Lento vs Twilightscapes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lento
Create stunning long exposure photos with real-time previews and advanced manual controls. Achieve silky smooth water, light trails, and ghost-free images without needing extra filters. Export in RAW DNG for professional editing.
- Real-time long exposure stacking
- Silky water and cloud effects
- Light trail and star trail capture
- Ghost removal for moving objects
- Full manual controls (ISO, focus, exposure)
- RAW DNG and HEIF export
- Live preview of exposure build
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Lento stacks camera frames in real-time to create long exposures on iPhone. Silky waterfalls, streaking car lights, empty landmarks. No ND filter, no guesswork. SMOOTH Blur water and clouds into silk. Point at a waterfall, tap the shutter, and watch it smooth out frame by frame. LIGHT TRAIL Capture every streak of light. Car headlights, neon signs, star trails - the brightest pixel wins. GHOST REMOVE Tourists keep walking through your shot? Lento removes them. The static scene stays, moving objects vanish. MANUAL CONTROLS ISO, focus, exposure duration, self-timer. Live readouts update as you shoot. Built for photographers who want precision, not presets. PRO EXPORT RAW DNG (16-bit), HEIF, or JPEG. 8 megapixels with EXIF metadata - ISO, aperture, focal length, GPS coordinates. REAL-TIME PREVIEW Watch the exposure build live. What you see on screen is what you get in the file. BUILT FOR IPHONE GPU-accelerated. No lag. No stutter. Dark interface that stays out of your way. Free: Smooth + Light Trail, HEIF, up to 5s. One watermarked export in total. Pro: All modes, RAW DNG, manual controls, unlimited duration, no watermark, unlimited exports. Privacy Policy: https://github.com/heocoi/privacy-policy/blob/main/lento.md Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Twilightscapes
Capture stunning night photos and videos with advanced camera controls and a powerful editing suite. Transform any screen into an ambient display for your creations. Sync your work across all your devices for seamless workflow.
- Night camera with long exposure stacking
- Full manual camera controls
- Video recording and editing
- Picture-in-picture and automatic cutouts
- Timeline-based photo and video editor
- Cross-device syncing and ambient display
- Field monitor and remote shutter
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Built by a night photographer, for everyone who works after dark. Twilightscapes is three things in one: a camera engineered for the night, a complete editing suite that fits in your pocket, and a gallery that turns every screen you own into an ambient display. THE NIGHT CAMERA Long exposures without filters: stack frames live for silky water and star trails, and watch the exposure build in the viewfinder. Capture a dark frame in the field and sensor noise vanishes. Full manual control — ISO, shutter, white balance, focus — with ProRAW, all lenses, an intervalometer, and an interface that dims to red so your night vision survives the session. A Lock Screen button opens the camera instantly, and your Apple Watch fires the shutter from your wrist. VIDEO & SPOTS Record video one tap from the camera and review it instantly. Or make a Spot: put yourself on screen — as a clean bubble or an automatic cutout, no green screen needed — over your photos, over any clip, or over the live scene behind you with both cameras rolling at once. Cue buttons, live volume control, and after-the-fact motion make it a broadcast desk in your hand. EDIT IN THE FIELD A real timeline editor: cut and trim on a filmstrip, punch in on the moment that matters, layer photos and headlines and animate them, replace or mix the audio, and record voiceover while the picture plays. Develop photos with a full slider set, blend star-trail and smooth stacks, build timelapses. Then post video straight to Bluesky — shoot, edit, publish, one app. THE FIELD MONITOR Link devices directly — no network needed on a mountainside. Your iPad or Mac becomes a live monitor with exposure readouts and a remote shutter; stealth mode keeps the screen dim and red. FIELD SAFE The moment a recording ends, a copy uploads to a server you control. Whatever happens to the phone, the footage is already somewhere else. YOUR GALLERY, EVERYWHERE Photos, playlists, and narrated slideshows sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Ken Burns motion, voice notes that play with their photos, a pixel loupe for the detail-obsessed, and a curated Twilightscapes collection that grows without app updates — or hide it entirely and make the app purely yours. EVERYTHING IS FREE. Twilightscapes Pro is one purchase — no subscription — that unlocks launch modes (open straight into the camera, video, dual camera, or Studio) and supports an independent artist. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Twilightscapes at 5 against Lento's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Lento sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year and Twilightscapes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Lento | Twilightscapes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anh Phong | Todd Lambert |
In-app purchases
Lento
- Lento Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Lento Pro$29.99
Twilightscapes
- Twilightscapes Pro$12.99









