Cinetone vs Develop Log

Edit the video. Shape the color. Cinetone is an iPhone video editor and cinematic color studio. Arrange multiple clips, refine each shot, build a soundtrack, add captions, and export a finished video—or create a color-only LUT for another editing workflow. EDIT ON A MULTI-CLIP TIMELINE Trim, split, move, and reorder clips. Reframe, rotate, or flip footage. See waveforms, trim added audio clips, adjust their volume individually, and keep original sound separate from added music. Editing is nondestructive: Cinetone works with its own local copies, leaving source files untouched. ADD CAPTIONS Create and edit captions for individual source clips, set their text and timing, and control whether they appear. Captions stay attached to their original clip as you trim, split, or reorder the timeline. Add them manually or generate them from speech in a selected original clip when the device, language, and Apple speech model support it. Model downloads may be required; transcription runs on device. Review captions before export. Enabled captions are burned into the video, never included in a LUT. MAKE THE COLOR YOURS Start with 20 original cinematic looks, including Golden Hour, Soft Portrait, Teal Shadow, and Rich Mono, plus three open community looks. Compare your grade with neutral Rec.709 and adjust exposure, warmth, tint, contrast, saturation, intensity, and fade. Import your own .cube LUTs from Files after choosing the matching input profile; imported LUTs output SDR Rec.709. HANDLE LOG AND HDR SOURCES Import supported Rec.709, Apple Log, Apple Log 2, and color-tagged HLG or PQ footage. HLG and PQ are converted to SDR Rec.709 for preview and video export. Cinetone does not export HDR video. EXPORT FOR YOUR NEXT STEP Export an H.264 MP4 or HEVC MP4 when supported, with SDR Rec.709 color and supported mono or stereo audio. Choose up to 1080p or 4K and up to 30 fps or the source frame cadence. Smaller sources are never upscaled. Export a 33-point or 65-point .cube LUT to carry color into a compatible workflow. Save videos to Photos with add-only access, share them, or save them in Files. SUGGESTIONS WITH YOU IN CONTROL Explore 20 looks and get on-device scene suggestions with a deterministic fallback. Where available, optional Apple Private Cloud Compute requires explicit opt-in on iOS 27 or later. Only disclosed scene metrics and look-catalog text are sent; your video, frames, and audio stay on device. Suggestions never apply a look or change your export automatically. USE SHORTCUTS, NO ACCOUNT Use Siri and Shortcuts to apply or recommend looks, explore cinematic looks, and export graded video. Find looks and imported presets with iOS Spotlight. No Cinetone account is required. Requires iOS 26 or later. iPhone only.

Develop Log turns flat Log footage into finished pictures, right on your iPhone and iPad. Start from the camera maker's official restore LUTs, grade in layers the way professional colorists do, choose a film look, and export HDR or SDR video or Live Photos. When you want a second pair of eyes, the AI colorist measures your frame and grades step by step with you. RESTORE WITH THE OFFICIAL LUTS • Natural uses Apple's and DJI's own Log-to-Rec.709 LUTs, matched to your camera model • Supports Apple Log, Apple Log 2, DJI D-Log M, D-Log and D-Log2, plus HLG and regular video • Formats are recognized automatically from file tags and DJI metadata GRADE IN LAYERS, UNDER THE LOOK • Primary: exposure, white balance in Kelvin, contrast, highlights and shadows, Lift / Gamma / Gain wheels and curves. On Log footage they work in stops, in linear light, before the look • Secondary: Color Range qualifiers for skin, sky and foliage, HSL, and automatic subject / background masks • Texture: grain, halation, vignette, sharpening and noise reduction FILM LOOKS • Official looks designed for Log footage, applied in one tap with adjustable strength • Import your own .cube LUTs, or save any grade as a look AI GRADE • Describe a feel or attach a reference image • The AI reads the scopes first (luma, clipping, skin tones, white balance), then grades in steps you can follow in the chat • When the direction is open, it asks, with a live preview of each option on your frame • It only uses the app's own tools, so every change is a slider you can undo or fine-tune • Your frame and messages are sent to a third-party AI provider only when you use AI Grade, after you agree. Provider details, processing locations and retention periods are in the Privacy Policy EXPORT • HEVC 10-bit in SDR Rec.709 or HDR HLG; the HDR version follows your SDR grade • Live Photos with an HDR still • Trim, crop and rotate; choose resolution, frame rate and quality • Original shooting metadata is kept FREE AND PRO Restoring, primary grading, official looks and export are free. Develop Log Pro unlocks secondary grading, texture, LUT import, saving looks and AI Grade with a weekly allowance. Max has the same tools with 20 times the weekly AI allowance. AI Top-Ups add allowance that never expires. Subscriptions renew automatically each month unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://developlog.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://developlog.app/privacy