Comparison

Kino vs Klutter

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

Head to head
About

Kino

Easily create cinematic videos with professional color presets and automatic motion smoothing. Offers advanced manual controls and LUT import for experienced filmmakers. Learn filmmaking with free lessons.

Highlights
  • Cinematic color presets
  • Automatic motion smoothing
  • Manual camera controls
  • Focus peaking and waveform
  • LUT import and Instant Grade
  • Free filmmaking lessons
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Make great video easy! Kino lets you just press record and create cinematic video with color presets created by expert filmmakers—no edit required. Plus, with “AutoMotion,” the app automatically creates that smooth "film look" you see at the movies. Shoot great video with no film school required. Are you an experienced filmmaker? Kino includes all the features you need to shoot like a Pro, such as a full manual mode, focus peaking, color waveform, audio meters, and more. If you’re experienced in color, you can import LUTs quickly and use the same powerful Instant Grade feature to output video with baked in LUTs. Regardless of your skill level, Kino adapts to your needs. Pick your experience level when setting up the app to dial things in your way or go with recommended, simple settings. The beautiful, simple interface shows only essential things, while keeping powerful features under thumb’s reach. INSTANT GRADE Kino comes packed with pro color presets by experts like Stu Maschwitz, Sandwich Video, Evan Schneider, Tyler Stalman and Kevin Ong. With one tap, you can shoot video with cinematic, film-like color by selecting a Grade preset. With Instant Grade, you don’t have to apply it later or do any editing steps: Kino just saves the processed video for you, ready to share. LEARN ALONG Getting started with video? The Kino team has a free series of lessons prepared you can dive into right away to learn filmmaking with the app. Start out with our simple recommended settings and enroll in a lesson plan to get lessons emailed to you that are easy to follow and let you unlock every feature of the app to use for making better videos. PRO TOOLS Kino’s simple interface does not mean it lacks in powerful pro tools. Start out with automatic exposure with EV adjustment and AE and WB lock, or drop into full manual mode with shutter speed, angle and ISO adjustment. Compose a shot with the grid with built in level, check exposure with the RGB waveform, and pull focus with focus peaking. Kino can store your recordings in Files instead of Photos for better and easy shot management, and even features a screen lock to prevent inadvertent taps messing up your shot. Set custom recording settings (like 4K 60FPS Apple Log ProRes422HQ on iPhone 15 Pro) or get started with presets for flexibiltiy. BEAUTIFUL INTERFACE Thoughtful touches are abound in Kino: from a screen-wide telltale ring to show you are recording, to beautiful custom typography throughout with our own bespoke fonts, Kino balances beauty and simplicity with flexibility and control for users of any skill level. AUTOMOTION Get cinematic motion like in feature films. Introducing: AutoMotion. Kino biases exposure towards a 180° shutter speed by default. If you land in this sweet spot, and available light supports it, the ‘Auto’ label turns green — showing you are in the sweet spot for great cinematic motion. Bright day out? Pop an ND filter on your iPhone and don’t worry about adjusting manual settings: Kino will take care of prioritizing shutter angle so you can just shoot and get great results. LUT FRIENDLY One of the powerful aspects of Kino is being able to download new looks from your favorite creators or your own making. Author .cube LUT files in Pixelmator Pro, Davinci Resolve, or other apps (up to 33x33) and open them in Kino with a tap. TRULY PRIVATE None of our apps gather or collect data, or analyze your videos and photos. We believe the most important thing a camera can be is private. CREATOR SPECIAL Are you a creator or filmmaker and want to get started with or love using Kino? Get in touch with us to get our ‘Creator Kit’: see the Kino website for more details. When sharing your work, tag it #shotwithkino so we can feature it online. Thanks for making it this far! Kino is made by friends — Ben Sandofsky and Sebastiaan de With, with the help of Katie-Rose Summerfield and Doug Broussard. We made this app with love and care and we hope you love it.

About

Klutter

Features
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Your photo library is full of things that aren't photos: screenshots, receipts, tickets, documents, QR codes, screen recordings. Klutter gives them their own home, so Photos can go back to being photos. MOVE THE CLUTTER OUT Pick items from Photos or Files and Klutter imports them. It can then remove them from Photos for you (they go to Recently Deleted for 30 days) or from Files after asking. Items stored in iCloud are downloaded first, with a clear progress card that keeps going when you leave the app. SORTED AUTOMATICALLY, ON YOUR DEVICE Smart albums fill themselves: • Screenshots and Screen Recordings • Receipts & Finance, with merchant, date and total • Documents • QR Codes • AI-Generated, from image metadata, with softer "Possibly AI" hints clearly labelled • Places, grouped by country, what's nearby and town FIND ANYTHING Search the text inside your screenshots and documents, captions you add, merchants, places and QR codes. Recognition runs entirely on your iPhone or iPad. KEEP IT PRIVATE The Private album is encrypted and opens with Face ID, Touch ID or your device passcode, or a separate Klutter passcode. Private items can have their own collections. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY • Bookmarks and bookmark collections • Albums you make yourself • Captions on anything • Crop, straighten, fix perspective, or give a photo of a page a clean scanned look MADE FOR IPAD TOO A sidebar with every album, a larger grid, an Info panel beside the photo, a receipts ledger with totals, and drag and drop. BACKED UP, EVEN IF YOU REINSTALL Your library, albums, captions and settings are kept in your own iCloud Drive. Reinstall Klutter or get a new iPhone and everything comes back by itself. The iCloud Activity screen shows every item as it moves, with speed and time left. YOUR STORAGE, YOUR CHOICE Keep full originals on your device, or turn on Optimize Storage to keep originals in iCloud and lighter previews on your device. Anything you open shows when it's available offline. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No analytics. No tracking. Your library never leaves your device except to your own iCloud Drive. FREE FOR 100 ITEMS Klutter is free for your first 100 items. Klutter Unlimited removes the limit: $9.99 a year, or $24.99 once for life. If a yearly plan ends, everything you added stays; only new imports pause above 100 items. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Kino4 screens
Klutter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Klutter at Free against Kino's $9.99. Kino's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#26 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Klutter is free to download; Kino costs $9.99 up front. Klutter sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Kino asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kino ships an update monthly, Klutter every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Kino versus Klutter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKinoKlutter
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews49.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings2K — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#26 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB109 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLux Optics IncorporatedBernard Azar

Bugs and requests

Kino

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes on launch
  • Video recording issues (frame drops, black screens)
  • LUT import failures
  • Unresponsive touch controls
  • Inconsistent performance on older devices

Requested features

9 requests
  • Tap to focus/expose
  • Bluetooth shutter control
  • Anamorphic desqueeze
  • Custom preset settings
  • External mic support
Show 4 more
  • Geolocation tagging
  • Batch processing
  • Orientation lock
  • Improved EXIF metadata

Klutter

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Kino

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Klutter

Subscriptions1
  • Klutter Unlimited Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Klutter Unlimited$24.99

Questions

Is Kino free?
Kino costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Klutter free?
Klutter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Kino or Klutter have ads?
Neither Kino nor Klutter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kino or Klutter?
Kino ships an update monthly, and Klutter every 3 weeks. Most recently, Kino was updated on November 12, 2026 and Klutter on November 6, 2026.

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