FilmMeter vs Klik Creator Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FilmMeter
This app transforms your iPhone into a professional light meter for film photography. It offers real-time metering, LiDAR ranging for accurate focus, and comprehensive film roll management. Features include reciprocity calculation, ND filter compensation, and an exposure log to streamline your shooting workflow.
- Real-time light metering
- LiDAR ranging and depth of field
- Film roll and camera management
- Reciprocity and ND filter compensation
- Long exposure timer
- Exposure logging
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FilmMeter turns your iPhone into a professional light meter for film cameras. Real-time metering, LiDAR ranging, reciprocity calculation, and exposure logging — one app covers your entire shooting workflow from loading film to the final frame. Metering Measure exposure in real-time using your iPhone camera. Spot metering reads any point precisely, while average metering balances the whole scene. Full control over aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. iPhone 16 users can meter and adjust EV directly with the Camera Control button. Ranging & Depth of Field Get accurate focus distance with LiDAR-enabled devices. The depth of field scale shows your sharp range and hyperfocal distance, supporting 35mm (full frame) and medium format calculations. Camera Management Create profiles for your cameras and lenses. Set focal length and aperture range for each lens, then link a camera when loading film — aperture selection is automatically constrained to your lens's actual range. Manage your digital film bag the way you manage your real gear. Film Roll Management Create a roll, select your film stock, start shooting. Push/pull processing support lets you set development stops and automatically converts to effective ISO. Each metering links to your current roll automatically. The frame counter tracks remaining shots. Mark rolls as in progress, finished, or developed. ND Filters Built-in support for ND2 through ND10000. Select a filter and exposure is compensated automatically — no manual stop conversion needed. Pair with the long exposure timer to master daytime slow shutter work. Reciprocity Compensation Film loses sensitivity during long exposures. FilmMeter includes reciprocity data for popular film stocks and calculates the corrected shutter time automatically. Long Exposure Timer Long-press the metering button to start a countdown. The timer integrates with Dynamic Island — visible even when locked. Get notified when your exposure completes. No more counting seconds for star trails or light painting. Smart Exposure Suggestions Built-in scene recognition analyzes your frame. In tricky lighting like snow, backlight, or night scenes, it tells you "add one stop" instead of leaving you to figure it out. Exposure Log Every metering saves full parameters and location. Export to CSV. Review your decisions, build your film notes. More Features • ND filter auto exposure compensation • Film LUT live preview • Aspect ratio overlays (135/120 formats) • Focal length frame lines (28-200mm) • Darkroom-friendly red-on-black interface • Metric and imperial units Free to Use • No subscription, no account required • Fully offline, no ads • English and Chinese Designed for film photography. Professional enough for experienced shooters, simple enough for beginners.
Klik Creator Studio
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Klik is a creative project builder. Whether it takes a day or a year, it holds the whole piece of work: the plan, everything you gather, and what you make from it. For street photographers, YouTubers, and anyone with something to create. IMPORT A WHOLE PROJECT FROM YOUR AI ASSISTANT Tell Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok where you are going and what you are after. It hands back a project — sections, places, prompts, scripts — and Klik builds it. Nothing is typed twice. Klik shows you how to set each one up. A project arrives pasted, as a file, shared from the conversation, or straight from your Dropbox. Smart by design. The assistant is your own, outside Klik — your work never leaves your phone and you are never billed for AI. Or shape a project yourself in sections you name, keep a checklist, or start from a template. DOCUMENT IT AS YOU GO Shoot straight into a section, or drop in photographs, clips, notes, voice memos and places. Drag them into the order they should be seen, trim a clip to the seconds worth keeping, and put words where they belong on the picture and in time. POV FILMS FROM YOUR OWN PHOTOGRAPHS Lay your photographs over a continuous take: the viewer sees the street, then the frame you took of it. Anchor one by eye and the rest land by interval, so no clock has to be right. Send edited photographs in from Lightroom, straight into a section, a take or a slideshow. TALK OVER YOUR PICTURES Record a narration across a whole section and it plays over everything in it — a run of photographs, a slideshow, a take. Mute what a clip was carrying, or keep it underneath. READ WITHOUT LOOKING AWAY A teleprompter in a narrow column beside the lens that follows your voice as you speak, so your eyes stay where the camera is. It listens on the phone itself, in every language Klik speaks. MAKE THE VIDEO Klik cuts a project into a finished video and saves it to your photo library — wide for a screen, tall for a feed. Give each section its own music, which eases in and out and ducks under anything spoken. Choose a film look for the whole cut or section by section. PUBLISH IT Klik writes the parts nobody enjoys: a thumbnail built from your own photograph and shown at the size people really see it, a title, tags, and a description you can paste straight into YouTube, with chapter marks from the video you actually made. Add an affiliate link to a piece of gear, and when that gear is in the video the link goes into the description. YOUR PLACES Keep the places worth going back to on a map of their own. Every place files itself by country and city as you save it. Search your own by name, street, note or tag. Drop a pin, search the world, or import from GPX, GeoJSON or CSV. Each project gets its own map, showing where the plan said to go and where you went. THE LIGHT See where the sun will be through the day, when golden and blue hour fall, and what the light will do at a place you saved. A lock screen widget keeps the next good light in front of you. KNOW WHERE YOU STAND A plain-language guide to photographing in public for Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the UK, each written from that country's own law, with its sources. AND THE KIT Your gear, your film rolls frame by frame, and what you actually use. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-in, no analytics and no advertising. Your work lives on your device and, if you use iCloud, in your own account. TRY IT FREE Free for fourteen days from install, with nothing to pay and nothing lost when they end. After that, subscribe yearly or monthly, or buy it once for life. Without a plan, everything you have already made stays yours to open, read and export. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and can be managed in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://elementalcore.com/privacy/klik
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Verdict
FilmMeter and Klik Creator Studio are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. FilmMeter sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Klik Creator Studio sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
FilmMeter ships an update every 2 days, Klik Creator Studio every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.
| Parameter | FilmMeter | Klik Creator Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (63 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 96.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 宗 侯 | Ian Jukes |
In-app purchases
FilmMeter
- Buy me a coffee$0.99
- Buy me lunch$2.99
- 请我吃块蛋糕$9.99
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- 赞助开发$19.99
Klik Creator Studio
- Klik Monthly$4.991 Month
- Klik Yearly14 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Klik Lifetime$69.99








