One app instead of four. Shot Lister builds shot lists and schedules. It does not generate call sheets, scout locations, break down a script into elements, or track a budget. Those tasks do not disappear, they move to StudioBinder, a spreadsheet, and your Notes app. CineFlo keeps them in one place, which means your scene, your shots, your location, your call sheet, and your budget line all reference the same data instead of drifting apart across four tools.

It runs in a browser. CineFlo Web is a full client at app.cineflo.com, working against the same projects with the same sharing rules and permissions. Budget work, script breakdown, and call sheet assembly are all easier at a desk than on a phone. Shot Lister has no web client at all.

Every platform your crew is actually on. iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, and any browser. Shot Lister pulled its Android app from Google Play in 2023 and now runs on iOS and Mac only. On an indie crew, someone is always on Android.

Script breakdown that survives a rewrite. Import from Final Draft, Fountain, or PDF, then tag elements across 15 industry-standard categories from the screenplay reader. A project-wide master element library means renaming something once updates it everywhere. Re-importing a revision diffs the scenes, tracks OMITTED, and handles A/B numbering, so your tagging carries forward instead of starting over. Day Out of Days and Script Sides export as PDFs. Shot Lister does none of this.

Call sheets that confirm themselves. CineFlo builds the call sheet with cast, crew in production hierarchy order, schedule, weather, and production breaks, emails it, and tracks who has confirmed receipt. That is the part that usually turns into a producer chasing texts at 11pm. Shot Lister does not make call sheets.

A real production budget. Nineteen EP-numbered default accounts across ATL, BTL, Post, and Other. Line items, a PO log with actuals, stacking fringe presets for FICA, SAG, DGA, and IATSE, a live top sheet showing Budget, Committed, Actual, and Variance, a weekly cash flow chart, and a PDF cost report. Shot Lister has no budgeting at all.

Reference to shot in one gesture. Share a frame directly from ShotDeck, a browser, or your Photos library into CineFlo, pick the project and scene, and it becomes a shot with that image attached. No exporting, no re-uploading, no switching apps mid-thought.

Timecode from the set. CineFlo reads live SMPTE timecode broadcast by a Tentacle Sync generator over Bluetooth and stamps it onto a take when you mark the shot complete, storing the frame rate and drop-frame flag alongside it so the value is actually usable in post. You get a real reference for editorial to conform against instead of a hand-typed number. It is an opt-in setting, and no other shot list app does it.

Cinematography tools on board. Depth of field, exposure, lighting ratio, diopter, focal length finder, and an aspect ratio reference, all inside the same app as the shot list. For a DP that removes another app from the workflow.

Location scouting built in. Photo and video capture, map context, weather tied to the scene, and vector sketch overlays for blocking. Named filming locations get their own screen linking every scout and every scene shot there.

Offline first. CineFlo is built to work without a signal and syncs when you reconnect, with a write queue behind it. Scouting happens where there are no bars. So does shooting.