Comparison

CreativeGrading vs Photo VectorScope

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

CreativeGrading

This application provides a revolutionary camera shading control panel for professional camera series. It offers a holistic view of organic curves and color shaping, simplifying artistic decision-making with a graphical representation of parameter changes for enhanced control.

Highlights
  • Revolutionary camera shading control
  • Tablet and control panel interface
  • Holistic view of organic curves
  • Graphical representation of parameter changes
  • System-wide view of image modification
  • Enhanced artistic decision-making
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With Grass Valley's new Creative Grading, the Focus and LDX camera series just unleashed their full potential. Creative Grading is a new camera shading control panel and tablet application that redefines the human interface and puts the user in full control of the creative power that lives inside Grass Valley cameras. Using either or both a tablet and an intensively-tested new control panel, Creative Grading transforms camera shading from what was numeric on/off thinking to a holistic view of organic curves and color shaping. For ease in visualization, the larger UI of the tablet application provides a graphical representation of the impact of parameter changes. Artistic decision-making is much simpler and faster as shaders can see how a single change affects related sets of parameters in a system-wide view of how the on-screen image will be modified. This keeps shaders in full control, regardless of the situation and provides the camera operator with the most optimal working conditions for the task.

About

Photo VectorScope

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Color balance and affect color attributes of your images. The vectorscope display helps you to visualize how an image is being effected by your changes. Balance the colors of photographs you have taken on your camera or images stored in folders, including photographic negatives. Use gestures; pinch, zoom, rotate, and drag to; desaturate, saturate, change hue, and tint an image. Brightness controls are found on the lower left of the screen.

Screenshots

Photo VectorScope4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CreativeGrading at none against Photo VectorScope's 3. CreativeGrading also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). Photo VectorScope's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 57 months) and device support (5 vs 1). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Photo VectorScope sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. CreativeGrading asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CreativeGrading ships an update every 57 months, Photo VectorScope monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
CreativeGrading versus Photo VectorScope: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCreativeGradingPhoto VectorScope
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 57 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGrass Valley USA, LLCBump To The Head Production, LLC

In-app purchases

None

CreativeGrading

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Photo VectorScope

One-time3
  • Photo VectorScope (iOS)$1.99
  • Photo VectorScope (MacOS)$2.99
  • Photo VectorScope (VisionPro)$3.99

Questions

Is CreativeGrading free?
CreativeGrading is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Photo VectorScope free?
Photo VectorScope is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CreativeGrading or Photo VectorScope have ads?
Neither CreativeGrading nor Photo VectorScope shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CreativeGrading or Photo VectorScope?
CreativeGrading ships an update every 57 months, and Photo VectorScope monthly. Most recently, CreativeGrading was updated on June 11, 2026 and Photo VectorScope on September 15, 2026.

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