the Blackmagic camera app is the latest
shiny app released for the iPhone but is
it truly the best I went back and tested
all the latest Pro Camera apps out there
just to see if the Blackmagic still
rains supreme or if there's anything
else that tops the charts so let's look
at today's top contenders we have the
Blackmagic camera app which is free but
you do have optional Blackmagic cloud
storage which costs money filming pro
has a wild amount of inapp purchase
options that you can see in the App
Store I'm guessing they depend on
different trials coupons various
promotions Beast cam has actually
drastically lowered the price down to
$2.99 and this is a one-time purchase
prot take which you can download for
free but if you want to be able to hit
the record button with a lot of like 4K
Maxs and different features enabled you
are going to have to pay 20 bucks a year
moment Pro which primarily has been a
photography app also has some video
capabilities and here you pay a one time
7 Bucks to get access to download the
app and all of it its internal features
it does have a couple inapp purchases
but they're primarily for photography
like slow shutter and time-lapse now
there are quite a few other apps out
there and to be honest I downloaded
pretty much all of them played around
and they either were buggy poor design
or they were just good decent apps that
didn't really have any standout features
and so this video would get kind of
repetitive talking about every app that
you can change ISO and shutter speed but
if you think there are any apps that I
missed definitely let me know down in
the comments below now if you want to go
in depth to these top apps and learn so
much more about phone film making you
can check out my iPhone filmmaking guide
which is still currently on sale for
just under 20 bucks it's got loads of
content in there you can download a
bunch of Apple log iPhone 15 Pro Max raw
footage Black Magic Camera app presets
which I'm going to talk about in this
video and so much more if you're
interested check it out in the link in
the description so back to the camera
apps first let's talk about the No
Frills app now as I mentioned there's a
bunch of video apps out there that kind
of just add a little bit of exposure
control and do very basic setting stuff
of all those apps my favorite one is the
moments app as I mentioned it's
primarily a photography and stills app
but they have done a lot of work on the
video processing and video capabilities
now in my use there's no real huge
standout features here like some of the
other apps we're going to talk about
have but in my opinion if you like the
stock camera app and you want something
that's fast reliable and just gives you
a better control or over your camera
with exposure this is a fantastic app
Choice it also recently got updated with
Apple log so you can shoot in your
favorite codec the Beast cam app I've
talked a lot about on this channel in
the past and they did drastically reduce
the price down to $2.99 with no
subscriptions or internal add-ons B
script primarily makes physical hardware
for mobile film making lenses cages doof
adapters and others and so this is a
good companion app they have some
interesting smart exposure feat features
that give really good low light
performance and in terms of all the apps
that cost money I think this is a steal
of a price it's fully featured and has
all of the exposure controls the only
real con is currently at the time of
recording this video it has not been
updated to support Apple log next up is
filmic pro this obviously has been kind
of the industry standard or industry
Choice app for many years most famously
they had their season 8 of Game of
Thrones type Scandal when they went
subscription model what did I buy you
for to make me sad and everyone kind of
fell off from using them in the past
year or two business model aside it's
still very much a great app it's fully
featured which by the way when I say
that in this video I just mean it has
all the standard stuff that all these
apps should have exposure controls white
balance codec flavors stabilization
options that sort of stuff it was the
first app to have camera to Cloud
technology via frame.io and so they've
really built that that out if you have a
remote film making sort of workflow it
got updated to have Apple log and it
does have a wireless transmitter feature
that allows you to use a secondary iOS
device as a uh remote monitor it used to
be a separate app and now it's all
integrated into one app moving on we
have prot take now I've had this app
installed for a while but I didn't give
it much attention but recently as I've
been playing with more of these apps I
actually kind of put it a little bit
higher than what I like even in filmic
Pro because it shares all the same
features again fully featured and it
also has a wireless transmitting
capabilities including where you can
have four cameras from four different
iOS devices viewed on one iOS monitoring
device it's also been updated with Apple
log in the latest video processing codec
and honestly one of my favorite features
is the dual camera mode so I've seen a
similar feature like this in other
cameras where you usually have the rear
facing and the front facing so you can
like record something and then record
your reaction to that thing and you can
do this there is a picture in picture
mode or two up split screen mode sort of
thing but there's also the ability for
it to record two separate different
files now you can't go up to the 4K 60 I
believe you can only go up to 4K 30 but
if you're doing like me 4K 24 a lot you
can actually pick two different lenses
it can be the front camera and the rear
or like what I like to do is either the
main wideangle lens and a Ultra wide or
the telephoto so you can capture both
those physical different focal Links at
the same time and besides these standout
features I really just like the user
interface of the app it's not vastly
different than all of these other Pro
Camera apps but it's got a good smooth
feeling going around the interface easy
to change settings the manual controls
feel very nice and overall it just feels
like a really solid app so while a lot
of people may not like the subscription
model love it and I totally understand
that if you're willing to pay the price
I think it's a really good app so what
is it about the Blackmagic camera app
that really has a lot of us obsessed
obviously it's fully featured it has all
the settings that you could hope to have
in a pro camera app Blackmagic has
really been pushing their Blackmagic
camera to cloud workflows and here it's
very much tightly integrated into their
whole workflow system and their bigger
cameras like the Ursa broadcast G2 the
Blackmagic fullframe which is now
inhouse and I'm going to have a full
review on this in the coming weeks which
will soon have the camera to Cloud
technology you'll be able to tightly
integrate your iPhone footage to much
bigger cameras all into the same
production and have them sync to remote
editors very quickly you've got things
like Bluetooth control for the nucleus
Nano so you can have Professional
Wireless follow Focus systems you want
different presets for like the best
settings for slow motion uh real time
low light you can save them for yourself
and Export them for others and actually
I just exported a handful of these
presets and I put them in the iPhone
film making guide so anyone who has
joined you can go in and download those
presets load them into your own app and
boom you'll have all of my favorite
setting combinations as well obviously
you have the credibility for the fact
that Apple used them to film their
entire recent Mac event but honestly I
think the biggest reason of all it's
free as I mentioned if you pay for
Blackmagic cloud and you're doing the
whole camera to Cloud thing which right
now is still very Niche and you want to
pay for Blackmagic storage that is a
cost but if you want to download this
app and use every single Pro feature it
is completely for free and that's what I
think has so many people excited also
Blackmagic is amazing with updates and
Bug fixes and just recently they came
out with an update that added a lot of
new features and if you want to hear all
about that watch this video right up
here