LumaPlan Support

LumaPlan Support
LumaPlan is a lighting planner for cinematographers, gaffers, and lighting designers. Scan a location, build the lighting on a real floor plan, and see how the light actually behaves — before the gear is on the truck.
If you can't find what you need below, email ilyanaseka@gmail.com. I read every message and normally reply within two business days. Include your device (for example "iPhone 15 Pro" or "iPad Pro M2"), your iOS version, and the app version from About → Version so I can help faster.
Getting started
Open LumaPlan and tap New Plan. You'll be offered a Sample Room, an Empty Plan, or a LiDAR scan.
Start with the Sample Room if you just want to look around. It loads a furnished room with fixtures already placed, so every tool is live from the first tap.
Drop a fixture, then switch to the rendered view. That's the whole idea of the app in about ten seconds — the beam, the falloff, and the shadow are all physically real.
Scanning a room
Tap New Plan → Scan Room, then walk the space slowly, keeping the device roughly at chest height and pointing at the walls. LumaPlan captures walls, doors, windows, and furniture, then squares everything into a clean, editable 2D plan.
Scanning needs a LiDAR sensor. That means iPhone 12 Pro or any later Pro model, or an iPad Pro from 2020 onward. On a device without LiDAR the Scan option simply isn't offered — everything else in the app works normally.
Tips for a good scan:
Turn the lights on. LiDAR works in the dark, but the camera tracking doesn't.
Move steadily. Fast panning is the most common cause of a skewed room.
Get the corners. Walls are inferred from the corners you actually cover.
If a wall comes out crooked, you can drag it straight afterward — nothing from the scan is locked.
Drawing a room without LiDAR
Tap New Plan → Empty Plan, then use the room tool and tap each corner in order. Edges snap square as you go and live dimensions show while you drag, so you can build an accurate room from a tape measure or a location sketch. Tap the first corner again to close the room.
You can also switch between feet and meters at any time from the units control.
Placing fixtures
The library holds around 100 modern film fixtures with manufacturer photometric data — beam angle and center-beam candela for every modifier. Point sources, panels, tubes, and practicals, each with the reflectors, fresnels, projection lenses, softboxes, lanterns, domes, and grids they actually ship with, plus quarter, half, and full diffusion clipped on top.
Place — drag a fixture from the library onto the plan.
Aim — drag the beam handle, or use the fine-rotation control for small adjustments.
Modify — open the inspector to change the modifier, add diffusion, set intensity, height, and color temperature.
Duplicate — long-press a fixture to copy it with all of its settings.
If a unit you own isn't in the library, email me the model and I'll look at adding it.
Diagram view vs rendered view
Diagram view is the clean plot you hand to the crew: symbols, labels, and dimensions, nothing else.
Rendered view traces the light for real on the GPU — soft-edged shadows from walls and flags, spill through windows and diffusion frames, one-bounce fill off boards and walls, inverse-square falloff, and filmic tone mapping so a big unit rolls off instead of clipping to white.
Switch between them at any time. They're the same plan, drawn two ways.
Grip and natural light
Flags, floppies, single and double nets, diffusion frames, bounce boards, ultrabounce, negative fill, and mirror boards all genuinely redirect or cut a beam — they aren't decorative symbols.
For daylight, set the sun's angle and elevation, or choose overcast or clear sky. Every window can carry its own treatment: clear, sheer, frosted, blinds, or blackout, each shaping the light the way it would on the day.
Exposure and metering
Set ISO, frame rate, shutter angle, and ND once in the exposure panel. The plan then renders at that exposure like a calibrated monitor, so what you see is what that stop would give you.
Drop an incident meter anywhere on the plan to read lux or footcandles and a T-stop, calculated from the same physical model — bounced light included.
3D preview
Walls extrude to their scanned heights with doors and windows cut out. Orbit the space, see your fixtures lighting it, and check sightlines before you commit to a setup.
Working from the script (Pro)
Import the screenplay as a PDF and LumaPlan finds the scene headings for you.
