Trigger Keeper vs CreatorCalc

Prop your phone anywhere, step into the frame or keep your hands on the job, and say the word. Trigger Keeper hears it and takes the photo. No timer sprint, no asking strangers, no one missing from the picture. HOW IT WORKS Pick up to three trigger words. Any words you like, from "cheese" to something only your family says. Frame the shot and tap Play. Trigger Keeper starts listening. Say the word. The flashlight blinks so everyone knows it heard you, and the shutter fires. Or just smile. With Smile to shoot on, it takes the photo when everyone in frame is smiling. MADE FOR REAL PHOTOS Your word, not a wake phrase. No "Hey Siri" required. Works in English, Spanish, and Chinese. Burst mode takes three shots in a row, so blinks and mid-laugh frames don't cost you the photo. Live Photo support captures the moment around the moment. 0.5x ultra-wide to 6x zoom, with pinch or one-tap lens presets. 4:3, square, and 16:9 framing. The volume buttons and Camera Control work as a manual shutter. PRIVATE AND LOCAL Speech recognition and smile detection run entirely on your iPhone. Trigger Keeper contains no networking code at all. It cannot send your audio, your photos, or anything else anywhere. No account. No ads. No analytics. It works in airplane mode, because nothing it does ever needed the internet. Listening stops when you tap Stop, when you leave the app, or after 10 quiet minutes. A note on permissions: Trigger Keeper asks for full photo library access only because creating and managing its own album requires it. The gallery shows only the Trigger Keeper album. Your other photos are never read. GOOD FOR Family gatherings and holiday photos. Group shots where the photographer finally gets to be in them. Solo creators who need a camera operator. Anyone tired of the 10-second timer dash. Hands-busy moments: under a sink, up a ladder, or mid-repair, when you need a clear photo of a part to send to a colleague or customer. Requires iOS 17.2 or later. Ultra-wide and telephoto options appear on devices that have those lenses.

Plan media and power before the shoot. CreatorCalc: Shoot Planner brings offline reference calculations and local project planning to filmmakers, photographers and location-audio crews on iPhone and iPad. Turn your own settings and measurements into estimates for storage, recording time, batteries and backup media. VIDEO STORAGE & RECORDING TIME Enter bitrate, planned duration, camera count and a safety margin to estimate storage in GB and GiB. Compare required media with primary and separate backup card capacity, and review card counts and capacity shortfalls. Keep codec, resolution and bitrate assumptions with your estimate. For example, 400 Mbps for 10 minutes on two cameras, with a 20% margin, estimates 72 GB of primary media. BATTERY & BACKUP PLANNING Use measured runtime, battery count, camera count and a reserve to estimate usable recording time. Compare your recording plan with available power. For location audio, plan recorder battery runtime separately. Photo tools use measured shots per battery and average file sizes to estimate photo capacity, storage and additional backup copies. AUDIO MEDIA BUDGETS Estimate PCM storage from sample rate, bit depth, channels, duration and parallel files, or use your own bitrate for compressed audio. Review primary-media and backup-capacity shortfalls with the number of additional copies you need. EXPOSURE & PHOTOGRAPHY REFERENCES Work with shutter time, shutter angle and frame rate. Explore ND exposure, depth of field, hyperfocal distance and field of view using your lens and sensor inputs. Additional tools cover manual-flash guide numbers, handheld shutter references and time-lapse frame, interval and duration planning. KEEP THE PLAN WITH THE PROJECT Create separate local project workspaces with equipment details, recording notes and saved calculation snapshots. Reuse equipment profiles. Compare selected video, photography and audio storage demand against a shared primary-media pool and a separate backup pool. Export project records as PDF or CSV, or create JSON workspace backups and preview an import before replacing data. OFFLINE, WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Calculations and project storage run on your device. No registration, login, subscription or in-app feature unlock is required. Exports go to the destination you choose; the app does not provide its own cloud synchronization. Results are reference estimates based on your inputs and stated assumptions. Check usable capacity, measured battery performance, equipment specifications and production requirements. Backup tools estimate capacity and export workspace data; they do not copy your media files. CreatorCalc does not record or edit media, control equipment or synchronize timecode.