The best free projection mapping apps for Android (2026)

The projection mapping apps worth installing on an Android phone or tablet in October 2026 are Lazy Lighting, LumaDrip, PicoMap, ProMapper, and Kozo Technology's Projection Mapper and FluxBeam, plus Luxar if you have an Android TV device. Optoma Projection Mapper and DynaMapper, which older lists still recommend, are gone from Google Play.

This guide covers what each free version gives you, what you pay for, and how each app gets the picture to a projector. Most of these apps arrived on Google Play this year, and most have fewer than 1,000 downloads so far. Prices, download counts and features come from each app's US Google Play listing on October 27, 2026. They change often, so check the listing before you buy. Disclosure: we make Lazy Lighting, the first app below.

Where a listing doesn't say what the free version includes, we haven't guessed. Download it and look before you pay.

Lazy Lighting is made for people who want something on the wall tonight: Halloween and Christmas displays, room ambiance, party and band visuals. You add a Square, Circle, Text, Outline, Cube or Box shape and drag its corners on the phone while you watch it line up on the projection. It ships with about 195 built-in visuals, including 45 Halloween and 30 Christmas scenes, you can import your own photos and videos, and visuals can be sequenced on a timeline.

The free plan includes mapping, imports, masks and about 20 visuals, with a small watermark on the projector output and no session time limit. Pro unlocks the full library, removes the watermark, and adds project saving, audio reactivity, BPM sync with auto tempo, MIDI over USB, LFOs, live camera input, video export and Send to TV. Pro is a monthly, annual or lifetime plan, and there's a free trial; Google Play shows its length before you subscribe.

It runs on Android 8.0 or later, on phones and tablets, and its menus are in English only. The Android version has Depth Detection, which works out the near and far parts of an object from a photo so visuals can light them differently, and the Draw and Outline tools. A few tools are iPhone and iPad only: Shape Cutout, the Mapping Background Extract tool, hand and face tracking, and Depth Mode. MIDI controllers connect over USB, not Bluetooth.

To reach the projector, use a USB-C to HDMI adapter if your phone supports video output over USB-C, mirror with Smart View or Miracast, or install Lazy Lighting Link on an Android TV or Google TV projector, or on a Chromecast with Google TV, and cast over the same Wi-Fi network. Live Cast works on the free plan. Send to TV, which leaves your show looping on the TV after you put the phone away, is part of Pro.

LumaDrip has the most downloads of the other apps here, 5,000+ since it launched on Google Play in February 2026. It's aimed at creative hobbyists: you align visuals with touch controls, attach your own photos and videos with real-time effects, or pick from a library of generative light patterns. The listing says both the built-in patterns and your own media can react to music, and that you can swipe and tap on the phone to change the projection as it plays. It supports HDMI and wireless casting.

It shows ads and sells in-app purchases from $4.99 to $39.99, but the listing doesn't say what's free. It was last updated in March 2026, and the listing says the app is English only.

PicoMap, from the Japanese developer Code and DESIGN, says exactly what its free version includes: one layer with all the editing and playback tools: four-corner mapping, video and photo imports, rectangle, circle, triangle, diamond and custom masks, effects such as kaleidoscope, pixelate and strobe, audio-reactive and MIDI controls, and live controls like Freeze and Blackout. A single one-time purchase, $3.09 on Google Play, unlocks up to four layers, with no subscription.

One caution: its Google Play description is the iPhone one and talks about iPhone throughout, so check that your phone and adapter can send video to the projector. It has Japanese and English menus and was last updated in September 2026.

ProMapper is the Android version of Pro Mapper, which is also on iPhone and iPad. It arrived on Google Play in October 2026 and has 100+ downloads so far. It uses a surface-based workflow for multi-surface projects: you import videos and photos, and it includes grid patterns, solid colors, gradients and visualizer content for aligning and testing. The listing also says it has hundreds of ready-made visuals, with new ones every week. It outputs over HDMI, USB-C or wireless casting.

In-app purchases run from $3.99 to $49.99. The listing doesn't say what works without paying.

Kozo Technology makes two mapping apps with no in-app purchases. Projection Mapper: Video&Light maps triangles, quads and free-form polygons that you drag into place corner by corner, and fills each one with a photo, a video or a built-in animated pattern. You can group shapes to share one video, build your own patterns in its Pattern Studio, and save projects to a file. A short ad unlocks its full-screen Present mode each time you open the app, and again every few minutes.

