Comparison

LIT Light Meter vs Digital Gel

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

LIT Light Meter

This companion app allows users to remotely control and save data from the LIT DUO 1 light meter. It enables firmware updates via Bluetooth, enhancing the functionality of the connected device.

Highlights
  • Remote control for LIT DUO 1
  • Firmware updates via Bluetooth
  • Data saving capabilities
  • Companion app functionality
Features
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Companion app for LIT DUO 1 light meter. Key features: – Firmware update via Bluetooth – Remote control Learn more about LIT DUO 1: http://lit-systems.com

About

Digital Gel

Features
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Digital Gel is a precision color tool for gaffers, DPs, and lighting programmers. Meter a fixture bare, then meter it again through a gel. Digital Gel captures the difference as a color ratio — a "digital gel" — that you can apply to any other light and read back as CIE x,y coordinates to enter on the console. WHAT IT DOES • Extract a gel from two spectrometer readings (bare + through the gel). • Apply that gel — or a stack of gels — to any target light. • Correct: work backwards and cancel a filter you can't take away. • Refine any result against a real meter reading until it lands. • Get the result as x,y for the console, plus CCT, tint (in CC and Δuv), and mired shift. • See everything on a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram with the Planckian locus, color-temperature ticks, and optional Rec.709 / P3 / Rec.2020 gamut overlays. CANCEL WHAT YOU CAN'T REMOVE Not every filter is a choice — a tinted window, a diffusion frame, a practical's own glass. Meter your fixture with it in the way, and Correct solves for the x,y to set the fixture to so the light lands where you wanted it after the glass. It states the move in mired and CC as well, so the answer is just as usable if you reach for a CTB and minus green instead of the console — and it tells you when a filter is simply too strong to cancel. Saturated filters don't treat an LED fixture quite the way the math expects, so Correct flags them and lets you Refine: meter the result through the filter, enter the reading, and dial the next value. Refine learns how your fixture and filter actually respond, and closes in within a few passes. BUILT FOR THE SET • Enter light as x,y, as a color temperature (5600), or temperature with tint (3200 -2). • Save a library of gels and custom sources; mark favorites; search your list. • Calibrate a fixture that doesn't hit the color it's told to, so Apply's numbers land where you mean them. • Touch and hold any result to copy its x,y. • Choose CAT02 (recommended) or raw XYZ adaptation math. • A transmission read of each gel's red / green / blue balance at a glance. • Universal: one column on iPhone, two panes on iPad portrait, three in landscape. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account to create, and no data collected. Your gel library syncs between your own devices through your private iCloud — nobody else can see it — and with iCloud switched off the app is entirely local. Digital Gel works in chromaticity, so it matches color points, not full spectra — when metamerism matters on set, trust your meter, and let Refine close the gap.

Screenshots

LIT Light Meter4 screens
Digital Gel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LIT Light Meter at Free against Digital Gel's $3.99. LIT Light Meter also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 weeks) and device support (5 vs 2). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

LIT Light Meter is free to download; Digital Gel costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LIT Light Meter ships an update every 2 weeks, Digital Gel every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
LIT Light Meter versus Digital Gel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLIT Light MeterDigital Gel
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.5 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLit Systems ABTIMO TAPIO HAAPASAARI

In-app purchases

None

LIT Light Meter

No in-app purchases

None

Digital Gel

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LIT Light Meter free?
LIT Light Meter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Digital Gel free?
Digital Gel costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do LIT Light Meter or Digital Gel have ads?
Neither LIT Light Meter nor Digital Gel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LIT Light Meter or Digital Gel?
LIT Light Meter ships an update every 2 weeks, and Digital Gel every 3 weeks. Most recently, LIT Light Meter was updated on October 16, 2026 and Digital Gel on October 5, 2026.

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