Comparison

RilKit vs Lighten

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

Head to head
About

RilKit

Create engaging videos and Reels with a vast library of trending templates and music. This app offers a user-friendly interface to blend your photos and videos, customize clips, and import your own audio. Perfect for social media content creation.

Highlights
  • Trending Reels templates and music
  • Step-by-step video builder
  • Diverse professionally designed templates
  • Create personalized templates
  • Import music from files
  • Add clips to favorites
Features
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RilKit is the best video template app. It’s also a really cool video creator, movie maker and editor. Create videos, posts, stories, short-form clips and other content with this unique trending video maker. RilKit is an editing app with songs, templates and different trends. Introducing RilKit – a top-notch video template app designed to revolutionize the way you create captivating clips. With a simple and user-friendly interface, RilKit offers features that bring your ideas to life. Choose from a wide range of templates and effortlessly combine your favorite photos or videos from your gallery to create stunning content that catches attention. One of the standout features of RilKit is its extensive collection of templates, constantly updated to keep you on top of the latest trends. There are 600+ video templates, original audio tracks, and trending music in our video creator, maker, and editor. You have full control over your content: customize video duration, duplicate clips, and easily replace photos or videos to make every creation unique. It’s perfect for creating videos, photos, stories, short-form clips, and viral social media content. Here's what RilKit offers: 1. Trending Templates and Music Stay in sync with the latest trends using a curated selection of popular templates and music tracks. 2. Step-by-Step Builder Create videos with ease using our intuitive step-by-step builder that guides you through the entire process. 3. High-Quality Templates Choose from a wide variety of professionally designed templates to elevate your content. 4. Create Your Own Version Unleash your creativity and design your own templates that reflect your personal style. 5. Import Music from Files Add your favorite tracks directly from your device. 6. Favorites Save clips to quickly access and reuse them later. Create videos, photos, stories, and short-form content using RilKit – your all-in-one trending video maker and editor. Add your photos and videos, and we’ll transform them into eye-catching content with music, presets, and templates. Disclaimer: RilKit is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Instagram, Reels, or Boomerang. Instagram, Reels, and Boomerang are trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc. Terms of Use: https://seraaleev.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://seraleev.com/privacy/ Support: programadorviktor@icloud.com

About

Lighten

This app helps you prepare photos, videos, and PDFs for sharing or uploading by compressing and resizing them. You can preview changes and organize multiple files into single documents before saving. It offers advanced editing tools for images and supports batch processing.

Highlights
  • Compress and resize photos/videos
  • PDF compression and preview
  • Organize, merge, and reorder documents
  • Image joining, splitting, and covering
  • Batch processing and saved rules
  • On-device processing
Features
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Prepare photos, videos and PDFs for sending or uploading. Set size limits and check actual results before saving. Originals stay unchanged. • Compress and resize. Choose photo or video formats and pixel dimensions. Exact width and height use a crop you adjust and confirm. • Try PDF compression. See the actual file size and preview the full document before processing. • Organize upload documents. Group photos and PDFs, merge, reorder and rotate pages, then save each document with its own size target. • Join, split and cover. Stitch images, adjust overlaps, crop, split long images and add solid covers, blur or mosaic. Preview the full image before export. • Fewer repeated steps. Share size limits and quality across images and PDFs while keeping each file’s format and dimensions. Reuse saved rules, batch naming and independent media versions. Results depend on the source, device, settings and available storage. Review conversion changes to motion, HDR or transparency. Blur and mosaic do not guarantee that sensitive information cannot be recovered. Start free. Pro adds batch tools and more saved rules. Choose a lifetime purchase or an auto-renewable monthly subscription. Local prices are shown before purchase. Monthly renews automatically. Manage or cancel in Apple Account subscription settings; access continues through the paid period. Buying lifetime does not cancel an existing monthly subscription. Existing lifetime purchases remain valid. Eligible purchases support Family Sharing. Processing runs on device. Lighten does not upload media. iOS may retrieve originals from iCloud or a file provider. Apple handles purchases. No app account or ads. Available in five languages. Privacy Policy: https://jianlanzhiwei.com/lighten/privacy-en.html Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

RilKit4 screens
Lighten4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Lighten at none against RilKit's shown. Lighten also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days). RilKit's advantage is ratings volume (264 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. RilKit sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and Lighten sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lighten holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RilKit has 264 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RilKit ships an update every 9 days, Lighten every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
RilKit versus Lighten: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRilKitLighten
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (264 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings264 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperProgramacion Viktor Seraleev EIRLHangzhou Jianlan Zhiwei Technology Co., Ltd

Customer experience

RilKit

All ratings263 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral1.5%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Lighten

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

RilKit

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Cannot download reels
  • Support contact doesn't work
  • Help center useless
  • App stuck on initial menu after subscription
  • No download without payment
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  • Low export quality (360p/480p)
  • App errors continuously
  • Cannot share or download videos

Requested features

2 requests
  • More template variety
  • Improved export quality

Lighten

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

RilKit

Subscriptions6
  • Reels Maker. Trending template3 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • Reels Templates Maker$5.997 Days
  • Reel Maker for Instagram3 Days trial$14.993 Months
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  • Reels Premium Maker$22.991 Year
  • Reels Templates Maker3 Days trial$24.996 Months
  • Week Premium$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • RilKit Premium$59.99
2 purchases

Lighten

Subscriptions1
  • Lighten Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lighten Pro$6.99

Questions

Is RilKit free?
RilKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lighten free?
Lighten is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, RilKit or Lighten?
Lighten is rated higher. RilKit averages 4.7 out of 5 from 264 ratings, while Lighten averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do RilKit or Lighten have ads?
RilKit shows ads; Lighten does not.
Which is updated more often, RilKit or Lighten?
RilKit ships an update every 9 days, and Lighten every 3 days. Most recently, RilKit was updated on October 30, 2026 and Lighten on November 6, 2026.

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