Lumariver Depth of Field vs phNotes Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lumariver Depth of Field
This tool helps photographers achieve maximum sharpness in their images, especially for landscapes and architecture. It offers practical calculations for depth of field, including tilted effects and focus stacking, with a user-friendly interface optimized for one-hand use in the field.
- Depth of field calculation
- Tilted depth of field support
- Focus stacking calculations
- Customizable circle of confusion
- Dual circle of confusion sizes
- One-hand operation UI
- Custom camera and lens profiles
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The Lumariver Depth of Field Calculator is an app that helps you maximize the sharpness of your photographs. It’s primarily intended for landscape, architecture and all other genres where the goal is to have a sharp image front to back. Rather than being a calculator for theoretical exercises it’s designed for being a practical tool in the field, and it has a thorough user manual that describes real use cases. The user interface is optimized for one-hand operation using scrollers. In addition to the normal depth of field calculator it supports tilted depth of field (tilt-shift lenses, Scheimpflug principle) as well as focus stacking. The functions you don't intend to use can be turned off to keep the user interface as clean and simple as possible. Custom circle of confusion sizes can be set, which in addition to a fixed number may be relative to airy disc diameter and/or pixel pitch. It even supports dual circle of confusion sizes, one “sharp” and one “soft” to make it easy to do controlled trade-offs in difficult situations. By entering your own camera(s) and lenses once you have them easily accessible by name making the workflow efficient in the field. Distances can be shown either in meters or in decimal feet.
phNotes Pro
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*** If you like this app please take the time and leave a feedback, this will help me a lot in maintaining it and add additional features. Thank you! *** This simple but powerful app allows photographers who use manual lenses, technical/view cameras, adapted gears with digital or even analog film photography to take note of the most important parameters of each shot taken on the field. Additionally, with the Pro version all annotations can be easily exported through email or into your cloud storage. When back home/studio, the freely downloadable desktop companion application "PhotoAnnotator" can read the exported data and automatically write all annotations as EXIF/IPTC metadata into the corresponding image files (RAW, TIFF, JPEG, etc...). This is particularly useful in all cases where the shooting parameters are not automatically written by the camera into the image files. Your image and shooting annotations can then live together in one single file. FEATURES (PRO VERSION): - Supported annotations: image counter, shoot date, camera make and model, lens make and model, filter, shutter speed, aperture value, focus distance, shift and tilt movements, film, GPS location, additional notes. - GPS location automatically read from the iPhone's GPS system. - Ability to swipe-clone an existing image for fast editing in the field. - Ability to swipe-delete single photos. - Ability to manage a list of cameras. - Ability to manage a list of lenses. - Ability to manage a list of filters. - Ability to manage a list of films. - Ability to clear the whole session after having exported it. - Contextual help available. - Ability to save unlimited image entries (the LITE version is limited to 12 max). - Ability to export all data via the standard iOS sharing machanism. - The companion desktop app PhotoAnnotator can be freely downloaded at https://www.marcoristuccia.com/it/photoannotator - The companion desktop app PhotoAnnotator supports all the major RAW and image types (see the application description at the indicated web page for more details).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Lumariver Depth of Field at every 11 days against phNotes Pro's every 6 weeks. phNotes Pro's advantage is price ($5.99 vs $8.99). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Lumariver Depth of Field costs $8.99 and phNotes Pro $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lumariver Depth of Field ships an update every 11 days, phNotes Pro every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lumariver Depth of Field | phNotes Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | $5.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.3 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Xarepo AB | Marco Ristuccia |
In-app purchases
Lumariver Depth of Field
No in-app purchases
phNotes Pro
No in-app purchases
Questions
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