CUTVEY VIEWFINDER FACT SHEET (updated November 4, 2026)

What it is: A director's viewfinder app for iPhone and iPad, with a
  remote on Apple Watch. Pick a camera, a recording mode and a lens, and
  the back camera of the iPhone or iPad shows the frame that combination
  would see, 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.
Company: Cutvey LLC, Orlando, Florida. Made by filmmakers.
Availability: On the App Store since October 18, 2026. The current
  version is 1.1.
Price: Free to download, then $19.99, once (US price; the App Store
  shows the local price), as a single in-app purchase named Unlock
  Forever. No subscription, no packs, no ads. One purchase covers iPhone
  and iPad on the same Apple Account, and the Apple Watch app comes with
  it.
With a Cutvey plan: Included 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.
Devices: 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. Not available for Mac, Vision
  Pro or Android.
Gear list: 722 cameras with 2,309 recording modes, and 707 lens series
  with 3,926 lenses, from 37 camera makers and more than 100 lens brands
  (counted November 2, 2026). New gear arrives with app updates, and
  users can add their own cameras and lens series.
Where the numbers come from: Every recording 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. The frame is as accurate as
  its sources, and Cutvey gives no accuracy percentage.
What it does: Frame lines with 13 aspect presets plus custom, anamorphic
  squeeze, lens adapters and phone clip-on lenses, Overview of the whole
  kit at once, vertical framing chosen in Settings, the sun path with
  golden and blue hour, depth of field, six stand-in figures and live
  looks with .cube LUTs.
Shots: Stills (HEIC, with the setup in EXIF) and takes (the composed
  frame in HEVC, up to 1920 pixels, 30 fps or 24 when the phone runs
  hot, 10 minutes each), filed by project and scene, with trim, title
  cards and PDF shot lists.
Monitor feed: 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.
Privacy: Shots stay on the user's devices unless they save, share or
  export them. Nothing is uploaded to Cutvey, and the shot library is
  kept out of iCloud and computer backups.
What it does not do: 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.
Languages: 41 languages, including Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi.
Legal: The Cutvey App License Agreement (cutvey.com/legal/app-license)
  and Privacy Policy (cutvey.com/legal/privacy).
Website: cutveyviewfinder.com, with free browser calculators for field
  of view, depth of field, crop factor and anamorphic at
  cutveyviewfinder.com/free-tools.
Media contact: contact@cutvey.com

Boilerplate

Cutvey Viewfinder is a director's viewfinder app for iPhone and iPad,
with a remote on Apple Watch. Pick a camera, a recording mode and a lens
from a bundled list of 722 cameras and 3,926 lenses, and the back camera
shows the frame that combination would see, for scouting, blocking and
pitching a shot before the camera arrives. The app costs $19.99, once,
on the App Store, and is included with Cutvey plans.
cutveyviewfinder.com

Cutvey LLC makes Cutvey, production management software for video
production companies, filmmakers, videographers and photographers, and
the Cutvey apps for set: Cutvey Offload, Cutvey Meter, Cutvey Viewfinder
and Cutvey Teleprompter. Made by filmmakers in Orlando, Florida.
cutvey.com