Cinescope vs FinderKit
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.
FinderKit
This app simulates camera and lens combinations to provide an accurate preview for filmmaking and photography. It helps users organize projects, save media, and generate shotlists, streamlining workflow for creators and crews.
- Accurate camera and lens previews
- Extensive camera and lens library
- Project and scene organization
- In-app gallery with notes
- PDF shotlist export
- Customizable overlays and accessories
- Multicam preset buttons
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200+ cameras, 2000+ lenses, the fastest lens selection of any viewfinder app, plus PDF shotlists, project organization, and iCloud sync. Whether you're scouting a location, testing a new angle on set, or making a quick photo-based storyboard, FinderKit will help you work faster and keep you and your crew in sync. FinderKit also has a dedicated mode for photographers, with common photo sensor sizes and a simplified lens interface. Simply choose your camera and lens package, and you'll get an accurate preview of what your camera will see. Quickly scroll the lens list to change focal lengths—no need to manually tap through each lens to get to the one you want. Save photos and videos to the in-app gallery, where you can organize by project and scene, add notes, or share. CAMERAS AND LENSES Includes over 200 cameras from brands like Arri, Canon, Red, Sony, Blackmagic, Panasonic and more, as well as over 2000 lenses from Angenieux, Arri, Cooke, Canon, DZO, Hawk, Leica, Zeiss and others. You can even group together individual lenses to make a custom kit for each project. ACCESSORIES AND OVERLAYS Speed boosters, extenders, aspect ratios, custom crops, thirds, grids, title safe, crosshair—FinderKit has it all. PROJECTS Projects let you organize your work. New photos and videos are saved to the project currently selected, along with your most recent camera and lens selections. When you return to that project later, your media and camera/lens settings are automatically loaded. GALLERY With an easy to use design, the gallery makes it simple to view, organize, and share media. When viewing media, just swipe up to see metadata and add titles/notes. Swipe back down to return to the gallery. Media is automatically grouped by project, and you can further organize by scene if you choose. ICLOUD SYNC Keep your media safe in the event of device loss or damage, and download FinderKit for Mac + iPad to view, organize and share your media on a large screen device with mouse and keyboard support. AND MORE • Fullscreen mode lets you cut out the distractions, hiding all the controls except the lens picker and shutter buttons. • Looks let you dial in exposure, contrast, temperature, saturation and more. • Multicam buttons store preset camera and lens combinations for easy access when you're working with multiple cameras. • A coverage warning lets you know that the lens you selected may not cover the current camera sensor (with a shortcut to LensKit to see the full coverage chart). • If you use CameraKit or LensKit, a single tap sends your setup to FinderKit, and vice versa • Even more features to come! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: FinderKit at Free against Cinescope's $4.99. FinderKit also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 58%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.5). Cinescope's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (155 vs 13). On update cadence, ads and device support 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
FinderKit is free to download; Cinescope costs $4.99 up front. FinderKit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Cinescope asks for nothing beyond the download.
FinderKit holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cinescope has 155 ratings behind it against 13, 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 90% of FinderKit's.
Cinescope ships an update monthly, FinderKit every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cinescope | FinderKit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (155 ratings) | 4.9 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.0% of reviews | 89.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 155 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #189 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Poster Child Pictures Inc. | Zak Ray |
Customer experience
Cinescope
FinderKit
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
FinderKit
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cinescope
No in-app purchases
FinderKit
- Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$49.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$29.99
Questions
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