Cadrage Director's Viewfinder App Reviews

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Very nice app wish it had more overlays. I wish there were more composition overlays such as golden triangle. Otherwise great app it had my camera and lens setup more than I anticipated.

One of the most useful tools. Great app!! I am a cinematographer and have shot two feature films, I always use Cadrage to plan the camera positions with my directors, one of my top tools! Thank you!

Almost perfect. As soon as you can add camera and lens information manually after importing a photo this app will be perfect. Don’t know if this is possible but it seems like an easy feature to add. This is my go to for communicating Shotlists and relevant information to the crew. The reason for requesting that you can manually add camera information is because when outputting a Shotlist with imported images, the PDF reports prints out “unknown camera”. This causes everyone in the crew to bombard the DP saying “I thought we selected the camera?” To which the DP has to explain that this is a limitation of Cadrage. Help! If this gets added this app is a game changer and would be the Tesla of viewfinders.

Using it since day one. Love the layout. It’s sober. All the formats in it. Frame lines overlay. Clarify misconceptions about sensor crops etc. Love the ability to generate a shot list.

Enjoy. Really enjoy using the app!! Use it on a daily basis when I am on set. Thank you

Game changer to have on set!. Location scouting just got even easier to find our frame. Saves us time and hassle of moving the cinema camera until we know we have our shots. Amazing price for such a great and easy to use tool.

Expertly designed. Expertly designed and easy to use. Extensive up to date database of cameras and lenses. A pleasure to use in studio or on location.

Quick and easy. Gives me everything I have been looking for in a camera / story board app. The PDF export is a game changer to my production. Quick simple and it works.

Changed my view. This is such a great app. To know what camera, format, lense, etc. that is being used for filming and adapt it to rehearsals and pre-vis is a game changer. Turning in ideas knowing they will fit the scene ahead of time saves countless hours of production time. Love it and thanks Noon Orsatti DGA/SAG

Great app. Be aware though….. The app is great but be aware that you have to have a newer model phone with the newer cameras so that you can actually see the wider angle lens field of view. Other than that great app.

Works as Advertised. Cadrage has become an invaluable tool for me. Works as advertised and is absolutely worth the cost of admission.

Wish I knew about this app sooner. Very useful for my pre production work, love it!

Solid camera app. It seems a few other reviewers don’t understand what this app is for and have given it a one star. If you work in the film & television industry or need to have a way to frame up shots, this is a solid app. If you think this is a viewfinder app to allow you to see through your camera then this is not it. This is a director’s viewfinder and allows you to see what a frame would look like using various lenses on various camera bodies.

Very helpful!. Easy user interface, more options than I know what to do with 😅

Best I’ve used.. So far so good. Just embarking on using it but have done several location scouts w it, great features.

Buy it!. This is a great little tool, super easy to use has most cameras and lenses. You can even add custom lens options too. I use it on every shoot.

Buy this app.. If you’ve ever wanted to scout shooting locations without having to drag along your entire kit, stop reading this review and just buy this app already. It is the single most useful app in my professional arsenal: wherever I am, whatever I’m doing, I can grab my phone and instantly frame up a shot for any camera, lens, or aspect ratio. Better yet, Cadrage captures an incredibly useful amount of metadata so there’s no second-guessing how you got that shot. From time to GPS location to even the direction and orientation you were shooting, there’s so much data available that you can easily return to the location and set up without excessive re-scouting.

Best scouting companion. It has been a big help to be on the go and scouting locations and have all of your lens choices in the palm of your hands at any moment

Essential. Absolute time saver. This app taught me so much about my lenses in just minutes. Can’t wait to go shoot.

Great app. (Ultra wide support). Currently using this app on the iPhone 11. Was hoping the app is able to enable the ultra wide cameras for wider focal length. Thank you! Hopefully the update can come soon.

