Sony | Content Browser Mobile vs Director Utility
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sony | Content Browser Mobile
Control Sony professional camcorders and recorders remotely. Monitor live video, adjust settings like focus and zoom, and manage clips. Upload, download, and even perform rough cut edits directly from your mobile device.
- Live video monitoring
- Remote focus and zoom control
- Rec start/stop
- Clip list browsing and playback
- Metadata editing
- Clip uploading and downloading
- Rough cut editing
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Content Browser Mobile is an application to remotely control CBK-WA100/101 Wireless Adapter and Wi-Fi compatible Sony professional camcorders/recorders. LIVE OPERATION - Monitoring live video from camcorders/recorders - Displaying the status of connected devices - Remotely controlling focus, zoom, rec start/stop, and etc. - Live logging (Essence Mark) BROWSE - Displaying the clip list - Playing clips - Editing metadata of clips TRANSFER - Uploading clips to FTP, FTPS, or other servers - Uploading clips partially by marking in and out points - Downloading clips to mobile devices - Managing transfer jobs via job lists STORYBOARD - Rough cut editing - Uploading clips partially and an EDL based on storyboards PLANNING METADATA - Naming clips - Assigning Essence Mark lists to buttons - Browsing and uploading related clips TC LINK - Synchronizing the timecode of multiple camcorders DEVICE SETTINGS - Making setting of network functions for connected devices NOTES: - System Requirements OS: iOS/iPadOS 18.0〜27.0 - For details about usage, please see the help page below. https://helpguide.sony.net/promobile/cbm/v2/en/index.html
Director Utility
Transform your smartphone into a mobile camera source for live shows or SRT streams. This app offers flexible multi-camera switching and remote control for your production devices, ensuring you capture every moment with ease.
- Smartphone as mobile camera source
- Real-time image streaming
- SRT server compatibility
- Flexible multi-camera switching
- Remote assistant control
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The Director Utility App can convert a smartphone into mobile camera, and add the real-time images captured by the phone as a source to a show created in the Director device, or stream to the SRT server. With features of fast access, free control, flexible switching of multiple cameras, you can always grasp the wonderful moments. At the same time, the App also provides a remote assistant function, which makes it much easier control Director device conveniently.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Director Utility at 5.0 against Sony | Content Browser Mobile's 2.1. Director Utility also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Sony | Content Browser Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (30 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Director Utility holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sony | Content Browser Mobile has 30 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Sony | Content Browser Mobile ships an update every 5 months, Director Utility every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Sony | Content Browser Mobile | Director Utility |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (30 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sony Corporation | Nanjing Magewell Electronics Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Sony | Content Browser Mobile
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In-app purchases
Sony | Content Browser Mobile
No in-app purchases
Director Utility
No in-app purchases
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