LitEnergy A4 Tracing Light Box review: bright and affordable help for creatives

The LitEnergy A4 Tracing Light Box shines bright without burning a hole in your wallet.

The LitEnergy A4 Tracing Light Box on a table
(Image: © Erlingur Einarsson)

Our Verdict

We can recommend the LitEnergy A4 Tracing Light Box for budget-conscious artists who want a bright and reliable lightbox for tracing. The simple controls and USB-connected power make things nice and easy for the user, but it does get quite hot with prolonged use.

For

  • Very bright
  • Affordable
  • Light

Against

  • Gets hot

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Lightboxes like the LitEnergy A4 Tracing Light Box are a useful utility for many types of creatives. The most obvious use, of course is for the headline one; tracing, but a good LED lightbox can be of valuable use in sewing, crafting, and photography for artists and creative people to see their projects in detail. 

What all the best lightboxes have in common, though, is that they all help make creative work easier. The LitEnergy Light Box, with its attractive price tag, aims to hit a broad part of that market, from kids honing their creative skills, to students and professionals using a lightbox for work, and hobbyists who like a doodle or a craft activity and need to be able to trace. So how did we get on with it? 

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The Verdict
7.8

out of 10

LitEnergy A4 Tracing Light Box

We can recommend the LitEnergy A4 Tracing Light Box for budget-conscious artists who want a bright and reliable lightbox for tracing. The simple controls and USB-connected power make things nice and easy for the user, but it does get quite hot with prolonged use.

Erlingur Einarsson
Tech Reviews Editor

Erlingur is the Tech Reviews Editor on Creative Bloq. Having worked on magazines devoted to Photoshop, films, history, and science for over 15 years, as well as working on Digital Camera World and Top Ten Reviews in more recent times, Erlingur has developed a passion for finding tech that helps people do their job, whatever it may be. He loves putting things to the test and seeing if they're all hyped up to be, to make sure people are getting what they're promised. Still can't get his wifi-only printer to connect to his computer. 

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