prefx vs PropChat

Stop losing production time to dead screens. Prefx transforms your iPhone or iPad and any external display connected via USB-C/HDMI into a high-fidelity, interactive digital prop. Built by baffe, a creative production company, Prefx is the professional on-set tool designed to bridge the gap between live-set interaction and post-production precision. Interactive Prop Themes A library of fully customizable modules for every narrative need, governed by a global Clearance Toggle and tunable via the Signature Secret Menu. • Stitch (Custom UI): Import your own designs or video plates to create a seamless, scrollable custom surface. • Strike Up (Social Media): Scrollable feeds, profile grids, and realistic interactions for on-camera talent. • Live Feed: Social broadcast simulation with looping video, scrolling comments, and animated viewer counts. • Chatterbox: Scripted messenger simulations with adjustable reply timing, on-the-fly actor typing, and instant reset between takes. • News: Scrollable digital news site with authentic headline and article layouts. • CineVault: A high-fidelity VOD interface for "watching" content on-camera, now with full external display control, living where it was always meant to: your TV. Clearance — Hero Mode vs. Villain Mode One toggle flips every theme for legal clearance. • Hero Mode: Platform-native typography and iconography for brand-consistent "good guy" devices. • Villain Mode (True Neutral): 100% brand-neutral interface using open-source Inter typography and Lucide iconography, for antagonists or high-risk clearances. Professional VFX Tools • Chroma Key: High-visibility green, blue, and middle-grey backgrounds with optimized luminance for clean keying, fully supported on external displays so you can tune directly on the screen you're shooting against. • Precision Markers: High-contrast markers for rock-solid matchmoving in After Effects, Mocha, or DaVinci Resolve, with full external display size support. • Interactive Plates: Move tracking markers in real-time to simulate a live interface for the actor. • UI Saturation: Desaturate interfaces on the fly to prevent color blowout on set cameras and specific LUTs. On-Set Utility • Emissive Lighting: Use any screen as a practical light source. Dial in color temperature with a Kelvin slider or use the RGB wheel for creative effects — now across any display size via external output. • Status Bar Control: Set time, battery, signal, and wifi to exactly what the scene needs, across any theme, take after take. • Privacy First: No data collection. No cloud processing. All assets stay local. • Offline Ready: No internet required once installed. • Global Support: Full UI in 12 languages. Why Prefx? Reduce screen replacements. Simplify legal clearances. Give your actors something real to react to. Your VFX artists and your lawyers will thank you. Subscription Information • Unlock all professional screen templates and future updates with a Prefx Pro subscription. • Plans: Monthly or Annual auto-renewable subscriptions, or a one-time Lifetime License. • Payment: Charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. • Auto-Renewal: Monthly and Annual plans renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Manage or cancel anytime via Account Settings on the App Store. • Previously purchased? Use the Restore Purchases button on the unlock screen. Developed by baffe, LLC. All templates are original. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.baffefilms.com/privacy

PropChat is the solution for chat, video call and phone call screens in film, TV, advertising and digital content. It simulates a real phone — messages, calls, lock screen — controlled in real time by the production team, so the actor lives the scene and you save time and budget in post-production. HOW IT WORKS The actor's phone runs PropChat in scene mode, showing a realistic messaging interface. From another device (or a hidden panel on the same phone), the operator behind the scenes triggers messages, calls and screen changes exactly when the script calls for them. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Send messages live, or build a queue of prepared messages and fire the next one with a tap or a key. • Voice notes, photos, videos and simulated locations as received messages. • Incoming voice and video calls, with a chroma-key color or a background video for effects in post-production. • Lock screen with realistic notifications, plus the real clock and battery level. • Customize the contact, the chat's look and the wallpaper for each scene. • Control everything with Bluetooth keyboard shortcuts, without touching the actor's screen. • Remote control: run the prop phone from an iPad or another iPhone, without relying on the set's Wi-Fi. • Automatic backup of the operator's setup, so you don't lose your configuration between takes. • English and Spanish, with a 12-hour or 24-hour clock. WHO IT'S FOR Directors, assistant directors, producers, content creators and film students who need a message, a call or a notification to appear exactly when the scene requires it, without the risk of a real notification coming in mid-take. PropChat includes a free trial and several plans (weekly, a 6-week Production pass, or annual) — see the options inside the app. REMOTE CONTROL WITHOUT THE SET'S WI-FI Turn an iPad or a second iPhone into the operator's control pad and run the actor's prop phone over a direct connection (Bluetooth / peer-to-peer Wi-Fi), without relying on the set's network or an internet signal. Ideal for location shoots, film and TV sets, independent productions and content creators who need reliable remote control of their prop smartphone wherever they shoot. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/