Livegrade Viewer vs GRADE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Livegrade Viewer
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Livegrade Viewer is a companion app for the industry-standard DIT software for look management and digital imaging, Livegrade. Designed for Apple iPad/iOS, it transforms every iPad or iPhone wielded by the DP, gaffer, or other crew into a personal monitor. It is a flexible and portable option for viewing the look applied to live signals, comparing live with references, watching playback, and helping to ensure the creative intent.Β HOW DOES IT WORK? With a few fingertips, tap into streams sent from Livegrade via the on-set wireless network using industry-standard encryption. Livegrade is a desktop software that gives DITs and their DPs real-time control over the cameraβs live image to get as close as possible to the final look already on set. RELIABLE MONITORING Experience very low-latency and reliable video streams of the digital cameras live images and playback. TAILORED VIEWS Whether you are content with a clean camera feed or require additional details, such as slate information, receive individually relevant information only. Livegrade DITs can set up different output views in Livegrade tailored to your needs. NEED SUPPORT? Hit the "App Support" link in the information section to get started and troubleshoot.
GRADE
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GRADE turns your iPad or iPhone into a live on-set grading station. Build a look while the camera rolls, and send it straight to the camera, or to the LUT boxes feeding the monitors on the floor. STRAIGHT INTO THE CAMERA ARRI cameras over the network (ALEXA 35, Mini LF and the rest of the CAP family): push the live look, switch the camera to any look β Default included β and back, or upload to the camera's own Look Library. RED cameras: live CDL over RCP2 and LUT upload, with the Log3G10 / REDWideGamutRGB working space. Find devices lists the monitors, LUT boxes and cameras on the set network without typing an IP. MULTIPLE LUT BOXES, EACH WITH ITS OWN LOOK Every LUT box on the network gets its own grade and keeps it. Work on camera A, switch to camera B, come back β your first look is exactly as you left it. Gang several boxes onto one grade when they should match, hold a monitor on what it is showing, and dial any box back with its own blend. FSI BoxIO and DM/XMP series, Teradek COLR. A COMPLETE GRADING PIPELINE Seven nodes, in the order a colourist expects: Input, Primary, Log, Curves, Secondaries, LUT and Output. β’ Lift / Gamma / Gain wheels, plus exposure, contrast, pivot, temperature, tint, saturation and colour boost β’ Log wheels for lows, mids and highs with adjustable ranges β’ Curves: Hue vs Hue, Hue vs Sat, Hue vs Lum, Lum vs Sat, Sat vs Sat, and a tone curve per channel β’ Secondaries with a colour qualifier β tap a colour in the image to pick it β’ Fine mode on every control for the small moves that matter SCOPES YOU CAN TRUST Waveform (luma, colour and RGB), RGB parade and vectorscope, live on the same screen as the grade (iPad). ARRI COLOUR, DONE PROPERLY Work in Rec.709, ARRI LogC3 (AWG3) or LogC4 (AWG4). The official ARRI render transforms are built in, so a Log signal is graded in Log and rendered to Rec.709 the way ARRI intends. EVERY LOOK FORMAT, IN AND OUT .cube, .3dl, .csp, .spi3d, .vlt, ASC CDL (.cdl / .cc / .ccc), ACES (AMF + CLF), ALE, ARRI .alf4 / .alf4c. Send looks to DaVinci Resolve as editable stills (CDL + LUT), through the cloud or over the local network with GradeSync for Mac. LOOKS THAT TRAVEL Save looks to a library that syncs to your account and follows you to any iPad or iPhone. Organise them by project. BUILT FOR THE JOB Shot lists with scene and take, stills with notes and CDL values, a session log, and PDF reports to hand off at wrap. WHAT YOU NEED A camera or LUT box on the same network as the device: ARRI or RED cameras, FSI BoxIO / DM / XMP, or Teradek COLR. Live video reaches the iPad through an Accsoon SeeMo (SDI or HDMI). Without them you can still build looks, import and export LUTs and organise your library, but there is nothing to send them to. TRY IT Fifteen days free, with everything unlocked. After that GRADE Pro is β¬349/year or β¬49/month, and it renews until you cancel. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple account settings. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://grade-app.click/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Livegrade Viewer at none against GRADE's 2. GRADE's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. GRADE sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $45.00 per month. Livegrade Viewer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Livegrade Viewer ships an update every 5 weeks, GRADE every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Livegrade Viewer | GRADE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 days β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No β better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pomfort GmbH | Rendeando SL. |
In-app purchases
Livegrade Viewer
No in-app purchases
GRADE
- GRADE Pro Monthly$45.001 Month
- GRADE Pro Yearly$299.001 Year








