On Set Updates vs Haystack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Live updating digital call sheet
- View recently completed days
- Push notification alerts
- Update callsheet on the fly
- Requires free account from onsetupdates.com
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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
Haystack
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Haystack is an all-in-one production solution for revolutionising and improving efficiency and workflow across the film and TV industry. Currently operating across Costume, Hair and Make-Up, we ensure teams can work together to create seamless notes, photos and detailed tracking of garments and kit across the whole production process. With an automated sync, teams can work online or on remote location without interruption. Also offering detailed seamless solutions to speed up and simplify prep and wrap, Haystack ensures nothing is ever lost across productions as garments and kit can be easily identified and located using our revolutionary new system. Having been used on several productions so far, we ensure time-saving tech to help find that needle in a Haystack quicker and more efficiently. Haystack is a great resource and tool for you departments on your next production.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Haystack at every 5 weeks against On Set Updates's every 4 months. On Set Updates's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On Set Updates ships an update every 4 months, Haystack every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | On Set Updates | Haystack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | On Set Software Ltd | Another Haystack Ltd. |
In-app purchases
On Set Updates
No in-app purchases
Haystack
No in-app purchases







