ShotDeck vs REC Learning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShotDeck
Access the world's largest library of high-quality, searchable cinematic images. This tool aids directors, cinematographers, and visual artists in finding inspiration, conducting research, and referencing visual styles for film production. Explore detailed information for each image to enhance your creative process.
- Largest collection of cinematic images
- Meticulously keyworded and searchable
- Detailed image metadata (cast, crew, camera, lens)
- Time-saving image discovery
- Inspiration, research, and reference tool
- Collaborative professional tool
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Shotdeck is the largest collection of meticulously keyworded fully searchable high quality cinematic images in the world. Hello directors, cinematographers, designers, ad folks, film students and visual artists, you’ve just discovered your new secret weapon, the best collaborative professional tool for bringing your vision to life - from pitch, to prep to post. Each image has information on cast and crew, aspect ratio, framing, lighting, camera, lens, shooting location, and a dozen more. This time saving app will help you not just find the exact image you are looking for but allow you to discover ones that you never new existed. You'll wonder how you ever worked without Shotdeck. Inspiration - Research - Reference - Education - Discovery Start exploring Shotdeck totally free today and witness your vision come to life and your creativity reach new heights.
REC Learning
This platform offers practical audiovisual courses from beginner to advanced levels. It aims to help users turn their passion into a profitable profession with dedicated support.
- Practical audiovisual courses
- Beginner to advanced levels
- Dedicated support
- Career transformation
- Profitable profession guidance
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Fundada pelo Casal REC, a REC Learning é uma plataforma com cursos práticos de audiovisual, do básico ao avançado, com suporte dedicado, transformar sua paixão em profissão lucrativa.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: REC Learning at 100% against ShotDeck's 29%. REC Learning also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0). ShotDeck's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 19 months) and ratings volume (43 vs 1). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
REC Learning holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShotDeck has 43 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of ShotDeck's written reviews are positive against 100% of REC Learning's.
ShotDeck ships an update every 3 weeks, REC Learning every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShotDeck | REC Learning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (43 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Filmmakers Research Lab, LLC | The Members |
Customer experience
ShotDeck
REC Learning
Bugs and requests
ShotDeck
Reported bugs
35 issues- UI issues
- Low quality grabs
- App crashes constantly
- App quits after a few searches or image saves
- App crashes when searching
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- Age verification required
- New account creation with Apple ID required
- iPad app crashes every time search is used
- App crashes when entering a search term
- Infinite loading
- Won't allow sign up or log in
- Password reset email not received
- Enlarged images opened in a new page
- Search feature completely useless
- App wouldn't load anything
- Servers down error
- No more than 5 minutes without crashing on iPads and iPhones
- Images take too long to load
- Images won't load
- System error causing refund
- Asked to sign in, not sign up
- Application would shut down itself when looking for more shots
- App entirely crashes when swiping through full sized photos on iPad
- App crashes after a few minutes of use on iPad
- Search engine never works
- Search bar not working
- Filters don't work in search function
- Burned 2 hours saving images to a deck, but they are not in the deck
- App crashes repeatedly
- Periodic crashing (typically when choosing to browse similar shots)
- Quick add doesn't seem to work
- Unpredictable search results
- Pages don't load or have errors
- Searches with fairly common words don't yield any results
- Cannot use split screen or a floating window with the app on the iPad
Requested features
8 requests- Update app to be a great companion to desktop site
- Fix login with Apple ID issue
- Fix age verification and account creation hurdles
- Make a widget that cycles random shots
- Improve UI/UX
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- Add more data to search and tags
- Add dark mode
- Faster way to add shots to favorites
REC Learning
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ShotDeck
No in-app purchases
REC Learning
No in-app purchases
