Light Magick vs Light Panel Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Light Panel Pro
Transform your device into a professional lighting tool for creative projects, film scanning, and video calls. Adjust brightness, color temperature, and RGB hues to enhance any scene. Give your existing technology a vibrant new purpose.
- Pocket-sized professional light
- Creative lighting control
- Film scanning
- Video call enhancement
- Brightness adjustment
- Kelvin temperature control
- RGB color control
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Light Panel Pro: Transform your device into a professional studio light. Perfect for creative lighting, film scanning and video calls. Control screen brightness, Kelvin temperature and full RGB color on any Apple device. ► Light Panel Pro turns your mobile device into a portable light panel - one that you always have with you as a small fill light for photography or videography. ► Light Panel Pro is a perfect backlight for scanning film with its dedicated scanning mask. It can also be used as a light table or light box with the built-in alignment grid. ► Light Panel Pro is a great light for video calls. ► Control screen brightness and temperature. Display & save arbitrary colors for creative lighting effects. ► Automatically match the color temperature of the ambient light. ► Lock screen settings from accidental touch input. ► Create complex or remote lighting setups with the optional Remote Control feature. ► There are many other potential uses whenever you need extra light: reading light, mood light, torch etc. ► Give your old tech a brilliant second life - great for transforming old devices that can't run recent versions of iOS (iPad Air 1st gen & iPhone 5s onwards) into high-quality light panels, offering a highly cost-effective solution by repurposing hardware that might otherwise go unused. ► Available as a universal purchase for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac, Apple TV & Vision Pro. ► Print magazine PC Professionale recommended Light Panel Pro as "Original and unexpectedly useful" in the July 2021 edition. ► Join 5000 happy users and download Light Panel Pro now ! ◄
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Light Magick at Free against Light Panel Pro's $4.99. Light Magick also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). Light Panel Pro's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Light Magick is free to download; Light Panel Pro costs $4.99 up front. Light Magick sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Light Panel Pro sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Light Panel Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Light Panel Pro has 65 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Light Magick's written reviews are positive against 84% of Light Panel Pro's.
Light Magick ships an update every 2 weeks, Light Panel Pro every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 2, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Light Magick | Light Panel Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.5 (65 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 84.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 65 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kenichi Kobayashi | Mike Woolley |
Customer experience
Light Magick
Light Panel Pro
In-app purchases
Light Magick
- Unlock 100 of Shapes and Remove Ads$0.99
Light Panel Pro
- Buy Me A Coffee$2.99
- Remote Control$9.99
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