Comparison

L.E.D. Lab vs LED Matrix Font Generator

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

LED Matrix Font Generator

Create custom fonts and patterns for your Arduino projects. This tool generates binary and hexadecimal code, making it easy to integrate unique designs into your sketches.

Highlights
  • LED Matrix Font Generation
  • Binary Code Output
  • Hexadecimal Code Output
  • Arduino Sketch Integration
  • Pattern Creation
Features
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- LED Matrix Font Generator with binary and hex code for Arduino. - This can be used to generate fonts and patterns for using with arduino sketches.

Screenshots

L.E.D. Lab4 screens
LED Matrix Font Generator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: LED Matrix Font Generator at 5.0 against L.E.D. Lab's 4.6. LED Matrix Font Generator also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). L.E.D. Lab's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (15 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. L.E.D. Lab sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and LED Matrix Font Generator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LED Matrix Font Generator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: L.E.D. Lab has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
L.E.D. Lab versus LED Matrix Font Generator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterL.E.D. LabLED Matrix Font Generator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (15 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.610.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristopher SchardtGopi Gadhiya

Customer experience

L.E.D. Lab

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

LED Matrix Font Generator

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

L.E.D. Lab

One-time10
  • Live Microphone$9.99
  • Live Video$9.99
  • LED Display$19.99
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  • External Control$19.99
  • Music$19.99
  • Authoring$49.99
  • LED Artist Pack$59.99
  • VJ Pack$79.99
  • Advanced Mapping$84.99
  • Everything Pack$209.99
1 purchases

LED Matrix Font Generator

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99

Questions

Is L.E.D. Lab free?
L.E.D. Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LED Matrix Font Generator free?
LED Matrix Font Generator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, L.E.D. Lab or LED Matrix Font Generator?
LED Matrix Font Generator is rated higher. L.E.D. Lab averages 4.6 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while LED Matrix Font Generator averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do L.E.D. Lab or LED Matrix Font Generator have ads?
Neither L.E.D. Lab nor LED Matrix Font Generator shows ads.

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