Photone - Grow Light Meter

Lightray Innovation GmbH

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About this app

Take the guesswork out of grow lighting! Measure PAR / PPFD, Lux, fc, and Kelvin: All within the most accurate light meter app out there.

Setting up your plants' optimal lighting is not easy — if not impossible without a proper PAR / PPFD plant light meter. Calculating your indoor garden's daily light integral (DLI) to match your plants’ needs allows you to optimize your lighting for maximal yield at minimal electricity consumption.

Our Photone grow light meter app measures photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) as PPFD in µmol/m²/s, calculates the daily light integral (DLI) in mol/m²/d, and measures illuminance in foot candles or Lux. It also allows you to measure light temperature in Kelvin which can help you determine if a light is suitable for fruiting and flowering or for vegetative growth.

It is by far the most accurate light meter app for plants and achieves industrial grade accuracy that easily compares to dedicated and expensive quantum PAR meters for many hundreds of dollars. You can learn more on how we achieve over 95% of accuracy against research grade laboratory equipment and how to achieve maximum accuracy by yourself in our white paper: https://growlightmeter.com/whitepaper/

The app also contains useful guiding articles to help you get the most out of your plant lighting. In addition, you can find more informative and educational content on our blog: https://growlightmeter.com/blog/

Wondering how much light your plants need? The plant lighting calculator on our website helps you to dial in your lighting to your specific plants' needs: https://growlightmeter.com/calculator/

To receive an accurate PAR and thus DLI measurement, you need to select the correct light source that you are measuring.

Ratings and reviews

Look, this app is incredible. For years I used a dedicated lux meter and did all the math myself to convert to PPFD/DLI. Now, I can't even think of a feature I'd want that this app doesn't have. PPFD, DLI, color temp, lux, measurement hold, tilt detector, peak / average values, quick changes for DLI hours, oh and the values are correct too. Never before have I been so pleased with a piece of software! I'd pay for this app for sure, so long as it was a one time cost and not a subscription.

Great concept, quick response from support. I had an issue with a tip not dismissing and they got back to me the next day from the other side of the planet. The light readings are pretty far out from my actual meter, but hopefully they can fine tune it for better accuracy. Be sure to look through the extras on the site, they have a great little start of a plant database with light info for various species - looking forward to this being integrated fully into the app in time. Well done, devs!

Nice concept, but could use a lock for par. When I'm measuring I can't see my screen because the light is too bright. So I have to very quickly move the phone to where I can read it. By that time the phone isn't under the light so I can only guess at the par reading (it starts dropping as soon as it's moved from the light). On my Samsung Galaxy s8+ it appears to be reading very low.

What's new

We added many small improvements and made Photone more performant.