Lightframer Pro
Film Viewfinder & Sun Tracker
$29.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
NEW: Life-size AR stand-ins, and storyboards with animatic and PDF export. Your scout just became a previz session.
Lightframer Pro is the ultimate director's viewfinder: real cinema cameras and lenses, sun tracking, a 3D shadow map, life-size AR stand-ins and storyboards — all in one app, on location.
PREVIEW ANY CAMERA + LENS
Pick your body and glass from a library of cinema cameras and lenses — ARRI, RED, Sony, Canon, Blackmagic, Angénieux, Cooke, Zeiss and more, primes, zooms and anamorphics. See exactly how that setup frames the shot, through the phone, before the truck arrives.
TRACK THE SUN
The sun's path is drawn over your frame and locked to the real horizon, so it stays put while you pan and tilt. Golden hour, blue hour, sunrise and sunset read at a glance, and you can scrub to any time of day to see where the sun will sit in the shot.
3D SHADOW MAP
See the shadows before you hit the set. A 3D map of the location shows where buildings and terrain throw shade at any hour, so you know when the street is lit and when it isn't.
BLOCK YOUR SCENES WITH AR STAND-INS
No actor on location? Tap the ground and a life-size stand-in appears at true scale. Set height and pose, add a second character for two-shots, and frame the dialogue through your chosen lens. Blocking saves with every capture.
STORYBOARDS AND PDF EXPORT
Turn scout frames into boards. Order shots, add captions and camera-move tags (PUSH IN, PAN L→R, HANDHELD...), play the board back as an instant previz, export a video animatic, or share a numbered PDF with project, director, DP and scene details — ready for the crew before call time.
READ THE LIGHT IN KELVIN
A live scene meter reads colour temperature on location — tungsten, neon, daylight — and prints white balance on every export.
FRAME LINES FOR EVERY RATIO
2.39:1 anamorphic, 1.85:1 theatrical, 17:9 DCI, 16:9 HD, 4:3 open gate, 9:16 vertical, or your own custom ratio, with shading and colour controls. Full UI in portrait and landscape.
EXPORT WITH FULL CINEMA DATA
Every capture carries a metadata strip: camera, lens, focal length, aspect ratio, sun position, compass heading and white balance. Share scout photos the whole crew can read.
BUILT FOR CINEMATOGRAPHERS
- Real-time viewfinder matched to your camera and lens
- World-locked sun path with golden hour, blue hour, sunrise and sunset
- 3D shadow map for any hour of the day
- Life-size AR stand-ins with adjustable height and pose
- Storyboards with captions, move tags, animatic and PDF export
- Live colour-temperature meter
- LiDAR focus heatmap with cinema diopter presets (LiDAR devices)
- Reference Cam for plain full-frame location photos
- Compass heading overlay, portrait and landscape modes
- Photo and video export with cinema metadata
The focus heatmap and diopter tools require a LiDAR-equipped device (iPhone Pro models or iPad Pro). AR stand-ins work on any device with ARKit support.
Whether you're a DP scouting a commercial, an indie filmmaker planning a short, or a director blocking scenes on location — Lightframer Pro lets you plan every shot with precision.
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The biggest Lightframer Pro update yet.
SUN PATH, REDESIGNED
The sun path has been rebuilt. The arc is weighted by the light it describes, so daylight, golden hour and twilight read at a glance, with rise and set markers on the horizon where they belong. Hour ticks run across the arc and stay readable at any focal length.
LOCKED TO THE WORLD
The overlay now holds its place against the real horizon. The sun, the arc and the grid are resolved from the camera's field of view, so they stay put while you pan and tilt. Photo and video exports carry the same registration as the viewfinder.
AR STAND-INS
Block your scenes with life-size virtual stand-ins — now on more iPhone and iPad models, not just LiDAR Pro devices. A CHARACTERS button makes two-person blocking easy to find, on-screen info rides the frame edge instead of covering your image, and the stand-in's 3D sun arc matches the redesigned overlay exactly.
STORYBOARDS
Turn scout photos into real boards. Order your frames, add captions and camera-move tags (PUSH IN, PAN L→R, HANDHELD...), set a board aspect ratio, play boards back fullscreen as an instant previz, export them as video animatics, or print numbered board-style PDFs.
SMARTER PDF EXPORTS
Preview your PDF before exporting and share straight from the preview. Project details (director, DP, location, scene) save with each album and pre-fill next time. White balance at capture now prints on the metadata strip.
REFERENCE CAM
An opt-in mode for plain full-frame location photos with no lens simulation. An amber border tells you it's active — tap it to exit.
GALLERY
Import photos from your library into albums, slate shots with title, scene and shot numbers, and find recent work faster with albums sorted newest first.
VIDEO
Record audio with your videos via a new setting, with dramatically faster processing.
GEAR
Added the Sony A7R V, DZOFILM Arcana 1.5x anamorphic primes and Angénieux Optimo lightweight zooms, plus corrected EZ Series speeds.
Plus: a 12/24-hour clock option, refined viewfinder toolbars, fullscreen improvements, and important stability, heat and battery fixes.
The developer, eric Hernandez, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- eric Hernandez
- Size
- 79.5 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
• iPhone 6S
• iPhone 6s Plus
• iPhone SE (1st generation)
• iPhone 7
• iPhone 7 Plus
• iPhone 8
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• iPhone 11
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• iPhone SE (2nd generation)
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• iPhone 16
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• iPhone 17
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Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch)
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• iPad mini (A20 Pro)
• iPad mini (A20 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Classification
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026

