Crew Call vs Camera Sheets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crew Call
Streamline time tracking and invoicing for freelance film crews. Log workdays, equipment, and breaks, then generate detailed timesheets and reports. Manage multiple jobs and calculate income with customizable rates.
- Track pre, shoot, and post days
- Log equipment usage
- Generate weekly timesheets and custom reports
- Review hours and income by period
- Multi-user mode for department timekeeping
- Customizable income calculations
- Equipment management
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Manage your time on-set with Crew Call, the only time tracking and invoicing app purpose-built for freelance film crew. Track pre, shoot and post days for multiple jobs. Keep tabs on equipment used. Generate weekly timesheets or custom reports. Review your hours and income by week, month, quarter or year. Record call and wrap times for a whole department with Multi User Mode. Crew Call has been created from the ground up by Bradley Andrew, a freelance VTR Operator / DIT from Melbourne, Australia. Made by Film Crew for Film Crew! FEATURE OVERVIEW WORK DAYS - Add work days one by one or set up your week in advance by adding multiple pre, shoot and post days with a single tap. Log call times, wrap times, travel times and meal breaks. Record equipment used on a day-to-day basis. Quickly note camera wrap and drive away times. JOBS - Create jobs of any length, from two day TVCs to six month Feature Films. Set up jobs as you see fit, customise night loadings, minimum day length and pension contributions. Add work days to jobs for a running tally of hours worked and income earned. TIMESHEETS - Weekly Timesheets can be generated for single crew members or a whole department. Crew Call’s timesheets are modelled on real-life templates provided by the accounts department to ensure they fit in seamlessly with your production. REPORTS - Generate PDF/CSV Reports for an entire job or for individual work days. This is a great way to share a complete breakdown of each day’s labour, equipment and notes. Reports can be customised depending on their purpose. OVERVIEWS - Browse through weeks, months, quarters or years to get a better understanding of your work life. Custom timelines and charts give you a visual overview of hours worked, labour income and equipment earnings. MULTI USER SUPPORT - This allows one crew member to record call, wrap and travel times for an entire department. Essential for long form jobs where time keeping is usually allocated to one person. Easily share PDF Reports or Timesheets with the production office or other crew members. INCOME CALCULATION - Crew Call will automatically estimate your earnings based on work hours. Film sets all over the world calculate their overtime differently so we let you create your own overtime calculations. What is your daily base rate? How many hours of double time do you work until triple time kicks in? 1.0x, 1.5x, 2.0x and 3.0x are supported. Set default overtime rates or apply them to individual jobs. HALF DAYS, FLAT RATE & DAILY BUMP - Set Half Days based on a percentage of your base rate. Use a Flat Rate when you need to override normal income calculations. Step up to a different role with Daily Bump. EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT - Add unlimited equipment items to your equipment list. Record daily or weekly equipment rates. Create categories to stay organised. Equipment inventories of any size are supported. Edit easily with CSV Import/Export. EQUIPMENT IMPORT - Download the Crew Call CSV Template to set up your equipment list with spreadsheet software. Perfect for crew who have large equipment inventories. Import the edited CSV to Crew Call and all of your new Equipment and Categories will be added automatically. EQUIPMENT EXPORT - Export equipment by category or all at once. Easily share your Equipment Lists with other crew members via AirDrop or Email. Ideal if you have someone else running your gear, van or truck. DATA PRIVACY - Jobs and Work Days that you create with Crew Call are stored on a secure, local database within your iPhone. This ensures that your personal information is kept safe and sound. CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT - Crew Call is constantly being improved to keep up with the changing demands of our industry. Is there a feature that will make your life easier? Please get in touch and I’ll do my best to make it a reality. CONTACT - crewcall.software@gmail.com TERMS OF USE - https://crewcall.xyz/terms-of-use/ PRIVACY POLICY - https://crewcall.xyz/privacy-policy/
Camera Sheets
Streamline film production with powerful camera reporting and distribution tools. Generate detailed reports, collaborate with teams, and manage all your job data securely in the cloud. Designed for camera and VFX professionals to eliminate manual paperwork.
- Detailed camera reporting
- Cloud-based data security
- Project collaboration
- Fast data entry
- Advanced lens tracking
- PDF and CSV report generation
- Automated email distribution
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• Turbo charge wrap with powerful camera reporting and distribution. • Create stunning, detailed, easy to read reports. • Share Projects to collaborate with extra units/departments quickly and easily. • Have your jobs, data and reports close to hand anytime, any location. • Backed by the cloud and encrypted, to ensure your critical information is always secure • Fast data entry and editing for full metadata control on every take. • Add an email list for effortless sending. • Advanced lens tracking - have 2 or more matching lens sets? Know which exact lens was used for every shot - VFX will thank you! Camera Sheets is designed with camera and VFX data assistants at the centre, by an industry professional working in camera and post. No more writing paper reports after wrap in the back of the truck or in the rain! CREATE - make a project and optionally customise with a logo. Add cameras, rolls and shoot days. Save lenses, filters, LUTs and crew members to quickly fill in information. Have your whole production close at hand to always know what slates, cameras and rolls you are on. Inbuilt U.S and U.K quick slating with a special mode for episodic shows. Generate PDFs and CSVs. Also generate camera list and lens list reports for production, edit and post. DISTRIBUTE - Add a list of email addresses to create a distribution list. Then with a single tap create an email with your distro list, subject and message automatically filled in, reports are attached with filenames. All you have to do is hit send. No more copying and pasting contacts/emails or changing filenames! Airdrop, save to your device, send via messages…..send* or save however you like! SHARE - Share a project with 2nd or other units, production, edit, post, VFX, script supervisors or any crew. They can then access the project data and generate reports directly, saving precious time on queries. A department needs to check something they can! Data added by participants (with write permission) magically syncs to everyone in the share group. Set individual read or write permissions to prevent editing and control the level of access. Remove participants or stop sharing any time and the project will disappear from their device. No internet, no problem, data added offline will sync when you are next connected. 2 Week Free Trial for new users - Choose a plan to start the free trial. Cancel** at any time. Full User Guide Included inside. *Subscription required to send reports, share projects or accept share invites to projects. The subscription will auto renew based on the plan you choose after the end of the current subscription period. The renewal date is shown in the subscriptions section inside Camera Sheets and also in your device subscriptions list. Subscription options include 1 month, 6 moths and 1 year. ** To cancel or manage your subscription go to your device settings. If you cancel you will still have full access until the end of your current subscription period. You can cancel at any time with no obligations. If you cancel during the 2 week free trial any remaining trial days will be lost. Trial available for 1st time subscribers only. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Crew Call at monthly against Camera Sheets's every 11 months. Crew Call also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Camera Sheets's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 86%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Crew Call sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $69.99 per year and Camera Sheets sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Crew Call ships an update monthly, Camera Sheets every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crew Call | Camera Sheets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 86.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Auron Studios Pty Ltd | Asp Digital LTD |
Customer experience
Crew Call
Camera Sheets
In-app purchases
Crew Call
- Crew Call Premium$69.991 Year
Camera Sheets
- Monthly14 Days trial$5.491 Month
- 6 Months14 Days trial$27.996 Months
- Yearly14 Days trial$52.991 Year
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