Great work _ Must have in the digital tool box for a DOP. I think Cadrage stormed the opposition (Artemis) when this update occurred in IOS 13. Leaving the others for DEAD. The UI is cleaner with a brilliant, more pro appearance overall. They added more lenses & cameras. GREAT to see it all function so neatly & efficiently without tiresome menus. For an onsite DP’s reference well equiped tool - for other HOD’s in a production to communicate ideas & concepts on location it’s definitely the tool you want in your device as any film maker. This gets my vote.

Lock Screen widget!!. Thank you so much for adding this feature. I use a focus mode while filming projects and I consolidate all the apps I need for productions within that mode. I even have a customized lock screen and with this new widget I can be way more productive!

Easy to use. I enjoy all the metadata that is captured during a location scout in order to duplicate the shots during production day.

THE ONE to get.. Having worked and futzed with them all... I can confidently tell you Cadrage flat out slays and renders the others dead. This is not only my fave viewfinder app, but, honestly it’s one of my all time fave apps. A joy to use - let’s you focus on doing what you need to do and makes your shortlists and storyboard creation become effortless. Today I created an entire storyboard for a complex video in a 25m Lyft ride from my phone. In the past, this would have taken an hour or more on desktop. This app is so well designed and made to make our work frictionless, easy and enjoyable. Well done. Developer response to my feature request has been quick and phenomenal as well. That is sayin a lot these days. Highly recommended.

Love this app!. I’ve matched this to my BM6k Pro setup with my Sigma 18-35mm. I’ve even added my Luts to be able to get a good idea of what the image will look color wise. Big Fan. So easy to use when scouting and figuring out lenses needed for coverage.

Good quality but still need more supports. A very useful app. I always use this when scouting location for my films. Not only me, my DOP and production designer are also love it.

Super easy, works every time!. I love to use this app to frame out shots before hand. It’s intuitive and has all the features I need.

One Of My Favorite Tools. Every camera and lens combo you would ever need, the ability to grab scout stills or video with baked in camera and lens info? The best. Pricey, but ultimately worth it.

So much better than Artemis. Artemis was always slow and problematic. This one’s so much better, easy to use.

Great app for filmmakers. I never thought I would rely so much on my iPhone to take care of so many of my production needs. As much as I like the old traditional ways of filmmaking, going this route is both faster and my cost effective.

Quick viewfinder to capture setups for production!. Love the details I get when shooting setups for projects. Clients can quickly see what we’re going to capture. Awesome having different cameras and lens kits to access quickly!

Love this. Being able to preview what a shot is going to look like before having to configure my video rig is a real time saver. Also allows me to scout locations without having to bring out the rig.

Great app. Great app! The only thing I would change is how the camera and lens kits are organized. I shoot video on an R5c and use a mix of zoom R lens and primes in my physical kit. So I’d like to be able to switch between all my lenses in the app quickly. When your kit only has prime lenses it’s great because you select the ones you own in app and use the arrows to switch between them quickly. -we need to be able to add zoom lenses into this organization and switch between them with the arrows the same way. -and then just have an extra UI button to zoom in and out with that lens.

For professional directors and DPs. I’ve been using Cadrage for about 3 months now. It’s exceeded every expectation for a viewfinder app for location scouts. The team behind the app also seems to very consistently support the app users with updates based on feedback. Zero regrets from me in buying Cadrage. Keep up the great work!

Great utility every film maker or photographer must have. Cadrage will save you a lot of guessing, time and money. If you are a cinematographer, photographer, location sound mixer, set designer or location scout, or anyone that needs to have critical technical information, with lens info and geo-tagging, to make your life easier and equip you to excel in your job, then this needs to be in your kit. Buy it. You won’t regret it. Oh, I forgot to mention that it’s very affordable.

Massively useful.. Literally use it every day on every shoot. I was just gaffer on a project where we were moving from setup to setup so fast that I was setting up one scene ahead of the crew and using Cadrage to communicate with the dp while they’d shoot the room I’d just lit. Couldn’t love this more.

