Comparison

Focus Alpha vs Cutvey Meter

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

Head to head
About

Focus Alpha

This app revolutionizes photography by offering remote focus bracketing and timelapse sequences for Sony cameras. Achieve stunning depth of field and gain unmatched control over your focus bracketing process directly from your smartphone.

Highlights
  • Remote focus bracketing
  • Timelapse sequences
  • Depth of field control
  • Customizable focus steps
  • Focus rewind and test modes
  • DoF calculator
  • Low power Bluetooth LE
Features
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Struggling with blurry macro or landscape photos? Revolutionize your photography with Focus Alpha. This innovative app offers remote focus bracketing and stunning timelapse sequences, unlocking the full potential of your Sony camera. Unleash the hidden potential of your Sony camera and achieve breathtaking depth of field in every shot. Unmatched Focus Control: • Remote Bracketing: Capture a series of images with precise focus shifts, all from your smartphone. • Depth of Field Magic: Achieve stunning depth of field in every frame of your timelapse, no matter the subject. • Highly Customizable: Fine-tune focus steps, number of images, and timelapse settings for ultimate creative freedom. Professional Features: • Focus Rewind, Pre-Bracketing, Focus Test Mode, Bulb Time, Clapper Board with Auto Review, DoF Calculator, Reverse Direction: Take full control over your focus bracketing process. • Low Power Consumption: Bluetooth LE ensures long battery life for extended shooting. • Flash Compatibility: Internal or external flash with adjustable delay for perfect lighting. Compatible Cameras: ILCE-6100 (A6100), ILCE-6400 (A6400), ILCE-6600 (A6600), ILCE-6700 (A6700), ILCE-7M3 (A7 III), ILCE-7M4 (A7 IV), ILCE-7RM4A (A7R IV), ILCE-7C (A7C), ILCE-7CM2 (A7C II), ILCE-7CR (A7CR), ILCE-7RM3 (A7R III), ILCE-7RM4 (A7R IV), ILCE-7RM5 (A7R V), ILCE-7SM3 (A7S III), ILCE-9 (A9), ILCE-9M2 (A9 II), ILCE-9M3 (A9 III), ILCE-1 (A1), ILCE-1M2 (A1 II), ZV-E10, ZV-E10M2 (ZV-E10 II), ZV-E1, DSX-RX0M2 (RX0 II), DSC-RX100M7 (RX100 VII), DSC-RX1RM3 (RX1R III), ZV-1, ZV-1F, ZV-1A, ZV-1M2 (ZV-1 II), ILX-LR1, ILME-FX30 (FX30), ILME-FX2 (FX2), ILME-FX3 (FX3), ILME-FX3A (FX3A) Download Focus Alpha today and elevate your photography with stunning depth of field in every shot! This app is not endorsed by Sony. SONY is a trademark of Sony Corporation. Captured images can be merged with any stacking software.

About

Cutvey Meter

This app uses your camera to measure light color temperature, tint, and exposure in real-time. It also tracks the sun's path and helps match lighting setups for cinematographers and photographers.

