Lenstag vs Planit Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lenstag
Protect your photography gear from theft with this app. Check serial numbers before buying, report stolen items, and securely transfer ownership. It also helps recover lost equipment and provides business documents for photographers.
- Theft protection for cameras and lenses
- Check serial numbers for stolen gear
- Report missing equipment
- Securely transfer gear ownership
- Recover stolen gear and images
- Gear valuation
- Photography business documents
Read full descriptionHide full description
Free, easy theft protection for all your cameras, lenses and anything else with a serial number. Look up serial numbers of gear you're thinking about buying to see if it's stolen, report missing gear and securely transfer gear to other photographers. Lenstag also finds your stolen gear & images, tells you how much your gear is worth & gives you free documents to protect your photography and business. Used by over 150,000 photographers in nearly every country to secure their gear as well as the biggest names in photographic and video equipment rental. Lenstag for Apple Watch puts your gear list on your wrist: see what's registered, check an item's status and flag it stolen the moment you notice it's gone, before you've even reached for your phone. Lenstag Pro annual subscription • The fastest & most controllable alerts. Find out where your stolen gear and images are as soon as instantly. • Obtain all 33 photographer business documents across 4 countries, now with the ability to fill them out in the app and send them out for remote signing. The most complete, detailed & customizable set of photographer agreements & contract templates drafted by licensed attorneys anywhere. • Premium support. Get your issues fixed and advice on how to you recover your gear ASAP. • Knowledge that you are directly supporting the world's best chance for ending photographic equipment theft. ----- Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. Manage your subscriptions in Account Settings after purchase. Lenstag Terms of Service: https://www.lenstag.com/terms-of-service Lenstag Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/291201
Planit Pro
This app helps photographers pre-visualize scenes by combining map data with simulated viewfinders. It offers tools for location scouting, celestial object tracking, and time-lapse planning, making it ideal for landscape and night photography.
- Map-based scene pre-visualization
- Simulated viewfinders (VR, AR, Picture, Street View)
- Celestial object tracking (Sun, Moon, Stars, Milky Way)
- Time-lapse and star-trail planning
- Location scouting tools (GPS, elevation, distance)
- Exposure and filter calculators
- Offline functionality
Read full descriptionHide full description
Please email info@planitphoto.com for bug reports or feature requests. Please also remember to visit https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTmlTTxPbBbcn1Fd1NRWTOczTY1RYEug4 for more video tutorials. Each video only lasts a few minutes but you will surely learn a lot from them. You can also reach us through Instagram. Links are under the menu inside the app. This is a special call to landscape photographers, travel photographers, nature photographers, and those who are interested in night photography, city photography, time-lapse, star-trails, milky way or astrophotography: look no more, this is the ultimate app for you - the Planit Pro. It only costs you a cup of Frappuccino but will save you tons of time and effort and a lot of gas money. Most importantly, it will make you enjoy landscape photography even more. Ansel Adams dedicates the beginning of his first book "Taos Pueblo" to visualization. He introduced the idea of "previsualization", which involved the photographer imagining what he wanted his final print to look like before he even took the photo. Of course, there are many great photos that were taken impromptu. However, for landscape photographers, being able to previsualize the scene before going there will greatly reduce the chance of being caught unprepared and will greatly increase the chance of getting better photos. Photographers use various tools to help them pre-visualizing the scene. Nowadays, many of those tools are phone apps. Planit Pro is an all-in-one solution that is designed to leverage the map and simulated viewfinder technologies to provide the necessary tools for photographers to pre-visualize the scene in combination with the ground subjects and the celestial objects such as the Sun, the Moon, Stars, Star-trails and Milky Way. In the Planit Pro app, we packed it with features - from location scouting such as GPS coordinates, elevations, distance, elevation gain, clear view, focal length, depth of field (DoF), hyperfocal distance, panorama, and aerial photography, to the Ephemeris features such as the sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset time and direction, twilight time, special hours of the day, sun/moon finder, major stars, constellations, nebulae azimuth and elevation angle, star trail planning, time-lapse calculation and simulation, sequence calculation and simulation, milky way searching, solar eclipse and lunar eclipse, exposure/ND filter calculator, light meter, rainbow position prediction, tide height, and tide search, etc. All the information is either represented on the map as an overlay or visually presented in simulated viewfinders (VR, AR, picture, or street view), just like you look through your camera's viewfinder. Whatever you want for your landscape photography, it is there in the Planit Pro. Landscape photography is an adventure in the natural world. We understand that sometimes there won't be any network connection when you are out exploring. Planit Pro was designed for having it in mind. If you preload the offline elevation files and the offline mbtiles maps, you can use the app fully offline without the need for network connections. License agreement at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy at https://planitphoto.com/privacy.html
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Lenstag at Free against Planit Pro's $9.99. Planit Pro's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Lenstag is free to download; Planit Pro costs $9.99 up front. Lenstag sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Planit Pro sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Planit Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planit Pro has 1.5K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Lenstag's written reviews are positive against 72% of Planit Pro's.
Lenstag ships an update every 3 months, Planit Pro every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lenstag | Planit Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (6 ratings) | 4.8 (1.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.4% of reviews | 72.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 1.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #72 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 159 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lenstag LLC | JIDE Software, Inc. |
Customer experience
Lenstag
Planit Pro
Bugs and requests
Lenstag
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Planit Pro
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crash on iPhone 13 after the update
- Sync issues with update
- Crash, can't open after upsate
- Tides are way off.
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Desktop version
- User manual
- Record walking track (GPS positions)
In-app purchases
Lenstag
- Lenstag Pro$2.991 Month
- Lenstag Pro$19.991 Year
- Lenstag Pro$29.991 Year
Planit Pro
- 3D Model (A Month)$0.991 Month
- Location Explorer (Month)$4.991 Month
- 3D Model (A Year)$5.991 Year
Show 1 moreShow fewer
- Location Explorer (A Year)$29.991 Year









