Flow Capture vs Preston Cinema
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flow Capture
This advanced platform streamlines filmmaking production by offering a seamless digital experience for dailies and real-time footage streaming to crews worldwide. It compresses production timelines, reduces costs, and enhances overall quality.
- Advanced production platform
- State-of-the-art engineering
- Beautiful user interface
- Digital dailies experience
- Real-time footage streaming
- Global crew collaboration
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Flow Capture is an Advanced Production Platform for Filmmakers. Founded by filmmakers, who leveraged their deep industry experience to re-imagine what a filmmaking platform could be. Flow Capture Dailies With state-of-the-art engineering and a beautiful user interface, our customers believe this is the best digital experience they have encountered for Dailies. Flow Capture Immediates Unique to Flow Capture, Immediates extends the platform to a new level of collaboration with camera footage and metadata streamed to your crew anywhere in the world, seconds after the camera has stopped recording. Flow Capture compresses production time-frames - reducing costs, driving efficiencies and increasing quality. We call this Immediates. Filmmakers call it revolutionary.
Preston Cinema
Update your professional camera equipment firmware wirelessly via Bluetooth. Store and share lens data locally on your device for easy access and community collaboration.
- Wireless firmware updates
- Bluetooth connectivity
- Local lens data database
- Share lens data via multiple platforms
- Compatible with various Preston modules
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Update your Preston FI+Z equipment with the latest firmware anywhere there is cellular data or Wi-Fi through your iPhone and the Preston Bluetooth Module. The Bluetooth Module connects to Preston FI+Z units through the serial port. In addition, this app creates a local database on your iPhone for storing your HU3/HU4 lens data. The lens data can be accessed at any time for upload to your HU3/HU4 or shared with other members of the Preston community. Sharing is supported via email, text, Google Drive, Dropbox, WeTransfer or any other file sharing app. The Bluetooth Module is compatible with the HU3, HU4, MDR-4, MDR-3, MDR-2, LR2, LR2W, LR2M, and Video Interface.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Preston Cinema at 4.0 against Flow Capture's 3.3. Preston Cinema also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). Flow Capture's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Preston Cinema holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 5 respectively.
Flow Capture ships an update fortnightly, Preston Cinema every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flow Capture | Preston Cinema |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (7 ratings) | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 134 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Moxion | Preston Cinema Systems |
Customer experience
Flow Capture
Preston Cinema
In-app purchases
Flow Capture
No in-app purchases
Preston Cinema
No in-app purchases
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