Journey Tracker vs LumenMeter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Journey Tracker
Visually track changes over time with side-by-side photo comparisons and time-lapse videos. Ideal for monitoring fitness, body transformations, or any project where visual progress is key. Features include consistent photo capture, motivation tools, and shareable progress cards.
- Side-by-side photo comparison with slider
- Time-lapse video export
- Consistent photo capture guidance
- Customizable reminders and widgets
- Shareable progress cards
- Achievement medals for milestones
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You can finally see progress over time. You see yourself every day, so change hides. Journey Tracker lines up every new photo with your last one and shows you the difference with a slider. Use it for body, gym, and weight-loss progress, or for hair, beard, skin, nails, braces, tattoos, outfits, pregnancy, pets, plants, art projects, and home projects. Your photos are backed up to your account, so they are still there on a new phone or after a reinstall. Your first collection is free. Capture consistent photos • Keep each journey in its own collection • See your last photo in the camera, as an Outline or a Ghost, and line up the next shot • Add dates and notes • Reorder photos or move them between collections • Add photos offline; they upload when you're back online See the difference • Drag a slider across any two photos • Put two photos side by side and pinch to zoom them together • Scrub through your whole timeline • Export a time-lapse video of the change Share your progress • Turn any before and after into a share card • Choose from several card styles • Save the card or share it Stay motivated • Set reminders on your schedule, with your own message • Add the Home Screen widget: your day count, this week's photos, and the camera one tap away • Earn medals for milestones and streaks • See them all on the Achievements page Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
LumenMeter
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LumenMeter turns your phone into a real reflected-light meter for film photography — point it at your scene, and get an exposure reading built for the specific film and camera you're actually shooting. METER LIKE YOUR CAMERA DOES Choose spot, center-weighted, matrix, or highlight-priority metering, and watch the reading update live through your phone's camera. SEE YOUR EXPOSURE, DON'T GUESS IT A false-color (zebra-style) overlay renders live over your camera feed, color-coding every part of the scene by exposure zone in real time. Instantly see what's about to clip to black or blow out to white — zoned to your specific film stock's actual shadow and highlight latitude, not a generic exposure curve. BUILT ON REAL FILM DATA, NOT GUESSES 45 film stocks from Kodak, Ilford, Fujifilm, Kentmere, CineStill, Foma, Rollei, AgfaPhoto, Lomography, and more — each with its own ISO, exposure latitude, and reciprocity failure correction for long exposures. Where a manufacturer publishes real reciprocity data, LumenMeter uses it. Where they don't, it says so instead of making a number up. SHOOT THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY SHOOT Lock shutter or aperture priority and let the other wheel do the math as light changes. Set ISO, shutter, and aperture to independent stop increments — 1/3, 1/2, or full stop on each wheel — because real cameras and lenses don't always click the same way. Save camera presets with their own aspect ratio and shutter/aperture ranges, prefillable from 19 reference classic film cameras, so the wheels only ever show what your gear can actually do. TRACK A WHOLE ROLL Start a roll, generate a QR code for it, and every reading you take gets tagged to that roll automatically — along with GPS location, color temperature, push/pull stops, and an optional reference photo shot straight from the app with EXIF data preserved. Add filter compensation for ND, polarizers, and contrast filters on the fly. YOUR OWN EXPOSURE JOURNAL Every reading is logged automatically — searchable, filterable, and exportable whenever you want your data out. No account, no server, nothing leaves your phone unless you share it yourself. Built for anyone who still loads real film — from a first roll of 35mm to medium format work with decades-old glass — and wants a meter that respects what that actually requires.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LumenMeter at none against Journey Tracker's 2. LumenMeter also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Journey Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. LumenMeter asks for nothing beyond the download.
Journey Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, LumenMeter every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Journey Tracker | LumenMeter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Novee Group LLC | James Pennucci |
In-app purchases
Journey Tracker
- Journey Tracker Premium — Monthly$3.991 Month
- Annual1 Year trial$25.991 Year
LumenMeter
No in-app purchases
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