Kino - Pro Video Camera

You deserve a 5 star review merely for the onboarding experience. And the app itself only improves from there! I’ve been looking for a while now for a way to really leverage my iPhone 15 Pro camera. Been shooting raw both with the built in camera app and the Blackmagic Cam app, and grading with Resolve. And the results are amazing, but I’ve been looking for a way to better streamline the process. I am using my phone and not a full fledged camera for a reason. And now it’s just so much easier to get everything done quickly and easily on one device. It’s not as comprehensive as Blackmagic Cam and Resolve, but nor should it be. It’s the best option at the moment to create a professional pipeline on a phone while preserving the flexibility to do further color grading afterwards if you really want to. The easiest five stars I’ve ever handed out.

I’m really enjoying the cinematic touch this app gives iPhone videos. In so many ways, Apple hardware is capable of pro-level content. But the software is of course focused on everyday users, leaving a lot of potential unrealized. Apps like this one solve that problem for people who want to make pro-level stuff on a device in their pockets or who want their everyday stuff to look just right. A few feature requests: 1- Sliders on the color style options. All the LUTs look great for longer, movie-length works. But most of us are making 45-second stories and reels that need a more subtle look. 2- An iPad/Mac control and monitor app. This may be moot with iPhone mirroring now available on Mac. But it would allow us to use the front camera for talking head videos. 3- Something like Apple’s Cinematic/Portrait Mode. I know it’s distinctly not pro or cinematic, but it’s nice sometimes to blur the background a little more than the hardware allows for.

Yea not worth the money.

This app is amazing for travel! No frills, the built in LUTs are great, and I can just hand my phone to a family member to film without them needing to know anything about cameras! Keep up the good work and I appreciate you guys for making a great product 🍻

Apple reviews gives rave reviews BUT I’m suspicious on their $10 fee as being motivation for their review. Blackmagic Cam is free and I think their interface is better. For what it’s worth . . .

Every god dang time I open the app

It’s cool in many aspects and I believe there are certain key features that would make it better such a process zero feature similar to halide, more intuitive manual control, adjustable LUT intensity, and seamless lens switching.

This app really helped take my video to the next level. Best app I’ve downloaded all year.

I love the simplicity and beauty of this app—it’s very well-designed. However, there are a few issues with the touch controls. The buttons aren’t sensitive enough, making it difficult to adjust settings without repeatedly tapping or swiping. Adjusting the ISO slider is particularly challenging in landscape mode, as it often will switch out of the app. Switching between lenses is also quite slow, and I wish I could still adjust focus by tapping the screen, even when manual focus is enabled. Additionally, many buttons and controls frequently fail to respond, even after restarting the app or my iPhone. I also wish there was an option to select exactly which folder in the Files app I want to save my content to. Being able to choose the bitrate for videos would be a great addition. It would also be fantastic to have the ability to set points A, B, and possibly C for manual and automatic focus modes, as well as for zoom, with customizable transitions, such as adjustable speed. Another feature I’d love to see is the ability to save at least 3-5 manual custom settings, with options to name them and add icons for easy identification. Additionally, the app should always remember the last used settings, even if they weren’t saved, or at least provide an option to enable this feature. Having the ability to adjust video stabilization would make it even more versatile. This app would be amazing if it included settings for professional-grade photography. Even though I already use another app purely for photography, ProCamera, if this app could do all of that, I would easily make it my number one camera app—even replacing my native camera app. Lastly, if it’s possible to include iPhone’s cinematic mode with the option to record at higher frame rates, like 48 or 60 fps, even on the iPhone 15 line, this app would truly be unbeatable. Thanks for reading! It still has a long way to go before I can make the switch from Blackmagic Cam app, but it truly has potential, assuming that the devs actually give us custom presets, unlike Halide cam where they never bothered to

This is a really good camera app and I wanna be able to use it more and open it with camera control on the iPhone 16 along with being able to zoom in more then just 2x