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title: "iLightningCam AI - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "iLightningCam AI – photograph lightning without pressing the shutter.  Set up your iPhone and point it at the storm. The app watches the camera image and takes the shot automatically at every strike. "
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# iLightningCam AI — United States
> Lightning Strike Photography

![iLightningCam AI App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/5d/01/52/5d015285-0a06-a51f-8906-cdf4bf67db51/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007epad-0-1-85-220.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Florian Stiassny](https://apptail.io/developer/florian-stiassny-mMZ)
**Category:** Photo Video
**Rating:** 3.9/5 (98 ratings)
**Price:** $3.99
**Bundle ID:** com.florianstiassny.iLightningCam
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 5.3 (released 2026-11-06)
**Original Release:** 2015-07-17
**Languages:** English, French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Portuguese, Italian

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1016445476)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/ilightningcam-ai-nMbe/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/ilightningcam-ai-nMbe/united-states)

## iLightningCam AI Description
iLightningCam AI – photograph lightning without pressing the shutter.

Set up your iPhone and point it at the storm. The app watches the camera image and takes the shot automatically at every strike. Each detected strike appears as a card with all images of that moment and a combined image that brings all phases together. Save the images you choose to the Photos app.

iLightningCam AI is the successor to iLightningCam 2 and to iLightningCam, the first lightning app for iOS, available on the App Store since 2011. Existing owners of iLightningCam 2 receive iLightningCam AI as an update.

Why “AI”: the parameters for lightning detection and for post-processing in the Studio were determined with artificial intelligence, using thousands of real lightning images from iLightningCam 2 and iLightningCam AI.

iLightningCam AI is a genuine photo app. It uses no generative AI to create images. The Studio, too, only optimizes and enhances your own shots and never creates artificial lightning.

WHAT THE APP DOES
• Real-time lightning detection, day and night, with images at photo resolution
• More phases per strike: high temporal resolution captures how a strike develops across several individual images
• Much improved detection, especially in daylight against a bright sky, with few false triggers
• Higher image quality thanks to the new engine and the HEIC format
• Automatic exposure, frame rate and capture mode, tuned for lightning and for your iPhone
• Modes for every storm: Auto, Normal, Near Lightning, Distant Lightning, Sheet Lightning and Manual, with your own ISO range
• Horizon line: nothing below it is analyzed, so cars and streetlights don’t interfere
• Focus calibration for every lens, optimized for storm photography
• Detailed in-app manual in eight languages, including the basics of lightning photography

iLightningCam Studio (in-app purchase)
The optional add-on brings editing tools to the app:
• Choose the best phases of a strike and combine them into an image of your own
• Lightning Repair: bring out the bolt, remove dark edges along it, soften the bright horizontal band the camera can produce. Many image defects can be reduced considerably this way, but not all.
• Crop and fine-tune light and color
• Save as an image, Live Photo or video clip
• Time-lapse of the entire storm, with separate speed settings for the strikes and the storm
One-time purchase, Family Sharing included, no subscription. Your originals stay untouched.

The Studio only works with strikes captured with iLightningCam AI. Images from iLightningCam 2, from other apps or from the Photos app cannot be imported.

APPLE WATCH (EXPERIMENTAL)
• A paired Apple Watch shows every strike with its image and starts or stops detection.
• Complements the app on the paired iPhone – it cannot be used on its own or with an iPad (an Apple rule).
• Alert only when the display is on (an Apple rule). Requires watchOS 10 or later; reliable only with newer models.

REQUIREMENTS
iPhone with iOS 17 or later, iPad with iPadOS 17 or later. For good results, use a tripod or steady support and make sure you have a clear view of the storm.

SAFETY
Thunderstorms are life-threatening. Seek shelter immediately as soon as a storm can be seen or heard, and never stay outdoors. Only take photos from inside an enclosed building, through a window. You are responsible for your own actions and for any resulting damage. The app is not intended for children or for people who cannot protect themselves from thunderstorms. The full safety information is in chapter 1 of the in-app manual.

