Light Paint vs Cosmo Sherpa

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

Cosmo Sherpa is the trusted guide that tells you the truth about the night sky — then walks you to the shot. Most astronomy apps answer "what star is that?" Cosmo Sherpa answers the question photographers actually ask: is tonight worth it, where should I stand, and where do I point? And when the honest answer is "not tonight," it tells you why — and when the next great night arrives. THE HONEST VERDICT Open the app and choose what calls you: the Milky Way, the Moon, or the stars. Cosmo Sherpa computes tonight's real conditions — moon phase and illumination, astronomical darkness, cloud cover from Apple Weather — and gives you a straight verdict with the reason in plain words. An overcast night can never read "Good." That's a promise. THE WORLD'S DARK SKIES Discover ranks 251 DarkSky International certified places across 34 countries — plus founder-verified arrival points — using real 2024 satellite darkness data. Share your location and every distance re-ranks around you, with live drive times to the nearest skies. PLAN THE NIGHT One tap turns any destination into a real expedition: departure time, arrival, setup, and tonight's actual shooting window, computed on your device. IN THE FIELD Frame Assist steers your tripod-mounted iPhone onto the shot — follow the arrows until it locks, level the horizon, then switch to your camera. Dark Discipline turns the whole app astronomy-red to protect your night vision. Ask Cosmo Sherpa answers field questions on device, no signal needed. NEVER MISS A SKY Quiet reminders for full moons, meteor-shower peaks, and exceptional dark windows — computed entirely on your iPhone. The sherpa whispers; it never spams. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No analytics. Your location is used only when you ask, and only to compute your sky. Astronomy runs on device and works offline. Bring home the shot you've been promising yourself.