FluxBeam: 3D Projection Mapper, released in October 2026, goes further: a warp mesh of up to 8×8 points for curved objects, 15 animated patterns, live camera input, blend modes, feathered edges and mask shapes, plus a Trace mode for copying artwork onto a wall through the camera, with no projector needed. A short video unlocks Present mode for ten minutes at a time, and it needs an internet connection to do that.

Neither listing names a cable or casting option. Present mode hides the controls and shows your mapping full screen on the phone, so plan on mirroring or cabling that screen to the projector.

Luxar splits the job in two. You install it on an Android TV device connected to the projector and on your phone or tablet, and the phone controls the TV over the same Wi-Fi network. You build several surface layers, adjust their four corners, and choose from real-time procedural effects rendered on the TV, with controls for speed, brightness, opacity and rotation. Projects and presets save on your device, and projects can be exported or imported as JSON files.

Its listing shows no in-app purchases or ads. It doesn't mention importing your own photos or videos, and without an Android TV device you can only plan projects in its Offline Studio Mode. It has 100+ downloads and was last updated in October 2026.

LayerMapper MApp is a VJ-style tool with a clip grid, unlimited layers, blend modes, multi-point meshes and Bézier curves, BPM sync and Ableton Link, and 16 preset slots. Its listing says it requires a purchase after a 30-day free trial: $11 a month, $44 a year or $88 for a lifetime license. The Google Play description is copied from the iPhone version, though (it mentions AirPlay and an Apple ID), so check what the Android version does before you pay.

• dil.map runs on the projector itself. You install it from Google Play on a Google TV or Android TV projector, or on a Google TV streaming device, then map surfaces with the remote or from the Dil Studio website in any browser. It has 1,000+ downloads, and its listing says some features and device limits depend on a subscription plan.
• Toasty - Projection Mapping projects live airplanes flying overhead, plus a star map and satellite tracker, onto your ceiling. Despite the name, its listing describes no tools for mapping shapes onto surfaces.
• Epson iProjection is Epson's app for mirroring your screen and projecting photos and PDFs wirelessly to supported Epson projectors. It's for presentations, not mapping.

Optoma Projection Mapper and DynaMapper are no longer on Google Play as of October 2026. DynaMapper's Android listing has been removed, and none of Optoma's current Google Play apps is a mapping app. MadMapper, often used as the benchmark, is desktop software for Mac and Windows with no Android version; our free projection mapping software guide covers it alongside the free desktop options.

Some lists also suggest VLC, which can play a video full screen on a projector but has no mapping tools, and a few still describe Lazy Lighting as iPhone-only. It runs on Android 8.0 or later.

• Cable: a USB-C to HDMI adapter or cable, if your phone supports video output over USB-C (DisplayPort Alt Mode). Many budget and mid-range phones don't, even though the port looks the same, so search for your model plus "DisplayPort Alt Mode" before you buy an adapter. It's the most reliable connection, with no lag.
• Screen mirroring: Smart View on Samsung phones, or Miracast on other phones, to a projector or dongle that supports it. It connects directly, without a router. Google Pixel phones don't support Miracast.
• Lazy Lighting Link → is our receiver app for Android TV and Google TV projectors, and for a Chromecast with Google TV plugged into any projector. The phone and the TV need to be on the same Wi-Fi network, Link installs from Google Play only, and it works only with Lazy Lighting.
• Other apps: ProMapper and LumaDrip list wireless casting, and Luxar and dil.map use their own Android TV apps.

• Halloween or Christmas displays with ready-made visuals, or you also use an iPhone or iPad: Lazy Lighting.
• A one-time purchase instead of a subscription: PicoMap, free with one layer, or $3.09 for four.
• Everything free, if you don't mind ads: Projection Mapper, or FluxBeam for curved objects.
• Generative visuals that react to music: LumaDrip.
• Multi-surface art or stage work: ProMapper.
• A Google TV or Android TV projector and no cable: Lazy Lighting with Lazy Lighting Link, or Luxar.

On iPhone or iPad instead? The iPhone and iPad roundup covers the App Store apps, several of which aren't on Android.