Subscription & Pro Features
What Is Apex Lucis Pro?
Apex Lucis Pro is a subscription that unlocks eight features. Everything else is included with the app — the whole business side, the offline sun, moon and Milky Way calculations, tide predictions, weather, wildlife, aurora and colour forecasts, locations, gear, the photographic calculators, shot lists, trips, permits, studio bookings, widgets, Live Activities, Siri and Shortcuts, notifications and data export.
Pro Features
| Feature | What It Adds |
|---|---|
| Profit and Loss | See revenue, expenses and profit for any period in one place |
| Insights | Which locations do you use the most? Which clients bring you the most work? |
| Moon Alignment | Find the exact date, time and place to stand to get the moon behind your subject |
| Optimal Windows | Rank every hour worth driving for across all your saved locations, ten days ahead |
| Crew & Call Sheets | Call sheets, crew and talent rosters with fees and call times, and model releases |
| Custom PDF Templates | Bring your own invoices, contracts, call sheets, crew sheets and model releases |
| HTML Documents | Send a call sheet or Shoot Day Notes as a single HTML file anyone can open, with nothing to install |
| Automations | Rules that draft the email, raise the invoice and write the chase — each one prepared for you to check, never sent on its own |
| Future Pro Features | Anything added to Pro from here is included at no extra cost |
What You See Without Pro
The Pro sections stay where they are. On the Business and Planning screens their cards carry a PRO badge, and opening one shows an upgrade screen in place of its content — a sentence on what the feature does for you, and Unlock with Pro. Nothing else in the app changes.
Optimal Windows is the exception — it runs rather than locks. Without Pro you get a real scan of your three nearest locations over three days, ranked and complete. Beneath the results, the locations it did not reach are named behind an Unlock with Pro panel. With Pro, every saved location in range is scanned across ten days. See Optimal Windows.
In particular, you can still produce every document without Pro — invoices, contracts, call sheets, crew sheets and model releases all generate using the built-in template for their type. Pro is what lets you import and use your own layouts.
The messages you send are free. The wording of every email Apex Lucis writes for you — enquiry replies, invoice chases, delivery notices, review requests — is yours to edit without a subscription. See Templates.
HTML Documents covers the pages you hand to someone else: the Shoot Day Notes on a booking and Share as HTML on a call sheet. The PDF of the same content is free, so nothing you could produce before is behind the gate.
Subscription Plans
| Plan | Description |
|---|---|
| Monthly | Billed monthly; cancel any time |
| Annual | Billed annually; lower effective monthly cost |
Both plans are shown in your local currency when you subscribe.
Subscribing
- Go to Settings → Apex Lucis Pro and tap Subscribe to Pro… — or open any Pro feature, such as Profit and Loss, Insights, Moon Alignment, Call Sheets or Crew, and tap Unlock with Pro. On Optimal Windows the button sits on the panel below your results; on Templates it sits on the Documents half, with Messages free beside it; on a booking it sits on the Shoot Day Notes card
- The Pro screen appears, with an example of what Optimal Windows finds and what the subscription includes: Business Tools, Planning Tools and All Future Pro Features
- Select Monthly or Annual. Where a free trial is offered, the button says so, and the line beneath it gives the price you’ll pay once it ends
- Confirm with Face ID / Touch ID / Apple ID password
- Pro access is unlocked immediately
Restoring a Purchase
If you upgrade devices or reinstall the app:
- Go to Settings → Apex Lucis Pro → Restore Purchases
- Sign in to the same Apple ID used to subscribe
- Pro access is restored automatically
Cancelling
Settings → Apex Lucis Pro shows whether you’re subscribed and when the current period ends. Tap Manage Subscription… to change plan or cancel — on iPhone and iPad it opens your subscription straight away; on a Mac it opens your subscriptions in the App Store.
You can also cancel through the system: on iPhone, Settings → [Your Name] → Subscriptions → Apex Lucis Pro → Cancel.
Your Pro access remains active until the end of the current billing period.