Crew Call vs Scene Cards
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/
Scene Cards
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Scene Cards turns your screenplay into a visual production reference tool. Import a PDF or Final Draft script and your scenes will appear instantly as cards on a wall — ready to sort, annotate, and plan. Whether you're a writer breaking story, a director prepping a shoot, or any department you are working in, Scene Cards gives you the big picture and the fine detail at the same time. Wall View See your entire film at a glance. Scenes display as cards showing slug line, synopsis, and reference images. Drag to reorder, gap-close, or renumber with a tap. Print and pin it to the wall or use on your desktop or tablet. Script Panel Click open the side panel and read the script pages of the scene you select (no more waiting for sides on set) characters may be colour annotated for clarity. Inspector Panel Dive into any scene — attach reference images, video, audio ,or folders, Each Scene Card can hold any amount of information about it's scene. Create a folder for your own department then share with others. Edit its synopsis, move it anywhere in the grid, mark it omitted, or insert a new scene after it. Three Modes Switch between Script, Locations, and Schedule views. Script is imported from any PDF or Final Draft Locations all scenes organised in location order (think recces and fast access to all scene information) Schedule import your one liner pdf and see all scene cards in shoot day order Designed for macOS and iPhone/iPad A single document works across all your devices. The macOS layout shows everything at once; iOS keeps it clean with sheets and popovers. Scene Cards saves in an open document format — your data is always yours. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Scene Cards at every 4 days against Crew Call's monthly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 Scene Cards sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Crew Call ships an update monthly, Scene Cards every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crew Call | Scene Cards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 86.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Auron Studios Pty Ltd | Keith Tunney |
In-app purchases
Crew Call
- Crew Call Premium$69.991 Year
Scene Cards
- Scene Cards Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year









