Planit Pro vs Zenso
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Planit Pro
This app helps photographers pre-visualize scenes by combining map data with simulated viewfinders. It offers tools for location scouting, celestial object tracking, and time-lapse planning, making it ideal for landscape and night photography.
- Map-based scene pre-visualization
- Simulated viewfinders (VR, AR, Picture, Street View)
- Celestial object tracking (Sun, Moon, Stars, Milky Way)
- Time-lapse and star-trail planning
- Location scouting tools (GPS, elevation, distance)
- Exposure and filter calculators
- Offline functionality
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Please email info@planitphoto.com for bug reports or feature requests. Please also remember to visit https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTmlTTxPbBbcn1Fd1NRWTOczTY1RYEug4 for more video tutorials. Each video only lasts a few minutes but you will surely learn a lot from them. You can also reach us through Instagram. Links are under the menu inside the app. This is a special call to landscape photographers, travel photographers, nature photographers, and those who are interested in night photography, city photography, time-lapse, star-trails, milky way or astrophotography: look no more, this is the ultimate app for you - the Planit Pro. It only costs you a cup of Frappuccino but will save you tons of time and effort and a lot of gas money. Most importantly, it will make you enjoy landscape photography even more. Ansel Adams dedicates the beginning of his first book "Taos Pueblo" to visualization. He introduced the idea of "previsualization", which involved the photographer imagining what he wanted his final print to look like before he even took the photo. Of course, there are many great photos that were taken impromptu. However, for landscape photographers, being able to previsualize the scene before going there will greatly reduce the chance of being caught unprepared and will greatly increase the chance of getting better photos. Photographers use various tools to help them pre-visualizing the scene. Nowadays, many of those tools are phone apps. Planit Pro is an all-in-one solution that is designed to leverage the map and simulated viewfinder technologies to provide the necessary tools for photographers to pre-visualize the scene in combination with the ground subjects and the celestial objects such as the Sun, the Moon, Stars, Star-trails and Milky Way. In the Planit Pro app, we packed it with features - from location scouting such as GPS coordinates, elevations, distance, elevation gain, clear view, focal length, depth of field (DoF), hyperfocal distance, panorama, and aerial photography, to the Ephemeris features such as the sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset time and direction, twilight time, special hours of the day, sun/moon finder, major stars, constellations, nebulae azimuth and elevation angle, star trail planning, time-lapse calculation and simulation, sequence calculation and simulation, milky way searching, solar eclipse and lunar eclipse, exposure/ND filter calculator, light meter, rainbow position prediction, tide height, and tide search, etc. All the information is either represented on the map as an overlay or visually presented in simulated viewfinders (VR, AR, picture, or street view), just like you look through your camera's viewfinder. Whatever you want for your landscape photography, it is there in the Planit Pro. Landscape photography is an adventure in the natural world. We understand that sometimes there won't be any network connection when you are out exploring. Planit Pro was designed for having it in mind. If you preload the offline elevation files and the offline mbtiles maps, you can use the app fully offline without the need for network connections. License agreement at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy at https://planitphoto.com/privacy.html
Zenso
Control your Nikon camera remotely from your iPhone or iPad. View a live feed, adjust settings, and instantly transfer photos and GPS data. Ideal for studio, outdoor, and self-portrait photography.
- Remote camera control
- Live view with setting adjustments
- Instant photo transfer
- GPS data embedding
- USB and Wi-Fi connectivity
- Camera status monitoring
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Frame from afar. Capture in silence. Zensō is a remote shooting and photo management tool designed for Nikon camera users. It turns your iPhone or iPad into a second screen beside your camera, helping you connect, control shooting, receive photos, and sync location data more smoothly during studio work, self-portraits, product photography, outdoor recording, and remote framing. Each feature maps to a real moment on a shoot: - Plug in over USB for an instant connection, or connect over Wi-Fi. - Live view with exposure, focus, white-balance control and more. - New shots arrive on your device as you take them, ready to review on a larger screen. No card swapping. - Browse the camera album and download only the files you want. - Write your device's GPS into each photo, so outdoor and travel sets keep their location. - Check connection, transfer, battery, and camera status at a glance; including on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Frames you can trust, images that come to you, locations that stay attached — handled quietly in the background. --- Compatible with the full Nikon Z mirrorless lineup: Full-frame (FX): ZR, Z9, Z8, Zf, Z6 III, Z6 II, Z6, Z7 II, Z7, Z5 II, Z5 APS-C (DX): Z50 II, Z50, Zfc, Z30 Nikon is a trademark of its respective owner. This app is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Nikon Corporation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Zenso at Free against Planit Pro's $9.99. Zenso also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Planit Pro's advantage is ratings volume (1.5K vs 2) and chart position (#177 vs unranked). 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
Zenso is free to download; Planit Pro costs $9.99 up front. Planit Pro sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Zenso sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Zenso holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planit Pro has 1.5K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Planit Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, Zenso every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Planit Pro | Zenso |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.5K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #177 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 159 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JIDE Software, Inc. | 俊尧 周 |
Customer experience
Planit Pro
Zenso
Bugs and requests
Planit Pro
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crash on iPhone 13 after the update
- Sync issues with update
- Crash, can't open after upsate
- Tides are way off.
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Desktop version
- User manual
- Record walking track (GPS positions)
Zenso
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Planit Pro
- 3D Model (A Month)$0.991 Month
- Location Explorer (Month)$4.991 Month
- 3D Model (A Year)$5.991 Year
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- Location Explorer (A Year)$29.991 Year
Zenso
- 5-Day TrialFree
- Lifetime Pro$9.99









