LuxconConnect vs Lightframer Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LuxconConnect
Control your LED lighting setup with this app. Adjust individual LED colors and brightness, save custom presets, and utilize built-in animation effects for dynamic lighting. It offers a tungsten mode for warm lighting and a landscape-optimized interface.
- Bluetooth/USB LED control
- Individual color/brightness adjustment
- Save/load custom presets
- Built-in animation effects
- Tungsten mode
- Landscape interface
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FEATURES: • Full LED control via Bluetooth or USB • Individual LED color and brightness adjustment • Save and load custom presets • Built-in animation effects • Tungsten mode for warm lighting • Landscape-optimized interface Connect your Luxcon device and start creating amazing lighting effects today!
Lightframer Pro
This app transforms your iPhone into a professional cinema viewfinder, allowing you to preview shots with specific camera and lens combinations. It also features real-time sun tracking to help plan shoots around natural light conditions and exports scout photos with detailed metadata.
- Real-time AR viewfinder
- Camera and lens simulation
- Sun path tracking
- Customizable frame lines
- Metadata export
- Golden hour and blue hour prediction
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Lightframer Pro is the ultimate director's viewfinder: real cinema cameras and lenses, sun tracking, a 3D shadow map, life-size AR stand-ins and storyboards — all in one app, on location. PREVIEW ANY CAMERA + LENS Pick your body and glass from a library of cinema cameras and lenses — ARRI, RED, Sony, Canon, Blackmagic, Angénieux, Cooke, Zeiss and more, primes, zooms and anamorphics. See exactly how that setup frames the shot, through the phone, before the truck arrives. TRACK THE SUN The sun's path is drawn over your frame and locked to the real horizon, so it stays put while you pan and tilt. Golden hour, blue hour, sunrise and sunset read at a glance, and you can scrub to any time of day to see where the sun will sit in the shot. 3D SHADOW MAP See the shadows before you hit the set. A 3D map of the location shows where buildings and terrain throw shade at any hour, so you know when the street is lit and when it isn't. BLOCK YOUR SCENES WITH AR STAND-INS No actor on location? Tap the ground and a life-size stand-in appears at true scale. Set height and pose, add a second character for two-shots, and frame the dialogue through your chosen lens. Blocking saves with every capture. STORYBOARDS AND PDF EXPORT Turn scout frames into boards. Order shots, add captions and camera-move tags (PUSH IN, PAN L→R, HANDHELD...), play the board back as an instant previz, export a video animatic, or share a numbered PDF with project, director, DP and scene details — ready for the crew before call time. READ THE LIGHT IN KELVIN A live scene meter reads colour temperature on location — tungsten, neon, daylight — and prints white balance on every export. FRAME LINES FOR EVERY RATIO 2.39:1 anamorphic, 1.85:1 theatrical, 17:9 DCI, 16:9 HD, 4:3 open gate, 9:16 vertical, or your own custom ratio, with shading and colour controls. Full UI in portrait and landscape. EXPORT WITH FULL CINEMA DATA Every capture carries a metadata strip: camera, lens, focal length, aspect ratio, sun position, compass heading and white balance. Share scout photos the whole crew can read. BUILT FOR CINEMATOGRAPHERS - Real-time viewfinder matched to your camera and lens - World-locked sun path with golden hour, blue hour, sunrise and sunset - 3D shadow map for any hour of the day - Life-size AR stand-ins with adjustable height and pose - Storyboards with captions, move tags, animatic and PDF export - Live colour-temperature meter - LiDAR focus heatmap with cinema diopter presets (LiDAR devices) - Reference Cam for plain full-frame location photos - Compass heading overlay, portrait and landscape modes - Photo and video export with cinema metadata The focus heatmap and diopter tools require a LiDAR-equipped device (iPhone Pro models or iPad Pro). AR stand-ins work on any device with ARKit support. Whether you're a DP scouting a commercial, an indie filmmaker planning a short, or a director blocking scenes on location — Lightframer Pro lets you plan every shot with precision.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: LuxconConnect at Free against Lightframer Pro's $19.99. LuxconConnect also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Lightframer Pro's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
LuxconConnect is free to download; Lightframer Pro costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LuxconConnect against 4.9 for Lightframer Pro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lightframer Pro has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
LuxconConnect ships an update every 6 weeks, Lightframer Pro monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LuxconConnect | Lightframer Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cinelux Cinema Tools LLC | eric Hernandez |
Customer experience
LuxconConnect
Lightframer Pro
In-app purchases
LuxconConnect
No in-app purchases
Lightframer Pro
No in-app purchases
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