Comparison

Long Exposure Toolkit vs Panostory Pro

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

Head to head
About

Long Exposure Toolkit

This app provides DSLR photographers with a suite of tools for creating long exposure photographs. It includes calculators for ND filters, light metering, time-lapses, and exposure values, along with tips and a photo feed for inspiration.

Highlights
  • ND Calculator
  • Light Meter
  • Timelapse Calculator
  • Exposure Value (EV) Calculator
  • Star Trail Calculator
  • Exposure Timer
  • Flickr Photo Feed
Features
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Beautiful light doesn’t happen by accident. Long Exposure Toolkit gives creative photographers the tools to plan the light, find the moon and stars, calculate long exposures, and get the shot right — from golden hour to deep into the night. PLAN THE LIGHT, NOT JUST THE SHOT Track every phase of natural light throughout the day, including civil and nautical dawn, blue hour, golden hour, solar noon, sunset and dusk. Follow the live sun-path arc, see exact times for every transition, and get a live countdown to your next photographic window. MOON, STARS, AND THE NIGHT SKY Point your iPhone at the sky and the Moon Finder guides you towards the moon using the live camera and a precision compass rose. Follow the moon’s path through the night, check moonrise and moonset for your location, and plan for upcoming lunar eclipses. For star-trail photography, choose any star or constellation from the built-in catalogue and view its declination arc — ideal for planning and compositing very long star-trail exposures. LONG EXPOSURES, MADE PRECISE Use the built-in light meter to measure the scene, select your ND filter strength, and quickly calculate the corrected shutter speed. When exposures run into minutes or hours, the built-in timer counts them for you and chimes when they’re complete. THE COMPLETE TOOLKIT • Golden Hour — a light planner for golden hour, blue hour, dawn, dusk, solar noon and live sun-path tracking • Moon Finder — locate the moon, follow its path, and check moonrise, moonset, eclipse and other information • Star Trails — view declination arcs for stars and constellations to help plan long star-trail exposures • Light Meter — live camera metering with ISO, aperture and shutter-speed readout • ND Calculator — calculate corrected exposure times for ND filters • Timelapse — calculate the interval and number of shots required for your chosen movie length • Stops — calculate the exposure difference between any two f-stops, shutter speeds or ISO values • EV Calculator — calculate exposure value from camera settings or measure the EV of the current scene • Timer — time long exposures with an audible alert when the exposure is complete • Torch — adjustable LED torch plus a screen light with a full colour picker for light painting; save your favourite colours for quick access • Inspiration — browse long-exposure photography from the Flickr community and see the camera settings used to create each image • Technique — more than 70 tips covering long-exposure technique, ND filters, subjects, camera settings, focusing and field craft Whether you’re photographing silky water, moving clouds, city lights, the moon, blue hour or star trails, Long Exposure Toolkit gives you the essential planning and exposure tools all in one place.

About

Panostory Pro

Create personalized photo collages, widgets, and wallpapers with various layout styles. Stitch multiple images together, cut pictures with shape masks, and even take video screenshots. Share your creations easily to social media platforms.

