Comparison

Lutter vs Is it the same color

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

Head to head
About

Lutter

Enhance your photos and videos with cinematic filters and precise color controls. Apply built-in or custom looks, refine light and color with advanced tools, and add textures for a professional finish. Export in various formats up to 4K.

Highlights
  • Apply and stack LUTs
  • Precise color and light adjustments
  • Film grain, halation, and bloom effects
  • Histogram, waveform, and vectorscope
  • Reference image comparison
  • Video stabilization
  • Export up to 4K HDR
Features
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Lutter brings LUTs, cinematic filters and precise color controls to photo and video editing on iPhone and iPad. Apply a look, then refine the light and color to suit your work. Build your look • Apply built-in looks or import your own LUTs. • Stack LUTs and independent color adjustments. Change their order and strength, or toggle a layer to compare. • Refine exposure, contrast, saturation, vibrance, white balance and tint. Shape light with curves and color wheels. • Add film grain, warm halation and soft bloom for the texture you want. See each adjustment • Compare the original and graded image, or work in full screen. • Check exposure and color with a histogram, waveform, vectorscope and false color. • Save or import reference images to compare while grading. Copy and paste color settings between projects for a consistent look. Edit and export • Adjust color and composition in your photos, crop, and save as JPEG, HEIF, PNG or TIFF. • Trim, crop, rotate and flip video. Reduce handheld shake with stabilization. • Export video up to 4K with H.264, HEVC or ProRes 422. Compatible settings support HDR export. • Export supported color adjustments as a .cube LUT to reuse in other grading tools. Formats and workspace Work with SDR and HDR video, Apple Log, Apple Log 2, Sony S-Log3 and supported DJI D-Log/D-Log M profiles. Available editing and export options depend on the source format and device. The native iPad workspace offers a larger preview and landscape controls, with room for curves, wheels and LUT browsing. Projects save automatically so you can pick up where you left off. Choose Pro when you need it Scopes, curves and color wheels remain free. Preview Pro color tools in the editor before purchasing. Pro unlocks advanced color tools, film effects, stabilization and advanced export with one purchase, no subscription. Your media is processed on your device. No account required and no watermark on export. Usage analytics and crash diagnostics can be disabled in Settings. Privacy: https://lutter.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Is it the same color

Features
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Photograph a surface. Pick the exact spot you care about. Photograph another one later — a different wall, a different day, a tin of paint in a shop — and pick a spot in that one too. The app tells you how close they really are, as a plain percentage, not a guess by eye. WHAT IT MEASURES The colour difference is CIEDE2000 (ΔE00), the standard perceptual colour formula — not a naive RGB distance, which disagrees with what your eyes see on saturated colours. Alongside the percentage you get the plain-language verdict and the signed Lab deltas, so you can see how two colours differ: lighter, more muted, or a genuine shift in hue. A phone camera is not a spectrophotometer, and this app does not pretend otherwise. What it does about that: - Mark a white reference — a sheet of paper, a grey card — in both photos, and the app works out what each light was doing and takes it off both before comparing. This is the one thing that makes two photos from two places actually comparable, and the app can find a good candidate for you. - ProRAW is used automatically wherever your phone supports it, with the camera's own scene-dependent tone curve switched off — the same surface against a light background and a dark one should measure the same, and with ordinary photos it often does not. - Capture settings are recorded with every photo, and Compare tells you when two shots were taken under meaningfully different light, or when a patch is blown out, too dark, or straddling an edge — before it lets a number near you. THREE SCREENS Capture — live preview, a centre reticle with a live readout so you can watch the colour settle before you shoot, one-tap shutter. Library — everything you have shot, plus anything imported from Photos. Tap any photo to read its exact colour: hex, RGB, HSV, Lab, chroma, hue. Compare — pick two photos, or the same photo twice, and pick a spot in each. Comparisons save themselves and reopen later. Share a result as a card image, a line of text, or a CSV row; the whole history exports as one spreadsheet. WHO THIS IS FOR Matching paint. Checking whether a replacement part is really the same colour. Settling an argument about whether two whites are the same white. Anyone who has stood in a shop holding a phone photo of their wall, wondering if the tin in front of them is close enough. PRIVACY Nothing leaves your phone. No account, no analytics, no server — the app has nothing to send anywhere and asks for nothing but the camera and, only if you choose to import a photo, your photo library.

Screenshots

Lutter4 screens
Is it the same color3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Is it the same color at none against Lutter's 5. On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Lutter sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Is it the same color asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lutter ships an update every 4 days, Is it the same color weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Lutter versus Is it the same color: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLutterIs it the same color
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCHIH YU LINSteven Kok

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Lutter

One-time5
  • Lutter Pro$14.99
  • Lutter Pro$19.99
  • Lutter Pro$24.99
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  • Lutter Pro$29.99
  • Lutter Pro$34.99
None

Is it the same color

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lutter free?
Lutter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Is it the same color free?
Is it the same color is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lutter or Is it the same color have ads?
Neither Lutter nor Is it the same color shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lutter or Is it the same color?
Lutter ships an update every 4 days, and Is it the same color weekly. Most recently, Lutter was updated on November 9, 2026 and Is it the same color on October 31, 2026.

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