CamPlot Director's Viewfinder vs EdgeWatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CamPlot Director's Viewfinder
Simulate professional cinema cameras and lenses on your iPhone. Accurately view shots with real sensor geometry, a vast lens kit, and live LUT grading. Scout locations with sun path and LiDAR distance.
- Simulates real cinema camera bodies and sensors
- Extensive lens kit with primes and zooms
- Live LUT grading with 200+ cinema looks
- Sun path visualization for location scouting
- LiDAR distance measurement on Pro iPhones
- Organized library of all captures and scans
- Exportable shot lists with QR codes
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Hold up your iPhone and see the shot through the real camera. CamPlot Director's Viewfinder simulates professional cinema cameras and lenses with honest optics — the same tool built into CamPlot, as its own app. THE CAMERA, NOT AN APPROXIMATION Pick the body — ARRI Alexa, Sony FX6 and Venice, RED Komodo, Canon C-series, DJI Ronin 4D, and more — choose Full Frame, Super 35, or MFT, and set frame lines for 16:9, 2.35, 2.39, or 4:3. The image you see is computed from the real sensor geometry. YOUR LENS KIT ON A ROLL Swipe through your lenses on an endless roll — primes snap, zooms ride a focal-length wheel with real stops. Add your own primes and zooms, or sign in to CamPlot and your project's lens inventory appears automatically. A LUT LIBRARY THAT LEAVES WITH YOU Grade the image live with true 3D LUTs on the GPU: 200+ cinema looks in nine packs, plus your own .cube files. Press and drag the LUT dial to spin the whole library with the picture regrading under your finger. And every look exports for your actual camera — pick your log format and CamPlot composes the conversion, so what you saw on the phone is what you load into the camera. SUN PATH WHILE SCOUTING See the sun's arc drawn over your framed shot for any date, using your location and compass. Know exactly when golden hour lands where you want it — weeks before the shoot. LIDAR DISTANCE On Pro iPhones, a measure mode reads the exact distance to your subject — aim, tap, and get feet and inches. THE LIBRARY Every frame, take and room scan you have made, in one place — each with the readings that were live when you shot it: camera, sensor window, lens, ISO, shutter, aperture, white balance, LUT, bearing, horizon, distance and where you stood. Photos, videos and room scans on their own shelves. A shot takes the whole screen with its instruments riding on top — one tap clears them, one brings them back. SHOT LISTS Build a list, name every shot in it, and add rows for shots you have not taken yet. Export it as a PDF contact sheet: the frame, its name, its readings, and a QR code that opens where it was shot in Apple or Google Maps. CAPTURES THAT REMEMBER Every capture burns in the body, sensor mode, focal length, and heading, saves silently to a CamPlot album in Photos, and carries its full readings inside the file itself. FREE TO TRY The app runs free with a generic full-frame body and a demo lens range, so you can see the whole thing before deciding. CamPlot Plus or CamPlot Max unlocks every camera body, your lens kits, the LUT library and LUT export, sun path, LiDAR, and capture — one account across the Viewfinder, the Calculators, and all of CamPlot at camplot.studio. The CamPlot Calculators are free with any account, including the free one. SUBSCRIPTIONS CamPlot Max: $49.99/year or $4.99/month. CamPlot Plus: $29.99/year or $3.99/month. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your device Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://camplot.studio/privacy.html
EdgeWatch
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EdgeWatch turns any iPhone into a professional local-network camera hub. Watch every camera on your WiFi from one live grid, or turn this device into a camera server that streams to all of them. No accounts. No cloud. No subscriptions. Everything happens on your local network. WATCH: EdgeWatch automatically discovers other Edge Watch devices on your WiFi using Bonjour zero-config networking. The moment a camera comes online, its live feed appears in your grid real-time video, zero manual setup. - Live grid of all discovered cameras on your network - Tap any feed for fullscreen view with full remote control - Remotely adjust zoom, focus, torch, and front/back camera flip - Green badge shows exactly how many feeds are currently live - Switch between 1-column and 2-column grid layouts BROADCAST: One tap turns this device into a live camera server. Edge Watch streams as both an H.264 RTSP feed and a browser-viewable MJPEG feed simultaneously and every other Edge Watch device on your network picks it up instantly. - H.264 over RTSP (:8554) - compatible with VLC, OBS, and NVRs - MJPEG browser preview (:8080) view from any web browser on the network - Share stream URLs instantly via QR code - Dual-camera compositing merge front and back into one stream - Side-by-side, picture-in-picture, or full-frame layout options - Motion detection with adjustable sensitivity - HTTP webhook notifications triggered by motion events - Broadcast Lock mode prevents accidental navigation mid-stream SOURCES: Control exactly how Edge Watch finds cameras on your network. Toggle Bonjour scanning, force a manual rescan, or switch to Camera Mode for efficient monitoring without the full encoder. - Bonjour discovery for _rtsp._tcp and _ewcam._tcp devices - Camera Mode: lightweight ~12fps MJPEG feed with remote controls — no H.264 encoder needed - Live status list of all discovered devices (online, connecting, offline) - See this device's own local IP address and Bonjour service identifiers TELEMETRY: A live system health dashboard with rolling sparklines, broadcast metrics, and a complete session event log. - CPU load and network I/O sparklines, updated every second - Live bitrate, frame rate, and connected client count while broadcasting - Timestamped event log covering the full session PRIVACY FIRST: Edge Watch collects zero personal data. No account is required. No internet connection is needed at any point. All video streams travel exclusively over your local WiFi network and never reach the internet or any external server. Terms of Use: https://doc-hosting.flycricket.io/edgewatch-terms-of-use/e2e79890-0e9a-4cdf-8f68-0904cd03075d/terms Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
CamPlot Director's Viewfinder and EdgeWatch are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. CamPlot Director's Viewfinder sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and EdgeWatch sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | CamPlot Director's Viewfinder | EdgeWatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (18 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Romany Films Inc. | Vadym Vasylaki |
In-app purchases
CamPlot Director's Viewfinder
- CamPlot View+ Monthly$3.991 Month
- CamPlot Creator Monthly$4.991 Month
- CamPlot View Plus Annual$29.991 Year
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- CamPlot Creator Annual$49.991 Year
EdgeWatch
- Monthly Pro Camera Access7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Annual Pro Camera Access7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Pro Features$24.99
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