Comparison

SyncOnSet 5.0 vs Lookbook

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

Head to head
About

SyncOnSet 5.0

This Emmy Award-winning tool streamlines TV and film production for creative departments. It digitally manages script breakdowns, continuity photos, inventory, and approvals from prep to wrap, optimizing workflows and communication.

Highlights
  • Digital script breakdowns
  • Continuity photo management
  • Inventory tracking
  • Approvals and notes
  • Department-specific workflows
  • Pre-production to wrap management
Features
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SyncOnSet is an Emmy Award-winning digital continuity and collaboration tool that helps streamline TV and Film production from prep to wrap. With SyncOnSet, your whole team can digitally manage script breakdowns, continuity photos, inventory, approvals, notes, and much more! Designed for Costume, Hair, Makeup, Props and Set Dec departments, SyncOnSet helps optimize workflows and secure communication throughout the life of a project. Creative departments use SyncOnSet production apps from pre-production (script breakdown and budgeting) to principal photography (continuity notes and photos), through wrap (wrap labels and reports).

About

Lookbook

Features
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Lookbook is the working day of a film makeup, hair or makeup-effects department in one place, built to work in a trailer with no signal, because that is where the department works. CONTINUITY THAT LABELS ITSELF Shoot a continuity photo and the label is already on it: character, actor, episode, scene, story day, set, in the format departments hand-write today. Compare two takes side by side, carry holds across scenes, print 4×6s to the trailer printer or share a labelled PDF. Tags like "soot level 2" become findable instead of buried in a camera roll. THE CALL SHEET FILES ITSELF Put the show's own Lookbook address on the distro and whatever the office sends lands sorted and read: call sheet, sides, script, one-liner, chrono, shooting schedule, day-out-of-days, background breakdown. The sheet fills the day with scenes, the full cast table, your department's calls, background counts and locations, and arrival alarms follow. Not on the distro yet? Photograph the sheet or add the file. Same result. FROM THE CHAIR TO THE TIMECARD Chair in and out feeds the daily time report. Weekly timecards fill the payroll company's own official PDF for the show's jurisdiction, mapped by real weekday, signed on screen, locked once signed. Rates come from your deal on this production, never a guess. Social insurance numbers are never stored, anywhere. THE SHOW'S UNION, NAMED Twenty-one bodies in one vocabulary, from IATSE 891 and 706 to ACFC, AQTIS and the European agreements. The show and the artist both pick from it. The rule book for the show's agreement sits in the app, and the time card that suits the show is the one that prints. BACKGROUND DAYS WITHOUT THE CLIPBOARD The wrangler's list is one document for the whole day. Photograph it, or have it emailed in, and it lands split at its own headings, role by role. One tap per performer through the chair, numbered reference photos, big groups shot a few at a time and counted by heads, and a printable numbered record of everyone. THE DEPARTMENT, CONNECTED Crew chat with pins, polls, voice notes and photos that carry their continuity labels, sealed end to end. No service at all? One phone hosts the trailer's Local Net and the chat hops phone to phone. Reference boards for the look of the day. A day-call calendar with offers artists accept from their phone. EXPENSES, SNAPPED AND READ Snap the receipt and the line writes itself. Petty cash floated and closed out, P-card and PO kept apart, every expense against the department budget. Kit rental rates and start dates on the pieces you rent to the show. FREE FOR ARTISTS, ALWAYS Your card, your credit book, your résumé, your availability calendar and your portfolio stay with you after wrap, show after show. Productions license Lookbook for the run of the show. Artists never pay. OFFLINE FIRST, FOR REAL Everything above works with zero signal. Your phone is the source of truth; the cloud is a mirror. When signal returns, everything syncs. Wrap is shared: the day closes for the whole crew when it is called, and each artist wraps themselves out. EIGHT LANGUAGES English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese. The language is yours; the show's paper stays exactly as the office sent it. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Per-production access control enforced in the database, private deals and calendars, automatic access expiry for day players, security levels a production sets for itself, and full account deletion. Lookbook is for department heads, keys, dailies and day players across Makeup, Hair and MUFX on film and episodic television. Built by working IATSE crew in British Columbia, in daily use on real shows. Join a show with an invite code in seconds, or run your own department on it today.

Screenshots

SyncOnSet 5.04 screens
Lookbook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Lookbook at every 6 days against SyncOnSet 5.0's monthly. SyncOnSet 5.0's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SyncOnSet 5.0 ships an update monthly, Lookbook every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SyncOnSet 5.0 versus Lookbook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSyncOnSet 5.0Lookbook
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.7 (61 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews2.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings61 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB173 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developerwymsee Inc.Order Dynamics inc.

Bugs and requests

SyncOnSet 5.0

Reported bugs

18 issues
  • App crashes
  • Photos take forever to upload
  • App never loads
  • Multi-factor ID issues
  • Frequent logouts
Show 13 more
  • SyncOnSet not working with T-Mobile
  • App barely works
  • New EP version wouldn't start
  • New app moves slower
  • App rarely responds to touch
  • App lags constantly
  • Takes minutes to view loaded photos
  • Cannot open app
  • Password reset issues
  • Old app having problems
  • Photos not synced
  • Cannot access changes through main page
  • Photos in gallery difficult to access

Requested features

11 requests
  • Bring back the old app
  • Improve desktop tagging
  • Better/simpler fitting info view
  • Label continuity photos
  • Make app more efficient
Show 6 more
  • Improve search functionality for costume items
  • Allow desktop functionality on app
  • Improve cast/character sorting
  • Easier access to changes
  • Allow adding photos per episode
  • Make it easier to add background/edit on app

Lookbook

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SyncOnSet 5.0

No in-app purchases

None

Lookbook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SyncOnSet 5.0 free?
SyncOnSet 5.0 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lookbook free?
Lookbook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SyncOnSet 5.0 or Lookbook have ads?
Neither SyncOnSet 5.0 nor Lookbook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SyncOnSet 5.0 or Lookbook?
SyncOnSet 5.0 ships an update monthly, and Lookbook every 6 days. Most recently, SyncOnSet 5.0 was updated on October 20, 2026 and Lookbook on October 17, 2026.

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