated flat panel hardware, use the device you already own. DragonLIGHT delivers professional results at a fraction of the cost. KEY FEATURES • Precision Control — 4,096 brightness levels ensure you can dial in the perfect exposure for any optical system • Full Automation — Integrates with N.I.N.A., Sequence Generator Pro, Voyager, and other astronomy software through the industry-standard ASCOM Alpaca protocol • Remote Operation — Control brightness from your imaging computer via built-in web interface or automation software • Adjustable Aperture Mask — On-screen sizing adapts to different telescope apertures for even illumination • Device Finder — Easily locate DragonLIGHT on your network using QR code or automatic UDP discovery • Red Flashlight Mode — Preserve your night vision with a red light utility • Portable — Lightweight and perfect for remote imaging sites PERFECT FOR • Deep sky imagers capturing nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters • Planetary imagers needing clean calibration frames • Anyone tired of carrying extra equipment to dark sites AUTOMATION MADE EASY DragonLIGHT speaks ASCOM Alpaca, the standard protocol used by astronomy automation software. Connect once, and your imaging software can automatically control brightness during your flat frame sequences—no manual intervention required. Download DragonLIGHT and start capturing better astrophotographs tonight.
StarEdit
Easily remove stars from your galaxy photos to make intuitive edits. Adjust star count, size, and saturation, then combine starless and star images for social media. This app uses AI for convenient mobile editing.
- Instantly remove stars from photos
- Adjust star count, size, and saturation
- Apply curve and color adjustments
- Combine starless and star images
- AI-powered mobile editing
- Edit target and sky in starless images
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A specialised app to instantly remove stars from your photo so that you can make intuitive changes to your galaxy. Then add back the stars. Besides applying curve and color to your galaxy/nebulae, you could also adjust the number of star, size of star and saturation of star. Then combine the starless and star into a single image for your social media post. Traditionally, user has to download and remove stars on a laptop. This app makes it convenient and easy to do it on the phone using AI. Workflow: 1) Starless > Curve > Color 2) Star > Curve > Color 3) Both > Curve > Color Additional editing for Target and Sky in the Starless image if device has 4G RAM or more. Note: - The app is designed for seestar image of resolution 1080 x 1920 pixels. Larger image will need longer time to load and remove stars. Requirement: - App works best with 4G RAM and above. If the device has less than 4G RAM, it will use lesser weights for AI and produce degraded image. - Image is optimised at 1920 x 1080 pixels. Support: Please write to ustransit74@gmail.com. If the app does not process the stars in your image correctly, please send me your original photo. I will add your photo to the next AI training. A new app update will then be release. Video tutorial is available at https://www.instagram.com/ycbsl
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: StarEdit at Free against DragonLight Mobile's $9.99. StarEdit also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 28 months) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). DragonLight Mobile's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On 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
StarEdit is free to download; DragonLight Mobile costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
DragonLight Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of DragonLight Mobile's written reviews are positive against 60% of StarEdit's.
DragonLight Mobile ships an update every 28 months, StarEdit every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DragonLight Mobile | StarEdit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 28 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dark Dragons Astronomy | yong chong loh |
Customer experience
DragonLight Mobile
StarEdit
In-app purchases
DragonLight Mobile
No in-app purchases
StarEdit
No in-app purchases
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