Monitor+ Reviews

Monitor is awesome and is well worth the money you spend on it. Like, totally worth the buy. The only issue I have is with the slight delay between Monitor and the phone when recording, and I am shooting with a7iv and have Monitor set to low quality playback, to minimize lag. I even have camera set to 5gHz Wi-Fi. Even then there is about 20ms of lag between the two devices, and the frames sometimes tend to drop on Monitor , which makes me refer to the camera screen again.

Other than this, Monitor is awesome. The fact we can load LUTs is amazing. I would love for there to be a future update where I could connect my phone via cable direct to the camera for instant lag-free playback and viewing. I’m sure it can be done!

I’ve known about this program for a while, but waited a long time before I finally bought it. This program is amazing.

The feed is fluid, some of the features while not 100% accurate, are good enough to trust, specially once you’ve done testing with your camera and understand how this program translates them. The false color feature alone is worth more than the asking price for me. Again, not 100% accurate, but comparing against a real this app you see how this this app interprets the feed, and then you’re good.

For gimbal use, this is freaking sweet. No wires, and just the weight of your phone.

I no longer use a this app for my A7SIII on my gimbal rig. Monitor gives me all the this app controls I need, plus touch to track autofocus! I can use my custom LUTS and can control almost all of my camera functions. The only camera control notably absent is image stabilization. I hate having to use my phone as a this app, but now that I have done it I can see what the next generation of monitors needs to do. My only wish is that I could connect multiple devices running this app+ to the same camera at the same time. Hopefully the FX6 can also become supported too?

We needed the ability to start and stop movie recording. Monitor does it well. Easy connection. And we still want the hdmi to go out while recording, something image edge doesn’t support, but Monitor does. Not sure why we would need to update to pro. If Monitor would let us connect to an Elgato stream deck in some way then pro would make sense. Also leaving and app and returning works just fine. Just need to wait a few seconds for Monitor to restore connection. Doesn’t affect record stop or start. Well done.

What happened?! Monitor was working just fine earlier today and now that I updated it just now it no longer what’s to connect! It was working on my iPhone 6s Plus and iPhone 12 mini with my Sony a7IV, but now it’s not with this update! Please fix this I just paid for the full version of Monitor a few days ago and now I can’t use it? I gave it a 4 star because it’s a really good app, I assume this is a simple mistake and can be fixed with another update. Please do I really enjoy Monitor and I use it a lot!

Works as advertised for the most part. For some reason, however, I've found that it works much better with the A7s Ill than the A7c. With the A7c there are no problems until you press record; then the lag you've seen others mention becomes notable. The A7s III works with near perfection.

Recommended uses: I’d recommend Monitor in “run and gun” documentary situations where you want to be free of wires and playback is less of a priority. Really incredible for gimbal work. I’d use a traditional this app in almost all other circumstances.

I just bought a $300 this app and I absolutely love it, but I saw Monitor because I wanted an additional screen for a film. I’m shooting and I am super jealous that all these features can’t be integrated into my normal this app. The downside is that you can only use this with Wi-Fi. But the amount of options it has with the pro version and the ability to control the camera from the phone is unmatched.

It literally replace my field this app for my Sony system, it can even do “Pull Focus” with Monitor on my Sony A7Siii, usually such function need another couple hundred dollar for image transmitter and receiver. Cannot believe Monitor can do it all. But I wish they can have update for some of the bugs which causing the crash. It’s more then “good enough” for non professional user like me.

I was using this app+ with my iPhone 14 Pro & Apple’s camera adapter & it worked great. While you can connect wirelessly, that adds a latency that is just too long for me. Now I have an iPhone 15 Pro & so have been connecting with USB-C to USB-C cables. Oddly, the ones Apple gives you don’t work, but I’ve tried 2 different USB 3.2 cables & they work fine. Now that it’s tested, I’m looking forward to using this in the field w/my Sony FX30 & DJI 3 gimbal. Recommended.

Hi this app+ team,

Please can you assist with a technical issue I'm having with your app.

I managed to get Monitor running(which is excellent btw) however if I also want to use it with my Ronin S. The settings seems that one can’t use both at the same time unless I'm missing something? So in order to use the Ronin S, the camera settings needs to be on “pc remote on”, where as for this app+ it needs to be off in order to activate “smartphone connection on”. Unfortunately both can’t be on at the same time.
Please can you let me know what the solution is as I really want to buy the full version to work with my Sony a1 on my DJI Ronin S gimbal.

Thank you kindly :)

Love Monitor , however it is very unstable. After buying and trying multiple USB to iPhone adapters and multiple Micro cables, I finally was able to get a stable connection and it seemed to work well. Happily paid for the full version after seeing the free finally worked, but unfortunately after updating to the full version, the freezes and “unable to connect” issues have returned. Now I can’t revert to the free version which did work. Another $20 in the trash.

Hi,

I just purchased Monitor and I gotta say WOW! A lot of time and effort went into Monitor, especially with reverse engineering the communication protocols! Nice job!

I have a question though for the developer: it has a setting in preferences to save to the camera roll in your phone. I have it set but it does not work (I have no photo saved to my iPhone). I am testing with an A7Siii. I haven’t tried with my A7RM4 or A9M2. Is there something I’m missing, any prerequisites or tricks? I’d give it a five star if I could get everything working.

Really is a fine piece of software! Coming from IT and dev, this certainly isn’t an easy task. I wish you much success! Monitor is really needed, please continue! Thanks for your time!

This would be an instant buy for me if this worked when wired with a usb cable. Wireless connectivity is far too unreliable (it’s probably not Monitor ’s fault).

FYI, Apple and third party sell usb to lightning adaptors. I use these to transfer photos directly to my iPhone. It’s unclear though if a video feed can travel through that.

Works great for the most part, but the latest update has a bug where the tap function doesn’t save. I now have to go into the menu and select touch tracking every time I restart my camera. If this can be fixed it would be 5 stars again.

It works, set ur camera to 5ghz and no issues, however I have a suggestion. Have Monitor , auto change shutter option to 180 angle. So whenever I change the frame rate it auto changes the shutter to appropriate 180 shutter angle speed, if it’s turned on.

Tried this out with my Sony a7rIV. Followed the instructions and was able to connect. The program worked well for approximately 12 seconds, then list the connection. Tried repeatedly to use this , but it would either fail to connect or lose the connection in a few seconds. Way too much work and frustration to use while you’re trying to focus on photography or shooting a movie. Just removed from my phone.

I really do love Monitor and the concept of being an amazing, feature rich this app is solid. I loved using it. Until… random lost signal reboots, and… terrible stuttering while recording. It was almost unbearable. IDK what it is. A7SIII with an iPhone 12 Pro MAX. So the hardware isn’t outdated or anything. Monitor just needs more stability.

I hesitated to buy Monitor since, in my experience, most apps that connect to video and audio equipment tend to be flaky. Monitor is no different. When it can connect to my a7sIII it’s great. Then for no apparent reason the connection drops and Monitor cannot reconnect to the camera. Definitely not something I would use on a professional shoot.

I have no idea what others are possibly doing wrong to leave such reviews. This is amazing and I’ve rigged out many iPads in our studio and our friends studios with Monitor for Sony a7SIII and a7IV’s. It’s incredible, just get it already.

-PanhandleStudios

I love the functionality of Monitor. It really allows you to shoot yourself solo. However, it’s completely useless most of the time as it disconnects from the camera within 1-2 seconds of start up. It happens in remote outdoor environments with no other Wi-Fi signals, so it’s not a noisy environment- it’s Monitor . Please fix this! It’s an amazing app otherwise, but it’s so buggy I can’t use it.