Protake - Mobile Cinema Camera

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About this app

Protake brings the filmmaking experience of professional cinema cameras to your mobile devices.

No matter you're a daily vlogger, a commercial director, or a well-established filmmaker, you will benefit from Protake's features including:

# MODES

· AUTO Mode: a mode optimized for vloggers and YouTubers, you can use it single-handedly, with our cinematic looks and professional composition assistants.
· PRO Mode: a mode designed for professional filmmakers. All the camera information and control settings are well aligned on the screen. The feature you want is always there on the screen.

# COLOR

· LOG: it's not only a genuine LOG gamma curve -- we strictly matched your mobile device's color to the industrial standard - ALEXA Log C. Besides the benefit of an outstanding dynamic range, colorists can use all their color solutions for ALEXA cameras with the footage from your phone.
· Cinematic Looks: we provided a dozen of cinematic looks for filmmakers -- the styles are categorized into Neutral Styles, Film Emulation (classic Kodak and Fuji cinema film), Movie Inspired (blockbusters and indie masterpieces), and ALEXA Looks.

# ASSITANTS

· Frame Drop Notice: Mobile devices are not designed as professional cinema cameras, therefore, you need to know immediately when a frame is dropped.
· Monitoring tools: Waveform, Parade, Histogram, RGB Histogram, Audio Meter.
· Composition assistants: Aspect Ratios, Safe Area, Thirds, Crosshairs, and 3-axis Horizon Indicators.
· Exposure assistants: Zebra Strips,False Color, Exposure Compensation, Auto Exposure.
· Focus assistants: Focus Peaking and Auto Focus.
· Recording: Record Beeper, Record Flash, Volume Key Record.
· Zooming and Focusing: A-B Point.

# DATA

· Frame Rate Normalization: Mobile devices don't have perfect frame rate control, therefore, it's easy to get non-standard variable frame rate. Protake solves this problem fundamentally and makes strictly constant FPS of 24, 25, 30, 60, 120, etc.
· File-naming: All the video files saved by Protake use the standard naming system: Camera Unit + Reel Number + Clip Count + Suffix. It's something like "A001C00203_200412_IR8J.MOV"... Sounds familiar?
· Metadata: Everything including device model, ISO, shutter angel, white balance, lens, connected accessories, location, are all well recorded in the file's metadata.
Professional cinema camera experience on your phones.
Updated on
Oct 19, 2026

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  • Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

5.6K reviews
Steven Porter
June 19, 2020
Ludicrous claims, but a decent camera app. LOG profile is nowhere close to Arri C, and applying a standard C to 709 lut in Resolve results in extremely high contrast and saturation. Footage from this app is soft and clips badly, while the lower bit rate footage with identical settings in the native LG app was recoverable and resulted in no clipping after grading. This app does have great meters (waveform, histogram, etc) but the resulting image quality is worse overall. Can't recommend it.
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Abhi Sarkar (Photography)
July 19, 2020
Misleading and very unstable app! This app was hyped up by Matti Hapooja and I was impressed initially and bought a subscription to be able to use the color profiles option, which was the main attraction for me. But this app is so unstable, I record but then if it's a minute or longer it never saves and I can't stop recording. It just freezes and then I have to force stop it to find out nothing was recorded. not able to get my subscription money back either. Only the developer can issue a refund. UPDATE: Developer of Protake - Mobile Cinema Camera app is not responding at all for my refund request. I am not only one, the app just doesn't work for anyone. It was hyped by a famous personality on YouTube but it doesn't work. Although I have cancelled future renewals, I want to receive a refund for this year's value, even if it is prorated for the used period of few days that I have had this app. This purely a fraudulent app. I would also like it to be removed since so many people have already complained. It will not be possible to get the review video on YT to be removed, but at least the app can be taken down by Google.
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Ana Georgescu
January 4, 2021
Good app! I like that you can take more control over your camera eveb with the free version, that I am currently trying. I like the presets, that help you with different color corrections and the beauty option lets you really configure your face if that's what you are after. Till now it's a good app to shoot videos! 😊 I would have liked if I could have edited the videos too with this app.
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北京灵光再现信息技术有限公司
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