Lightme

Description

Lightme - Lightmeter is a clean, simple to use yet very powerful lightmeter.

It is optimised for an easy one-handed use, both for left-handed and right-handed users, with the main controls within your thumb's reach, without the fatiguing juggling of your precious smartphone.

A core distinguishing feature of Lightme - Lightmeter is that - differently from most of the other apps - it can show multiple combinations of valid settings for aperture and shutterspeed at the same time by working like a - stretched out - old needle and wheel lightmeter. This allows the user to quickly pick the desired settings without having to scroll on a tiny wheel picker.

The app is designed to be welcoming to people who are just starting out, with a simple one-button use. But it offers many useful and advanced features for the more experienced shooters/users:
Continuous metering (by pressing and holding or double tapping the measure button)
Spot metering with a variable zoom (for more precision) which also supports average metering, and a very intuitive implementation of the zone system
Automatic reciprocity failure compensation (for 25+ films, if you see exposure times in red, they are being compensated)
A dedicated pinhole mode with precise exposure times for user defined apertures (multiple apertures at a time), with the possibility of setting a timer (through a shortcut)
Incident light metering with calibration when using the front facing camera
And more ...
It also includes some other features that are enjoyable by any kind of user:
Black and white preview
The ability to use any of the cameras on your smartphone (swipe left/right on the preview)
Multiple presets for your different camera/film/lens setups
Framelines for previewing your shot, before setting up your tripod etc.
A searchable list of useful tips to make better use of the application's potential
A searchable list of more than 70 films to choose from with the possibility of selecting a few favourites
Dark mode support and a useful level of customisation
You can find even more info in the tips inside the app or you can have a look at full user manual by tapping on manual (in the settings)

The app is free in all its many functionalities, but it offers In-App-Purchases in order to support the project.

The only minor perk you can enable only via certain IAPs is the replacement of the Ad button with a label containing the name of your current preset, check under settings -> coffee for more info.

Don't panic though, even if there's an Ad button it doesn't mean I'm going to show you ads. In fact unless you decide to tap on that button I'm never going to show you any. But if you have a few minutes to spare, watching a few of them sure helps keeping this project alive :)

Try it, and, if you like it, share it with your friends and consider writing a (mini) review ;)

Have a nice day, and good light!

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In-Apps

Guanciale

$8.99

Parmigiano

$16.99

Pizza for two

$29.99

Pecorino Romano

$4.99

Do this full-time

$59.99

Espresso ristretto

$1.99

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User Rating

4.88 out of 5

451 ratings in United States

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Reviews

Fantastic metering app

I enjoy chiefly that it shows the whole scale of aperture and shutter speeds for a reading. Just like a spot meter would. But that’s the tip of the iceberg. It offers spot and manual averaging of exposure readings and so much more!

Bring back ISO lock

Please bring back the lock on the ISO section

The best light meter app, with a wonderful dev on top of that

Absolutely phenomenal app, the interface might take a little getting used to at first, but once you get the hang of it you’ll find other light meter apps lacking. With much attention to detail, the dev is also very responsive to feature requests, improvements and fixes.

Best Meter App

I’ve gotten back into a film photography using vintage ROLLEIFLEX and Mamiya 645 cameras. I was using a different app for metering when my son found this and started using it. He recommended I try it and after one outing I deleted the other app and now use this exclusively. Easy to use and customize, and gets me perfect exposures.

This app is really well designed and its perfect

best app ever

for real this is the best app ever!!! helps my photos look great every time!! so easy to use, great interface. the best!

Easy and Very Accurate

The metering is spot on and very easy to use, gives you all possible aperture/shutter speed combinations to achieve normal exposure and even lets you pick what film stock you’re using when setting the film speed.

Excellent tool!

Thank you very much!

Great Free App

Been looking at my analog spot meter, wanting a digital one, found this and it's perfect. It even has left handed settings. There only problem is I bought guanciale and didn't get any. I can't even find it in my state so I continue to use the wrong meat with my carbonara.

Best Phone Meter

Best phone meter I’ve used. Interesting UI implementation, which might be a little overwhelming at first, but really doesn’t hide all the useful features available that most other apps don’t offer. Support the developer as I feel like this is a fantastic app and should be acknowledged for that.

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Category Rankings

Chart	Category	Rank
Top Free	Hong Kong Photo Video	326
Top Free	Czechia Photo Video	397
Top Free	Germany Photo Video	431
Top Free	Hungary Photo Video	439
Top Free	China Photo Video	468

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