Lightbox Pro for Windows Phone, an illuminating set of utilities

Lightbox Pro

Our Windows Phones can be rather convenient at times, from checking the weather to sending a quick email to even casting a piffling light on things. Lightbox Pro is a Windows Phone utility app that offers eight unlike ways to use your camera calorie-free and phone display to calorie-free things up.

From the basic flashlight to a party ball, Lightbox Pro hopes to be your one and only Windows Phone lite source. The app does take a sure level of appeal but a poorly designed trial version may probable turn many abroad.

Allow in that location be light!

The principal layout for Lightbox Pro has a main page that lists all of the lighting options available, the Most information and a Favorite page that volition list any low-cal tools tagged as favorites.

Lightbox Pro Menu

The list of light tools includes:

Flashlight: A unproblematic, straightforward tool that turns on your Windows Telephone camera light.
Magnifier: This tool uses your Windows Telephone camera to magnify text. You have the selection to turn on your camera light to shed a little low-cal on what you are reading every bit well.
Twinkler: Here you tin flash your Windows Phone camera lite like a political party ball. This tool includes a frequency setting to allow y'all to accommodate how fast the light flashes.
SOS: This tool uses your Windows Phone camera light to display SOS using Morse Lawmaking. Yous likewise have the ability to email emergency contact your GPS location.
Night Light: This tool uses your Windows Phone screen to provide a softer light designed to help you relax every bit y'all fall asleep. The tool likewise has theme music to assistance you lot have a practiced nighttime'southward slumber.
Screen Checker: This is more of a utility than a light tool in that the Screen Checker will aid you identify whatsoever dead pixels on your Windows Telephone display.
Softbox: The Softbox tool provides you with an assortment of lite colors and patterns that you lot can use to cast a trivial light during photo shoots. Using your Windows Phone screen this tool has 7 color tones and virtually a dozen lite patterns to cull from.
Candle Lite: Hither you take three virtual candle styles that can shed a little light on things or be used as a substitute for the real matter. Y'all have a set of birthday candles, a centre shaped candle and numbered candles. Equally an added touch, you lot tin tap the screen to accident out the candles.

Each of the light tools performs every bit described with no bugs or glitches experienced. I do similar that each tool has a few adjustment settings to fine tune functioning, Many of the tools volition come up in handy and I'chiliad particularly interested in the Softbox tool. It could come up in handy when shooting macro shots with a DSLR.

Overall Impression

While Lightbox Pro does a prissy job of things, the 1 issue that may plow customers away is how the trial version is designed.

Lightbox Pro Flashlight, Twinkler and Softbox

With the trial version you can bounce around the main pages without consequence to run into what all the app offers. Simply when y'all swoop into Lightbox Tool Pro's lighting tools, you only have almost fifteen seconds earlier the low-cal is turned off and a "Trial Period has expired" message takes over the screen.

You can tap the Windows Phone Back Push button to return to the app's master pages to retry another lighting tool. But afterward fifteen seconds the message appears and you'll need to dorsum out to the main pages.

I can understand having a fourth dimension limited trial version just unremarkably the time restriction is set to days not seconds. The kickoff time the trial version times out your thought is "What the @#!" and around the third or fourth fourth dimension, I can run into some uninstalling Lightbox Pro and pledge to never mention its name again. I retrieve Lightbox Pro would have been better served with either an ad-supported trial version or a trial version that expired in a few days, non a few seconds.

Lightbox Pro is priced reasonably at $.99 but even then, many will desire to try things out beginning. Overall, nosotros constitute it to be a handy light utility app for your Windows Phone. Only be patient with the trial version. The app does get a 4.v Star rating in the Windows Phone Store, which is in the ballpark.