Comparison

Altershot vs Lightme

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

Head to head
About

Altershot

Enhance your app's screenshots with a professional and clean status bar. This utility image editor allows for non-destructive editing, custom text, and automatic cropping to make your app stand out on the App Store.

Highlights
  • Modify iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS screenshots
  • Non-destructive photo editing
  • Photos editing extension
  • Custom text/5G logo in status bar
  • Select multiple screenshots
  • Automatic status bar cropping
Features
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Altershot is a utility image editor for your screenshots. Attention to detail makes a positive difference. Your app's screenshots can stand out from the rest of the App Store with a professional and clean-looking status bar. • Altershot allows you to modify iOS, iPadOS and watchOS screenshots • Non-destructive photo editing • Photos editing extension • Custom text or 5G logo in the status bar for some devices • Select multiple screenshots • Automatic status bar cropping Warning, this image editor doesn't work with gradient backgrounds.

About

Lightme

This app helps analog photographers meticulously track their film rolls, shots, and development processes. It allows for detailed logging of gear and consumables, with features for data visualization and export. Users can also manage film holders and add post-development notes with photos of final results.

Highlights
  • Log film rolls, shots, and development
  • Track gear and consumables
  • Data visualization with graphs/histograms
  • Data export in JSON/CSV formats
  • Manage large format film holders
  • Post-development notes with photos
Features
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Lightme - Logbook is a clean and powerful tool to record and keep track of your rolls, shots, developments, and all the gear that revolves around shooting film — from 35mm to medium and large format. The idea behind it is simple: logging a shot should take seconds, not steal time from actually shooting. Lightme pairs a beautiful, immediate interface with enough depth and flexibility to fit any workflow, whether you shoot a couple of rolls a year or fill several large format holders in an afternoon. LOGGING, EFFORTLESSLY • Log a shot in seconds: aperture, shutter speed, focal length, filters, bellows correction, measured EV, notes and more • Log straight from your wrist with the companion Apple Watch app, with Siri and Shortcuts, or from the home screen and lock screen widgets • Together with the Lightme Lightmeter app, your meter readings can prefill a new shot automatically • Every shot can carry a location and address, a preview photo, and later its final scan, plus a star rating ROLLS, SHEETS AND DEVELOPMENTS • Track rolls from loading to unloading, with film stocks from a growing database and a processing pipeline: waiting for development, off to the lab, back from the lab, to be scanned, scanned • Keep detailed development notes — developer, dilution, time, temperature, agitation — for rolls and single sheets alike, including push/pull (N+ / N-) development • Add post-development notes and a photo of the final result to rolls, sheets and individual shots YOUR GEAR, ORGANIZED • Cameras and lenses with nicknames, formats (including custom formats you define), pinhole and bellows flags, custom shutter speeds and selectable shutter step sizes • Roll film backs and lens filters with their exposure compensation • Film holders and backs can be marked as compatible with specific cameras, and everything is searchable from a single bar LARGE FORMAT, COVERED • Keep track of your film holders with three states — unloaded, loaded and exposed — always knowing which film is inside each one • Group holders together and follow every sheet from exposure through development INSIGHTS FROM YOUR DATA • Build and save custom queries, filtering by date (fixed or rolling windows), camera, lens, film stock, format, ISO, aperture, shutter speed, focal length and notes • Visualize results with histograms — by camera, lens, film stock, shutter speed, aperture, focal length, ISO, format, rating or hour of the day — alongside aggregate stats like mean aperture and average exposure • Save the queries you use most and re-run them anytime YOUR DATA, YOURS • Everything syncs privately through iCloud across your iPhone and iPad • Export any selection of data as CSV or JSON, or as a beautifully formatted PDF with customizable columns and a contact-sheet mode, bundled with your images in a single ZIP • Batch-write shooting metadata (EXIF) onto your scans — for a whole roll at once, or by matching files from the Files app • Viewing and exporting your data is free, forever; adding and editing is unlocked with a one-time purchase or a subscription AND MORE • Full-text search, favourites and an archive to keep things tidy • Available in English, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Simplified Chinese • A roadmap of what's coming next lives right in the app — new very cool features are on the way :) If you have any suggestion or issue, write me at lightme.apps@gmail.com Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Altershot4 screens
Lightme4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Lightme at Free against Altershot's $4.99. Lightme also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.9) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months). Altershot's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and review sentiment (86% vs 75%). On ads, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Lightme is free to download; Altershot costs $4.99 up front. Lightme sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Altershot asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lightme holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lightme has 103 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Altershot's written reviews are positive against 75% of Lightme's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Altershot ships an update every 4 months, Lightme every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Altershot versus Lightme: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAltershotLightme
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating3.9 (15 ratings)4.8 (103 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15103 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCocoa ProductionsGiuseppe Bertolini

Customer experience

Altershot

All ratings15 ratings
Positive73.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative26.7%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

Lightme

All ratings102 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%

In-app purchases

None

Altershot

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Lightme

Subscriptions4
  • 1 Cappuccino7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Focaccia Barese7 Days trial$12.991 Year
  • Spaghetti Carbonara7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Homemade Pizza party7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time4
  • A smile :)Free
  • Box of Prosecco$59.99
  • Fuel for my '90s camper$119.99
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  • Terme for two$239.99

Questions

Is Altershot free?
Altershot costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lightme free?
Lightme is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Altershot or Lightme?
Lightme is rated higher. Altershot averages 3.9 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Lightme averages 4.8 from 103 ratings.
Do Altershot or Lightme have ads?
Neither Altershot nor Lightme shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Altershot or Lightme?
Altershot ships an update every 4 months, and Lightme every 2 weeks. Most recently, Altershot was updated on October 24, 2026 and Lightme on October 24, 2026.

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