Attach a floor plan to any scene, or to any passage you select by hand.
Pull that plan up with one tap while you're reading.
Keep several blockings on one plan — one per scene or shot — and switch between them instantly.
Mark the script up with Apple Pencil, exactly like paper sides.
Exporting and sharing
Annotate with pen, straight or freehand arrows, text notes, and reference photos, all anchored to the plan.
Export a PNG, JPG, or vector PDF at 1:1, 4:3, 16:9, or A4. You choose which layers appear and frame the export yourself, so the lighting plot and the clean floor plan can come out of the same file.
To hand a plan to another department, share it as a .lumaplan file — they open it in LumaPlan with everything intact. With Pro and iCloud enabled, your plans sync across your own devices automatically.
Free and Pro
LumaPlan is free to download. The free tier gives you 2 plans, 1 project, and PNG/JPG export with a watermark.
LumaPlan Pro adds unlimited plans and projects, screenplay import with scene linking, blockings per scene, PDF and unmarked export, and iCloud sync.
Pro is available three ways:
Pro Monthly — $9.99 per month.
Pro Yearly — $59.99 per year, with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers.
Lifetime Access — $149.99 once, no renewal.
Prices shown are US dollars; your local price is set by the App Store.
Free trial. The 7-day trial applies to Pro Yearly. If you don't cancel before it ends, it converts to a paid year automatically. You can cancel any time during the trial and keep Pro until the trial's last day.
Managing or cancelling. Subscriptions are billed by Apple, not by me. Open Settings → your name → Subscriptions on your device to change plans or cancel. Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep Pro until the period you've already paid for runs out.
Restoring a purchase. New device, or reinstalled the app? Tap About → Restore Purchases. Use the same Apple Account you bought with. Lifetime Access restores the same way.
When Pro ends, the app returns to the free tier. Nothing is deleted and nothing is locked away — your existing plans stay on your device and stay openable.
Refunds are handled by Apple, not by me. Go to reportaproblem.apple.com, sign in, and choose the purchase. If something in the app went wrong, email me too — I'd rather fix it.
Requirements
iOS or iPadOS 17 or later.
Any iPhone or iPad for drawing, fixtures, rendering, metering, 3D, and export.
Room scanning additionally requires LiDAR: iPhone 12 Pro or later Pro models, or iPad Pro 2020 or newer.
Apple Pencil is supported throughout on iPad but never required.
Troubleshooting
The Scan option is missing. Your device doesn't have LiDAR. Use Empty Plan and the room tool instead — everything downstream works identically.
The scan came out crooked. Re-scan more slowly with the lights on, or drag the affected walls straight on the plan afterward.
The rendered view looks black. Check the exposure panel — a very low ISO, a narrow shutter angle, or heavy ND will correctly render a dim scene as dim. Also confirm your fixtures are switched on and have intensity above zero.
My plan is blank while I'm screen recording. On the free tier, plans are hidden while the screen is being recorded or mirrored, the same content a free export would watermark. Upgrading to Pro removes this.
Purchases don't appear. Tap About → Restore Purchases and confirm you're signed in with the Apple Account you used to buy.
iCloud sync isn't updating. Sync needs Pro, an internet connection, and iCloud Drive turned on in your device settings. Give it a moment after opening the app — it syncs in the background.
The app crashed or something looks wrong. Email me at ilyanaseka@gmail.com with your device, iOS version, app version, and what you were doing. A screen recording helps enormously.
Privacy
LumaPlan contains no network code, no accounts, no analytics, and no third-party SDKs. Plans are stored on your device and, for Pro users with iCloud enabled, in the app's own iCloud Drive container under your Apple Account. Camera access is requested only when you start a room scan and is used solely to capture room geometry — no photographs or video are recorded or transmitted.
Contact
Email: ilyanaseka@gmail.com Typical response: within two business days
Feature requests and missing fixtures are welcome — a lot of what's in the app came from people asking.
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