Comparison

Chroma Key | Green Screen vs Prop Screen

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

Head to head
About

Chroma Key | Green Screen

This app provides a green screen effect with tracking marks for your Apple devices. It offers flexible chroma options for various lighting conditions and intuitive controls for seamless integration into your video editing workflow.

Highlights
  • Green and blue chroma options
  • Adjustable tracking marks
  • Hold down functionality
  • Intuitive and minimalist design
  • Supports iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV
Features
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CHROMA KEY is the essential tool if you need a green screen with tracking mark in your iPhone, iPad, Mac or AppleTV How many times have you heard: “This will be solved in postproduction”? Being surrounded by the suitable tools let your results become flawless. Chroma Key can help you with:
 - Day or Night / Green or Blue: Whether if you need a bright wallpaper or one in complete darkness. Green and blue chromas to help you in both situations just in one finger tap. - Tracking marks: to facilitate the work of your VFX guys, the app has differents tracking mark to select. It doesn’t matter in which situation your filming, choose the default tracking marks or the high contrast ones, designed specifically for tough situations. - Hold down: Whether if you have to interact with the iPhone or if in your chroma everything is visual, the app adapts to you. Choose the best option for every moment. You are the one deciding how and when you leave the chroma view. - Intuitive y minimalist: We have polished every detail so that you don’t find any problem. Everything is where it is supposed to be. You don't need to adapt to the app, the app will adapt to you. «Today, with computer-generated visual effects, everything is possible. So we've seen everything. If it can be imagined, it can be put on screen.» Gabriel Campisi

About

Prop Screen

This app transforms your iPhone into a customizable screen prop for film and TV production. Create realistic mock phone interfaces, including call screens, message threads, and notifications, to enhance your visual storytelling. It offers offline functionality and is designed for professional use on set.

Highlights
  • Customizable call screens
  • Simulated messaging conversations
  • Prop notifications
  • Full-screen playback
  • Green screen mode with tracking
  • Home screen designer
  • Offline functionality
Features
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PropScreen is the professional prop device simulator built for film and television production. Stop fighting with personal phones, paper green screens, or post-production fixes. Prop Screen turns an iPhone or iPad into a fully custom screen prop that adapts to your script. Every tool was designed by working filmmakers to solve real problems on set. WHAT'S INSIDE • Prop Call Screens — custom contact name, photo, ringtone, era-specific layouts, outgoing and unknown-number calls, lose-signal effects, volume-button trigger for hands-free cueing • Prop Video Calls — pre-recorded video for the remote caller, live front camera framing your actor • Prop Messaging — full blue- and green-bubble threads with photos and locations, played live or staged for actor delivery • Prop Notifications — bundled and custom app icons, banner or lock-screen layouts, stackable to tell a story • Prop Screen Playback — lockable fullscreen playback for any screen recording your production needs • Green Screen Mode — chroma screen with built-in tracking markers for VFX compositing • Prop Home Screen Designer — build any home screen layout, export as a transparent PNG • Project folders to keep a show organized Recent Update: • Director Mode — Pair a second device and run the performance phone remotely. Cue scripts beat by beat, watch typing mirrored live, trigger prop calls and notifications, and drive every prop app while your actor performs on a script-locked keyboard. Bluetooth clicker remotes supported. • Prop Security — A simulated camera wall with tap-in live views, event lists, and running timestamps. • Prop Maps — Repeatable navigation and driving directions with custom markers. Stop swapping screens between takes in a picture car. • Prop Social Messages — Chat props in five social platform styles. • Prop Live — A simulated livestream with an auto-generated, scene-reactive audience you can cue from Director Mode. • Prop Social Feeds — Scrollable photo, video, and story feeds built from your own posts. • Prop Mail - Create incoming and outgoing mail messages. • Prop Tube — Customize popular online video hosting services. • Prop Dating — Swipe left, swipe right, mock a dating experience for your scene. • Clean Mode — One switch loads an original app set with custom per-project names and icons. • 12 on-camera languages — Set each project's phone language independently, including Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Hindi, and Russian, each with its real keyboard. App interface now in 11 languages (beta). • Export for edit — Send prop message and social conversations to After Effects or DaVinci Resolve as transparent video, every bubble editable, typing animated. Import scripts from spreadsheets. • Backups you own — Automatic backup to your own iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or Google Drive. Three named versions per device, one-file project export, nothing on our servers. • Built for iPad — A native iPad layout, not an upscaled iPhone build. • Adds cross platform support in Director Mode. BUILT FOR PRODUCTION Everything stays local to your device. Prop Screen does not place calls, send messages, or transmit any content. It is a self-contained visual prop tool, designed exclusively for staged content creation in film, television, theater, and photography. PROPSCREEN PRO • Every prop screen in the app • Unlimited saved projects across every tool • Custom imports — contact photos, ringtones, app icons, posters, screen recordings • Director Mode and volume-button trigger control • Works fully offline once installed • No ads, no accounts, no data collection WHAT'S NEXT Prop Screen ships regular updates driven by crew feedback. Need something for your next production? Tap the info icon in the app to email us directly. Designed for use on professional film and television productions. Built by Game Night Films & Film Swag. By downloading PropScreen, you agree to Apple's standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Chroma Key | Green Screen3 screens
Prop Screen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Prop Screen at Free against Chroma Key | Green Screen's $0.99. Prop Screen also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 13 months). Chroma Key | Green Screen's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and device support (6 vs 2). On review sentiment 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

Prop Screen is free to download; Chroma Key | Green Screen costs $0.99 up front. Prop Screen sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Chroma Key | Green Screen asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Prop Screen holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 39% of Chroma Key | Green Screen's written reviews are positive against 38% of Prop Screen's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chroma Key | Green Screen ships an update every 13 months, Prop Screen weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Chroma Key | Green Screen versus Prop Screen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChroma Key | Green ScreenProp Screen
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (20 ratings)4.8 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews39.3% of reviews — better37.5% of reviews
Number of ratings20 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB86 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid PerezGame Night Films

Customer experience

Chroma Key | Green Screen

All ratings20 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive39.3%
Neutral3.6%
Negative57.1%

Prop Screen

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Chroma Key | Green Screen

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Prop Screen

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$89.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$999.99

Questions

Is Chroma Key | Green Screen free?
Chroma Key | Green Screen costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Prop Screen free?
Prop Screen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chroma Key | Green Screen or Prop Screen?
Prop Screen is rated higher. Chroma Key | Green Screen averages 4.0 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Prop Screen averages 4.8 from 6 ratings.
Do Chroma Key | Green Screen or Prop Screen have ads?
Neither Chroma Key | Green Screen nor Prop Screen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chroma Key | Green Screen or Prop Screen?
Chroma Key | Green Screen ships an update every 13 months, and Prop Screen weekly. Most recently, Chroma Key | Green Screen was updated on October 29, 2026 and Prop Screen on October 28, 2026.

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