Apple didn’t give their coveted App Of The Year Award to a silly game or productivity app. Instead, it went to an excellent tool for creativity. The Kino Pro Video Camera App took the top honor for 2024.
The Kino Pro Video Camera takes your iPhone camera to a new level with pro features and ease of use. Like to use looks? Kino features presets by Evan Schneider, Tyler Stalman, Stu Maschwitz, Sandwich Video, Kevin Ong, and Sebastiaan de With.
Features include a full manual mode, focus peaking, color waveform, audio meters, and more. If you’re experienced in color, you can import LUTs quickly and use the same powerful Instant Grade feature to output video with baked in LUTs.
Kino has a simple interface, but that does not mean it lacks powerful pro tools. Start out with automatic exposure with EV adjustment and AE and WB lock, or drop into full manual mode with shutter speed, angle, and ISO adjustment. Compose a shot with the grid with built in level, check exposure with the RGB waveform, and pull focus with focus peaking. Kino can store your recordings in Files instead of Photos for better and easier shot management. It also features a screen lock to prevent inadvertent taps from messing up your shot. Set custom recording settings (like 4K 60FPS Apple Log ProRes422HQ on iPhone 15 Pro) or get started with presets for flexibility.
Learn more about Kino and see if it can elevate your iPhone camera shooting. Kino has a one-time cost of $9.99.
What’s New in Version 1.2.1
Improved performance while recording at high frame rates, updated translations, and fixed two cases where the app might crash.
A NEW LOOK
New icons. Kino gets a new, friendlier face and support for iOS 18 icon customization like tinting and more.
UPDATED IN SPEED
Kino supports high frame rate capture. You can capture graded footage at up to 120 frames per second — and that goes up to 4K 120FPS on iPhone 16 Pro. Note that some format options might require an external SSD at the highest quality settings.
UPDATED FOR CONTROL
With the iPhone 16 Pro, they have their first update to support Camera Control. With a few swipes, you can adjust your exposure, tweak your focus, or quickly switch between grades. To prevent accidental swipes mid-recording, we also have a Lock option like in Kino’s sister app, Halide. Stay tuned — there are even more cool features taking advantage of the Camera Control on iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro coming.
Kino’s great for all sorts of iPhones, though. This is a bit of control many wanted: Kino knows everyone has a different favorite grade, so they now let you reorganize them in the grade settings. Move your favorites to the top for easy access in the grade picker or Camera Control adjustment.
UPDATED FOR YOU
Hallo! Bonjour! こんにちは! We’ve localized Kino into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese.
