All features
What differs between Free and Pro, and what works the same on either plan — in one table. Where something can be counted, the number is here.
Free and Pro, side by side
The top of the table is what you get with Pro (7 items); below it is what works the same on either plan (15 items). A ✓ means it is included, a — means it is not.
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| What you get with Pro | ||
| Connect over USB-CA direct cable connection — the fastest and the most stable | —Not included | ✓Included |
| Connect over Wi-Fi (FTP)The app listens and the camera sends straight to it, so you keep your internet | —Not included | ✓Included |
| Connect over LANThe app connects to cameras on the same network. You keep your internet, and up to 3 cameras at once | —Not included | ✓Included |
| Burst speedOn Free, the first 5 arrive at once, then one every 2 seconds. Everything you shot arrives either way — nothing is dropped, no gaps | 1 per 2s | No limit |
| Change how a photo looksExposure, tone curve (5 points, RGB together or R, G and B separately), saturation, color tint and histogram | —Not included | ✓Included |
| Presets10 built in, plus your own saved by name and synced across your devices over iCloud | —Not included | ✓Included |
| No adsOn Free, iPhone and iPad show one ad each time you enter the shooting screen. None while you shoot, none on Mac, none while joined to the camera's Wi-Fi. Free asks once about the advertising identifier | —Not included | ✓Included |
| Available on both plans | ||
| Connect over Wi-Fi (the camera's access point)Join the Wi-Fi the camera creates. While joined, that device has no internet | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Single shotsNo limit — they arrive right away, as fast on Free as on Pro | ✓Included | ✓Included |
Create an album before you shootOne album per job. Frames stay on the device as ordinary JPEG files, and on Mac you choose where (the default is ~/Pictures/Frameleap) | ✓Included | ✓Included |
Two albums with the same name never mixEach folder is named album name + the first 8 characters of its ID (for example recital_3b7f2a1c) | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| JPEG onlyThis is an app for checking shots on the spot, so JPEG is all it receives | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Nothing connects until you say soNo path starts until you pick a method and press connect — so you never start receiving from someone else's camera on a set full of identical bodies | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Read the camera's QR codePoint the app at the camera's screen instead of typing the Wi-Fi name and password. Two formats are supported: Sony's and the standard one | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| You are told during the shoot if a save failsThe status line shows how many frames were not saved, and what to do next: create another album | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| One large frame, with a reelA film strip of 5 frames on each side — 11 in all. Swipe left or right and it switches instantly | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Full-screen thumbnail grid4 columns on an iPhone in portrait, more as the screen gets wider. Frames are grouped by capture time, and the time scrubber (up to 6 marks) jumps straight to one | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Shot info overlaySix fields — file name, timestamp, ISO, shutter speed, aperture and focal length — laid over the photo, and off again | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| A screen to show your modelHides the counts and the transfer status, and makes the photo as large as the screen allows | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Two kinds of favorite★ for the photographer and ♥ for the model; one frame can carry both. Five filters: all, ★, ♥, both, either | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Three operating systemsmacOS, iOS and iPadOS. Free to start on all three, each laid out for its own screen | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Two languagesEnglish and Japanese, switched inside the app, with no restart | ✓Included | ✓Included |
If you shoot single frames, Free is enough. Only bursts are slowed down; single shots arrive as fast as they do on Pro — try it with your own camera's burst rate under Bursts on Free. One Pro subscription covers macOS, iOS and iPadOS (Pricing). The step-by-step instructions are under How to use.
It handles albums of several thousand frames. The cameras we have confirmed are listed for you to check.
How fast bursts arrive on Pro
All three are measured on real hardware (Sony α7R V, JPEGs of 3–4.5 MB). We quote the floor — the slowest of the devices we measured. The breakdown by device and by path is under Performance. Single shots are just as fast on Free.
The Canon EOS R8's wireless is 2.4 GHz only, so it is slower than this over Wi-Fi and LAN (1.44 a second over the camera's AP, with JPEGs of about 0.9 MB). Over USB-C it delivered 6.97 a second even with JPEGs of about 5.8 MB (measured on a Mac). The breakdown for each camera is in the same place.