Lighting Designer App Reviews

Spent 2 hours building a lighting diagram for a job, for this program to irreversibly undo an hour of my work like it was the cool thing to do. Buggy as hell. Freezes and crashes, doesn't save your work, awful awful app. EDIT: Gave this another try- still crashes unexpectedly from time to time, but it’s not losing my work anymore, which is a solid step in the right direction. Really cool features being added since last I tried the app, but I think a stable app should be highest priority over f

I do like the potential that this app has but one thing that i feel is missing, maybe i just cant figure it out, is the ability to type in room measurements instead of dragging. For instance when adding a rectangle shape it would be nice in the measurement bubble to type in the measurement when i tap it.

I love the app for doing my overheads. Would however love desktop / laptop support and synchronization so I’m not stuck with only using my iPad. Also the recent update is extremely buggy, ‘LD’ is constantly asking for permission to let others look me up my email and when I say don’t allow or allow it just pops up over and over again. This forced me to restart my iPad multiple times and im extremely concerned if I have to reinstall the app if it keeps happening, would I potentially lose my plot

Just started using this program and thus far, I’m a huge fan. I feel like a laptop version is critical, but small steps... I really appreciate the level of control and the density of the functionality and detail you can add and manipulate. Clearly a lot of time and thought went into this. Haven’t gotten deep enough to add truck/ crews / contact info but am looking forward to seeing how that works. Having done my plots and layouts by hand previously this is a huge help. Bry Thomas Sanders D

Makes camera positioning easy

I had problems with crashing. The developer says there is a known bug when opening this program in Portrait orientation. The crashes went away when I rotated to Landscape and then launched the app. Having fun now creating my lighting setups.

Great app. With an update to include dimmer, channel numbers and gel color it would be perfect.

This app is amazing. I now plot out most set ups so I can duplicate them later. I've been looking for this app ever since I got my first iPad.

Love how well thought out this app is but it crashes so frequently. Will update my review if this problem is solved in a future update.

Love this App, as a pro stage designer I used this app to communicate with my LDs and Technical Staff for show setups. Love the import and send to crew staff for the job design

Yea, if the devs could fix this, that’d be great. It’s a solid app for LD’s and Board Ops but it’s becoming a real hassle. And for $25 bucks....not worth the buy atm. *iPad Pro 12.9*

I think having some templates or demo shows might help make it easier to understand at first

I love this for making plots super quick BUT, it is limited to 4 universes. When rigs now have way beyond that. So I cannot do this for larger rigs or even distributed rigs. Such a bummer I had to put this app on the back burner for now.

Wish I could lock layers once I’m happy with their position so I don’t accidentally move around layers that happen to be on top of others.

Yup that’s it

Really regret wasting my cash on this app. It’s incredibly clunky and counter intuitive. Having to link things (like a gel) to a light by going into another menu as opposed to just writing it in a box is insane. Why can we select a 12x12 solid, for example, but if we want to show a 12x12 grid we need to “attach” another object? Where are the reports of total units and total watts/amps? It also seems the units are not to scale

This app is really cool in the sense that I can create really organized lighting plots for my crew. However, it crashes so frequently that it becomes borderline un-usable. If the developer fixes the bugs this app would make a great tool, however it has a long way to go.

App barely works. Yes the idea is great but the interface is fiddly, whole thing is buggy, and it crashes when you do basically anything. Can’t even render a simple lighting plot. App just keeps crashing every couple things I do. Paid way too much for an app that I can’t even use.