ShootCue vs ShutterCue

ShootCue is a shoot planning and photography education app built for working photographers who want to show up prepared, direct with confidence, and keep growing their craft. Whether you shoot portraits, weddings, elopements, maternity, or boudoir, ShootCue gives you everything you need before, during, and after every session. BEFORE THE SHOOT Browse the ShootCue inspiration library or upload your own favorite images. Save photos you want to learn from to your Pose Deck. Tap Add Prompt to generate a directing cue written the way you'd actually say it on a shoot. Tap Add Motion to get pose variations and movement ideas from a single image so you always have somewhere to go next. Get composition notes from any image that break down how to direct, shoot, and edit like the photographers whose work inspires you most. Build out client boards with the poses and images that fit your vision. Use AutoFlow to automatically sequence your images in an order built around posing psychology, warming your subjects up naturally, flowing from one pose to the next, and never freezing up wondering where to go next. Enter Organize Mode to assign images to specific scenes and add shoot information like outfit change reminders, sunset times, and anything else you want to remember, so nothing gets buried in your notes app again. ON SHOOT DAY Go fully offline. ShootCue downloads everything and puts it into a checklist-style shoot day mode so you can move through your notes, images, and sequences quickly and easily, even without service in a canyon, forest, or remote location. Show up knowing your bases are covered so you can focus on being creative. AFTER THE SHOOT Upload images from your session to Photo Review and get detailed feedback on your composition, lighting, posing, editing choices, and storytelling. Learn from your own work so you can get better with every session. BEFORE ANY OF IT The Sun Tracker shows you exactly where the light will be at your shoot location and time. Check golden hour, blue hour, sunrise and sunset mapped to your specific scene, and pull up the weather forecast so you can plan around conditions before you ever arrive. Download for free

Lightning-fast camera settings reference. Modern mirrorless cameras have hundreds of menu items. ShutterCue gives you a confident starting point instead: pick your camera and lens, choose what you're shooting and the light you're in, and get a ready-to-dial ISO, aperture, and shutter speed — plus the exact Nikon Z menu settings for the moment and plain-language advice on why. No account. No internet required. Just fast, trustworthy answers in the field. WHAT YOU GET • A ready-to-dial exposure: ISO, aperture, and shutter, solved for your gear, scenario, and light. • The right Nikon Z menu settings: AF-area mode, subject detection, drive/release mode, and metering — automatically reconciled to what YOUR body actually supports. • Plain-language advice: why these settings, and what to watch for (it'll tell you when ISO is pinned or the light is fading). • Two ways in: "Dial It In" (you pick the gear) or "Gear Me Up" (tell it the subject, it suggests the body, lens, light, and time of day from your kit). • My Gear: add the cameras and lenses you own and everything filters to what's in your bag. • Profiles: save your favorite setups for one-tap recall. • Tap any value to fine-tune it, and tap "Why these settings?" to learn the reasoning. • Share a recommendation as text — perfect for notes, a shoot plan, or helping a friend. BUILT FOR NIKON Z ShutterCue v1 is tuned for Nikon Z bodies and a growing catalog of Z-mount and FTZ-adapted lenses (Nikkor Z, plus Sigma, Tamron, and Viltrox). It understands variable-aperture zooms, the crop factor on DX bodies, in-body stabilization, and how AF features differ across bodies. HOW IT WORKS ShutterCue blends curated, photographer-authored knowledge with real exposure math (the APEX exposure triangle, the reciprocal hand-shake rule, and the 500-rule for stars). Same gear + scenario + light always gives the same answer. These are expert starting points, not a replacement for your light meter. Check your histogram — ShutterCue gets you in the ballpark fast so you can spend your attention on the photograph. Offline-first. Private by design — your gear and profiles stay on your device.