Comparison

Cine Meter II vs WingnutTV

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Cine Meter II

This app functions as a professional light and color meter for filmmakers. It offers features like a zoomable spotmeter, RGB waveform monitor, and false-color mode to help users precisely control lighting and color in their shots.

Highlights
  • Zoomable spotmeter
  • RGB waveform monitor
  • False-color mode
  • Incident meter with lux/foot-candle
  • Color temperature and tint readings
  • Shutter angle and speed calculations
  • ND filter and exposure compensation
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Cine Meter II measures light and color, so you can light and shoot and know what you'll get. “Cine Meter II is an essential app for every cinematographer.” — Jon Fauer, ASC “[T]he perfect app to have with you at all times.” — Roberto “Ganzo” Schaefer, ASC, AIC It's a zoomable spotmeter with an RGB waveform monitor and a false-color picture. It's an incident meter using a Lenny Hat or other diffusion, or Lumu™ Lite attachment, with lux and foot-candle readouts. (Lumu Power is NOT supported, and flash metering is NOT possible.) It's a color meter, showing color temperature and green/magenta tint, and giving you corrections to or from your target color. Measure more than just shutter-priority or aperture-priority: calculate shutter speed, shutter angle, aperture, ND, or ISO directly. • The exposure meter shows your stop as a decimal value (for cameras with EVF iris readouts) or as a full stop and fraction (for cine lenses with marked iris rings). Cine Meter II lets you use shutter angles – ideal for Digital Bolex and Blackmagic cameras – as well as speeds, and you can dial in ND filters and arbitrary exposure compensations. The spotmeter is zoomable up to 15x magnification (on devices that support camera zooming), using either the front or back camera. • The waveform monitor shows you how light levels vary across a scene. You'll see how smooth and even the lighting is on a greenscreen or background, and find subtle hotspots and shadows at a glance. The waveform’s RGB mode shows you color imbalances in the image and gives you a handy way to check color purity and separation for chroma-keying. • False-color mode lets you define allowable contrast ranges, and see instantly which shadows are underexposed and what highlights risk clipping. _______________________ READ BEFORE YOU BUY: Cine Meter II is NOT a flash meter; it can't measure strobes. Cine Meter II does NOT work with Lumu Power (the Lightning port Lumu), only Lumu Lite (the headphone jack Lumu). Cine Meter II gives you *absolute* light meter readings, but *relative* picture and waveform monitor levels: Cine Meter II’s picture and waveform monitor do not use the *exact* exposure shown by the light meter (they are close to the meter reading, but can differ from it slightly). The picture and waveform monitor show you *relative* levels within a scene, not *absolute* levels based on the meter reading. Shutter speeds, apertures, and ISOs shown in Cine Meter II are for metering purposes only and do not control the shutter speed, aperture, and ISO of the iPhone camera. The iPhone camera uses whatever exposure settings it needs to capture a reading. Cine Meter II is a light and color meter only; it is *not* a camera simulator. See http://www.adamwilt.com/cinemeterii/details.html#How_It_Works for details.

About

WingnutTV

Features
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Wingnut TV is an iPad App designed for directors and film production staff. It provides an intuitive way to browse a library of more than 10,000 of your video clips, audio files, images and documents, without any requirement to search, and it supports flexible viewing options for one or multiple assets. Wingnut TV is intended to work as a curated system, where your content is ingested and arranged in the ClipTouch Server Mac App, and then synced, downloaded, to be viewed on your iPad offline.

Screenshots

Cine Meter II4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: WingnutTV at Free against Cine Meter II's $24.99. Cine Meter II's advantage is chart position (#171 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

WingnutTV is free to download; Cine Meter II costs $24.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cine Meter II ships an update every 3 months, WingnutTV every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Cine Meter II versus WingnutTV: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCine Meter IIWingnutTV
Price$24.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (25 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings25 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#171 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdam WiltWingnut Films Productions Limited

In-app purchases

None

Cine Meter II

No in-app purchases

None

WingnutTV

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cine Meter II free?
Cine Meter II costs $24.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is WingnutTV free?
WingnutTV is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cine Meter II or WingnutTV have ads?
Neither Cine Meter II nor WingnutTV shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cine Meter II or WingnutTV?
Cine Meter II ships an update every 3 months, and WingnutTV every 5 months. Most recently, Cine Meter II was updated on October 29, 2026 and WingnutTV on October 10, 2026.

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