Comparison

Sync Shutter vs djControl

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

Head to head
About

Sync Shutter

Automatically back up photos and videos from your camera cards to multiple destinations, including cloud storage and local drives. The app intelligently copies only new files and offers verification, sorting, and custom naming options for efficient workflow.

Highlights
  • Automatic card detection and backup
  • Incremental copying of new files
  • Byte-for-byte verification
  • Sorting into date folders
  • Multiple cloud and local destinations
  • RAW+JPEG pair handling
  • Custom file naming
Features
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Never lose a shoot. Sync Shutter backs up your camera card the moment you insert it. Set it up once on your Mac, then plug in any card and walk away: every photo and video is copied to every destination you chose, automatically. On iPhone or iPad, plug in a card reader and import straight from the card. It was built for photographers who come home with several cards and cannot afford to lose one. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU INSERT A CARD • The card is detected and the backup starts on its own. Progress lives in the menu bar; a notification tells you when it is done. • Only new files are copied. Already-backed-up shots are recognized and skipped, so the second run after a shoot takes seconds. • Copies to a folder or drive can be verified byte for byte after copying. • Files can be sorted into date folders taken from the photo's own capture date. • Cards that do not use a DCIM folder — video-first layouts from Sony, Panasonic and Canon bodies — are recognized too, and any card can be copied whole from the menu bar. • No internet where you're shooting? The card is still safe. Sync Shutter keeps its own copy and sends it to your cloud destinations on its own the moment you are back online. • A backup that cannot reach one of your destinations says so and names it. It never calls itself complete when something is missing. EVERY CARD, BY NAME • Each card gets its own name the first time it goes in, like purple-frog. Rename it, number it, give it a colour. • Say what each card was doing in a shoot: Primary, Backup slot, Second shooter or Video. • Cards lists every card with its last job and whether it is safe to format, meaning nothing on it would be lost. • Nothing is ever written to your cards. WHERE THE FILES GO Send one card to several places at once: a local folder or external drive, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Photos, the Lightroom auto-import folder, or the Photos library. Turn on as many as you like; each card is copied to all of them in a single pass. CHOOSE WHAT COMES OFF THE CARD Turn on a review step and a grid of thumbnails appears before anything is copied, so you can leave the test frames behind. SYNC SHUTTER PRO — ONE PURCHASE FOR MAC, IPHONE AND IPAD • Back up to a NAS or server: any S3-compatible storage (Synology, Backblaze B2, MinIO, Amazon S3), or SFTP over SSH. • Cold storage: Amazon S3 Glacier and Deep Archive storage classes, chosen per destination, for an archive that costs cents a month. • RAW+JPEG pairs: keep both, RAW only, or JPEG only. • Import date filters: only today's shoot, the last few days, or everything since a date. • Custom file naming from the capture date, a counter and the original name. • Per-card rules on the Mac: route each card to its own destinations. • Auto-delete from the card after every destination has confirmed the copy, and low-storage alerts before a backup would fill the disk. Pro is a single purchase, not a subscription. IPHONE AND IPAD Plug in a USB-C or Lightning card reader, open Sync Shutter, and pick the card. Photos go to your Photos library, a folder in Files, your cloud drives, or an S3 NAS. A Live Activity follows the import and a widget shows your totals. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-up, no servers of ours in the path. Files go straight from the card to the destinations you chose. The only thing the app ever sends home is an anonymous count of backups and errors, so that problems get fixed; it is never linked to you. Works with any card your Mac or card reader can mount: SD, microSD, CFexpress, CFast, XQD.

About

djControl

Features
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The app allows you to remote control your DJI cameras directly from your Apple Watch. Demo video: https://youtu.be/HRxtGsSaS9A ### Compatible DJI cameras: DJI Action 4, DJI Action 5, DJI Action 6, DJI Osmo 360. ### IMPORTANT: If you do not find the app after purchase on your watch: Please install the app with the App Store app on your watch (not on the iPhone!). ### Features: - Start/stop recording - Tag moment - Change the camera mode (photo, video, etc.) - Show camera information (battery level, free space, ...) - Power off the camera ### Disclaimer This product and/or service is not affiliated with, endorsed by or in any way associated with DJI Inc. or its products and services. DJI their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of DJI, Inc

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sync Shutter at Free against djControl's $2.99. djControl's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Sync Shutter is free to download; djControl costs $2.99 up front. Sync Shutter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. djControl asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sync Shutter versus djControl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSync ShutterdjControl
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUtkarsh JainHarald Meyer

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sync Shutter

One-time1
  • Sync Shutter Pro$9.99
None

djControl

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sync Shutter free?
Sync Shutter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is djControl free?
djControl costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sync Shutter or djControl have ads?
Neither Sync Shutter nor djControl shows ads.

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