Lightpop vs Tsunagi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lightpop
Enhance your photos and videos with supernatural brightness and vibrant colors. AI-powered person extraction allows for selective editing of subjects and backgrounds, creating scroll-stopping content. Add ultra-bright borders for an illusion of depth.
- Supernatural brightness enhancement
- AI person extraction for selective editing
- Color enhancement for vibrant visuals
- Ultra-bright border configurations
- Supports high-resolution images and videos
- HDR encoding for compatible displays
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Engineered to make your content outshine everything else on the screen. With such supernatural bright 'light', your posts are sure to 'pop' off the feed. Lightpop Turns Your Content Into a Scroll-Stopping Masterpiece. Lightpop: • Lightpop’s proprietary technology drastically alters the true lumen brightness of your content, controlling the nits of individual pixels, making it appear brighter than anything else on-screen. This is accomplished by encoding your media in HDR and maximizing brightness values to super-natural levels, so that they can 'pop' off the screen of any compatible OLED device. Colorpop: • Our Colorpop technology increases chroma in a natural, photo-real way: enhancing color depth without overexposure or filters. Every frame glows with vibrance that feels cinematic yet authentic. The colors changes are symbiotic to brightness changes, with various Lightpop modes allowing for brightness to be adjusted based on the color of each area of your image or video. Person Extraction: • Our AI automatically detects and isolates YOU (or any person) in every frame, allowing for separate editing of the background scene and the foreground subjects. With this, you can apply rich color enhancement or brightness modification only to the background—and a much more natural effect to your skin or clothes. The result is stunning, vibrant content that looks beautifully enhanced without ever looking overly-edited. Border Configurations: • Lightpop supports ultra-bright borders to further enhance your contents ability to pop off the page. This works in conjunction with the Person Extraction technology, allowing for the border to go above the background, but beneath the primary subject, allowing you to pop further out of your content, not just with brightness, but with depth illusion. — Lightpop is compatible with images and videos. Lightpop does not limit content resolution, allowing for edits in the highest standard resolutions. Lightpop is intended for devices with OLED displays. Images are encoded in HEIC and have an optimized SDR fallback for devices without OLED display. Videos are encoded in MP4, have an optimized SDR fallback, and use PQ internally and HLG externally. All Media Encodings are designed for maximum compatibility with HDR-enabled social media platforms. — Lightpop Pro Membership Subscription Information: Lightpop is free to use for image editing. Video editing will requires the optional Lightpop Pro Membership. The cost and renewal period for Lightpop Pro Membership can be found inside the app. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. By subscribing to Lightpop Pro you agree to our Terms of Service and have read and understand our Privacy Policy. Our Terms of Service can be found at: https://tanzaniteapps.com/Lightpop/TermsOfService.html Our Privacy Policy can be found at: https://tanzaniteapps.com/Lightpop/PrivacyPolicy.html — Lightpop™ is a term of Tanzanite Industries LLC. X™ and the X logo are trademarks of X Corp. Lightpop is not affiliated with X.
Tsunagi
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Tsunagi is a simple tool that lets you place two images side by side and merge them into one. Great for: Before & after comparisons Compositing AI-generated images Side-by-side photos for social media Product & interior comparison shots Features: Select two images and merge them horizontally Easily crop, inner-crop, reposition, scale, and flip using sliders Save & share with a single tap All processing happens on-device (no images are sent to a server) Plans: Free: Full access to all features (with ads) One-time purchase: Remove all ads permanently Simple. Fast. Clean.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Lightpop at none against Tsunagi's shown. Tsunagi's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. Lightpop sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Tsunagi sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lightpop ships an update every 2 days, Tsunagi every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lightpop | Tsunagi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tanzanite Industries, LLC | Tsuyoshi Iino |
In-app purchases
Lightpop
- Lightpop Pro (Onyx)$3.997 Days
Tsunagi
- Remove Ads$1.99









