Comparison

On Set Updates vs Crew Call

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

On Set Updates

This app provides live digital call sheets for the film and television industry, keeping users informed about on-set activities. It offers real-time updates, historical data, and push notifications for key events like scene completion and schedule changes.

Highlights
  • Live updating digital call sheet
  • View recently completed days
  • Push notification alerts
  • Update callsheet on the fly
  • Requires free account from onsetupdates.com
Features
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Live digital callsheet for the film and television industry. Keeps you in touch with every event on set. From turnover to wrap, we help keep your finger on the pulse of on set activity. - View a live updating digital callsheet for the current shooting day - Look back at recently completed days - Push notification alerts inform you when scenes are completed, for turnover, lunch and wrap or if the scene order is changed - Update the callsheet on the fly directly in the app Requires a free account from onsetupdates.com

About

Crew Call

Streamline time tracking and invoicing for freelance film crews. Log workdays, equipment, and breaks, then generate detailed timesheets and reports. Manage multiple jobs and calculate income with customizable rates.

Highlights
  • Track pre, shoot, and post days
  • Log equipment usage
  • Generate weekly timesheets and custom reports
  • Review hours and income by period
  • Multi-user mode for department timekeeping
  • Customizable income calculations
  • Equipment management
Features
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Manage your time on-set with Crew Call, the only time tracking and invoicing app purpose-built for freelance film crew. Track pre, shoot and post days for multiple jobs. Keep tabs on equipment used. Generate weekly timesheets or custom reports. Review your hours and income by week, month, quarter or year. Record call and wrap times for a whole department with Multi User Mode. Crew Call has been created from the ground up by Bradley Andrew, a freelance VTR Operator / DIT from Melbourne, Australia. Made by Film Crew for Film Crew! FEATURE OVERVIEW WORK DAYS - Add work days one by one or set up your week in advance by adding multiple pre, shoot and post days with a single tap. Log call times, wrap times, travel times and meal breaks. Record equipment used on a day-to-day basis. Quickly note camera wrap and drive away times. JOBS - Create jobs of any length, from two day TVCs to six month Feature Films. Set up jobs as you see fit, customise night loadings, minimum day length and pension contributions. Add work days to jobs for a running tally of hours worked and income earned. TIMESHEETS - Weekly Timesheets can be generated for single crew members or a whole department. Crew Call’s timesheets are modelled on real-life templates provided by the accounts department to ensure they fit in seamlessly with your production. REPORTS - Generate PDF/CSV Reports for an entire job or for individual work days. This is a great way to share a complete breakdown of each day’s labour, equipment and notes. Reports can be customised depending on their purpose. OVERVIEWS - Browse through weeks, months, quarters or years to get a better understanding of your work life. Custom timelines and charts give you a visual overview of hours worked, labour income and equipment earnings. MULTI USER SUPPORT - This allows one crew member to record call, wrap and travel times for an entire department. Essential for long form jobs where time keeping is usually allocated to one person. Easily share PDF Reports or Timesheets with the production office or other crew members. INCOME CALCULATION - Crew Call will automatically estimate your earnings based on work hours. Film sets all over the world calculate their overtime differently so we let you create your own overtime calculations. What is your daily base rate? How many hours of double time do you work until triple time kicks in? 1.0x, 1.5x, 2.0x and 3.0x are supported. Set default overtime rates or apply them to individual jobs. HALF DAYS, FLAT RATE & DAILY BUMP - Set Half Days based on a percentage of your base rate. Use a Flat Rate when you need to override normal income calculations. Step up to a different role with Daily Bump. EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT - Add unlimited equipment items to your equipment list. Record daily or weekly equipment rates. Create categories to stay organised. Equipment inventories of any size are supported. Edit easily with CSV Import/Export. EQUIPMENT IMPORT - Download the Crew Call CSV Template to set up your equipment list with spreadsheet software. Perfect for crew who have large equipment inventories. Import the edited CSV to Crew Call and all of your new Equipment and Categories will be added automatically. EQUIPMENT EXPORT - Export equipment by category or all at once. Easily share your Equipment Lists with other crew members via AirDrop or Email. Ideal if you have someone else running your gear, van or truck. DATA PRIVACY - Jobs and Work Days that you create with Crew Call are stored on a secure, local database within your iPhone. This ensures that your personal information is kept safe and sound. CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT - Crew Call is constantly being improved to keep up with the changing demands of our industry. Is there a feature that will make your life easier? Please get in touch and I’ll do my best to make it a reality. CONTACT - crewcall.software@gmail.com TERMS OF USE - https://crewcall.xyz/terms-of-use/ PRIVACY POLICY - https://crewcall.xyz/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

On Set Updates3 screens
Crew Call4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Crew Call at 86% against On Set Updates's 0%. Crew Call also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). On Set Updates's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Crew Call sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $69.99 per year. On Set Updates asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Crew Call holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crew Call has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of On Set Updates's written reviews are positive against 86% of Crew Call's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

On Set Updates ships an update every 4 months, Crew Call monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
On Set Updates versus Crew Call: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOn Set UpdatesCrew Call
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)4.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews86.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB116 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOn Set Software LtdAuron Studios Pty Ltd

Customer experience

On Set Updates

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Crew Call

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive86.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.6%

In-app purchases

None

On Set Updates

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Crew Call

Subscriptions1
  • Crew Call Premium$69.991 Year

Questions

Is On Set Updates free?
On Set Updates is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crew Call free?
Crew Call is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, On Set Updates or Crew Call?
Crew Call is rated higher. On Set Updates averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Crew Call averages 4.0 from 8 ratings.
Do On Set Updates or Crew Call have ads?
Neither On Set Updates nor Crew Call shows ads.
Which is updated more often, On Set Updates or Crew Call?
On Set Updates ships an update every 4 months, and Crew Call monthly. Most recently, On Set Updates was updated on June 11, 2026 and Crew Call on September 20, 2026.

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