ALIGNED vs LUMENKORN
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
ALIGNED
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ALIGNED ā get every page aligned. ALIGNED is a layout tool built for multi-page Instagram carousels. Place photos, text and video across pages like a magazine spread, align them precisely, preview, and export the whole set at once. ā An alignment system you rarely see Three-level magnetic snapping, pull-out guides, multi-object align & distribute, and cross-page alignment. Every element lands exactly where it should. ā Real typography, including CJK Vertical (top-to-bottom) text with proper punctuation forms, letter spacing, line height and optical centering that behave the same in every direction. Commercial-use fonts built in, and you can import your own. ā Not just images ā video too Drop video into your workspace and export a whole page (image + text + video) as an mp4. ā Made for iPhone and iPad Same app, same projects. On iPad: a sidebar toolbar (switchable for left- or right-handed use), keyboard shortcuts and trackpad pointer support. Highlights ⢠Up to 20 pages, edit across page boundaries ⢠8-point crop, straighten, shape masks & borders ⢠Shapes, cut-out stickers, grid layouts ⢠Text shadow, background, style presets ⢠Carousel / continuous / Threads previews ⢠Reverse-order save, so your IG upload order is right ⢠Works fully offline ā your work stays on your device Free, and genuinely usable The core is free forever with no watermark: multi-page editing, the alignment engine, guides, cropping, fonts and image export. ALIGNED Pro (subscription) Unlocks video export (including full-page mp4 compositing) and cross-project copy. Monthly or yearly (yearly ā 40% off), each with a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime in your App Store account settings; Pro stays active until the end of the paid period. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hilarious-aftershave-5aa.notion.site/ALIGN-3951b5c06b9a81b69736e9c7845fef0e
LUMENKORN
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Every photograph LUMENKORN takes keeps its undeveloped negative. Change the film afterwards and that negative is developed again ā a frame shot on black-and-white can become colour days later. An app that lays a filter over a finished JPEG cannot do this. LUMENKORN is a 35mm film camera and a darkroom: sixteen films of its own, a development pipeline that works the way emulsion works, and the controls of a real camera body. THE FILMS Ten colour films and six monochromes ā the names are LUMENKORN's own ā each an original built from measurement: curves, colour response and grain fitted to real developed film, scanned at a photo lab. Skin sits warm and smooth without going orange. Skies come down cyan-blue with weight in them, not phone-blue. Greens go muted or go loud depending on the roll you load. Reds stay dense where a phone lets them bleed. Fast films are coarse and low in contrast; slow films are tight and steep. Every film carries honest variants (matte, pushed), a continuous printing-warmth dial for colour, a paper-grade contrast scale from 0 to 5 for black & white, and its own grain character. DEVELOPED, NOT FILTERED ⢠The negative is kept in linear light and developed in a chain, in order: exposure, film curve, colour response, scan, grain, halation ā the way a lab does it, not a lookup laid over a JPEG ⢠Highlights roll off on a film shoulder. A bright window keeps its gradation; a white shirt in sun keeps its weave ⢠The camera watches the live histogram and, when real area starts to clip, exposes down by up to two stops and returns them in development ā a sunny sky keeps its drawing at 0 EV, and the frame still lands at the exposure you set ⢠Four scanner profiles decide how the negative is read: two fitted to real lab scans, one a flatbed, one a drum. Same negative, four different prints ⢠Grain is not noise laid on top. A synthesised emulsion sheet with a real particle-size distribution sits in the negative. It lives in the midtones and thins in the highlights, the way silver does. Zoom in and it reads like a scan, because it is built like one. Choose the 35mm negative or the quieter 120 ⢠Halation blooms around clipped lights only ā a street lamp at night gets its ring, a white wall in daylight does not ⢠The meter reads a third of a stop under. Digital keeps its shadows and loses its highlights ā the opposite of film ā so the sensor is protected at the top and the film shoulder gives the mids back in development ⢠Film-true white balance presets: daylight film renders golden hour golden and shade blue ⢠THE LAB, if you want it: automatic per-shot development that judges each frame the way a lab operator judges a roll ā point, shoot, and the print comes back right A CAMERA, NOT AN APP ⢠Full-resolution capture on the physical lenses ā up to 48 MP, including in manual mode ⢠M mode: shutter and ISO dials with a live match-needle meter; loading a film rates the meter at its box speed ⢠EV wheel in quarter stops, AE/AF lock, tap to meter a point ⢠Lenses from 13 to 200 mm that snap to the real glass ⢠Frames: 3:2, 4:3, 1:1, 16:9, a widescreen letterbox and a long panorama ⢠Every capture keeps its undeveloped negative on a roll ā re-develop any photograph with a different film later, or press AUTO in the editor for a complete film reading of that image, and again for the next ⢠Import any photograph from your library and develop it on film ā the same pipeline, the same negative kept ⢠A full develop kit in the editor: exposure, highlights, shadows, white balance, saturation, sharpness that can go soft, real vignetting in both directions, undo and redo ⢠JPEG, HEIF, or PRO: the developed photo and the untouched ProRAW original in one Photos asset ⢠Camera Control and Lock Screen capture, volume-button shutter, level, grid, live histogram NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account, no tracking, no network access at all. Your photographs are yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LUMENKORN at none against ALIGNED's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. ALIGNED sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. LUMENKORN asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | ALIGNED | LUMENKORN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No ā better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WEI-MING KAO | Joshua Wilfred Sekar |
In-app purchases
ALIGNED
- ALIGNED Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- ALIGNED Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
LUMENKORN
No in-app purchases








