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iLightningCam AI

Lightning Strike Photography

Florian Stiassny
Download on theApp Store
App Store rating4.0★95 ratings
Price$3.99In-app $2.99
Age4+Store age rating
Size54 MBiPhone download
CategoryPhoto & Video
DeveloperFlorian Stiassny

What we found

Full report

Too little checked to say Store information only. We haven’t analysed this app or read its reviews yet.

Money

  • $3.99 to download · in-app purchases $2.99 (1 listed). The store doesn’t say how often these bill.
  • If you subscribe through the store, cancel in iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel a subscription.

Not yet tested.

The store currently lists version 5.0, updated 2026-10-15.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

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.…

From the developer’s store description.

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The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

Not yet tested
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app. A missing label is not a clean bill of health.

What reviewers report

No review coverage

No review analysis published for this app.

Measurements

3 measured · 5 not assessed

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From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Not assessed
Fewer than 50 reviews scanned — too few to state a rate
Price in the store description
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
Themes reported by reviewers
Not assessed
This app's reviews have not been assessed yet
Five-star share of ratings
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
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Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
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Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
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How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Not yet tested

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Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 5.0 · 2026-10-15
iLightningCam AI is the update to iLightningCam 2, rebuilt from the ground up. • New lightning detection: more sensitive and more robust at the same time, especially in daylight against a bright sky • New photo engine: more phases per strike, many individual images of each strike instead of a few photos • Better image quality from the new engine architecture, with higher resolution in daylight • Automatic exposure, frame rate and capture mode, tuned for lightning • Improved focus with calibration for every lens • Optimized for current iPhone and iPad models • New in-app manual in eight languages • New: iLightningCam Studio as an optional in-app purchase with strike selection, custom…

Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.

Version 4.0 · 2021-08-27
- Support for all 3 lenses on Pro devices - Better focusing at night - Improved manual in English and German - Bug fixes

Assessment record

Status
Not yet tested
App identifier
ilightningcam-ai
Sources used
None recorded
Reviews read
None recorded
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed
How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

Store facts

App Store

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App Store

Store rating
3.95 ★ · 95 ratings
Version
5.0
Updated
15 Oct 2026
Price
$3.99
Age rating
4+
Size
54 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
Florian Stiassny
Category
Photo & Video
Listing price
$3.99

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells

From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.

Show 1 more purchase we couldn’t categorise

These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.

iLightningCam StudioTerm not stated$2.99

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

What a missing label means

Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app, so there is no method to describe for it yet. A missing label is not a clean bill of health: it means nothing has been read, not that nothing is wrong.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A human review gives an app hands-on, recorded measurements. None has been run for this app. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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