Ona Vision vs Depth Torch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ona Vision
Enhance your low-light vision with a powerful flashlight and advanced night vision technology. This tool offers a full-screen camera preview to help you find lost items or navigate dark spaces with ease and privacy.
- Flashlight and night vision modes
- Full-screen camera preview
- Low-latency real-time view
- Privacy-focused, no photo/video capture
- Optimized for low-light conditions
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Experience Night Vision Like Never Before with Ona Vision Are you tired of fumbling in the dark, desperately searching for lost items or navigating through dimly lit spaces? Sneaking off to the bathroom in the middle of the night and don't want to turn on the lights? Ona Vision is the ultimate solution you've been waiting for. This innovative vision tool takes your low-light experience to a whole new level. Key Features: - Flashlight & Night Vision: Ona Vision seamlessly combines a powerful flashlight with cutting-edge night vision technology. Illuminate your surroundings with the flashlight or long-press the button to access a remarkable night vision mode that enhances your vision in the dark. - Full-Screen Camera Preview: Enjoy a real-time, full-screen camera preview that extends from edge to edge. Use this immersive view to see clearly in low-light conditions, even without the flashlight. - Find What You Want: Need to locate your misplaced keys or that missing sock under the couch? Ona Vision's low-latency preview empowers you to find what you're looking for with precision and ease. - Lightning Fast, Privacy First: Ona Vision is designed for speed and privacy. It's optimized for real-time use and doesn't capture photos or videos, ensuring your personal moments remain private. Why Ona Vision? - Ona Vision leverages the latest advancements in low-light and depth sensing technology to help you navigate areas where traditional vision falls short. - Effortlessly toggle between flashlight and night vision modes for a versatile, all-in-one solution. Don't let darkness slow you down. Download Ona Vision now and discover a new way to see the world around you.
Depth Torch
This app uses your iPhone's LiDAR sensor to create a real-time 3D map of your surroundings, even in complete darkness. It highlights doorways, walls, and furniture, and can display distance measurements. It's designed for use in dark rooms or with a VR headset.
- Real-time 3D room mapping
- LiDAR sensor utilization
- Distance measurement display
- Red light for night vision preservation
- Optional proximity marking
- Stereo pair mode for VR headsets
- Capture still images
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Your iPhone's LiDAR sensor works by timing infrared pulses, not by collecting light. It keeps working in complete darkness, when the camera sees nothing at all. Depth Torch turns that sensor into a live view of the space around you. Doorways, walls, furniture and corners appear as shaded 3D geometry, updating in real time as you move — shaded as though lit from where you are standing, so edges and door frames stand out. WHAT IT IS NOT This is not night vision. It does not amplify light and it does not use infrared imaging. It maps distance. Things that do not return a clean pulse — glass, mirrors, water, dark or glossy surfaces — can read as empty space, and thin obstacles like cables may not register at all. Effective range is roughly half a metre to five metres, and it drops sharply outdoors or in fog, rain or dust. Please read the safety notice in the app. RED IN THE DARK, GREEN IN THE LIGHT Red light leaves your night vision largely intact, so you can still see the unlit room when you look up from the screen. The app measures the light in the room and picks for you — red in the dark, green where there is already light — and dims the screen in red so it does not undo the adaptation it is protecting. You can pin either one. DISTANCES ON WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT Turn on distance markers and the view labels what it measured: 5' on the wall ahead, 4' on the chair beside you. Where the sensor is not confident, it shows nothing rather than a number it cannot stand behind. There is also an optional proximity marking that picks out surfaces close enough to walk into. It marks what the sensor measured — it does not promise that an unmarked path is clear. HANDHELD OR IN A HEADSET Hold the phone upright for a single full-screen view. Turn it sideways and it becomes a stereo pair, ready to drop into a Google Cardboard-class headset for real depth perception. Lens calibration is built in for whichever headset you own. THREE BUTTONS, NOTHING ELSE IN THE WAY Palette, capture, and distance markers sit at the bottom of the live view. Everything else stays out of the picture until you tap. The capture button saves a still of what you are seeing to your photo library. That is the only thing the app saves, it happens only when you ask, and it goes nowhere else. AN OPTIONAL TORCH Off by default, because seeing without emitting light is the point. Turn it on when you want the room lit. PRIVACY Nothing is recorded as video, nothing is shared, and nothing is sent anywhere. No account, no analytics, and no network access of any kind. Your settings stay on your device. REQUIREMENTS A device with a rear LiDAR sensor: iPhone 12 Pro or later Pro and Pro Max models. This is an iPhone app and does not run on iPad. On other iPhones it falls back to a clearly labelled camera-only mode, which cannot see in the dark. SAFETY Do not use this while driving, cycling, on stairs, near water, or anywhere a missed obstacle could injure you. Do not rely on it in an emergency.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ona Vision at Free against Depth Torch's $0.99. Ona Vision also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). Depth Torch's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). 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
Ona Vision is free to download; Depth Torch costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Depth Torch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Ona Vision's written reviews are positive against 100% of Depth Torch's.
Ona Vision ships an update daily, Depth Torch weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ona Vision | Depth Torch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Butsotso Inc. | Evan Freymiller |
Customer experience
Ona Vision
Depth Torch
In-app purchases
Ona Vision
No in-app purchases
Depth Torch
No in-app purchases









