The Best Android Filmmaking Apps
5 of the Best Android Filmmaking Apps 2026
mcpro24fps
A manual video camera app built only for Android.
It gives you proper control over your phone’s camera, with 10-bit, HDR and log recording on a lot of phones, plus free technical LUTs for grading the log footage.
There’s a free demo, so you can check what works on your phone before you buy.
Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lv.mcprotector.mcpro24fps
Free demo
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lv.mcprotector.mcpro24fps.demo
PhotoPills
Shows you exactly where the sun, moon and Milky Way will be, at any location and any time.
The augmented reality view lets you hold up your phone and see the sun’s path over the scene, and there are calculators for depth of field, timelapse and long exposures.
IOS
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/photopills/id596026805
Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.photopills.android.photopills&hl=en_GB
Sidus Link (Diagram Master)
Aputure’s free lighting app. As well as controlling Aputure and amaran lights, it has Diagram Master, which lets you draw out your whole lighting plan from above.
It includes lights from other brands too, like ARRI, Astera and Kino Flo, and it builds a wrap-up list of all your kit automatically, which you can export as a PDF for the crew.
IOS
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1471951977
Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=creativity.intelligence.application.sidus.link
ShotDeck
A huge library of over 1.5 million film and TV stills, each one tagged with details like the camera, lens, lighting, framing and location.
You can build decks of reference images and share them with your crew. It’s free to sign up, with a subscription for full access.
IOS
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shotdeck/id6450038072
Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.filmmakers.shotdeck&hl=en_GB
Premiere
Adobe’s free mobile video editor.
You get a multi-track timeline, frame-accurate editing and 4K exports with no watermark, and Enhance Audio cleans up voiceovers and interviews in one tap. It needs Android 13 or later and at least 5GB of RAM.
I work with Adobe.
IOS
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/adobe-premiere-ai-video-editor/id6742757464
Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.premiere&hl=en_GB&pli=1