Comparison

Prop Screen vs Tether

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

Head to head
About

Prop Screen

This app transforms your iPhone into a customizable screen prop for film and TV production. Create realistic mock phone interfaces, including call screens, message threads, and notifications, to enhance your visual storytelling. It offers offline functionality and is designed for professional use on set.

Highlights
  • Customizable call screens
  • Simulated messaging conversations
  • Prop notifications
  • Full-screen playback
  • Green screen mode with tracking
  • Home screen designer
  • Offline functionality
Features
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PropScreen is the professional prop device simulator built for film and television production. Stop fighting with personal phones, paper green screens, or post-production fixes. Prop Screen turns an iPhone or iPad into a fully custom screen prop that adapts to your script. Every tool was designed by working filmmakers to solve real problems on set. WHAT'S INSIDE • Prop Call Screens — custom contact name, photo, ringtone, era-specific layouts, outgoing and unknown-number calls, lose-signal effects, volume-button trigger for hands-free cueing • Prop Video Calls — pre-recorded video for the remote caller, live front camera framing your actor • Prop Messaging — full blue- and green-bubble threads with photos and locations, played live or staged for actor delivery • Prop Notifications — bundled and custom app icons, banner or lock-screen layouts, stackable to tell a story • Prop Screen Playback — lockable fullscreen playback for any screen recording your production needs • Green Screen Mode — chroma screen with built-in tracking markers for VFX compositing • Prop Home Screen Designer — build any home screen layout, export as a transparent PNG • Project folders to keep a show organized Recent Update: • Director Mode — Pair a second device and run the performance phone remotely. Cue scripts beat by beat, watch typing mirrored live, trigger prop calls and notifications, and drive every prop app while your actor performs on a script-locked keyboard. Bluetooth clicker remotes supported. • Prop Security — A simulated camera wall with tap-in live views, event lists, and running timestamps. • Prop Maps — Repeatable navigation and driving directions with custom markers. Stop swapping screens between takes in a picture car. • Prop Social Messages — Chat props in five social platform styles. • Prop Live — A simulated livestream with an auto-generated, scene-reactive audience you can cue from Director Mode. • Prop Social Feeds — Scrollable photo, video, and story feeds built from your own posts. • Clean Mode — One switch loads an original app set with custom per-project names and icons. • 12 on-camera languages — Set each project's phone language independently, including Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Hindi, and Russian, each with its real keyboard. App interface now in 11 languages (beta). • Export for edit — Send prop message and social conversations to After Effects or DaVinci Resolve as transparent video, every bubble editable, typing animated. Import scripts from spreadsheets. • Backups you own — Automatic backup to your own iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or Google Drive. Three named versions per device, one-file project export, nothing on our servers. • Built for iPad — A native iPad layout, not an upscaled iPhone build. • Adds fully support between iOS and newly releases Android. BUILT FOR PRODUCTION Everything stays local to your device. Prop Screen does not place calls, send messages, or transmit any content. It is a self-contained visual prop tool, designed exclusively for staged content creation in film, television, theater, and photography. PROPSCREEN PRO • Every prop screen in the app • Unlimited saved projects across every tool • Custom imports — contact photos, ringtones, app icons, posters, screen recordings • Director Mode and volume-button trigger control • Works fully offline once installed • No ads, no accounts, no data collection WHAT'S NEXT Prop Screen ships regular updates driven by crew feedback. Need something for your next production? Tap the info icon in the app to email us directly — every release so far has come from working filmmakers asking. Designed for use on professional film and television productions. Built by Game Night Films & Film Swag. By downloading PropScreen, you agree to Apple's standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Tether

Features
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Tether is a private home for one relationship — just the two of you. No feed, no followers, no public profiles. You pair with one person, and everything you make is yours alone. SHARED ALBUMS Organize your life together into albums. Add photos and videos from your library, at full quality and any length, or capture them right inside the app with the built-in camera. Everything syncs privately between the two of you. MY EYES ONLY A separate, passcode-locked space for the photos and videos meant for no one else — kept out of your shared albums and never shared outside the app. QUESTION OF THE DAY One thoughtful prompt a day to stay close. You each answer privately; neither of you sees the other's reply until you've both answered. Your answers become a shared journal you write just by showing up. STREAKS & PROGRESS See your memory streak, your question streak, and the moments you've captured together — small reasons to keep showing up for each other. BUCKET LIST Keep a running list of things you want to do together, and let "Surprise us" pick your next adventure. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - Pairing is invite-only — one partner, period. - Sign in with Apple supported. - Delete your account and all your data anytime from Settings. - Report a photo or remove your partner's access at any time. Tether is for two people who want one quiet, private place to be a couple.

Screenshots

Prop Screen4 screens
Tether4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tether at none against Prop Screen's 3. On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Prop Screen sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Tether asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Prop Screen ships an update weekly, Tether every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Prop Screen versus Tether: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProp ScreenTether
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews42.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB59 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperGame Night FilmsIsaiah Harris

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Prop Screen

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$89.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$999.99
None

Tether

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Prop Screen free?
Prop Screen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tether free?
Tether is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Prop Screen or Tether have ads?
Neither Prop Screen nor Tether shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Prop Screen or Tether?
Prop Screen ships an update weekly, and Tether every 4 days. Most recently, Prop Screen was updated on October 11, 2026 and Tether on October 14, 2026.

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