ZY Play vs Desview
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ZY Play
Unlock advanced camera controls for stunning photos and videos. This app integrates intelligent shooting modes like time lapse and slow motion, along with editing tools, to enhance your creative output. Connect to a professional stabilizer for professional-quality footage.
- Comprehensive camera controls
- Intelligent shooting modes
- Time lapse
- Long exposure
- Slow motion
- Video editing features
- Professional stabilizer integration
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ZY Play offers comprehensive camera controls for convenient photo & video shooting, combining various intelligent functions including time lapse, long exposure, slow motion and more to inspire your creativity. With easy-to-use design and a vast range of editing features, it is a must-have app for anyone who takes photos & videos. By conneting the APP to a ZHIYUN professional stabilizer, it helps you create film-grade footage that is once only possible with a crew.
Desview
This application offers a professional teleprompter display. Users can edit or import text, and customize playback speed, text size, font, and background color for optimal viewing. It supports multiple languages and adapts its menu to the phone's system language.
- Professional teleprompter display
- Text editing and import
- Adjustable playback speed
- Customizable text size, font, and background color
- Multi-language support
- Automatic language adaptation
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BestView teleprompter APP provides professional teleprompter display function, users not only can edit text but also can copy text into the App. When playing text, users can adjust the speed of playback, text size, font, and background color. Supports multi-language playback mode, and the menu can adapt automatically to the phone's system language.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ZY Play at 2.4 against Desview's 1.8. ZY Play also leads on ratings volume (660 vs 59) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12). Desview's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
ZY Play holds the better App Store score, 2.4 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ZY Play has 660 ratings behind it against 59, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of ZY Play's written reviews are positive against 13% of Desview's.
ZY Play ships an update every 2 months, Desview every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ZY Play | Desview |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (660 ratings) — better | 1.8 (59 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 15.8% of reviews — better | 13.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 660 — better | 59 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 12 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 287 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 桂林智神信息技术有限公司 | 贞元 陈 |
Customer experience
ZY Play
Desview
Bugs and requests
ZY Play
Reported bugs
5 issues- Frequent connection issues
- App crashes and freezes
- Tracking and stabilization not reliable
- Resolution and frame rate issues
- Saved footage not accessible
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for more gimbal models
- Improve motion time-lapse functionality
- Allow background operation for time-lapses
- Provide more camera control options
- Optimize battery usage
Desview
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ZY Play
No in-app purchases
Desview
No in-app purchases
