Comparison

PhotoPack Pro vs Control Tiempos Eclipse

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

Head to head
About

PhotoPack Pro

This app helps photographers prepare for shoots by creating and sharing customizable gear checklists. It offers smart reminders and offline access to ensure critical items are never forgotten, simplifying planning for professional results.

Highlights
  • Customizable gear checklists
  • Smart reminders for incomplete lists
  • Event organization and trip planning
  • Offline access and local data storage
  • Shareable lists with clients/photographers
  • Easy event archiving and progress tracking
Features
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Prepare for every shoot with confidence. PhotoPack Pro helps photographers create, customize, and share photography gear checklists, organize preparation tasks, and keep important details close at hand. Whether you’re planning a wedding, heading out for landscape photography, shooting film, or packing for a photography trip, build a checklist around the way you work. START WITH A TEMPLATE. MAKE IT YOURS. Browse and preview ready-made checklists for: • General Photography • Landscape & Nature • Wedding • Film Photography • Astrophotography & Night • Nature & Car Camping Add a template to your collection, customize its categories and items, and reuse it for future shoots. You can also save your own checklists as templates. Restore library templates to their original content whenever needed, with the option to keep a separate copy of your customizations. KEEP YOUR GEAR AND PREPARATION ORGANIZED • Create a separate checklist for each shoot or trip. • Add your own items and categories for equipment, preparation tasks, shot lists, and more. • Mark priority items and track your packing progress. • Set reminders before your start date when a checklist is still incomplete. • Hide items or categories you don’t need and restore them later. • Copy existing checklists to prepare for similar shoots. KEEP THE DETAILS WITH THE LIST Add formatted notes to a checklist, category, or individual item. Keep location details, client requests, equipment instructions, and other useful information alongside the things you need to do or pack. SHARE YOUR PLAN Share checklists with clients, assistants, or other photographers, and import shared lists into PhotoPack Pro. CHOOSE A VIEW THAT WORKS FOR YOU Switch between card and compact dashboard views, expand or collapse all checklist categories, and choose Light, Dark, or system-matched appearance. Layouts adapt to your device’s text-size settings. READY EVEN WHEN YOU’RE OFFLINE Your checklists and template library work offline, with local data storage and no account required. Spend less time rebuilding packing lists and more time preparing for the photographs you want to make.

About

Control Tiempos Eclipse

Features
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Control Tiempos Eclipse is a spoken director for solar eclipse photographers. During an eclipse, every second counts and every glance at a screen is a photo you lose. The app announces each moment out loud — filter off, bracketing, diamond ring, totality, filter back on — so you never need to look at your phone. HOW IT WORKS Choose an eclipse, set your observing position (GPS or manual coordinates), and the app computes your exact local contact times — C1, C2, maximum, C3, C4 — using an embedded astronomical engine. Then build your photographic program: a sequence of timed voice cues anchored to those contacts. When the day comes, press start and listen. The app speaks; you shoot. ENTIRELY OFFLINE Everything runs on your device. The eclipse dataset (2025–2035) is built in, the timing engine needs no network, and the voice announcements use the system's own speech synthesizer. No signal on a remote hilltop? Perfect — neither the app nor you need it. REHEARSE BEFORE THE DAY A rehearsal mode lets you run your full program in accelerated or real time, so you can practice your camera movements and refine your script days before the eclipse. On eclipse day, nothing is improvised. DESIGNED FOR THE FIELD - Precise timing engine with sub-second announcement accuracy - Programs built around the real contact times of your exact position - Clear execution screen with the next cue always visible - Works with the screen locked in your pocket - No account, no ads, no data collection — see our privacy policy Built by a photographer, for photographers, with the August 12, 2026 total eclipse over Spain as its first mission. In English, Spanish and Catalan.

Screenshots

PhotoPack Pro4 screens
Control Tiempos Eclipse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Control Tiempos Eclipse at Free against PhotoPack Pro's $2.99. Control Tiempos Eclipse also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 months). PhotoPack Pro's advantage is chart position (#182 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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

Control Tiempos Eclipse is free to download; PhotoPack Pro costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PhotoPack Pro ships an update every 2 months, Control Tiempos Eclipse daily. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
PhotoPack Pro versus Control Tiempos Eclipse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhotoPack ProControl Tiempos Eclipse
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#182 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael RungFrancisco Cornellana Castells

In-app purchases

None

PhotoPack Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Control Tiempos Eclipse

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PhotoPack Pro free?
PhotoPack Pro costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Control Tiempos Eclipse free?
Control Tiempos Eclipse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PhotoPack Pro or Control Tiempos Eclipse have ads?
Neither PhotoPack Pro nor Control Tiempos Eclipse shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PhotoPack Pro or Control Tiempos Eclipse?
PhotoPack Pro ships an update every 2 months, and Control Tiempos Eclipse daily. Most recently, PhotoPack Pro was updated on November 5, 2026 and Control Tiempos Eclipse on November 5, 2026.

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