Comparison

Glowi vs LightU

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

Head to head
About

Glowi

Enhance your photos and videos with precise lighting and color adjustments. Achieve flawless selfies and stunning visuals with smart brightness control and advanced RGB tuning.

Highlights
  • Smart brightness control
  • Gesture controls for brightness
  • Advanced RGB color tuning
  • Real-time color preview
  • Hexadecimal color codes
  • Intelligent text color matching
Features
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Glowi is your ultimate lighting app, designed to help you shine in every selfie, perfect your food shots, and create stunning visuals with just the right glow. Flawless Brightness Adjustment • Smart brightness control to enhance your natural skin tone • Quick screen brightness tweaks for on-the-go perfection • Gesture controls for effortless brightness adjustments Advanced Color Customization • Precise RGB tuning to find the perfect light for your complexion • Real-time color preview to match every mood and moment • Hexadecimal color codes for those who love creative control • Intelligent text color matching to keep everything looking seamless

About

LightU

Enhance your photos with professional fill lighting and beauty filters. This app corrects lighting issues in any environment, improving skin texture and facial features for stunning, professional-quality shots. It offers an intuitive interface and various modes for selfies and more.

Highlights
  • Natural facial lighting augmentation
  • Adjusted beauty filters
  • User-friendly guides for effects
  • Integrated selfie function
  • Rear camera mirror selfies
  • Image flipping and rotation
  • Favorite lighting effects collection
Features
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Transforming your phone into a professional fill light and correcting the lighting anytime and anywhere, LightU is a beauty filter and fill light software that maximizes the iPhone's photographic functions. It supplies soft, natural lighting under subpar environmental lighting conditions (backlight glare, overhead lighting, dimly lit environments etc.), while improving skin texture and highlighting your facial features to take shots to rival a pro's. Have you ever encountered any of the following issues while taking photos? - Backlight glare caused by light in the background that casts shadows on the faces of subjects. - A light source above the subject that casts shadows on the eye sockets, under the nose and highlights imperfections on the face. - Insufficient light at night, indoors, in bars, museums, and so on. - Faces looking pale and uninteresting when filling light with the mobile device torchlight function. - Using your mobile device screen as a light source prevents you from taking your selfie at the same time. Perhaps the only difference between your photos and an influencer's is the use of pro fill light equipment. With LightU, transform your mobile device into pro fill light equipment and take care of all the above issues. Just open LightU and hold your mobile device screen at a 45-degree angle to your face to fill light naturally. No matter how bad the light is, the app will capture you at your best like a pro! Download LightU now. Make your beauty shine! Primary Functions 1. Augments facial lighting naturally Thanks to professional input and repeated testing, LightU is able to produce natural and soft facial lighting even when the phone is at 100% brightness. 2. Beauty filters that have been thoroughly tested and adjusted. In order to create beauty filters that work under poor lighting, LightU is equipped with a large color chart that has been carefully adjusted by photographers and tested by many female users. You may also use color palettes that you have customized to your own preferences. 3. User-friendly guides Every color and lighting effect comes with a description of the effect's unique characteristics and uses to make mastering it easy. 4.An easily accessible selfie function Take selfies while filling light. Preview your photos and customize preview window size. Photos, videos, live photos, camera timer and many other photo modes are supported. 5.Mirror selfies Rear camera mirror selfies 6.Image flipping and rotation 7.Pro mode 8.A Favourite collection to store your favorite lighting effects and colors to retrieve quickly for easy use in the future 9.Many more Pro mode functions are under development, such as: color temperature adjustment, narrowband imaging, adjustable lighting zones. LightU is dedicated to becoming the best mobile device beauty and light-filling tool! Uses: - For photos and selfies - In dimly lit environments, such as nighttime or indoors - Suboptimal lighting conditions such as daytime backlight glare, overhead lighting - To give the photo a unique spin - To blend environmental lighting more naturally - To take better photos with healthier facial skin tones - To blend in better with the environment - For mirror selfies - To capture foodie adventures - For product photography - To fill light for livestream /* Unlimited Access Subscription */ Subscribe for unlimited access to all paid features and content of LightU, like professional and selfie modes, all color cards, etc. Charged monthly or annually; price varies by subscription package. Auto-renews at package price unless cancelled 24 hours in advance. Fee charged via iTunes at purchase. Manage sub and turn off auto-renew in account settings post-purchase. Can't cancel during active period per Apple's policy. No refunds for unused parts. * Terms of Service: https://www.watchfacelab.com/termsOfService.html * Privacy Policy: https://www.watchfacelab.com/PrivacyPolicy.html

Screenshots

Glowi3 screens
LightU4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Glowi at none against LightU's 5. Glowi also leads on ads (none vs shown). LightU's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.5). On price, rating 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. LightU sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Glowi asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Glowi against 5.0 for LightU. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LightU has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Glowi versus LightU: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlowiLightU
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings19 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.514.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB193 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCoreSpeed Inc.SAWOTIM PTE. LTD.

Customer experience

Glowi

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

LightU

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Glowi

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

LightU

Subscriptions5
  • Week Pro Membership$2.997 Days
  • Week Pro Membership3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Monthly Pro Membership1 Month trial$3.991 Month
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  • Annual Pro Membership$12.991 Year
  • Annual Pro Membership3 Days trial$12.991 Year

Questions

Is Glowi free?
Glowi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LightU free?
LightU is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Glowi or LightU?
Glowi and LightU are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 9 ratings respectively.
Do Glowi or LightU have ads?
LightU shows ads; Glowi does not.

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