Comparison

Crewmate vs DutyCal

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

Head to head
About

Crewmate

This app helps film, TV, and advertising crews plan and organize shoots. It features a gear database, PDF generation, real-time collaboration, and task assignment to streamline production from scouting to post-production.

Highlights
  • Audiovisual equipment database
  • Gear list generation
  • Professional PDF creation
  • Real-time team collaboration
  • Task assignment and progress tracking
  • Dropbox integration
Features
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Plan and organize your shoots like never before. Crewmate is the essential app for all technical crews in film, television, and advertising, designed to support you through every stage of production — from scouting to post. Access an extensive and constantly updated database of audiovisual equipment (cameras, lenses, accessories…), build your gear lists in just a few taps, and generate professional PDFs to send to your rental houses, in the language of your choice. Our custom algorithms help you avoid oversights and alert you to potential incompatibilities. Stay up to date with the latest gear releases, explore our rental house directory with over 300 listings worldwide, and find the perfect partner for your next project. Collaborate in real time with your team, assign tasks, share documents, and track your prep progress with ease. With Dropbox integration, digital framing charts generation, location management, and many other smart tools, Crewmate becomes your trusted on-set assistant. Currently focused on the camera department, Crewmate will soon expand to include other technical departments such as sound, grip, lighting, and video. One tool for all teams, right in your pocket ! --- Available on iPhone and iPad, in French, English, Spanish and Russian. Requires iOS 16 at least. User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

DutyCal

This app syncs your flight schedule from your crew portal to your iPhone Calendar and provides a printable monthly overview for your family. It offers weather updates, pre-departure alarms, and a pay estimate, all while prioritizing user privacy.

Highlights
  • Roster sync to iPhone Calendar
  • Printable monthly overview sheet
  • Weather updates for flights
  • Pre-departure alarms
  • Monthly pay estimate
  • Logbook data import
  • FAR 117 compliance tracking
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DutyCal pulls your roster from your crew portal and syncs it to iPhone Calendar. It also prints a clean monthly sheet so your family can see what's happening at a glance. For pilots and cabin crew who fly out at 4 a.m. and want their household to know the month ahead. No chat group. No screenshots. No explaining it again over breakfast. DutyCal Plus subscription required to sync your roster after a 3-day free trial. Cancel anytime. DutyCal currently supports crew at Peach (MM), StarFlyer (7G), and Avelo (XP). Additional airlines on the roadmap. Other portals will not sync. ROSTER, ON YOUR PHONE Log in once with your crew portal credentials. DutyCal fetches your duty schedule, reconciles changes across publishes, and writes every flight, standby, training day, and day off to a dedicated calendar on your iPhone. Flight rows read departure and arrival in each airport's own clock, with the Zulu window right on the row for a quick TAF and NOTAM crossref. Works offline once a roster is loaded. WEATHER ON YOUR FLYING DAYS A METAR line on every leg you fly, with the raw METAR and TAF one tap away, and up to two alternates per leg. THE FRIDGE SHEET A printable A4 landscape view, one row per day, color-coded for flight duty, airport standby, home standby, training, sick, and off. Stick it on the fridge. Your partner stops asking. Designed to be readable at arm's length. ALARMS THAT WAKE YOU Pre-departure alarms set themselves on every flight day and airport standby. They ring through Silent mode and Focus, the way the iOS Clock app does, and stop only when you dismiss them. You choose your at-base lead time. No accidental snooze. A MONTHLY PAY ESTIMATE A running pre-tax estimate of the month so far, built from your duty hours, sectors, and credit. Past months compared against your original published roster. Avelo crews see their paychecks the way they land, on the 7th and the 22nd. No payslip data leaves the phone. THE LOGBOOK, READY TO COPY Peach and StarFlyer flight crew can import their company records and print JCAB pages, fifteen rows each, ready to copy into the paper logbook. The paper book stays the official record. FOR AVELO CREWS FAR 117 at a glance, worked out from the roster on your phone, with a quiet watch that warns you the evening before a tight duty. Station Operations: type any station and read its whole day, departures and arrivals with aircraft, crew, pax, fuel and movement notes, straight from the portal. And a heads-up when your next leg is a different aircraft. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your login is stored in iOS Keychain, locked to your device. No account creation. No DutyCal servers. No analytics. No third-party trackers. Face ID protects the app on launch. BUILT BILINGUAL Full English and Japanese throughout, including the fridge sheet. Switch languages without restarting. WHAT IT COSTS 3-day free trial on both plans, then DutyCal Plus subscription required to continue. - Monthly: ¥550/month - Yearly: ¥5,000/year Prices are shown in your local currency at checkout. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew at the same price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscription anytime in iPhone Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. No ads. No data sold. DutyCal is built for crew. Try it free for 3 days and see your next month in one view. Privacy Policy: https://dutycal.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://dutycal.app/terms

Screenshots

Crewmate4 screens
DutyCal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Crewmate at freemium against DutyCal's subscription. Crewmate also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Crewmate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and DutyCal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Crewmate against 5.0 for DutyCal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 2, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Crewmate versus DutyCal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrewmateDutyCal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size159 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCrewmate SASRushabh Soni

Customer experience

Crewmate

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

DutyCal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Crewmate

Subscriptions2
  • Pro$9.991 Month
  • Pro$99.991 Year
2 purchases

DutyCal

Subscriptions2
  • DutyCal Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • DutyCal Yearly3 Days trial$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Crewmate free?
Crewmate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DutyCal free?
DutyCal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Crewmate or DutyCal?
Crewmate and DutyCal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Crewmate or DutyCal have ads?
Neither Crewmate nor DutyCal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crewmate or DutyCal?
Crewmate ships an update every 4 days, and DutyCal every 4 days. Most recently, Crewmate was updated on October 2, 2026 and DutyCal on October 2, 2026.

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