Facts

What it is

Name: Cutvey Viewfinder (on the home screen: Viewfinder). Made by Cutvey LLC, filmmakers in Orlando, Florida.
What it does: frames any lens on any camera's recording mode over the live picture from the iPhone or iPad's back cameras, for scouting, blocking and pitching a shot before the camera arrives.
Who it is for: directors, directors of photography, camera assistants, video producers, filmmakers and photographers.
On the App Store since October 18, 2026, in 41 languages. The current version is 1.1.

Free to download, then $19.99, once (US price; the App Store shows your local price) as a single in-app purchase. No subscription, no packs, no ads.
Until it is opened, the app offers three choices: Unlock Forever, Sign in with Cutvey and Restore Purchase.
One purchase covers iPhone and iPad on the same Apple Account. The Apple Watch app comes with it.
Also included with a Cutvey plan, per seat: Solo (1 seat), Pro (5), Studio (20) and Enterprise (custom). One activation per person, on up to three devices, working offline for up to seven days at a time. Not included with the free crew account, crew seats or archived seats.

iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 or later, iPhone Duo included. Apple Watch with watchOS 10 or later, as a remote for the iPhone app.
Uses the back cameras only: ultra wide, wide and telephoto, whichever the device has.
Not available for Mac, Vision Pro or Android.

722 cameras (482 photo, 192 cine, 30 broadcast, 18 film) with 2,309 recording modes.
707 lens series and 3,926 lenses: 3,841 interchangeable and 85 built into fixed-lens cameras. 108 anamorphic series.
37 camera makers, film gauges and generic sensor sizes, and more than 100 lens brands.
Every mode carries a source line: 958 sizes read from a published figure, 1,245 derived from a published pixel pitch, the rest derived in other ways. 108 modes are marked Provisional, waiting for a second check.
New gear arrives with app updates. You can add your own cameras and lens series.

Framing by camera, recording mode and lens, with lens adapters, phone clip-on lenses, anamorphic squeeze, 13 aspect presets plus custom, a second frame line, and guides.
Overview: every lens in the kit as frame lines at once.
Vertical framing, chosen in Settings: cropped from the wide frame or with the camera on its side.
Sun path over the live picture with golden and blue hour; depth of field; six stand-in figures; live looks with .cube LUTs.
Stills (HEIC, with the setup in EXIF) and takes (HEVC, up to 1920 pixels, 30 fps or 24 when the phone runs hot, 10 minutes), filed by project and scene, with trim, title cards and PDF shot lists.
An Apple Watch remote for the iPhone app.
A clean feed to a monitor on a cable or to an AirPlay screen: the frame only, or the whole picture with the frame marked, with an optional lower third naming the camera, mode, lens and aspect. The phone keeps the controls.
Shots stay on your devices unless you save, share or export them. Nothing is uploaded to Cutvey, and the shot library is kept out of iCloud and computer backups.

It gives no accuracy percentage. The frame is as accurate as its sources.
No 4K or 60 fps takes, ProRes or RAW. No front camera or external camera. No cloud sync or shared projects. No live depth under the moving picture.
The gear list does not update over the air.

Pricing, with what a Cutvey plan includes: /pricing
Free calculators that run in the browser, need no signup and send nothing: field of view, depth of field, crop factor and lens equivalent and anamorphic, all on /free-tools.
A page for each cinema, broadcast and video-first camera body with two or more recording modes, generated from the same gear list: for example ARRI ALEXA 35 and Sony FX6. The full list is on /cameras.
Comparisons with other director's viewfinder apps, with prices checked November 2026: /compare.
Guides on scouting, lens packages, sensor size, anamorphic and shot lists: /guides.