CreatorGrade vs CineLog Rec709
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.
CineLog Rec709
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CineLog Rec709 is a focused video utility for iPhone filmmakers, creators, and mobile videographers who shoot in Apple Log. Apple Log footage is intentionally flat and low contrast so creators have more flexibility in color grading. CineLog Rec709 makes the first conversion step fast: import a video, apply CineLog Rec709, preview the before and after result, add a film style or small finishing adjustments, then save the converted video back to Camera Roll. The app is designed for a simple mobile workflow: - Import videos from Photos or Files - Convert native iPhone Apple Log footage to Rec.709 - Preview Before and After inside the app - Add film LUT styles with adjustable strength - Fine tune contrast, saturation, highlight/shadow balance, warm/tint, and sharpness - Save up to three edit presets - Export the final video locally to Camera Roll CineLog Rec709 supports common social and cinematic video shapes, including 9:16, 16:9, and 1:1. The preview is optimized for fast editing on iPhone, while exports preserve the source video size and produce an SDR Rec.709 result. Privacy is simple: CineLog Rec709 does not collect personal data, does not use ads, does not use analytics, and does not upload your videos to a server. Your selected videos are processed locally on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CineLog Rec709 at none against CreatorGrade's 1. CreatorGrade's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. CreatorGrade sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CineLog Rec709 asks for nothing beyond the download.
CreatorGrade ships an update every 10 days, CineLog Rec709 monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CreatorGrade | CineLog Rec709 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Tobin | Walid Ahmad |
In-app purchases
CreatorGrade
- Lifetime Pro$9.99
CineLog Rec709
No in-app purchases
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