Comparison

video vs Light Kit Pro

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

Head to head
About

video

Enhance your photos and videos with a powerful built-in screen light. This app helps you capture clear and bright moments even in low-light conditions, perfect for vlogging or personal videos.

Highlights
  • Built-in video recorder and camera
  • Integrated bright screen light
  • Automatic maximum screen brightness
  • Simple, distraction-free interface
  • Ideal for vlogging and events
Features
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Light up your videos and photos with VideoLight! Ever struggled to record in low light? VideoLight turns your iPhone into a powerful video camera with a built-in bright screen light. Capture every moment — whether it’s a night out, concert, campfire, or just a dark room — with clarity and brightness. Features: • Built-in video recorder and camera with light support • Automatic maximum screen brightness for clear shots • Simple, distraction-free interface • Perfect for vlogging, events, or personal videos • Works instantly — no extra setup required Stop losing memories to bad lighting. With VideoLight, every moment shines.

About

Light Kit Pro

Transform your mobile devices into professional lighting tools with a vast library of customizable effects. Control multiple devices wirelessly for advanced cinematic lighting, virtual production, and creative visual setups.

Highlights
  • Customizable lighting effects
  • Multi-device sync and control
  • Universal controller
  • Mobile virtual production
  • Wireless light streaming
  • LightBoard performance trigger
  • Cinematic camera recorder
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Light Kit Pro turns your iPhone and iPad into powerful cinematic light sources. Featuring 65+ customizable lighting effects, multi-device sync, and a universal controller, Light Kit Pro expands your lighting setup with advanced wireless control and mobile virtual production in 3D and 360. Connect and control other devices running Light Kit Pro to create the ultimate light kit. You control the light. Light Kit Pro is for filmmakers, cinematographers, content creators, virtual production artists, streamers, photographers, and anyone who wants to creatively use screens for lighting and 3D/360 virtual production. FREE version includes (15 FREE EFFECTS) with advanced clean screen-mirroring output. (Film Slate Included) PRO version unlocks all of the lighting effects and tools with (65+ EFFECTS & Tools), Light Link (Multi-Device Sync), Light Stream (Multi-Device Streaming), Lightboard (Light Performance) and 3D/360 Virtual Production (3D Scene Light / HDRI Light) Subscriptions and Lifetime Unlock are run through Apple — manage in Settings anytime. Key Features • Turn your screens into professional lighting instruments
• Multi-device lighting sync and control
• Universal Controller across all connected devices
• Mobile Virtual Production with 3D and HDRI environments
• Wireless Light Streaming to non-iOS devices
• LightBoard performance trigger pad
• Cinematic Camera Recorder and Screen Recorder
• 65+ Professional Lighting Effects & Tools • dynamic film slate Virtual Production: (PRO Feature) Virtual Production via 3D scenes and 360 HDRI image viewports gives users a lightweight wireless virtual production solution. These 3D/360 active viewports enable users to quickly load in 3D backgrounds/models and HDRI environments onto their device and mirror them to large screen LED TVs, LED walls, projectors, and other devices. Additional Light Kit Pro devices can be used to quickly match lighting to virtual backgrounds — all wirelessly. Supported 3D Formats: USDZ, USD, USDA, USDC, GLB, GLTF, OBJ, STL, PLY, DAE Supported HDRI (360 Image Formats): EXR, HDR, then JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, BMP Universal Controller: Light Kit Pro for iOS features the Universal Controller system. With this controller, you have full control over your entire light kit and, once connected to other devices, you can use the controller on any of your devices to control the other devices connected to the light kit. Lighting effects can be customized, saved as presets, and shared with other Light Kit users. Light Link: (PRO Feature) Light Link connects your iOS lighting devices together through advanced networking. Control devices independently or in sync. Light Link supports Wi-Fi or Bluetooth depending on your needs. Light Stream: (PRO Feature) Light Stream broadcasts lighting effects from your main host device, allowing you to multiply lighting across multiple screens by scanning a QR code or joining via URL in a web browser. LightBoard: (PRO Feature) LightBoard is a video trigger pad that enables you to perform with light by triggering various lighting effects at the touch of your fingertips. More in the Kit: • Cinematic Camera Recorder
• Screen Recorder
• Pro Flashlight
• Screen Mirroring
• Digital Film Slate
• Presets & Clips
• Patterns & Stylized Effects Cinematic Camera Recorder — PiP record with front or rear camera while your light fills the shot. Screen Recorder — Capture the full screen—effects, UI, and output—for shares and approvals. Pro Flashlight — LED on-set light with real controls, not the stock flashlight toggle. Screen Mirroring — Mirror to Apple TV, monitors, or projectors so crew sees your exact plate. Digital Film Slate — On-screen slate with scene/take metadata for sync with external audio or video. Presets & Clips — Save looks as presets and a clip library—repeat setups in one tap. Patterns & Stylized Effects — Cinematic, ambient, and creative looks—color, motion, and patterned light. JTVizion · www.vizionline.tv/light-kit-pro

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: video at none against Light Kit Pro's 3. video also leads on device support. On price, rating, ratings volume and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Light Kit Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. video asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for video against 5.0 for Light Kit Pro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
video versus Light Kit Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametervideoLight Kit Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — better—
Requires iOS18.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB282 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperViddCall Digital LLCJTVizion LLC

In-app purchases

None

video

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Light Kit Pro

Subscriptions2
  • Light Kit Pro (Monthly)$7.991 Month
  • Light Kit Pro (Yearly)$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Light Kit Pro Lifetime Unlock$99.99

Questions

Is video free?
video is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Light Kit Pro free?
Light Kit Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, video or Light Kit Pro?
video and Light Kit Pro are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.

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