FiLMiC Pro taught a generation to shoot manual on a phone — it earned its legacy. But it moved to a subscription, and a camera you rent is a camera that can be taken away. Tournage is the other path: a pro iPhone cine camera that costs $19.99 once, works entirely offline, and is built around one promise — never lose the shot.
On manual control and monitoring, both are serious tools — we won't pretend otherwise. The difference is the business model and the crash-safe pipeline.
| Tournage | FiLMiC Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 — once. Everything included. | Subscription for the full feature set |
| After three years | Still $19.99, total. Updates included. | Three years of renewals |
| Ownership | Yours forever. Nothing expires, nothing locks. | Pro features pause when payments stop |
| Crash-safe recording | Every take, automatically. App killed, battery dead — the clip survives to the last frame and is recovered at next launch. | Not an advertised feature |
| 4K Apple Log ProRes | The native pipeline. Log + ProRes 422 by default on supported iPhones. | Supported on current plans & devices |
| Built-in looks | 18 signature grades built for Apple Log — see the Looks. | Varies by plan |
| Custom LUT import | Included. Drop .cube files in the Files app. | Varies by plan |
| Manual cine controls | Yes. Shutter in degrees (with 1/x shown), ISO, Kelvin WB, manual focus, AE/AF lock, P1–P3 presets. | Yes — a strong manual toolset |
| Monitoring | Yes. Focus peaking, zebras, sensor-calibrated false color, RGB histogram, horizon level, framing guides. | Yes — comparable scopes |
| Vertical video | True vertical 4K (2160×3840) with a portrait layout — no rotating in post. | Varies |
| Slow motion | Up to 240fps — plays back slow straight out of camera. | Yes |
| Account / sign-in | Never. Fully offline. Your footage goes to Photos, period. | Varies |
Comparison reflects publicly available information as of October 2026. Features, plans and pricing change — verify current details with each vendor before buying. FiLMiC Pro is a trademark of its owner; Tournage is not affiliated with or endorsed by it.
Every camera app demos beautifully. The difference shows at the worst possible moment: a crash, a dead battery, a phone call — mid-take, on the shot you can't redo. Tournage writes footage in a continuously-finalized format, so the recording survives anything. We kill the app mid-take on purpose, routinely, to prove it:
4K Apple Log ProRes, writing crash-safe from the first frame.
Force-quit, battery pull, hard crash — the worst case, on purpose.
The take is found instantly and offered for recovery — playable to the last recorded frame.
One tap. The shot that would have been gone is in your library.
Every Tournage owner gets the full grade library — rendered below from one identical frame through the actual in-app LUTs. Preview live, record flat Log, or bake the look in. See all eighteen →
An honest comparison cuts both ways. Tournage is deliberately focused — if you need these, we'd rather tell you now:
There is no Android version. Tournage is built natively on Apple's capture stack — Apple Log, ProRes, the real optical lenses — and that focus is where the reliability comes from.
No timeline, no trimming, no effects stack. Tournage does one job — get the shot, safely, in the best possible format — and hands clean Log ProRes to your real edit.
4K Apple Log ProRes and the 18 looks need an iPhone 15 Pro or newer. On other iPhones and iPad, Tournage runs in Standard mode: the full camera, recording HEVC video instead.
$19.99. Once. Every feature, every look, every update.
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