Lazy Lighting vs bubbld
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lazy Lighting
Transform your iPhone or iPad into a powerful projection mapping studio. Warp videos, photos, and live feeds onto any surface without a laptop. Create intricate visual shows with advanced layering, effects, and real-time control.
- Map any surface with custom shapes and precise corner adjustments
- Create live visuals with built-in effects and generative shaders
- Import videos, photos, and use live camera feeds
- Draw and animate original visuals by hand
- Build complete shows with scenes, timelines, and transitions
- Export shows in up to 4K resolution
- Control visuals with audio reactivity and MIDI
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Turn your iPhone or iPad into a touch-first projection mapping and video mapping studio. Lazy Lighting lets you warp videos, photos, live camera feeds, animated drawings, and generative VJ visuals onto walls, stages, sculptures, windows, objects, and multi-surface installations—without a laptop. MAP ANY SURFACE Create squares, circles, custom text, cubes, boxes, image silhouettes, and hand-drawn outlines. Drag corners directly on screen to align each projection, bend edges around curved forms, then use masks and cutouts to control exactly where every visual appears. Map several surfaces at once. Assign different content to individual shapes, layer visuals with independent opacity and ordering, and save projects to continue later. CREATE LIVE VISUALS • Explore built-in visualizers, VJ loops, generative shaders, gradients, tunnels, neon effects, and shape-aware animations • Import videos and photos from your device • Use a live camera feed as projection content • Draw and animate original visuals by hand • Crop, fit, mask, layer, and apply real-time effects including kaleidoscope, tile, slide, rotate, zoom, blur, monochrome, invert, and color cycle • Make visuals react to audio or control parameters with MIDI • Animate controls with BPM-synced LFO and envelope modulation • Use hand and face tracking for expressive control BUILD A COMPLETE SHOW Create scenes and switch between them live, or arrange them on a timeline. Add an audio track, trim and duplicate clips, automate visual parameters, and move between looks with fade or dissolve transitions. Export the finished projection-mapped show in 720p, 1080p, or 4K with audio. Save it to Photos or send it to a compatible receiver running Lazy Lighting Link. EXPORT ONCE. PLAY WITHOUT YOUR PHONE. Once the transfer is complete, Lazy Lighting Link saves and loops the show on the receiver. Close the app and free your iPhone or iPad—the projection keeps playing without your device remaining connected. CONNECT YOUR WAY Connect by HDMI with a compatible USB-C or Lightning adapter, use AirPlay, or connect through Lazy Lighting Link. External display output keeps the controls on your device while the visual output fills the projector. Lazy Lighting is made for projection artists, VJs, DJs, musicians, performers, stage and event designers, galleries, installations, window displays, parties, home ambience, and Halloween, Christmas, or holiday projections. Create the map. Build the visuals. Perform live—or export once and let Lazy Lighting Link keep it playing. A compatible projector or display and a wired or wireless connection are required for external output. Lazy Lighting Link export requires a compatible receiver on the same network. Some features require a subscription. Terms of Use: https://lazylighting.com/ios-terms Privacy Policy: https://lazylighting.com/ios-privacy
bubbld
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Choose your own colors, then dial in speed, detail, and scale. Tap the canvas to play or pause — so you can catch the exact frame you want. Prefer something simpler? Pick a solid color. Sometimes that's all you need. HOLOGRAPHIC STICKERS Drop in any photo and bubbld cuts the subject out for you — no tracing, no eraser. • Switch on holographic foil for a trading-card shimmer that catches the light as you tilt your phone • Add a die-cut white border • Drag, pinch, rotate, duplicate, and reorder freely BUILT FOR YOUR SCREEN The canvas is your device, edge to edge. Save your design at your screen's exact native resolution — sharp, full-bleed, and watermark-free — then set it as your wallpaper from Photos. SEND THE WHOLE CREATION, NOT JUST A PICTURE Share your design as an image — or as a .bubbld file: a complete bundle with the shader settings, colors, and every sticker. Open it in bubbld on another phone and keep editing exactly where you left off.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: Lazy Lighting at #82 against bubbld's unranked. Lazy Lighting also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Lazy Lighting sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and bubbld sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lazy Lighting ships an update every 11 days, bubbld weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lazy Lighting | bubbld |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (481 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 44.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 481 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Best chart rank | #82 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AUDITY APPS LLC | Chongkyung Kim |
In-app purchases
Lazy Lighting
- Lazy Lighting Pro$9.991 Month
- Lazy Lighting Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Lazy Lighting Pro1 Month trial$9.991 Month
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- Lazy Lighting Pro$59.991 Year
- Lazy Lighting Pro7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Lazy Lighting Pro$129.99
bubbld
- bubbld Pro$4.99
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