Cavo Camera vs ModCam

Your iPhone. Your cinema camera. Choose the motion you want. Cavo handles exposure, gives you manual control when you need it, and lets you preview your look without changing the recording. Smarter auto Set your frame rate and shutter angle. Shutter-priority auto adjusts exposure around those settings. On compatible cameras, Aperture Priority holds your chosen aperture while Cavo adjusts exposure. Keep exposure and white balance adjusting as you shoot, or lock them when recording starts. Manual when you want it Control ISO, shutter, focus, and white balance from the viewfinder, with manual aperture control on compatible cameras. Check audio levels, available recording time, grid, and horizon level without leaving the camera. Choose shutter angles from 30° to 360°, or use supported longer exposures for more motion blur at a lower recording frame rate. Pick your format Record in H.264, HEVC, or supported ProRes formats. Choose Apple Log, Apple Log 2, HDR, and real open gate when your iPhone and active camera format support them. Recordings are QuickTime MOV files. Microphone access is optional. Cavo records silent video when access is off. See your look. Keep your master. Import .cube LUTs to preview color while you shoot. Monitoring leaves the recorded master unchanged. When you're ready, Quick Grade creates a separate graded HEVC Rec. 709 MOV export and preserves your original. Save where you choose Record to Photos, App Files, a folder you select, or compatible external storage. Optionally save the recording location with your videos. Quick Grade preserves location tags in graded copies, too. Your camera. Your recordings. No account, ads, or analytics. Your recordings stay in the destination you choose. Requires iOS 17 or later. Available codecs, color modes, resolutions, frame rates, lenses, stabilization, and external recording depend on your iPhone, iOS version, and connected hardware. Apple Log 2 and dynamic 4:3 capture require iOS 26 and compatible hardware. Manual aperture control and Aperture Priority require iOS 27 or later and compatible cameras.

ModCam writes one file: a pure Bayer RAW DNG, straight from the sensor, with none of Apple's computational photography layered on top. In the default mode the app asks the camera for the sensor's own Bayer mosaic. Smart HDR tone fusion, Deep Fusion, the Photonic Engine, Night mode multi-frame stacking and Apple's color and tone rendering are all skipped. What lands in your photo library is a single-frame DNG that reflects what the sensor read, ready for whatever develop you choose. Here is the honest trade-off, because most apps do not say it out loud. The 48MP camera sensor is quad-Bayer. The un-remosaiced mosaic is about 12MP (4032 x 3024). A 48MP frame only exists after Apple's remosaic, which means it is ProRAW and it carries a computational baseline inside the DNG. ModCam does not pretend otherwise. It gives you both, as a visible mode switch: Bayer RAW, about 12MP, no Apple processing. ProRAW, 48MP, remosaiced, Apple's baseline included. The button at the top of the screen always shows which mode you are in. If the phone ever saves a 48MP shot at a lower resolution, a message pops up right away to tell you, and the gallery lists the real size of every photo. You find out on the spot, not a week later in your editor. MANUAL CONTROL ISO, shutter, white balance in Kelvin and focus are all yours. Each one is a ruler you scrub with your thumb: a fast swipe crosses the whole range, a slow one lands on a single step. What you set stays set, with no background auto correction quietly walking your exposure back while you compose. ISO and shutter speed each have an A/M button. A lets the camera set it, M keeps your value. ISO on M with shutter on A is ISO priority. Shutter on M with ISO on A is shutter priority. Both on M is full manual. A main A/M button switches both, and one tap on it takes you back to full auto. A live histogram and false color read the scene for you. A viewfinder can only approximate a RAW develop, so ModCam points you at the instruments for exposure rather than claiming the preview is the file. APERTURE The aperture (f-number) of the lens in use sits next to the lens buttons and updates when you switch lenses. On iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, the 1x camera's aperture is adjustable. Yellow means automatic. Tap or swipe right to open the stops, f/1.48 to f/4, and tap or slide to pick one. Tap M or swipe left for automatic. Elsewhere it is shown for reference. THE REST OF IT Every rear lens plus the front camera, selected directly. Self-timer with a countdown that blinks a warning before the shutter fires. Grid and level guides you can hide for a clean frame. Hardware shutter: the volume buttons and Camera Control both fire. An in-app session gallery: each shot's real mode, size, exposure and time, without leaving for Photos. Optional location tagging, written into the DNG's own metadata on the device. A three-page first-run intro that shows you where everything lives. WHO IT IS FOR People who develop their own files. If you shoot for Lightroom, Capture One or another RAW editor and you would rather start from what the sensor read than from a rendered result, this is aimed at you. If you want a finished JPEG straight out of the phone, the built-in Camera app does that better. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. There is no networking code in the app at all; it behaves identically in Airplane Mode. The only outward links are the Privacy Policy and Support rows in Settings, which open in Safari, and the Maps button in the gallery, which hands a coordinate to the maps app you choose. DEVICE SUPPORT ModCam is built around the Pro camera systems: the 48MP main sensor, the full rear lens set, and the manual ranges those cameras expose. On other iPhones it still runs, reading the modes, lenses and ranges from whatever camera is there, and showing a one-time notice that says so. Nothing is blocked. Version 1.0 is completely free.