Synced remote review for film and VFX, where everyone looks at the same frame and media plays from each machine at full quality.
cineSync is a desktop app for live review sessions: frame-accurate drawing and notes, ghosting across frames, and colour tools with LUTs and HDR on the Pro plan. Media plays locally on each machine, so quality holds on slow connections. Guests join sessions without a paid seat. Play is free for local review; Essential is $19 per user a month on annual billing and Pro is $50.
Am besten für: Live, colour-critical VFX reviews
- Full-quality playback from local media
- Colour tools, LUTs and HDR on Pro
- Everyone installs the desktop app
- No browser review link
Adobe's review platform, a fit once animated shots move into an edit in Premiere Pro or After Effects.
Frame.io takes frame, range and pinned comments with drawing tools, and clients comment on share links without signing up. Version stacks compare takes side by side, and panels put notes on the Premiere Pro and After Effects timelines. The free plan covers 2 members and 2GB; Pro is $13 per member a month on annual billing for up to 5 members.
Am besten für: Editorial review with clients
- Clients comment without an account
- Version stacks for comparing takes
- Priced per member, with seat caps
- No DaVinci Resolve support in the current version
Browser review for animation studios, with storyboards and animatics kept beside the feedback.
Krock.io puts storyboard and animatic tools next to video review, so a studio can follow a project from boards to final. Reviewers leave time-stamped comments and drawings, and a DaVinci Resolve Studio integration puts the notes on the timeline. Pro is $10 per user a month from 2TB of storage, with a month free on annual billing; the free plan is one user and 2GB.
Am besten für: Storyboard to final review
- Far more storage than Indie
- Notes on a DaVinci Resolve Studio timeline
- The free plan is one user
- Pro is priced per user
Browser review from the makers of ftrack Studio, with live synced sessions and free accounts for clients.
ftrack Review runs in the browser with frame-accurate notes, drawing on video, ghosting and PDF summaries of feedback, and clients join on free accounts that do not use a seat. It is sold on its own at $10 per user a month on annual billing, or $15 monthly. Live sessions are limited to 2 people and 1080p without the Review Pro add-on, and the Maya and Nuke integrations belong to ftrack Studio.
Am besten für: Low-cost browser review for studios
- Low per-seat price
- Clients do not use a seat
- Live sessions capped without Review Pro
- No free plan, only a trial
Open-source production tracking for animation studios, with review built into the shot pipeline.
Kitsu tracks every shot and asset through production and reviews them in place: pencil drawing, text and shapes, frame tags that work as timestamps, onion skinning, playlists for dailies and a synced review room. Guests comment and change statuses from a public link. It is open source under AGPL and free to self-host; hosted plans start at €20 per user a month on annual billing.
Am besten für: Open-source tracking plus review
- Free to self-host
- A full API on every plan
- A production tracker first, heavier than a review app
- No hosted free plan, only a trial
Video review with client approvals, for animated work that goes out to clients as finished cuts.
Wipster pins time-coded comments to a point or a box on the frame, and reviewers mark each version approved or not. Extensions bring notes into Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and After Effects. Light starts at $9.95 a month on annual billing and Team is $19.95 per user a month; there is a trial and no free plan.
Am besten für: Client video approvals
- Clear client approval step
- Editor extensions
- No free plan, only a trial
- The Team plan is priced per user
Frame-accurate review of renders already stored in Dropbox, with drawing and live sessions.
Replay reviews files straight from Dropbox storage with time-coded and range comments, drawing on the frame and live review sessions, and links into Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools and LumaFusion. Every Dropbox account gets a limited version; the full add-on is $10 per user a month on annual billing and needs Dropbox Plus or higher.
Am besten für: Renders already in Dropbox
- Live review sessions with drawing
- Includes DaVinci Resolve among its editor links
- Needs a paid Dropbox plan
- Review files count against Dropbox storage