pinlight
Private on-device photo map
$4.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Capture photos with a live light-metering HUD. See your photos and photowalks on a map — with sun position, camera direction, color palettes, and notes.
Pinlight turns your photo albums into scouting maps. Pick any album from your Photos library and see every geotagged photo pinned to its location — scoped to the album, not your entire library. Capture photos with a live metering HUD, then come back to a map that remembers not just where you were, but what the light was doing. Record photowalks to see your path as you scout a new location.
PHOTOWALKS
• Start a walk from the album list. Your route draws live on a map as you go
• Walk HUD overlays Duration, Distance, Pace, Photos, Heading, Elevation, and a Golden Hour clock that warms from amber to deep red as the window closes
• Take photos during a walk and they land in the walk's album with a pin on the map
LIGHT METERING — IN-APP CAMERA
• Live readings on the viewfinder: color temperature (CCT), exposure value, scene EV at ISO 100, lux, sun position, compass heading, and more
• Visual compass strip and warm-to-cool Kelvin gradient strip for at-a-glance scene reading
• Configurable HUD — choose which readings appear in the compact strip vs the expanded view, drag to reorder
• Multi-lens zoom buttons + pinch
• Tap-to-focus with a draggable sun for exposure adjustment
• Every captured photo carries a Light Reading record — ambient CCT, tint, scene EV, sun position — visible later in the photo's detail view
PHOTO MAP — ALBUM-SCOPED LOCATION MEMORY
• Pick any album from your Photos library and see every geotagged shot pinned to its location
• Direction arrows show which way the camera was pointing
• A sundial diagram reveals the sun's position at capture time — golden hour, blue hour, harsh midday, or night
• Cinema-style color palette strip on each photo
• Filter by light condition, favorites, edited photos, or dominant color
• Cluster pins for busy locations; browse in a gallery with swipe navigation
NOTES + EXIF
• Camera, lens, focal length, and altitude extracted automatically from EXIF
• Add your own notes to any photo — parking directions, gear reminders, composition tips — with bullets, bold, and italic formatting
PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
Everything stays on your device. No accounts, no uploads, no tracking, no analytics. Pinlight reads your Photos library and processes everything on-device.
Built for photographers and cinematographers who want their light metering tied to their location memory.
Pinlight 3.0 — Photowalks
• Start a Photowalk from the album list — geo-tracked, timed, with photos that land in their own album in your Photos library
• Live walking map with a heading cone, distance, pace, and a fully configurable HUD
• Post-walk summary with a shareable map snapshot, plus a Photowalks list at the top of the album view to re-open every past walk
The developer, Elias Fong, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Elias Fong
- Size
- 3 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Elias Fong
