Dual-camera capture
Run the front and back cameras together on supported hardware.
Apps
ShutterSpeed Apps presents
LightPaint: Live Light Painting Camera
Make the dark your canvas.
LightPaint 2.0 is on the App Store now. Open the camera without an account, watch every trail appear live, and grow from a first light painting into a complete creative workflow.
One app. Any scale.
From the backyard to the biggest stage.
Let children discover what light can draw. Build something fearless in the street. Then take the same live camera system into a full production. LightPaint grows with the idea.
Same app · same camera · more room
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Start in the backyard.
A phone, a tripod, and something that makes light.
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Take it into the street.
The same live camera becomes a bigger canvas.
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Make it the production.
One camera feeding the performer, operator monitor, show controls, and full LED wall.
Shoot Simulator · Play With the Possibilities
Write Something in Light.
A light, a little motion, and the night as your canvas. Watch words and shapes build up in one glowing exposure.
Shoot Simulator Rehearse Your Next Shot
A Road. A Night Sky. A Shot Waiting to Happen.
Zoom
0:0060-Second Light Painting · 3× Playback1:00
Words, the shoot date, a heart, and a star. Rewind and press the red button to watch the light draw.
Blue Ridge Parkway35.565°, -82.486° · Creative Scenery
20:01Night · 16:9
Location & CompositionChoose Your View
Place Search: Open-Meteo / GeoNames. Custom coordinates use local mean solar time.
Creative ridge. Model this location to load its geographic skyline.
SettingsCamera & Scene
Drag or Use Arrow Keys to Aim · Double-Tap to Reframe · Pinch or +/− to Zoom · Click the View to Use Scroll Zoom
Scene Details
Sunlight follows your location and date. Star motion follows latitude and time. Weather, traffic, aircraft, and foreground use your scene settings.
Local Time: America/New_York, including daylight saving time.
Terrain: Creative scenery. Choose Model This Location to load a geographic skyline.
Solar Calculation: NOAA · Keep the same seed to replay your scene.
Make the scene yours. Choose a location, set the weather, and see what the light can do.
Plan a Real ShootAvailable now
From first exposure to finished work.
These are the screens in the app today: capture, profiles, scene guidance, editing, and the finished image.
Capture, control, and export
LightPaint 2.0 Features
The current app includes camera profiles, Apple Watch control, scene analysis, music, editing, export, and a moderated community.
Apple Watch control
Control the camera from your wrist without disturbing the shot.
AI scene analysis
Get a camera profile tuned to the scene in front of you.
Original music
An in-house SoulBox catalog you can safely use in exported videos.
Human-reviewed community
Every shared photo and video is reviewed before publication.
Twelve languages
Guides, help, and legal content are native, cached, and available offline.
Pro featureLightPaint external storage
External storage that stays connected to the whole shoot.
LightPaint Pro can write media to compatible USB drives, memory cards, SSDs, and hard drives. Add a USB-C PD powered hub to keep external storage and HDMI output running together.
- USB, cards, SSDs, and hard drives
- USB-C PD power for connected rigs
- Storage and HDMI at the same time
Feature guides
See how each part of the app works.
Learning, camera, music, media, editing, and display—each guide covers the actual controls, workflow, limits, and output options.
Learning Studio
Rehearse the light painting before the room goes dark.
Learn light painting with an interactive 3D guide, real-scene lighting, guided shapes, custom words, motion capture, and camera-ready profiles.
Camera & Auto Tune
Easy when you want it. Total control when you need it.
Master LightPaint Auto Tune, manual shutter and ISO, digital EV, Frame Blender, trail controls, and reusable light painting camera profiles.
Music
Paint to the beat. Export with the right music.
Explore LightPaint’s growing royalty-free music catalog, in-camera playback, playlists, lyrics, visualizers, favorites, and Apple Music listening.
External Storage
Keep painting. Write the session where it belongs.
LightPaint Pro writes media to compatible USB-C drives, memory cards, SSDs, and hard drives, with simultaneous storage and HDMI through a powered hub.
Video Editor
From live trails to a finished cut—without leaving LightPaint.
Edit LightPaint videos with a layered timeline, trim and speed tools, titles, color, LUTs, transitions, cleared music, and flexible 4K export.
Media Gallery
Every trail, take, frame, and finished story—together.
Explore the LightPaint media gallery with albums, projects, favorites, bookmarks, video frame grabs, automatic Moment movies, and HDMI display.
From field monitor to full production
The camera stays here. The picture goes anywhere.
Connect LightPaint to a field monitor, projector, capture card, television, or LED wall. The cable carries the finished camera picture—not a mirror of the controls on your phone.
Portable projection setup
Phone camera · field monitor · portable projector · building-scale pictureExternal Display
See the portable setup, field-monitor presets, projection workflow, and exactly what Free and Pro include.
Free output · Pro clean outputProduction Display
Show Mode, blackout, freeze, alignment tools, your logo, every Pro feature, and commercial display rights.
One annual license · everything includedThe original promise remains
No account required to paint with light.
Every camera feature that shipped in 1.0 remains free in 2.0. The new Pro tier covers genuinely new capabilities—clean native-resolution export, custom engine tuning, dual-camera capture, Watch control, cross-device sync, and community publishing. Production Display sits above Pro for people running the external output in paid work.
View the 1.0 archive