FillLight vs Halora
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FillLight
Transform your phone screen into a versatile selfie light. Achieve natural-looking photos and videos in any lighting condition with adjustable warm, cool, or custom color glows. Use it as a built-in camera light or a standalone fill light for professional-quality content.
- Screen transforms into a soft selfie light
- Adjustable warm, cool, or custom color glows
- Built-in selfie camera with live preview
- Dual-zone lighting for shaped illumination
- Double-tap lock to prevent accidental taps
- Use as a standalone fill light
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FillLight is a camera for color and light. Shoot with looks you can see before you press the button, copy the color of any photo you love, and light your selfies with the screen itself. Looks, live in the viewfinder Pick a look and the camera shows it straight away, on the front or back camera, for photos and video. The look you see is saved in the photo or video. Copy the color of a photo Pick any photo or screenshot. FillLight reads its tones and color on your phone and turns them into a look you can shoot with. It goes easy on skin tones. Fine-tune it One Strength slider first. Then brightness, warmth, contrast, fade, color, shadow and highlight tints, and grain. Hold the viewfinder to compare with the original. A soft light for selfies Turn on Light and the screen around your preview becomes a soft light: warm, cool or pink, or two tones at once. Or open the full-screen light and stand a spare phone beside you as a fill light. Use it for: - Photos and video with a mood, with no editing afterwards - Night selfies without harsh flash - Makeup checks in true, even light - TikTok, Reels and vlogs - Product photos for marketplace listings Free The camera, three looks (Natural, Golden and Soft Chrome), four light tones, and trying every look, the sliders and copy color live. FillLight Pro Pro lets you shoot with every look and with your own looks, save looks, and use every light tone, dual zone and custom colors. Choose a yearly subscription with a 3-day free trial for new subscribers, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices are shown in the app before you buy. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of a free trial ends when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://oscarlehuu.github.io/FillLight/privacy.html
Halora
Enhance your selfies and videos with adjustable ring lighting directly on your screen. Customize brightness, color, and shape for the perfect shot, even in dark environments. Offers mirror, photo, and video modes with advanced light shaping features.
- Adjustable ring light for screen
- Mirror mode for makeup/checks
- Watermark-free photo saving (Pro)
- 60-second video recording (Pro)
- Customizable light color and shape
- Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets
- Siri and Shortcuts integration
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Even light on your face in a dark room: Halora puts a soft ring of light around the live camera view, right on your screen, for selfies, makeup and video. Mirror, every light setting and 5 saved photos a day are free. Halora Pro adds video with sound, lifts the photo limit and saves new photos without the watermark. Pro comes as a monthly subscription, with a lower price for your first month, or as a one-time Lifetime purchase. THREE MODES • Mirror: a live mirror with the ring light on, for makeup, hair or a last check before you head out. Nothing is saved. • Photo: selfies with the ring light, saved straight to your photo library. Free photos carry a small Halora watermark in the corner. With Pro, new photos come without one. The free count resets at midnight. • Video (Pro): clips up to 60 seconds with steady light and locked exposure, so the brightness does not jump while you record. With sound once you allow microphone access, in 1080p on devices that support it. SHAPE THE LIGHT • Brightness slider • White light from warm to cool • Colors: Auto, Warm, Cool, Pink, Purple and Blue, plus seasonal colors for Halloween in October and Christmas in December • Ring width, from a thin ring to a wide glow • Pulse, at the speed you pick • Light Match: Halora reads the light in your room and sets the ring to fit OPEN IT FAST • Widgets for the Lock Screen and Home Screen • A Control Center button on iOS 18 and later • Siri and Shortcuts, also on the Action button of iPhones that have one PRIVACY • No account needed, no ads, no tracking • Photos and videos stay on your device. Halora does not upload them. Works on iPhone and iPad. Made by one independent developer. HALORA PRO Halora Pro is available as a monthly subscription or as a one-time Lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically, including after an introductory offer, unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel them in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://halora-app.pages.dev/privacy Terms of Use: https://halora-app.pages.dev/terms Support: https://halora-app.pages.dev
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Verdict
FillLight and Halora are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. FillLight sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Halora sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
FillLight ships an update weekly, Halora every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FillLight | Halora |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.3 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nghia Le | Lennox Kornmann |
Customer experience
FillLight
Halora
In-app purchases
FillLight
- FillLight Pro Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- FillLight Pro Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- FillLight Pro$4.99
- FillLight Pro$5.99
- FillLight Pro$7.49
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- FillLight Pro Unlock$39.99
Halora
- Halora Pro Weekly7 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Halora Pro Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Halora Pro Weekly Offer7 Days trial$2.997 Days
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- Halora Pro Monthly1 Month trial$6.991 Month
- Halora Pro Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Halora Pro Quarterly$14.993 Months
- Halora Pro Quarterly Offer3 Months trial$14.993 Months
- Halora Pro$19.99