## iLightningCam AI Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/b8/9f/54/b89f54a1-6e4f-166a-39b6-c8ad88ee591b/Main_App_Panorama_01_1320x2868.png/1320x2868.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/54/50/5c/54505cfa-9a9f-3fdc-b834-857b35aa29b7/Main_App_Panorama_02_1320x2868.png/1320x2868.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/a5/65/87/a5658779-a34e-626b-18e7-64fcdb379dd3/04_detection_modes_1320x2868.png/1320x2868.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/a8/e7/3b/a8e73b6a-cf7b-e8b0-2f94-e2b05203efa5/05_lightning_gallery_1320x2868.png/1320x2868.png)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/a2/a2/33/a2a233e0-99f9-59f0-a877-fb8771547510/Studio1_Panorama_01_1320x2868.png/1320x2868.png)
- [Screenshot 6](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/3d/2b/d4/3d2bd495-16b9-10d4-9c75-95b5dad3c517/Studio2_Panorama_02_1320x2868.png/1320x2868.png)
- [Screenshot 7](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/9e/60/ec/9e60ec29-13dc-d511-1eba-4a2d5577ac0a/Studio3_LivePhoto_1320x2868.png/1320x2868.png)

## iLightningCam AI Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 60 (61%)
- 4 stars: 11 (11%)
- 3 stars: 4 (4%)
- 2 stars: 6 (6%)
- 1 stars: 17 (17%)

## iLightningCam AI Reviews in United States

### *---- "Not user friendly"
Could not get it focused and not very user friendly. Would not waste your money
-- Shoot1000, 2024-07-22

### ***** "This app works"
I have been using ilightningcam 2 for four years now and it really does work it picks up lightning you won’t be disappointed
-- Daniel602_, 2024-07-22

### ***** "Amazing!"
I’ve had this app for a long time and it only gets better. Just the other night, i Lightning Cam 2 caught some amazing lightning pics from a storm. I set it up at the window and walk away. What I got was awesome. The improvements to this app make it easy when it’s on ‘auto’. If you can’t get good photos then it’s not the app. 
 I love this app!! I live in a state with frequent summer storms. A+ to the developer.  Thanks!
-- Moon lazy, 2024-05-26

### ***** "This is the best app EVER!"
I love this app so much. I’m 12 now and had this app since 2022. I have got great photos and shots. I want more ILightningCam apps in the future. I use a tripod and it works so good.
I have the lite version on my iPad and it is not as good, but I like it.😁
-- Stormlover103, 2024-01-03

### *---- "App No Longer Works Well"
I used this app and the previous version for several years and captured stunning photos, but now the app either captures nothing or everything is overexposed.
-- Rogerinmaryland, 2023-09-07

### *---- "Horrible"
New to iPhone and this app alone makes me regret making the switch. Not sure why this is the only option. Misses a lot of strikes. The ones it does catch are out of focus.
-- AllNamesAreTaken37293746, 2023-06-09

### ***** "The app is perfect!"
Very good app design simple and functions well

Just grab tripod mount the phone in it and just let app do its job. Simple!

Love when the app captures such vivid lightning

I don’t know why it is hard for others to use the app
-- dellmydad, 2022-09-21

### ***** "Great"
The app is wonderful. Just make sure you have the right settings for the right storm if u don’t pics won’t come out right. Plus phones with better camera fps and quality is a must for this app.
-- Make lightning great again, 2022-08-26

### ***-- "What happened?!?!"
This app was once amazing, not so much. I have had some awesome lightning pics using this app, but not anymore. Last night I seen some amazing streaks of lightning across the sky and all of my photos were just big white blobs. Please make this the greatest app, again!!!
-- BAMBAM*69, 2022-06-15

### **--- "Not so good on iPhone 12"
This app worked great on my iPhone 8+, but every photo is out of focus and doesn’t take as many photos on iPhone 12. I’ve tried recalibrating focus, but never works.
-- Third Coast Electronics, 2022-04-26

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## iLightningCam AI Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Paid | Australia | Photo Video | #31 |
| Top Paid | Finland | Photo Video | #55 |
| Top Paid | Czechia | Photo Video | #60 |
| Top Paid | Hungary | Photo Video | #76 |
| Top Paid | Romania | Photo Video | #79 |
| Top Paid | Austria | Photo Video | #88 |
| Top Paid | Belarus | Photo Video | #96 |
| Top Paid | Netherlands | Photo Video | #97 |
| Top Paid | Poland | Photo Video | #99 |
| Top Paid | Germany | Photo Video | #117 |
| Top Paid | Ukraine | Photo Video | #127 |
| Top Paid | South Africa | Photo Video | #131 |
| Top Paid | Switzerland | Photo Video | #136 |
| Top Paid | France | Photo Video | #139 |
| Top Paid | Belgium | Photo Video | #150 |
| Top Paid | Norway | Photo Video | #162 |
| Top Paid | Saudi Arabia | Photo Video | #172 |
| Top Paid | Italy | Photo Video | #174 |
| Top Paid | Denmark | Photo Video | #176 |
| Top Paid | Russia | Photo Video | #191 |
| Top Paid | Sweden | Photo Video | #191 |
| Top Paid | Greece | Photo Video | #205 |
| Top Paid | Canada | Photo Video | #217 |
| Top Paid | Portugal | Photo Video | #235 |
| Top Paid | Singapore | Photo Video | #240 |



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