Highlights
  • Real-time Kelvin, tint, and lux readings
  • Sun path tracking with hour markers
  • Light matching with gel recommendations
  • Live ND filter recommendations
  • Reading stability indicators
  • Save and compare readings with frames
  • Customizable calibration for accuracy
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Cutvey Meter is a color and light meter that reads through your camera. Point it at a gray card and it gives you the color temperature in kelvin, the tint, and the exposure, live, in one card under your thumb. Press the sun button and the sun's path is drawn over the same picture. Made for gaffers, cinematographers and anyone who has to match one light to another. KELVIN, TINT AND LUX, LIVE The viewfinder fills the screen and the reading sits in a glass card at the bottom: kelvin and tint from the camera's own white balance or from a gray card filling the frame, one tap apart, with lux and EV alongside. A band on the kelvin scale shows how much the reading is still moving, so you know when it has settled. MATCH ONE LIGHT TO ANOTHER Pin a source with REF, point at the second one, and the card shows both readings, the difference in kelvin and in mired, and the gel that closes the gap, with what it leaves over. Not "these are 1,400 K apart" but "half CTO, plus 18 mired". THE ND FOR THE RIG YOU ARE ON The strip under the reading carries a live ND recommendation for your rig: ISO, stop, shutter and frame rate. Tap it to solve for any one of the four instead, and it tells you how far off you still are. Save a rig as your default and every job starts from it. IT TELLS YOU WHEN NOT TO TRUST IT HIGH, MEDIUM and LOW say how settled the reading is. DIFFICULT SOURCE means the light is spiky, the kind of cheap LED or fluorescent no camera can pin down. Waiting will not help, and the app says so instead of showing a confident wrong number. SEE WHERE THE SUN WILL BE The sun tracker keeps the camera exactly where it is and lays the sun's path over the live view, with hour markers, a compass ribbon and the horizon. Sunrise, solar noon and sunset come with their bearings. Golden hour and blue hour are tabled for today and up to two other dates. Drag the scrubber and the sun walks its path, so you can see the four o'clock light while you are standing on the location. EVERY READING KEEPS ITS FRAME LOG saves the reading with the frame you were pointing at. They collect as a contact sheet, newest first. Compare any two in mired, share one with its frame, and every reading remembers the device, the lens, the exposure and the calibration you had on. CALIBRATE IT TO YOUR METER Measure one light with both instruments and dial the difference onto that lens. Each lens keeps its own temperature and tint offset, and one calibration holds from warm to cool. Logged readings stay uncorrected, so a calibration you later change never rewrites what you measured. IN YOUR UNITS ND as density, stops or factor. T-stop or f-stop. Shutter as an angle or a speed. Times on a 12 or 24-hour clock, light in lux or foot-candles. None of it changes what gets logged. ON IPAD AS WELL The picture takes the whole display and the instrument stands beside it. Same meter, same numbers, same library. WHAT IT IS NOT This is a camera used as a meter, not a spectrometer. For continuous sources it sits within a few mired of a reference meter; for spiky ones it says so. The lux figure is worked out from exposure, not measured by an incident cell, and the plus green and minus green side of a gel answer is a rough hint, and it says so. Unlock it once with a single purchase, or sign in with an active Cutvey membership. No advertising, no third-party tracking. No reading, frame or location leaves your device unless you share it yourself. Privacy policy: https://cutvey.com/legal/privacy Terms: https://cutvey.com/legal/terms

Screenshots

Focus Alpha4 screens
Cutvey Meter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cutvey Meter at 100% against Focus Alpha's 50%. Cutvey Meter also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). Focus Alpha's advantage is iOS requirement (12.2 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Focus Alpha sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Cutvey Meter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cutvey Meter holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Focus Alpha's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cutvey Meter's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus Alpha ships an update every 3 weeks, Cutvey Meter every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Focus Alpha versus Cutvey Meter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus AlphaCutvey Meter
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.2 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLEONARDO TAZZINICutvey LLC

Customer experience

Focus Alpha

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Cutvey Meter

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Focus Alpha

One-time3
  • Focus Alpha Pro Upgrade$9.99
  • Focus Alpha Standard$19.99
  • Focus Alpha Pro$29.99
1 purchases

Cutvey Meter

One-time1
  • Unlock Cutvey Meter$19.99

Questions

Is Focus Alpha free?
Focus Alpha is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cutvey Meter free?
Cutvey Meter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Focus Alpha or Cutvey Meter?
Cutvey Meter is rated higher. Focus Alpha averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Cutvey Meter averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Focus Alpha or Cutvey Meter have ads?
Neither Focus Alpha nor Cutvey Meter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus Alpha or Cutvey Meter?
Focus Alpha ships an update every 3 weeks, and Cutvey Meter every 5 days. Most recently, Focus Alpha was updated on October 17, 2026 and Cutvey Meter on October 6, 2026.

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