Comparison

L.E.D. Lab vs Lighticians Apollo Control

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

Head to head
About

L.E.D. Lab

Create dynamic visual experiences for LED displays without custom programming. Animate images, videos, and particles, and synchronize them with music or external audio inputs. Ideal for artists, designers, and hobbyists looking to add animated color to various projects.

Highlights
  • Create and animate scenes with images, videos, and camera feeds
  • Animate particle color, velocity, and brightness for LED strips
  • Synchronize visuals with music from your library
  • Audio reactivity for parameter control
  • External control via MIDI, DMX, ArtNet, OSC
  • Color keying and tiling for advanced compositing
  • Supports various LED controllers and external monitors
Features
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L.E.D. Lab is the quickest, easiest, most powerful way to drive your LED display! Custom programming is no longer required to get up-and-running. It is ideal for artists, professional display designers, architects, VJs, lighting designers, hobbyists, and anyone wanting to add a little animated color to their sculpture, art car, home, business or wardrobe. L.E.D. Lab allows you to create a list of Scenes, which can be played back in order or shuffled. There are currently two kinds of Scenes: ● Pictures Scene - A montage of still images, videos, and live camera feeds is designed. The position, velocity, rotation, size, and coloring of each picture can be animated. You can use your own photos and videos, and the iPad camera. Rendering to odd-shaped displays is made possible with photographically-generated map files. ● Strips Scene - Particles of color are sent down each strip. The velocity, hue, saturation, and brightness of each particle can be animated. Other features include: ● Music - Create lists of Tracks. Each track plays a song from your music library, along with any number of Scenes. You can elaborately choreograph a song, or let the Scenes play in random order. ● Audio Reactivity - Any animatable parameter may be controlled by the amplitude of audio in a specified frequency range. ● External Control - Any animatable parameter may be controlled by MIDI, DMX, ArtNet, or OSC. ● Color Keying - An image, video file, or live video feed can be made selectively transparent, making it easy to mix in with other images. ● Tiling - Any image, video file, or live video feed can be tiled in any or all directions, with adjustable spacing and fade-out. ● Display Modes - Editing can be performed with or without the LEDs connected. The editing UI can also be hidden, allowing operation in a "kiosk" mode. So what kind of LED display can you make with L.E.D. Lab? Some Examples: http://ledlabs.co Any iOS device can be used to play Scene Lists. An iPad is best for full editing. L.E.D. Lab works with the following LED controllers: ● PixelPusher (our favorite) ● Art-Net ● sACN ● DDP/Minleon/TekLights ● RGB-123 ● FadeCandy/FCServer ● OpenPixel It can also display to an external monitor or projector, serving as a VJ app. Extensive help information is provided for the rich user-interface: ● Help Explorer - Displays help text for any knob, slider, button, popup, list, or view inside a magnifying glass you drag around the screen. (See this in the last screen shot.) ● Help Topics - Little chapters to read about some of the more detailed functionalities. ● Help Tutorials

About

Lighticians Apollo Control

This app offers advanced wireless control for LED lighting fixtures, allowing users to precisely mix colors and manage settings. It's designed for both professional lighting technicians and beginners, enabling easy creation of sophisticated lighting setups.

