SelfieGlowCam vs LightU
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SelfieGlowCam
Enhance your selfies with studio-quality lighting and professional beauty effects. This app offers a ring light system with color presets, 4K camera support, and real-time skin smoothing for stunning photos and videos.
- Professional ring light with color presets
- 4K Ultra HD camera support
- Real-time skin smoothing
- Photo, Video, and Boomerang capture modes
- Screen brightness control
- Instant photo library access
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SelfieGlowCam: Ring Light Transform your selfies with studio-quality lighting and professional effects! SelfieGlowCam brings you the perfect combination of fill light technology and advanced beauty features. KEY FEATURES: • Professional Ring Light System with Color Presets • 4K Ultra HD Camera Support • Real-time Skin Smoothing Technology • Snappy Capture Modes (Photo/Video/Boomerang) PROFESSIONAL LIGHTING: Choose from stunning light presets: • Pure White • Warm Cream • • Ice Blue • Rose Pink • Magic Purple • Sunset Orange • Crystal Blue • Artic Sky • Neon Pink • Electric Purple • Candy Red • Summer Orange • Lime Punch • Ocean Glow • Royal Indigo ADVANCED FEATURES: • 4K Fast Camera • Real-time Beauty Effects • Screen Brightness Control • Double-tap to Switch Cameras • Instant Photo Library Access CAPTURE MODES: • Photo Mode: Perfect for stunning selfies • Video Mode: Record beautiful moments • Boomerang Mode: Create fun, looping clips WHY CHOOSE SELFIEGLOWCAM: • Professional-grade results • User-friendly interface • Real-time preview • Privacy-focused design PERFECT FOR: • Social Media Content • Professional Portraits • Beauty Shots • Personal Photography Download SelfieGlowCam now and experience studio-quality selfies with perfect lighting every time! This app requires camera permissions to function. 100% free to use with light ads, $0.99 in-app purchase for ads free, boomerang duration control and future updates. This app is subject to Apple's standard End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: SelfieGlowCam at none against LightU's shown. LightU's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (9 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. SelfieGlowCam sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and LightU sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SelfieGlowCam against 5.0 for LightU. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 9 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
SelfieGlowCam ships an update fortnightly, LightU every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on July 7, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SelfieGlowCam | LightU |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 193 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ke Zhu | SAWOTIM PTE. LTD. |
Customer experience
SelfieGlowCam
LightU
In-app purchases
SelfieGlowCam
- Lifetime Access$0.99
LightU
- 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
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