instax WIDE Evo vs Lightphase
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
instax WIDE Evo
Connect your hybrid instant camera to your smartphone to directly print photos, remotely shoot, and save your printed images. Explore other users' creations and save their favorite settings.
- Direct photo printing from smartphone
- Remote camera shooting
- Save printed images to app
- Add instax frames to images
- Discover user images and settings
- Save film effect settings
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This app is developed exclusively for use with the Fujifilm instax WIDE Evo camera. Simply, connect your instax WIDE Evo to this app via Bluetooth and get started. ●Direct Print Transfer a photo from your Smartphone to the camera, and print it with the camera using the instax™ Direct Print feature on the App. Before printing the photo, you can use the instax WIDE Evo™ App to rotate it, enlarge it or reduce its size. ●Remote Shooting Control the camera with your Smartphone for remote shooting of photos. ●Save Printed Images You can transfer photos you had printed with the camera to the instax WIDE Evo™ App. You can also add instax™ frames to your images and save them on your Smartphone. ●Discover Feed The Discover Feed section in the App allows you to explore other users’ images that were taken with the instax WIDE Evo™ hybrid instant camera in addition to displaying your own images. You can also check out the effects and settings that were used. ●Add to Favorites You can easily save the film effect settings of works you have printed or that others have used (where such photos are posted on the Discover Feed) to your camera favorites for future use. [Supported OS] iOS17.0 or later
Lightphase
This app predicts and displays the timing of various light phases, including golden hour, civil twilight, and astronomical twilight. It helps photographers and outdoor enthusiasts plan their activities around optimal lighting conditions, offering detailed information and countdowns.
- Predicts golden hour and twilight times
- Counts down to next light phase
- Displays six distinct light phases
- Visualizes the day's light curve
- Interactive scrubbing through the day
- Watch complications and widgets
- Offline functionality
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Lightphase is a clock for natural light. It tells you which light you are standing in, the minute it changes, and how long you have left. Shooting the overlook at golden hour? Lightphase gives you the minute it starts and the minute it ends. Hiking back after sunset? It tells you when Civil Twilight runs out, the last light you can walk by without a headlamp. Waiting for a dark sky? It shows when night begins, which is often more than an hour after sunset. Every phase of light, named Lightphase divides the day by the sun's angle into the phases photographers and hikers plan around, and names each one in plain words. Daylight. The sun is high, the light is flat and the shadows are short and hard. 35° Window. Low enough for directional light, with fuller color and more contrast than golden hour. The long, workable stretch of morning and afternoon. Golden Hour. Warm, low sun from the horizon to 6 degrees up. Long shadows and raking side light. Civil Twilight. The sun has set and the sky is still bright. Enough light to walk by, or to shoot handheld. Nautical Twilight. Deep blue sky over a faint horizon. Most of what people call blue hour happens here. Astronomical Twilight. The last glow before full dark. The stars are out, and a long exposure still picks up the horizon. Night. Full dark, with no usable light from the sun. The answer comes first The top of the screen holds the answer: the light you are in, when it began and ends, and how much of it is left. Below it sit the next golden hour and the next sunrise or sunset, with the time it gets dark or the first light before it. See the whole day at once Behind the answer, the screen takes the color of the sky at the sun's height where you are, with today's light drawn as a curve across it. Drag the sun along the curve and every reading follows your finger. Find out what the light will be doing at six before you decide where to be at six. Plan the light anywhere Search any place by name and choose any date, and Lightphase reads the light there, on that place's own clock. Save the spots you return to, so a trailhead or a favorite beach is one tap away. Searching needs a connection; saved places do not. Glance without opening anything The Home Screen widget shows the sky, the light you are in and how long it lasts. The medium size adds the next golden hour. On the Lock Screen, a widget shows the phase and when it changes. On your wrist, too The watch app comes with three complications. One names the light you are in and when it changes. One counts down to a light you choose, with a ring that empties as it runs. One draws today's arc with the sun where it stands right now. Readable in direct sun A light palette for bright sun and a dark one for dusk. Every phase is spelled out in words, so you never have to tell one color from another. Times that match the almanac Sunrise and sunset are timed to the sun's upper edge meeting the horizon, and the twilights use their standard angles. Almanacs use the same definitions, so the times agree with the ones you already trust, and the app shows where every number comes from. Works where the signal does not Lightphase works out the light on your iPhone from where you are and the time of day. It keeps working in airplane mode, in a canyon, and anywhere the bars run out. Your location stays on your iPhone, where only the latest position is kept for your widgets and complications. One price, everything in it One purchase covers the iPhone app, the watch app, every widget and every complication. There is no subscription and nothing to buy inside. The sun does not charge a monthly fee, so neither do we. Every light Lightphase tracks Sunrise, sunset, golden hour, blue hour, first light, last light, civil twilight, nautical twilight, astronomical twilight and night.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lightphase at 100% against instax WIDE Evo's 16%. Lightphase also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). instax WIDE Evo's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and ratings volume (104 vs 4). 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
instax WIDE Evo is free to download; Lightphase costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lightphase holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: instax WIDE Evo has 104 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of instax WIDE Evo's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lightphase's.
instax WIDE Evo ships an update every 3 months, Lightphase every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | instax WIDE Evo | Lightphase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (104 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 104 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 343 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FUJIFILM Corporation | Onyx Mueller |
Customer experience
instax WIDE Evo
Lightphase
In-app purchases
instax WIDE Evo
No in-app purchases
Lightphase
No in-app purchases
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