CreatorGrade vs MotionCam Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CreatorGrade
A professional mobile app for color grading and cinematic video editing. It offers a touch-first timeline for trimming and reordering clips, along with advanced color tools like node-based workflows and LUT support. Shape your footage anywhere with a streamlined, premium mobile experience.
- Node-based color grading
- Realtime color tools
- LUT support
- Touch timeline editing
- Cut, trim, reorder clips
- Export clips or sequences
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CREATORGRADE — PROFESSIONAL VIDEO EDITING AND COLOR GRADING ON IPHONE CreatorGrade turns your iPhone into a powerful, portable post-production studio. Organize footage, build multi-layer edits, record voiceovers, perform detailed color correction, work with ProRes RAW, and export polished videos—all from one streamlined app. Whether you’re creating social content, short films, client projects, or cinematic mobile productions, CreatorGrade gives you the tools to take an idea from raw footage to final export. PROFESSIONAL EDITING TOOLS • Build complete edits with multiple video and audio tracks • Arrange clips across V1 and V2 video layers • Work with linked audio on dedicated A1 and A2 tracks • Trim, split, move, resize, and reposition clips • Mix videos, still images, titles, music, and voiceovers • Scrub through your timeline with responsive visual previews • Add and edit multiple titles throughout a project • Preview your work in a clean, full-screen player • Organize projects and keep every production easy to find ADVANCED COLOR GRADING CreatorGrade includes a node-based grading workflow designed for both quick corrections and more advanced creative looks. • Adjust exposure, contrast, shadows, highlights, saturation, hue, temperature, and tint • Balance footage with professional lift, gamma, and gain color wheels • Refine individual color channels with Color Mix controls • Apply LUTs and color space transforms • Build grades across multiple adjustable nodes • Compare graded and ungraded footage with a live before-and-after viewer • Preview color adjustments during playback • Maintain consistent color across supported H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and RAW workflows PRORES RAW SUPPORT Work with supported ProRes RAW footage directly on iPhone and begin with a neutral, flexible image ready for grading. • Read supported camera metadata • Adjust RAW white balance, ISO, and tint • Combine RAW adjustments with LUTs, color space transforms, and additional grading nodes • Preserve your grading pipeline from preview through export MULTITRACK AUDIO AND VOICEOVER Sound is part of the edit—not an afterthought. • Record voiceovers directly into your project • Add music and external audio files • Work with multiple audio tracks • View audio waveforms directly on the timeline • Keep source audio linked to its video clip • Relink missing music and media files when needed FLEXIBLE EXPORT OPTIONS Choose exactly what you want to deliver. • Export a complete edited sequence • Export individual clips • Render videos with titles, grading, transforms, crops, and positioning intact • Save finished videos to Photos • Create deliverables for social media, client review, or further post-production DESIGNED FOR MOBILE CREATORS CreatorGrade is built specifically for a touch-first workflow. Pinch to resize footage, drag to reposition it, use alignment guides for precise composition, and move naturally between editing and grading without leaving your project. No desktop required. No watered-down workflow. Just serious editing and color tools built for creators who want to work anywhere. Some professional media formats and features require compatible iPhone hardware, supported source files, and sufficient available storage. ProRes RAW availability depends on device and media compatibility.
MotionCam Pro
Capture professional-grade RAW video and photos directly from your phone's sensor. Gain granular control over exposure, color, and post-production workflows for filmmakers and photographers.
- RAW video capture
- RAW photo, burst, and time-lapse modes
- DirectLog video recording
- In-app rendering and export
- ProRes and HEVC export
- RAW histogram and false color monitoring
- LUT support and ACES color pipeline
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MotionCam Pro is for creators who want more from their phone camera. Capture RAW video, RAW photos, DirectLog video, time-lapse and burst sequences, then render or process your footage with a workflow built for grading and real post-production. Most phones shape the image through a default processing pipeline, giving footage a fixed “phone look” before you ever start editing. MotionCam Pro is built around RAW sensor data, so you can monitor the signal, protect highlights and shape the final image yourself. Made for filmmakers, photographers and curious creators who want to learn, test, take control and keep improving their images. Capture with more control: - RAW video capture from the camera sensor - RAW photo, burst and time-lapse modes - DirectLog video for real-time RAW-to-LOG recording - In-app rendering and export workflows - ProRes, HEVC / H.265 and professional post-production options Expose with confidence: - RAW histogram - Sensor clipping map by RGB channel - False color monitoring - Focus peaking - Direct Preview to see the pipeline before recording Shape your look: - ACES color pipeline - DCP profiles - LUT support - Wide-gamut workflows - LOG outputs for grading in professional tools Continue your workflow beyond the phone: - Render on device - Process footage on desktop with MotionCam Tools for PC and macOS - Export for professional editing and color grading workflows Join more than 10,000 MotionCam users in the community to learn, test, share workflows and improve your results: https://discord.gg/Vy4gQNEdNS
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: CreatorGrade at Free against MotionCam Pro's $29.99. CreatorGrade also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). MotionCam Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (82% vs 60%). On ratings volume, ads, monetization model 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
CreatorGrade is free to download; MotionCam Pro costs $29.99 up front. CreatorGrade sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MotionCam Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
MotionCam Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of CreatorGrade's written reviews are positive against 82% of MotionCam Pro's.
CreatorGrade ships an update every 10 days, MotionCam Pro every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.
| Parameter | CreatorGrade | MotionCam Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $29.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (7 ratings) | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #71 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Tobin | Mirsad Makalic |
Customer experience
CreatorGrade
MotionCam Pro
In-app purchases
CreatorGrade
- Lifetime Pro$9.99
MotionCam Pro
No in-app purchases