Highlights
  • Photo widget for home screen
  • Multiple collage layout styles
  • Stitch photos horizontally, vertically, or in a grid
  • Cut pictures with shape masks
  • Take frame screenshots from videos
  • Create custom wallpapers
Features
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Stitch screenshots into one long image, build photo collages and grids, and make home screen widgets — all on your device, with nothing ever uploaded. SCREENSHOT STITCHING - Merge multiple screenshots into a single long image — chat threads, articles, receipts, order histories. - Trim, reorder, and adjust each screenshot before exporting. - Control spacing, borders, and corner radius between pieces. LONG PHOTO STITCH - Combine any number of photos into one long image — horizontal, vertical, or a nine-square grid. - Free stitch mode: place, scale, and layer photos anywhere on the canvas with no fixed layout. COLLAGE MAKER - Grid layouts for 1 to 9 photos, plus templates for weddings and baby albums. - Text with custom fonts, colors, gradients, strokes, shadows, and masks. - Solid, gradient, or image-sampled backgrounds. - Frames, stickers, filters, blur, and shape masks. DEPTH TEXT - Place text behind the subject of a photo for a layered, three-dimensional look. PHOTO WIDGETS - Small, medium, and large home screen widgets from your own photos. - Single photo, blurred, or 2–4 photo collage styles. - Calendar widget with your photo as the background. WALLPAPER MAKER - Turn any collage into a wallpaper sized for your device. - Solid color and gradient wallpapers. PHOTO CUT - Slice one photo into a nine-square grid in a single tap — ready to post as a carousel. - Shape masks for non-rectangular cuts. BATCH TOOLS - Watermark many photos at once, including "Shot on" device text pulled from each photo's EXIF data. - Add borders to a whole batch in one pass. - Position, size, and opacity are yours to set. VIDEO FRAME CAPTURE - Pull still frames from any video at the interval you choose. - Stitch the extracted frames into a single storyboard image. DEVICE MOCKUPS - Drop a screenshot into an iPhone frame for app showcases and product shots. DUAL CAMERA - Shoot with the front and rear cameras at the same time. - Four-shot burst mode, laid out automatically. EXPORT - Choose your export resolution and quality. - Save to Photos or Files, or share anywhere. VIP MEMBERSHIP - VIP includes every feature from the earlier paid version, plus Curator: it goes through your library on its own and builds collages for you. - Curator modes: long-screenshot stitching, Color Flow (grouped by color tone), Shot On (grouped by the camera that took them), and 9-Photo Fit (picks nine photos that belong together and fits them into a nine-square grid). - Monthly — $3.99 per month, auto-renewing. - Yearly — $29.99 per year, auto-renewing. - Lifetime — $39.99, one-time purchase, never renews. - Payment is charged to your Apple ID account once you confirm the purchase. - A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. - Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. - Prices are in US dollars and may differ by region. PRIVACY Panostory Pro never uploads your photos. Every edit happens on your device. Photo library access is used only to read the images you pick and to save the results. I'm an independent developer and I read every message. If something is broken or missing, email wrzxnx@gmail.com and I'll take a look. Privacy Policy: https://wangruiapk.github.io/panostorypro/?lang=en Terms of Use: https://wangruiapk.github.io/terms/?lang=en

Screenshots

Long Exposure Toolkit4 screens
Panostory Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Panostory Pro at Free against Long Exposure Toolkit's $5.99. Panostory Pro also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (22 vs 4). Long Exposure Toolkit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and rating (4.5 vs 4.1). On ads, monetization model, device support and iOS requirement 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

Panostory Pro is free to download; Long Exposure Toolkit costs $5.99 up front. Panostory Pro sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Long Exposure Toolkit asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Long Exposure Toolkit holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Panostory Pro has 22 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Long Exposure Toolkit's written reviews are positive against 71% of Panostory Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Long Exposure Toolkit ships an update every 3 months, Panostory Pro every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Long Exposure Toolkit versus Panostory Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLong Exposure ToolkitPanostory Pro
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (4 ratings) — better4.1 (22 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings422 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB105 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrew Offield锐 王

Customer experience

Long Exposure Toolkit

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Panostory Pro

All ratings22 ratings
Positive77.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.7%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

None

Long Exposure Toolkit

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Panostory Pro

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly VIP$1.991 Month
  • Monthly VIP$3.991 Month
  • Yearly VIP$12.991 Year
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  • Yearly VIP$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime VIP$29.99

Questions

Is Long Exposure Toolkit free?
Long Exposure Toolkit costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Panostory Pro free?
Panostory Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Long Exposure Toolkit or Panostory Pro?
Long Exposure Toolkit is rated higher. Long Exposure Toolkit averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Panostory Pro averages 4.1 from 22 ratings.
Do Long Exposure Toolkit or Panostory Pro have ads?
Neither Long Exposure Toolkit nor Panostory Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Long Exposure Toolkit or Panostory Pro?
Long Exposure Toolkit ships an update every 3 months, and Panostory Pro every 2 weeks. Most recently, Long Exposure Toolkit was updated on October 19, 2026 and Panostory Pro on October 26, 2026.

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