Comparison

Photo Studio Light Setup vs Lightplan

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

Head to head
About

Photo Studio Light Setup

Easily document and create studio lighting diagrams with an intuitive interface. Save, modify, and share your setups across devices and with friends. Access a library of professional setups and equipment for enhanced creativity.

Highlights
  • Intuitive interface for light documenting
  • Create and modify lighting diagrams
  • Share setups across devices and with friends
  • Library of professional lighting setups
  • Document setups with precision and detail
  • Includes professional equipment and props
Features
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Photo Studio Light Setup app is designed for professional and amateur photographers, photography students and educators. The application provides users with an intuitive interface and fluid workflow for quick and easy studio light documenting and creation of lighting diagrams that can be modified on your devices any time in the future and shared between devices and friends. The app features a growing library of professional lighting setups with reference photos and detailed equipment settings available for In-App purchase. Photo Studio Light Setup includes a wide variety of professional photography lighting equipment, studio props and photography subjects and allows users to document their lighting setups with high precision and all necessary details. Studio setups are shared among your devices via iCloud and can be shared among other users as captured images.

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Lightplan

Features
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Lightplan is a lighting notebook for photographers. Draw the setup, tap twice on set, and the frames file themselves under the diagram that made them. WHY A light setup lives for twenty minutes and then it is gone. Phone snaps of the stands never tell you the distance, the height or the power, and by the time a client asks for "that look from March" the plot is unrecoverable. Lightplan keeps the diagram, the gear list and the frames that came out of it in one place. DRAW - A floor plan with 55 built-in gear types in 8 categories - strobes, softboxes, umbrellas, snoots, flags, backdrops, grip and power - each drawn as its own symbol, plus any custom gear you add - Light cones show where the light actually falls, not just where the stand is - Distance, height and power on every light, and a gear list that reads like a call sheet - An idea note for the one sentence you would say to an assistant RECORD - Tap Start when a setup goes live and Wrap when you strike it. Two taps per setup, not one per frame - your hands are on the camera - One large target that works one-handed in a dark studio - Frame ranges with a live counter; correct the start or the current number at any time - "Wrap up" ends the day; "Wrap - next setup" rolls straight into the next look FILE - Import the shoot from your photo library and each frame lands under its setup - Two channels: capture time is the main one, so no numbers are needed at all, and frame numbers verify it - When the two disagree nothing is filed. A wrong diagram is worse than none, because you would light a reshoot from it. Those frames wait in Unfiled for one tap - Aperture, shutter, ISO and lens are read from EXIF and shown beside the light that made them - Photos are never copied, modified or uploaded. Lightplan stores a reference and the details it read YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account, no server of ours, no analytics, no ads. Drawing, recording and importing all run on the device. iPhone and iPad stay in step through your own iCloud private database, which the developer has no way to read. Everything is free. English and Simplified Chinese, iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later.

Screenshots

Photo Studio Light Setup4 screens
Lightplan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Lightplan at Free against Photo Studio Light Setup's $12.99. Lightplan also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Lightplan is free to download; Photo Studio Light Setup costs $12.99 up front. Photo Studio Light Setup sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Lightplan asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photo Studio Light Setup ships an update every 5 months, Lightplan fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Photo Studio Light Setup versus Lightplan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhoto Studio Light SetupLightplan
Price$12.99Free — better
Rating2.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAlex Maxim昆俞 崔

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Photo Studio Light Setup

One-time5
  • Feast, fashion setup with four lights$2.99
  • Beauty portrait, 4 colored lights setup$2.99
  • Fashion at the beach, sunlight + octa$2.99
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  • Night beach setup with one light$2.99
  • Glamour 6-light setup$3.99
None

Lightplan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Photo Studio Light Setup free?
Photo Studio Light Setup costs $12.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Lightplan free?
Lightplan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Photo Studio Light Setup or Lightplan have ads?
Neither Photo Studio Light Setup nor Lightplan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Photo Studio Light Setup or Lightplan?
Photo Studio Light Setup ships an update every 5 months, and Lightplan fortnightly. Most recently, Photo Studio Light Setup was updated on November 6, 2026 and Lightplan on October 31, 2026.

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