Cinescope vs Vuer HDR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cinescope
This app provides filmmakers with advanced controls for capturing high-resolution video and photos. It offers industry-standard and custom aspect ratios, manual adjustments for focus, exposure, and color, and various shooting modes including slow motion. Optimize your media for social platforms with built-in editing tools.
- Custom aspect ratios
- Manual focus and exposure control
- High-resolution video capture
- Slow motion recording
- Live filters
- Instagram formatting
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Cinescope version 2.5 is a filmmaker's best friend. Capture your vision with industry-standard aspect ratios, or create and save your own. Swipe the screen using one or two fingers to quickly tweak focus, exposure, tint, and temperature to create the perfect atmospheric mood. Shoot high resolution video in various aspect ratios and at various frame rates. Crop your media or optimize for Instagram with mattes colors based on the color palette of your image. All the features available in Cinescope: Photos • Save in either compressed (JPEG) or uncompressed (TIFF*) format • Store RAW information (DNG*) Videos • Capture in resolutions supported by your device • Pause and resume while shooting • Take a photo while shooting • Capture at 60, 30, 24 fps (based on selected resolution) • Capture with video stabilization (for resolutions that support it) Slow Motion • Capture in various resolutions and frame rates, including 240fps • Pause and resume while shooting • Capture with video stabilization (for resolutions that support it) Aspect Ratios • Capture using industry-standard aspect ratios • Create and save your own custom aspect ratios Live Filter • Capture in low, medium, and high-contrast black & white • Capture in various preset color levels Manual camera adjustment controls • Exposure: Single-finger vertical swipe • Focus: Single-finger horizontal swipe • Temperature: Two-finger vertical swipe • Tint: Two-finger horizontal swipe • Zoom: Pinch • Auto-adjust and fix to point of interest: Tap screen • Shake (or tap Lock Icon) to return to manual control Library • Format media for Instagram with additional color matte options • Crop your photos and videos Other • Swipe left or right on the Camera Function button to quickly move between photo, video, and slow-motion • Swipe left or right on the Aspect Ratio button to quickly change aspect ratios • Shoot in either landscape or portrait mode using any lens supported by your device • Four theme colors, manual control sensitivity adjustment, and alignment grid *Note: iOS does not natively handle TIFF or RAW files. Use an application like Image Capture to pull these formats directly from your device.
Vuer HDR
Monitor and analyze up to four video feeds in real-time HD. Offers tools like histogram, false color, focus peaking, waveform monitor, and vectorscope for detailed video stream analysis.
- Real-time video monitoring
- Supports up to 4 video feeds
- 1080p HD resolution
- Built-in histogram
- False color overlay
- Focus peaking
- Waveform monitor
- Vectorscope
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Vuer HDR is an iOS application that allows you to monitor and analyze up to 4 Teradek encoder video feeds in real-time, all in 1080p HD. With a built-in histogram, false color, focus peaking, waveform monitor and vectorscope, digging into the details of your video streams has never been easier.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Vuer HDR at Free against Cinescope's $4.99. Vuer HDR also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Cinescope's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 3.0) and review sentiment (58% vs 20%). On update cadence, 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
Vuer HDR is free to download; Cinescope costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cinescope holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cinescope has 155 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Cinescope's written reviews are positive against 20% of Vuer HDR's.
Cinescope ships an update monthly, Vuer HDR every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cinescope | Vuer HDR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (155 ratings) — better | 3.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.0% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 155 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #195 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Poster Child Pictures Inc. | Teradek |
Customer experience
Cinescope
Vuer HDR
Bugs and requests
Cinescope
Reported bugs
30 issues- App keeps taking random shots when opened
- App not working, shows error message
- Unable to save video after 40 minutes
- App defaults to losing the first image in an album
- App keeps closing when trying to use it
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- App crashes when trying to stop recording or save
- App crashes after taking a picture
- App saves picture vertically, only a sliver of the image captured
- App crashes when trying to crop and save
- Stabilization is trash
- Formatting for Instagram causes jumbled lines or crashes Instagram app
- No stability in camera
- Weird bug with stretching of images when formatting
- App crashes and shuts down in video mode
- Sending feedback via app makes the app crash
- App closes every time the button to take a picture is clicked
- App crashing almost every time a shot is snapped
- Cannot see photos within the app, have to look in photo album on phone
- Cannot get any recordings to save
- App closes instantly when trying to load photos or videos
- Cannot import videos
- Cannot access the gallery from the app
- No sound records with videos
- No audio for videos
- Camera mode not working correctly
- Cannot use existing videos from camera roll to crop
- No sound issue
- No AF/AE lock
- No stabilization
- No updates for years
Requested features
16 requests- Add selfie mode
- Import videos for cropping
- LED flash support
- Slo-mo (60, 120 FPS) support
- Front camera support
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- Lock exposure and focus
- Manual controls (exposure, focus)
- Stabilization / shake reduction
- Point app to store photos in specific albums
- Ability to change ratio in built-in app
- Add 3x3 guides
- Add 4K 24p support
- Add 1080p recording
- Add regular camera mode
- Upload existing video to be cropped
- Selfie mode
Vuer HDR
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cinescope
No in-app purchases
Vuer HDR
No in-app purchases