Highlights
  • Wireless LED light control
  • Precise color mixing
  • Save and share projects
  • Unified control interface
  • Fixture patching and library
  • sACN E1.31 connectivity
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Lighticians Apollo Control — the next generation lighting control app designed for experienced lighting professionals and newcomers alike. Effortlessly control cutting edge LED lights and mix color wirelessly. Gaffers, cinematographers, lighting professionals, and lighting enthusiasts want precise control over every aspect of their fixtures. Lighticians Apollo Control is the next generation wireless lighting app designed both for experienced lighting professionals as well as newcomers to the field. This app introduces a powerful yet easy new way to mix color when driving the most cutting edge LED lights. Lighticians Apollo Control enables you to directly control your lights using sACN E1.31 over WiFi, save your favorite settings, and share projects with colleagues using AirDrop or Email. Even without any experience using a conventional lighting console, you will be able to enjoy creating beautiful lighting setups with Lighticians Apollo Control. UNIFIED LIGHTING CONTROL INTERFACE • Expressive hue/saturation wheel controls enable mixing from the perfect pastel all the way to super saturated deep colors • Precision white light controls with green/magenta slider and accurate CTO/CTB direct adjustments • Popover controls for quick and interactive tweaking • Save your favorite colors as swatches for future use • Manufacturer-specific and direct parameter controls available COLOR SCIENCE • Robust and accurate color mixing algorithm that always derives the best quality of light possible • Carefully tuned white light algorithms to enhance white light quality • Virtualization of color parameters available within the color wheel interface including color temperature, green/magenta tint, hue, saturation, and intensity making these parameters available to all light-modes that have color capabilities DIRECT LIGHTING CONTROL “SCRATCHPAD" • Dashboard view of lights and their state • Drag and drop collections to organize and quickly access multiple lights at once PROJECTS • Organize all patching, lighting metadata, and network connectivity in one place • Share projects using standard iOS techniques including AirDrop and email — ideal for rigging gaffer handoffs • Projects can be built prior to being connected to a network to prepare for installations and rigging PATCHING • Add lights to your project using a calendar style interface • Each patched light can be identified with a unique number, descriptive text, and an optional color code and shape icon • includes a curated fixtures library which supports all common motion picture lighting parameters • Fixture profiles editor allows you to build custom profiles for various modes of control • Patch editor enabling changes to the patch once created PROTOCOLS & NETWORKING • One universe of sACN E1.31 connectivity • ArtNet and additional universes coming soon COMPATIBILITY • WiFi connection to local network to control lights that receive sACN E1.31 streams directly from ethernet • sACN E1.31 compatible bridge hardware is required to connect Lighticians Lighting Control to lights over DMX interfaces • although hardware is required to interact with lights, the app can be used without a connection at any time for rigging, project prep, and brainstorming Many more features coming soon including looks, timeline sequences, effects, multiple DMX universes, ArtNet, RDM, and more…

Screenshots

L.E.D. Lab4 screens
Lighticians Apollo Control4 screens

Verdict

The call

L.E.D. Lab and Lighticians Apollo Control both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 81% of L.E.D. Lab's written reviews are positive against 0% of Lighticians Apollo Control's. Lighticians Apollo Control's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

Both are free to download. L.E.D. Lab sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Lighticians Apollo Control asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for L.E.D. Lab against 4.5 for Lighticians Apollo Control. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 11 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of L.E.D. Lab's written reviews are positive against 0% of Lighticians Apollo Control's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

L.E.D. Lab ships an update every 4 months, Lighticians Apollo Control every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
L.E.D. Lab versus Lighticians Apollo Control: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterL.E.D. LabLighticians Apollo Control
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (15 ratings) — better4.5 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristopher SchardtLighticians Inc

Customer experience

L.E.D. Lab

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral12.5%
Negative6.3%

Lighticians Apollo Control

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

11 purchases

L.E.D. Lab

One-time11
  • Live Microphone$9.99
  • Live Video$9.99
  • LED Display$19.99
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  • External Control$19.99
  • Music$19.99
  • External Screen$39.99
  • Authoring$49.99
  • LED Artist Pack$59.99
  • VJ Pack$79.99
  • Advanced Mapping$84.99
  • Everything Pack$209.99
None

Lighticians Apollo Control

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is L.E.D. Lab free?
L.E.D. Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lighticians Apollo Control free?
Lighticians Apollo Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, L.E.D. Lab or Lighticians Apollo Control?
L.E.D. Lab is rated higher. L.E.D. Lab averages 4.6 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Lighticians Apollo Control averages 4.5 from 11 ratings.
Do L.E.D. Lab or Lighticians Apollo Control have ads?
Neither L.E.D. Lab nor Lighticians Apollo Control shows ads.
Which is updated more often, L.E.D. Lab or Lighticians Apollo Control?
L.E.D. Lab ships an update every 4 months, and Lighticians Apollo Control every 5 weeks. Most recently, L.E.D. Lab was updated on October 2, 2026 and Lighticians Apollo Control on September 10, 2026.

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