Best Viewfinder. Been using it for years and they have great updates and support. 10/10

Great App! FR: simultaneous adapter overlays. Feature request: Simultaneous display of available adapter mags (including no adapter) to show which magnifications fill in the gaps. Cadrage is front and center on my Home Screen. Using it every day.

Invaluable Tool for Location Scouting. I have been relying on Cadrage more and more during location scouts and love the flexibility it gives me to test out lenses and angles from several cameras, including use of SpeedBoosters. The export functions are also great for getting a quick and dirty shot list sent out. There is a delay from pressing the shutter or volume keys for me, but since I’m on a 6s I don’t know if it could be a little bit the phone. I’d love to try with a dual camera to see if it returned better quality on long lenses versus straight digital zoom. I’d love to see a more streamlined interface for organizing shots, but the current one is entirely functional, additional cloud services besides Dropbox would also be a nice export option in future.

Excellent. All the cameras and lenses and adapters. Has aspect ratios presets for every camera I’ve ever used with every lens I’ve used with every adapter I’ve ever used. Very solid.

Brilliant. I’ve been using Cadrage for quite a few years now on many different projects and many different cameras as well. I can confidently say that this is the best viewfinder app I’ve ever used.

Great App. This app is great for scouting. I’ve also developed a workflow where I download the photo from Cadrage and use it as a background in my storyboard. I’ve found the lenses and cameras are pretty accurate. Keep up the great work!

Great Value. Easy to use and good tool!. Bought this for Tech Scouting and to Help visualize what a frame might be. Really comes through. I haven’t used all the features but will update.

Useful Storyboarding Resource. This app is an excellent resource for storyboarding, with access to premiere motion picture lenses, some costing 5 figures. An Arri Alexa Classic 20mm spherical has a readable distortion distinct from a Panavision anamorphic, and being able to capture that helps with scene compositions; you can maintain a consistent look through the perspective guides. If you’re a director on set, you should use a director’s viewfinder, but this app is 1/5 the cost and excellent for off-set pre-pro.

Great tool for view finding!. Must have for filmmakers. Bug-free. Very easy to use.

Great app, now even better with iPhone 11 support. Using this with an iPhone 11 and love that it can support the 13mm FOV (on full frame). Also, I love the new ‘looks’ option where you can actually color grade a style and save it as a preset for preview and adding to saved shots. Very nice!

Very powerful and well used tool in my production work flow!. I love the design and ease of use with powerful and expansive toolset. A must have in my pre-production.

I WANT MY MONEY BACK ASAP. I want my money back ! I’m so very upset . I own a camera of my own and it doesn’t have a viewfinder . I thought that this app would act as a viewfinder so I could see if I was focusing or not . It has nothing to do with that and I wasted 15 dollars on a stupid app that I will never use again . I’m serious.i want my 15 dollars back ASAP !!

😌👌🏼👌🏼. This app’s pretty dope, if you ask me… It’s so convenient to just carry and have, even just for comparing framing things in random settings.

Great scouting tool. Use this app on every scout. Well designed and includes every lens I can think of.

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Must have tool. Must have tool for every filmmaker! Worth every penny

Great app. Easy to use and handy on set!

Brilliant App. Great useful app, would love to be able to make the viewfinder window fill the entire screen on my XR instead of the 4:3 view I have on my screen. Everything else is great, also if can control the Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO that would be great as well to simulate shots from camera! 5 Star rating, a must have app for Cinematographers! Only looking forward to my requests above being implemented.

Amazing app. I had used Artemis for years and got frustrated with how buggy it was. Constantly losing my settings. Converted to Cadrage and haven’t looked back. Easy interface, reliable and I love being able to save my settings between shows. Thanks for making my life on set easier! Legends!

AMAZING. Better and nicer to use than Artemis!

Worthy alternative to Artemis. Cadrage has great support from the devs, and is a really good deal with the Lens Matcher companion app. Does mostly everything I can think to ask of it, and it's bug free so far, which is a bonus

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It does the job. Using it on an iPhone 11 Pro, there’s no issue with wide angles; I don’t think I would use it on a phone that doesn’t have the wide angle however.

