Light Paint vs AstroOwl

Paint with light. Watch it happen. Turn a flashlight, LED wand, or light whip into glowing trails. Light Paint's real-time camera shows your painting as you make it, so you can shape the effect while capturing photos, videos, or timelapses on iPhone and iPad. Pick a camera profile, dim the lights, and start moving. PAINT SOLO OR DIRECT A PERFORMANCE Start with a simple light and a phone on a tripod. Use the front camera to see yourself while you paint, or the rear camera to film friends, dancers, and performers. Watch the trails build live, adjust the look, and capture your creation. PUT THE CAMERA UNDER YOUR CONTROL Fine-tune exposure, trail length, frame blending, color, and effects. Use camera profiles or save your own setup. Updated for iOS 27, with Camera Control button integration on supported iPhones and aperture controls for iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. PERFORM TO YOUR SOUNDTRACK Explore 500+ royalty-free tracks in the integrated music library. Choose a song, play it while you record, and include the music in your saved video. Connect a Bluetooth speaker to bring the soundtrack to your performance. Use the same library to mix music into edited videos or generate performances in Studio. TAKE YOUR LIGHT PAINTING TO THE BIG SCREEN Send your live light painting to a TV, backyard projector, or external monitor through a compatible USB-C HDMI connection. Your audience sees the painting while you keep the camera controls on your device. Build a connected setup with a compatible USB-C hub and Power Delivery: power your iPhone or iPad, output to an external screen, use a USB-C microphone for audio input, and connect external storage. Save recordings and projects to a supported external drive to free up device space and take your work with you. BUILD AND EXPLORE IN STUDIO Step into a full light-painting camera simulation studio. Build scenes, position cameras and performers, choose lights, and experiment with trails and effects. Rehearse a real performance or create a complete video inside Studio. Generate performances from tracks in the music library. Bring real movement into your scenes with motion capture, combine performers, and develop your own choreography. Build a show, refine the camera view, and export an immersive performance video. EDIT THE WHOLE SHOW Bring your footage into the video editor, trim and arrange clips, and mix in music. Create vertical 9:16 videos or widescreen 16:9 projects, with 4K and 1080p export options. With Pro, the Blender plugin turns ordinary video into light trails. Create a fresh look from footage you already have. KEEP YOUR CREATIONS TOGETHER Browse photos and videos in the media gallery, revisit recordings, and continue working on saved video projects. Customize your home screen with color themes and keep favorite camera setups ready for your next session. CONTROL IT FROM YOUR WRIST OR WITH YOUR VOICE Use Apple Watch to preview the camera, capture photos, start and stop recording, and adjust supported settings. Use Siri for camera actions and Now Playing for music playback controls. CREATE WITH THE COMMUNITY Share photos, videos, camera profiles, Studio scenes, and performances with other Light Paint users. Discover ideas, try shared setups, and build on what other creators are making. Start with one light. See what you can create. Some features require Pro or a Production license. Camera controls, export options, motion capture, and external connections depend on your device and compatible accessories. EULA: https://shutterspeedapps.com/lightpainted/tos/ Privacy: https://shutterspeedapps.com/lightpainted/privacy/ AI Usage Policy: https://shutterspeedapps.com/lightpainted/aiusage?lang=en

AstroOwl is the night photographer's whole workflow in one app: find the night, frame the shot, prove the exposure, then drive the camera — without juggling three apps and an intervalometer at 2 AM in the dark. PLAN THE RIGHT NIGHT • Best-nights calendar scores the next several months for your location — moonlight, Milky Way visibility, darkness windows, weather, and light pollution, distilled to an honest verdict ("Fair — moonlight") instead of a mystery number • Milky Way core position, rise/set and darkness windows for any date • 33,000+ locations with offline time zones and measured/modeled sky darkness, including DarkSky International certified places • Scrub time with a knob and watch the whole sky move COMPOSE THE SHOT • Pick your camera and lens (or browse presets) and see the real field of view framed on the sky • Exposure recipes with NPF-aware shutter limits — start from presets matched to your subject (Milky Way, star trails, moon, timelapse…) and save your own • Simulate the result before you commit: realistic star trails, stacking, and noise for YOUR gear and settings • AR mode — hold the phone up and see targets over the live camera view SHOOT — HANDS OFF (Pro) • Connect your Sony Alpha camera over Wi-Fi and fire recipes directly • Multi-frame sequences run on the camera body itself — stacks, star trails, timelapses keep shooting even if the phone sleeps • Focus magnifier, session progress with ETA, automatic reconnect, and session recovery if anything drops mid-shoot • Your photos stay on your camera's card — they never pass through us FREE VS PRO The planner, composer, and simulator are free. AstroOwl Pro unlocks camera control and removes the free tier's monthly caps and watermark — as a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation; subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and can be managed in your Apple Account settings. CAMERA COMPATIBILITY Camera control supports Sony Alpha bodies with built-in Wi-Fi (validated on the a7 IV). Planning, composing, and simulation work with any camera — or none at all. No account, no sign-up; the app works offline at dark-sky sites once you've planned. Terms of Use: https://astroowl.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://astroowl.app/privacy/