CreativePass vs Cinetone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CreativePass
This app offers professional-grade color tools, real-time effects, and production features for photo and video editing. It includes a pro camera with live LUT preview, a teleprompter, and over 100 LUT presets. Design graphics with a built-in canvas system for social media content.
- Pro camera with live LUT preview
- Speech-recognition teleprompting
- 100+ LUT presets and import option
- Advanced creative effects (bloom, halation)
- Real-time video editing with LUTs
- Canvas designer with text and overlays
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CreativePass — LUTs, Effects & Creator Tools CreativePass is a creator-first photo and video editor built for speed, precision, and cinematic results. Designed for photographers, filmmakers, and content creators, Creative Pass gives users professional-grade color tools, real-time effects, and production features all in one streamlined app. Shoot With Creative Control Capture content using the built-in pro camera featuring live LUT preview, manual controls, and real-time visual adjustments so you can see your look before you hit record. Use speech-recognition teleprompting to deliver scripts smoothly on camera without losing eye contact. Free Photo Editor With LUTs Transform your images instantly using included LUT presets, ready right out of the box. • Import your own LUTs • Save favorites into folders • Apply looks in seconds • Fine-tune with precision controls Adjust brightness, contrast, vibrance, fade, and more to craft anything from bold social edits to soft cinematic grades. Advanced Creative Effects Professional visual tools designed to give your work a distinctive signature look: • Bloom glow effect • Halation film simulation • Highlight & shadow shaping • Color tone sculpting Create subtle film emulation or push your visuals into stylized cinematic territory. Video Editing With Real-Time LUTs Apply LUTs and color adjustments directly to video using the same tools you use for photos. Preview changes instantly and export clips optimized for social platforms. Add text, overlays, and frames for quick thumbnails, titles, social visuals, or branded content without switching apps. Built for Creators Who Move Fast CreativePass eliminates slow workflows by combining camera, editing, and design into a single creative environment. No clutter. No distractions. Just tools that keep up with your ideas.
Cinetone
Apply cinematic color grades to your videos and export them or create reusable 3D LUTs. Explore original looks, fine-tune adjustments, and import your own LUTs for a personalized workflow. All processing happens locally on your device.
- 20+ original cinematic looks
- Adjustable color parameters
- Import custom .cube LUTs
- Export graded video (MP4/HEVC)
- Export 33/65-point .cube LUTs
- Siri and Shortcuts integration
- On-device scene analysis
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Edit the video. Shape the color. Cinetone is an iPhone video editor and cinematic color studio. Arrange multiple clips, refine each shot, build a soundtrack, add captions, and export a finished video—or create a color-only LUT for another editing workflow. EDIT ON A MULTI-CLIP TIMELINE Trim, split, move, and reorder clips. Reframe, rotate, or flip footage. See waveforms, trim added audio clips, adjust their volume individually, and keep original sound separate from added music. Editing is nondestructive: Cinetone works with its own local copies, leaving source files untouched. ADD CAPTIONS Create and edit captions for individual source clips, set their text and timing, and control whether they appear. Captions stay attached to their original clip as you trim, split, or reorder the timeline. Add them manually or generate them from speech in a selected original clip when the device, language, and Apple speech model support it. Model downloads may be required; transcription runs on device. Review captions before export. Enabled captions are burned into the video, never included in a LUT. MAKE THE COLOR YOURS Start with 20 original cinematic looks, including Golden Hour, Soft Portrait, Teal Shadow, and Rich Mono, plus three open community looks. Compare your grade with neutral Rec.709 and adjust exposure, warmth, tint, contrast, saturation, intensity, and fade. Import your own .cube LUTs from Files after choosing the matching input profile; imported LUTs output SDR Rec.709. HANDLE LOG AND HDR SOURCES Import supported Rec.709, Apple Log, Apple Log 2, and color-tagged HLG or PQ footage. HLG and PQ are converted to SDR Rec.709 for preview and video export. Cinetone does not export HDR video. EXPORT FOR YOUR NEXT STEP Export an H.264 MP4 or HEVC MP4 when supported, with SDR Rec.709 color and supported mono or stereo audio. Choose up to 1080p or 4K and up to 30 fps or the source frame cadence. Smaller sources are never upscaled. Export a 33-point or 65-point .cube LUT to carry color into a compatible workflow. Save videos to Photos with add-only access, share them, or save them in Files. SUGGESTIONS WITH YOU IN CONTROL Explore 20 looks and get on-device scene suggestions with a deterministic fallback. Where available, optional Apple Private Cloud Compute requires explicit opt-in on iOS 27 or later. Only disclosed scene metrics and look-catalog text are sent; your video, frames, and audio stay on device. Suggestions never apply a look or change your export automatically. USE SHORTCUTS, NO ACCOUNT Use Siri and Shortcuts to apply or recommend looks, explore cinematic looks, and export graded video. Find looks and imported presets with iOS Spotlight. No Cinetone account is required. Requires iOS 26 or later. iPhone only.
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Verdict
CreativePass and Cinetone are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CreativePass against 5.0 for Cinetone. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
CreativePass ships an update weekly, Cinetone every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CreativePass | Cinetone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | moonbear | Andrii Cheberiako |
Customer experience
CreativePass
Cinetone
In-app purchases
CreativePass
No in-app purchases
Cinetone
No in-app purchases









