CyanCamera App vs CamPlot Calculators
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CyanCamera App
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Your phone becomes a numbered camera on your CyanView gateway, shaded live from the same RCP your team already uses on every other camera in the show. CyanCamera is a broadcast camera, not a companion app. Once it appears on the gateway, your shader operates it from the panel exactly as they operate any of the 210+ camera models CyanView already controls. Same panel, same workflow, same look. REMOTE CONTROL FROM THE RCP ISO, shutter, iris, exposure compensation, white balance, focus and zoom all respond to the RCP over the REMI protocol. Custom buttons switch lenses, toggle the look, start recording, switch the stream between RTP and SRT and nudge the bit rate. Red, green and call tally light a border around the picture. REMI Cloud connects the phone to an RCP over the internet, so a contributor on location is shaded from the control room. Auto exposure can be fenced inside an ISO and shutter window, like a limited AGC on a broadcast camera. CAPTURE Record in HEVC 8-bit or 10-bit, or ProRes 422 on ProRes-capable iPhones, in Rec.709, P3 D65, Rec.2020 HLG, Apple Log or Apple Log 2 on supported devices. Presets run from 23.98 to 60 fps in 1080p and 4K, plus 120 and 240 fps where the device offers them, with the sensor clock pinned to the exact fractional cadence. Record to the photo library, an external SSD or any folder in Files. GENLOCK AND TIMECODE With the Blackmagic Camera ProDock, genlock and LTC timecode arrive on BNC and lock the phone to house sync, so the feed cuts frame-accurately against every other source in the show. Recordings carry a timecode track. Without genlock, a PoE Ethernet-to-USB-C dongle powers the phone and gives it a wired network in one cable. LIVE COLOR SHADING A GPU color engine runs entirely on the device, a faithful port of the CyanView multimatrix. Lift, gamma and gain, master saturation and hue, a 16-vector multimatrix and gate/select respond in real time as the shader moves the panel. Everything bakes into a 3D LUT, applied to the monitor, recording or stream independently, so what you see is what the feed carries. STUDIO LUT IMPORT Build a look in CyanView Studio or any grading suite, export it as a .cube, and load it as your base, whether a log conversion or a finished show look. It chains underneath the live grade. Apple Log to Rec.709 conversions ship in the app, and Studio can push a LUT live over the network. SCOPES RGB parade, RGB histogram and vectorscope, built in and running on the GPU, plus an audio meter. No external hardware required. STREAMING RTP for ultra low latency monitoring and contribution on the local network, or SRT for reliable delivery across the internet in caller or listener mode, with passphrase encryption and AAC audio. H.264 or H.265 from 4 to 35 Mbps or any value you type. Bit rate changes live without restarting the stream. Stream 1080p240 over RTP to FXVP for live slow motion replay. HDMI OUTPUT Route the feed to a monitor, capture device or switcher through a USB-C adapter, in Rec.709, HLG or Apple Log 2 at up to 10 bits, with the look baked in or, on iOS 27, straight from the sensor at the exact preset cadence with SMPTE ancillary metadata for the lowest latency. WHERE IT FITS Extra angles a full-size camera cannot reach. Remote contributors on location. Second-unit and behind-the-scenes coverage that cuts cleanly against the main cameras. Multiple phones streaming RTP into an FXVP Quad come out as four genlocked SDI feeds. REQUIREMENTS Remote control and live shading require a CyanView RCP. Capture, grading, scopes, streaming and HDMI output run standalone. Genlock and timecode require a Blackmagic Camera ProDock. Apple Log 2 requires iOS 26. Broadcast HDMI and iris control require iOS 27 and compatible hardware.
CamPlot Calculators
This app provides essential calculations for camera departments, including media storage, depth of field previews, sensor size comparisons, and exposure balancing. It's designed with a cinematographer's workflow in mind, offering interactive tools for practical on-set use.
- Media storage calculation for various cameras
- Live depth of field photographic preview
- Interactive sensor size comparison
- Interlocking exposure dials (ISO, aperture, shutter, ND)
- Free trial with demo values
- Cross-app account sync
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The five calculations every camera department runs daily — built the way a cinematographer thinks, not as spreadsheet rows. All of them free with any CamPlot account. MEDIA How many hours fit on that card? Pick from dozens of real cameras — ARRI, Sony, RED, Canon, DJI, GoPro — with their actual recording formats and data rates, choose a frame rate and card size, and read the answer off the card itself. DEPTH OF FIELD A live photographic preview, not just numbers. Pick a scene, roll focal length, aperture, and distance, and watch focus fall off in real depth — pinch the frame to reframe and the focal length rolls with you. Add a second person staggered behind your subject and see exactly when they drop out of focus. Near, far, total, and hyperfocal always on screen. SENSOR SIZES Any sensors drawn to scale, nested and dimensioned — from a GoPro to full frame to 65mm. Settle the crop-factor argument with a picture. EXPOSURE Four interlocking dials — ISO, aperture (f or T), shutter (angle or speed), and ND (variable, hard, or stops) — that balance each other like a real camera. Lock what's fixed, roll what you're changing, and watch the free dial land on the answer in third-stops. SUN AND MOON Stand where you plan to shoot and see the day's light: the sun's path across the sky, the direction every shadow falls, and how long they are at any hour. Pick any future date to plan a scout, switch to the moon for a night exterior, and save a scout card straight to your photos. FREE, WITH ANY ACCOUNT All five tools, every control, at every level — including the free one. Create a CamPlot account and they are yours: no trial, no card, nothing to expire. One account across the Calculators, the Director's Viewfinder, and all of CamPlot at camplot.studio. WHAT A SUBSCRIPTION ADDS CamPlot Plus adds the full Director's Viewfinder — every cinema camera body, your own lens kits, a library of 200+ cinema LUTs you can export for your camera, sun path over the framed shot, and LiDAR distance — plus private markup and PDF export on plots shared with you. CamPlot Max adds building and sharing your own multicam camera plots, cloud storage, and live crew collaboration. SUBSCRIPTIONS CamPlot Max: $49.99/year or $4.99/month. CamPlot Plus: $29.99/year or $3.99/month. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your device Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://camplot.studio/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CyanCamera App at none against CamPlot Calculators's 4. CamPlot Calculators's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 9 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. CamPlot Calculators sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. CyanCamera App asks for nothing beyond the download.
CyanCamera App ships an update every 9 days, CamPlot Calculators every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CyanCamera App | CamPlot Calculators |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CyanView | Romany Films Inc. |
In-app purchases
CyanCamera App
No in-app purchases
CamPlot Calculators
- CamPlot View+ Monthly$3.991 Month
- CamPlot Creator Monthly$4.991 Month
- CamPlot View+ Annual$29.991 Year
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- CamPlot Creator Annual$49.991 Year
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