Over 500,000 different apps have been downloaded more than 18 billion times in Apple’s iPhone/iPad App Store. Those numbers are mind blowing and prove that the iOS devices are being put to use around the world as serious tools.
Filmmakers are no different. If you have an iPhone sitting in your pocket right now, you have access to one of the most versatile tools you could ever find on a film set. It can do everything from calculate depth-of-field to help you level a camera.
The possibilities are endless and everyday new apps come out that can change how you approach your job as a filmmaker. The only problem is, how do you find the most useful apps out of hundreds of thousands?
Well, I went ahead and did some of the legwork for you.
Listed below is a series of posts I wrote about the best and most useful cinematography apps to put on my iPhone. Many of them I use every single day while I’m on set, while others are for more specialized purposes like shooting in 3D.
Even if you think you have all the apps you could need on your iPhone, you may find one or two here that makes life on set easier, so check them out:
- Useful Cinematography iPhone Apps to Have on a Film Set
- Useful Cinematography iPhone Apps to Have on Set – Part 2
- Useful Cinematography iPhone Apps to Have on Set – Part 3
- Useful 3D Stereography iPhone Apps to Have on Set – Part 4
- Useful Cinematography iPhone Apps to Have on Set – Part 5
- Useful Cinematography iPhone Apps to Have on Set – Part 6
- Useful Cinematography iPhone Apps to Have on Set – Part 7
- 5 Useful Cinematography iPad Apps for Filmmakers
- 5 Useful Cinematography Android Apps
