Profoto Control vs FileFlow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Profoto Control
Control Profoto Bluetooth-enabled lighting equipment remotely from your smartphone. Adjust settings with intuitive touch controls and ensure your gear is up-to-date with easy firmware updates.
- Smart remote control
- View and control Profoto Bluetooth products
- Touch, swipe, and tweak lighting
- Easy firmware updates
- Update Profoto Bluetooth products
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The Profoto Control app has been created for the modern, connected photographers that want to get the most out of their creative workflow – whether using a DSLR or Mirrorless camera. This is the Profoto experience at its best. Key features: SMART REMOTE CONTROL View and control all Profoto Bluetooth-enabled products from your smartphone screen. Touch, swipe and tweak until you get the light just right. EASY UPDATES The latest updates for Profoto Bluetooth-enabled products are now available at your fingertips. Update quickly from the app, so you are ready to shoot with the latest, improved firmware. Ultimately, this app lets you be as creative as you can be. LOOKING FOR PROFOTO CAMERA APP? Looking for a way to create images with your smartphone and Profoto lights? Search App Store for “Profoto Camera” and start using it! Please send your feedback and feature ideas to hello@profoto.com! Love, Profoto team.
FileFlow
This app facilitates instant photo sharing, searching, and downloading for photographers and their clients. It allows for quick delivery of images to clients' devices and seamless sharing via various platforms.
- Search and download photos
- Instant photo sharing
- Batch high-resolution downloads
- Mobile file size optimization
- Direct sharing via social media and messaging
- Access personal photo archives
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FileFlow is an app for PhotoShelter that lets stakeholders, team members, photographers and their clients search, download, upload, and share photos instantly. For PhotoShelter photographers, FileFlow is the best way to get your photos onto a client's iPhone. With this mobile delivery tool, clients can search, download and share invited content on the fly. Plus, it's a lightweight app you can use to access your own archive, post quickly to social media, text photos to clients and more. For PhotoShelter Brands teams, all of your stakeholders can now access your library from their iPhones, and share files instantly via text, social media, Slack, email and more. FileFlow is the last step in a real-time workflow, allowing you to share your best content anytime, anywhere. The app allows users to: - Browse, search and download invited content - Download high resolution files in batch, with the ability to choose a smaller file size for mobile - Quickly share files via social media, messaging, Slack, email and more This app has been tested by hundreds of PhotoShelter for Brands teams, photographers and their clients, and now it’s your turn! Let us know what you think at support@photoshelter.com. P.S. The excitement doesn’t end here – we are already working on the next version of the FileFlow app. In future versions, you’ll be able to: - Download anonymously or via password - Set permissions, quick send files, and take other actions you would take on your desktop - Upload files **You’ll need an active PhotoShelter account; requires login via username and password.**
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Profoto Control at 896 against FileFlow's 2. Profoto Control also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.5). FileFlow's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
Profoto Control holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Profoto Control has 896 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Profoto Control's written reviews are positive against 42% of FileFlow's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Profoto Control ships an update every 2 months, FileFlow every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and July 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Profoto Control | FileFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (896 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 38.0% of reviews | 41.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 896 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Profoto | PhotoShelter |
Customer experience
Profoto Control
FileFlow
Bugs and requests
Profoto Control
Reported bugs
4 issues- Unable to register equipment in the app
- App crashes on launch or when connecting to lights
- Firmware update process is unreliable
- Inconsistent exposure and zoom support
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for more Profoto light models
- Improve camera integration and functionality
- Implement independent light group control
- Provide localization in more languages
FileFlow
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Profoto Control
No in-app purchases
FileFlow
No in-app purchases
Questions
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