Comparison

Light Magick vs Aquarium Camera

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

Head to head
About

Light Magick

Enhance your photos with beautiful glow effects. Easily add lines, text, and shapes with a simple touch interface. Save and share your creations to popular social media platforms.

Highlights
  • Add beautiful glow effects
  • Free line and color options
  • Free text with various fonts and colors
  • 100+ shapes and colors
  • Undo, Redo, and Reset editing
  • Share to social media
Features
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Light Magick add beautiful glow effect to your photo. Easy to use just move your finger or tap on the photo. -Free line and colors -Free text, fonts and colors -100 of Shapes and colors -Edit Undo, Redo and Reset -Share to other apps Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Line etc.

About

Aquarium Camera

Capture your aquarium's true colors with this app designed to overcome the challenges of LED lighting. It offers real-time color correction and professional-grade filters to make your fish, plants, and corals look vibrant and accurate in photos and videos.

Highlights
  • Real-time lens filter mode
  • 32 custom professional-grade lens filters
  • Real-time tint, temperature, RGB, and exposure adjustment
  • Full-resolution photo capture
  • 4K video recording
  • Save and share presets
  • Side-by-side color balance preview
Features
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Aquarium Camera is built specifically for aquarium owners who are tired of their tank looking incredible in person and disappointing on their phone. LED aquarium lights are brilliant, but blue actinic lighting interferes with camera sensors, shifting the colors of your fish, plants, and corals into something far less accurate. Standard camera apps were not made for this. Aquarium Camera was. Designed for reef tanks, planted tanks, freshwater aquariums, and fish-only setups, Aquarium Camera helps you capture photos and videos that better reflect what your tank actually looks like. “The Aquarium Camera app is an essential tool for reef tank photography.” – ReefBuilders.com You can stop buying pro camera rigs, shooting in RAW, using clip-on filters or gels, and turning off your blue lights just to get a decent shot. You do not need to spend hours in editing apps adjusting hue, tint, and exposure after the fact. Aquarium Camera helps you color-correct aquarium lighting in real time on your iPhone or iPad, using the device you already carry every day. Watch your aquarium grow with Time-lapse projects. Capture photos or short videos over repeat visits, use a reference image and alignment markers to keep a consistent view, and compare your progress. Turn your captures into a video with straight cuts or smooth crossfades. Growth projects are stored on your device. Features: • Automatic color correction with the familiar original controls • Adjustable manual gel color and intensity • Real-time tint, temperature, RGB, and exposure adjustment • Full-resolution photo capture • 4K video recording • Time-lapse projects for repeat photos and video clips • Reference overlays and adjustable alignment markers • First-and-latest comparisons and video export with optional crossfades • Syncs with iCloud • Support for your device’s available camera lenses, including wide, standard, and telephoto • Save and share presets once you dial in your tank • Side-by-side preview to help fine-tune color balance • Portrait and landscape support • Touch to focus • Flash toggle • Grid toggle • Quick access to your aquarium gallery with export or autosave to library • Share photos and videos right from the library • Volume button shutter support • Haptic feedback • No subscription: buy it once and unlock everything on iPhone and iPad “So easy to use… Love it!!! And the color changing is realtime so you can see the screen and the real thing side by side to ensure you get the right balance.” – Carlos Chacon, CoralVue I created Aquarium Camera because I was tired of seeing brilliant aquariums online that did not truly represent the health, color, and beauty of the fish, plants, and corals inside. As LED lighting took over the hobby, aquarium photography became harder. Aquarium Camera is my answer to that problem. Spend less time correcting aquarium photos and videos, and more time enjoying your tank... oh and doing water changes.

Screenshots

Light Magick4 screens
Aquarium Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Light Magick at Free against Aquarium Camera's $4.99. Light Magick also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 34%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Aquarium Camera's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 1.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence 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

Light Magick is free to download; Aquarium Camera costs $4.99 up front. Light Magick sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Aquarium Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Aquarium Camera holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Aquarium Camera has 759 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Light Magick's written reviews are positive against 34% of Aquarium Camera's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Light Magick ships an update every 2 weeks, Aquarium Camera monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Light Magick versus Aquarium Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLight MagickAquarium Camera
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)4.2 (759 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better33.6% of reviews
Number of ratings1759 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#66 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKenichi KobayashiJohn Ostler

Customer experience

Light Magick

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Aquarium Camera

All ratings759 ratings
Positive79.6%
Neutral4.3%
Negative16.1%
Written reviews113 reviews
Positive33.6%
Neutral6.2%
Negative60.2%

Bugs and requests

Light Magick

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Aquarium Camera

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Constant black screen issue
  • Photos not saving correctly
  • Freezing on certain settings

Requested features

4 requests
  • Integrate with native camera app features
  • Add support for RAW image capture
  • Improve image stabilization
  • Expand color temperature correction range

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Light Magick

One-time1
  • Unlock 100 of Shapes and Remove Ads$0.99
None

Aquarium Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Light Magick free?
Light Magick is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Aquarium Camera free?
Aquarium Camera costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Light Magick or Aquarium Camera?
Aquarium Camera is rated higher. Light Magick averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Aquarium Camera averages 4.2 from 759 ratings.
Do Light Magick or Aquarium Camera have ads?
Light Magick shows ads; Aquarium Camera does not.
Which is updated more often, Light Magick or Aquarium Camera?
Light Magick ships an update every 2 weeks, and Aquarium Camera monthly. Most recently, Light Magick was updated on October 13, 2026 and Aquarium Camera on October 26, 2026.

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