Nothing else compares. Don’t bother downloading or buying any other app. This is the best one, by far.

Great Job. Fills The Void

Love this tool. When you don’t have or want to carry around a camera it’s a great way to visualize your shot , and all the info you need is tagged on the file .

Almost there!. It feels like such a missed opportunity to not have portrait mode blur option. I find myself opening the camera app to producers examples to show clients because most people intuitively don’t imagine the depth of Field and it helps a lot to compose with the option to see a portrait mode back blur even if it’s not perfect.

Better than Artemis. I was a long time Artemis user, but switched to Cadrage for it’s simplicity and less cluttered interface.

Dusk/Dawn. The app is awesome. Has every sensor you can think of and let's you add any lens you want. The one thing missing is sunset/sunrise information, which similar apps like Panascout have. This is quite essential when location scouting. Even without it, I truly recommend the entire Cadrage bundle. Geminos is also quite helpful, I find.

one of the most director viewfinder app on the market. It is simple to use and you can add a look to your shots... One word: WOW

Knockoff app of Artemis Director's Viewfinder. This is a knockoff app of Artemis Director's Viewfinder. 1- not all cameras are there. 2- you can’t load lenses packages. Artemis Director's Viewfinder what film industry uses. I bought this app because it’s cheaper but I regret now. I need my full money back. If you are a cinematographer. This app won’t help you until the developer adds lenses packages so when you use ARRI ALEXA MINI with ARRI Ultra Prime 14mm T1.9 Lens (PL) You get the right look!

Great app for location scouting!. Very useful and easy to use. Before changing lenses you can test it out with your phone. Bit most importantly, you can taie picture and email the file with the lenses info, perfect to prepare a shooting.

Not perfect but quite useful. It is amazing but the only thing I would like is a more refined project libraries

Essential tool for filmmakers. Really great tool. Lots of customization options, including aspect ratio, custom lens adapters, video & photo stills, etc.

Amazing Tool. Greatest directors viewfinder period.

Works. It works. Can be custom calibrated which is amazing. Buying the combo is worth it.

Great app. Love this app. A must have!!

Love it. Unbelievably useful. I use it for all my projects ranging from TV shows to commercials.

So much!!. There are so many options for lenses and cameras- many different functions- great app!

Good app, has some flaws. Love: Video recording option Reporting tools Dropbox integration Things to improve: 1) Be able to move the PDF report to Files app or any other PDF app that doesn’t require email or internet access!!! 2) It would be great to be able to load a ‘standard’ lens package, like a set of Master Primes. I am annoyed that I can’t save a frequently used lens kit and save/load/export/import it (ie via a .csv file). The fact they just say generic focal lenses instead of a specific camera package is not exactly user-friendly. Perhaps that distinction is not relevant from the point of view of optics and geometry, but it would be useful to be able to save a lens kit and “assign” names to them, so that in the metadata reports I could see which camera, sensor and lens type (super speeds, ultra primes, etc) the photo was captured with. 3) another annoyance is poor photo managements & project organization. It’s unnecessarily cumbersome and convoluted, yet not powerful enough for batch processing. Needing to select a “default” project and then also have titles for images as well. And I always start capturing new photos into an old project and then have to move it over. Plus the fact that old titles persist as well is.... it’s both - understandable and at the same time that’s just bad design choice. Cause I eventually notice that the titles are all from the previous project and proceed to change them - only to stumble upon the fact that I can’t change titles of multiple items in one swoop. That feels like a huge oversight. 4) this one oversight is the one I HATE the most - pressing the < arrow in the top left corner while going thru captured photos bumps me out to record mode INSTEAD OF bringing me back to the gallery view I came from. This is just asinine! Back button means “return one step back”, NOT switch modes to Record.

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I love it. Great app and this has been a game changer in pre-production!

