LumiCanvas vs Bengala

LumiCanvas makes projection mapping easy for everyone. Connect your iPhone or iPad to any projector and map video, photos, and glowing shapes onto real-world surfaces — your house, your windows, your Halloween graveyard, your Christmas display. No expensive software. No learning curve. Just drag four corners and watch your video bend perfectly onto any surface. HOW IT WORKS • Connect to any projector (HDMI adapter or AirPlay) • Add a surface and drag its corners to match your wall, window, or object • Fill it with your own videos and photos — or grab ready-made loops • Layer multiple surfaces for complex displays POWERFUL TOOLS, ZERO EXPERIENCE NEEDED • Custom Trace: outline any shape — an arch, a pumpkin, a window frame — and fill it with light • Mask packs: hearts, stars, holiday shapes, and more • Crop any video to show exactly the slice you want • Test grid for fast, precise projector alignment • Show scheduler: set each surface to appear at its own time for choreographed displays • Fixed 1080p canvas: build on your phone, run on your iPad — projects work everywhere BUILT FOR HOLIDAY MAGIC Haunted houses, spooky window ghosts, snowfall on your roofline, dancing lights — if you can point a projector at it, LumiCanvas can map it. BUILD A SHOW, NOT JUST A PICTURE With LumiCanvas Pro's Show Timeline, each surface gets its own track. Lay clips along them and your display changes as the evening goes on — a figure that appears in an upstairs window, a door that opens on its own, trim lights running the whole time underneath. LumiCanvas Pro (optional subscription) removes the watermark and unlocks everything: unlimited surfaces, all mask packs, and every new feature as it ships. Privacy Policy: https://www.leighamor.com/lumicanvas/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Bengala is a projection mapping studio for iPhone and iPad. Connect a projector, drag the corners of a shape onto a window, a door, a pumpkin or a wall, and choose what plays inside it. The first setup takes a few minutes. HOW IT WORKS 1. Plug in a projector with an HDMI adapter, or start AirPlay screen mirroring. 2. Add a shape: rectangle, circle or stencil. A rectangle takes extra corners for odd surfaces. 3. Drag its corners until it sits on the real object. The picture bends to fit, so a flat video still looks straight when the projector sits at an angle. 4. Pick an effect, a photo, a video or a color. The preview on your phone shows what the projector shows. You can build everything before you plug anything in. EFFECTS SORTED BY THEME Effects are grouped by theme: animals, illusions for doors and windows, party, fire and nature, space, neon and abstract. Christmas goes first from early November to early January. Every animal is rendered in 3D, and so are some Halloween effects. Effects download when you tap them, so the app stays small and new ones arrive without an update. You need a connection the first time you use an effect. After that it plays offline. WHAT A SHAPE CAN SHOW - A looping effect - A music effect that moves with the sound around the phone - Your own photo or video - A plain color or an animated color - One shape at a time, or the whole canvas Use one shape per surface: the window, the door, the pumpkin on the porch. Each keeps its own content. PROJECTING THROUGH A WINDOW? Projecting from behind frosted film or a shower curtain flips the picture. Turn on Mirror output and it reads the right way for the people outside. IN THE EDITOR - A new project opens with an effect already playing - Pinch to zoom in and nudge a corner into place - Undo and redo - Guides: while you move a shape, the projector shows its grid. A second after you let go it fades. Tap the empty canvas to hide the outlines too - Present mode: the phone goes dark, the projector keeps playing - Stencils: pick a silhouette, or bring a PNG with a transparent background (Pro) and its outline becomes the shape WORKS WITH Any projector with an HDMI input, through a Lightning or USB-C adapter, or any projector or TV that supports AirPlay. HDMI is sharper and has less delay. Use a dark room. For windows, we suggest at least 300 ANSI lumens. A color lamp in Apple Home, if you want one. Effects with a lamp icon change its color at the right moment. A NOTE ON FLASHING Some effects flash or strobe. If you or someone watching is sensitive to flashing light, check each effect on your phone first. FREE AND PRO Free: 1 project, a set of free effects (Light Drop lights a lamp), the Pulse music effect, and a small Bengala watermark that drifts across the projection. Pro: unlimited projects, every effect, no watermark, every stencil shape and your own PNG stencils, every animated color, and import from the Files app. New 3D effects are added regularly, and Pro includes them. Bengala Pro is available as a weekly subscription at $5.99 per week, a yearly subscription at $39.99 per year with a 3-day free trial for new subscribers, or a one-time lifetime purchase at $89.99 with no renewal. Prices are for the United States and may differ in other countries. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://bengala.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://bengala.app/privacy