Lure Lux
iOS app by Ivanna Makarevych. Education · Ivanna Makarevych
- Store rating
- 0 / 5
- Store rating count
- 0
- Download price
- Free to download
- In-app purchases
- Unknown
- Version
- 2.0
- Listing last refreshed
- 2026-09-12
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Store description excerpt
Every lighthouse speaks a secret language — a coded rhythm of flashes, gaps, and colours that tells the watchful navigator exactly where they are and what danger lies ahead. Lure Lux puts that language in your hands. Whether you're preparing for an offshore qualification, sharpening your night-watch instincts, or simply captivated by the science of aids to navigation, Lure Lux is the most immersive way to learn, build, and drill nautical light characteristics — all inside a beautifully crafted nocturnal interface that feels like standing at the helm after dark. At the heart of the app is the Light Bench — an interactive sequencer where you compose real IALA light characteristics from scratch. Choose a character (Fixed, Flashing, Group Flashing, Occulting, Isophase, Quick), dial in the flash group, stretch or compress the period, and select white, port-red, or green. Watch the light animate live on a pure-black horizon, hear the beat of each flash onset, and feel haptic confirmation on every tick. Layer multiple colour sectors across a bearing arc to build a complete sectored light — just like a real buoy or lighthouse mark — then export a finished chart card straight to your Sightings vault. The Watch is a structured course of fifteen lessons, each covering one pillar of the IALA system — from fixed lights and basic flash counting through to cardinal marks, isolated-danger marks, and multi-colour sectors. Interactive lessons drive the bench sequencer in real time, so you learn by doing, not just reading. Finish a lesson and head straight into Sighting Drills: the app winks an unfamiliar light out of the dark and gives you one cycle to count the flashes, read the colour, and name the IALA identity — all against the clock. Score fast enough and unlock one of ten Commissions, each marked with a bespoke canvas medallion you can save to your photo library. The Light List rounds out the experience with a curated catalogue of 55 real-world aids to navigation — from Eddystone and Fastnet to Boston Light and Cape Hatteras — each with its full characteristic, a historical narrative, and a single tap to load it onto the Bench for practice or drilling. Three hand-crafted themes — Night Watch, Sodium Harbour, and Chart Daymark — let you shift from phosphor-green-on-black bridge atmosphere to the warm amber of sodium harbour lamps to the timeless feel of an aged Admiralty chart under a reading lamp. Lure Lux is the light-reader's companion you'll return to, voyage after voyage.
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