The best app for framing!. The best app for framing. With good updates and no bug

Use it every day. I am a AC and camera Op in Chicago. I use this app every day on set. 10/10

Wonderful App. This is truly a wonderful app. I love using it.

So useful. Great to pick which lens before setting up an elaborate crane shot

So Dope. This is the best money I ever spent

Perfect for pre shoots and location scouts!. I can

Cadrage Director Viewfinder. Very happy.

This is a terrible app!. For what you charge, you flat out disrespect people! A joke.

Love it. Great app.

the best viewfinder 😍. Such a well designed app 💯

GH Films. Awesome app! Using it to work through shots during run throughs.

Camera shutter is difficult to engage. Bought this today. Went on a scout and frustratingly had to press the camera icon at least four or five times for the app to engage the camera shutter and document the location. I feel like I wasted my money on this app, as well intentioned as it might be.

Exactly what I needed. This app is great. It gives me a good perspective on what my camera and lenses are capable of.

Awesome!. Makes life easier for the Director!

No Rokinon Cine DS lenses. Read all the great reviews and purchased this app only to immediately find that Rokinon Cine DS lenses are not on their list of lenses?

Great App. Very helpful App

Cool. Amazing always use

Love It. Awesome app. Well done. Please add virtual people (stand-ins).

prefer to artemis. have used both, like cadrage better

A life saver. Really great App, efficient and easy to use

Needs update. Does not operate and crashes on iPhone 6S. Please update, don’t like to think Ive wasted money.

Best one. This is the best and most intuitive one of these apps I’ve used

Need to add the Nikon Z7. When do you thing you guys will add the Nikon z7 to the list?

Loving This App. I recently downloaded this App to help me plan my shots for my upcoming Short Film. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! I am so happy that I found it.

Awesome!. Great viewfinder!! Especially now that you can use the video capabilities.

Great app. Great app for previewing shots. Tons of cameras and specs. It’s thee tool!

Could be great. Like the app. Would be great if you could pick specific lens sets and see if they cover a certain sensor. The standard focal lengths are ok but lens sets would be ideal. Please release an update that supports the ultra wide lens on the iphone 11 already!

THE app for directors viewfinder. Has all the lenses and cameras. Super reliable. I’m using on the 11 pro. Love it.

No aperature metadata or control. I wish they’d allow for aperture information in the metadata. I can slide and select my lens, sensor, camera, etc but not my F-Stop. Please include this. Makes the Cinematography package worthless.

Great app... add Sony FX6 for 5 stars. Great app, but Please add the Sony FX6. Thanks!

Too expensive for what it does.. For $20 you would expect that the lens picked would fill up the full screen for deciding what lenses to use. But not all lenses you choose fill up the full screen. I also think this is closer to a $5-10 app not $20. A bit disappointed.

Great app. Love using this app for scouting locations and picking lenses fast on set:)

Not so impressive. So, it doesn’t zoom to lens focal to see actual view! I didn’t like it

Great App!. Really good app, my only wish was that the video was 24fps. Aside from that, it serves exactly what I’m looking for!

Love it. Super helpful

Great planning app. Love it worth it and time saver, only need lense when ready to shoot

Meridian pictures. Great app! It’s so helpful! You can line up your next shots. Thanks!!!

Great tool for view finding!. Must have for filmmakers. Bug-free. Very easy to use.

good. this game has been great but the only way you could ever find someone who can make it happen and then you will be happy

Best App for filmmaking. You can’t go wrong.

Excellent. Great selection of cameras and lenses.

The best viewfinder app. Powerful and easy to use.

Great app. Love this app

Super helpful. Packed with useful features. Love it.

Great app. Nice app, amazing free alternative Viewfinder app

Best Purchase Ever. Best money i ever spent on iTunes, certainly the my most used App

Amazing!. It allows location scouting to become a joy!

I love this app. I can’t believe how comprehensive, yet intuitive, this app is. It’s a lifesaver on set.

Works great. Thanks