Frame.io
A review tool, pointed at a collection problem.
Frame.io is excellent and post-production teams are right to use it. It is built for the end of the process, though: a cut that needs comments, versions and approval. Getting raw photos off a dozen phones at a tasting is the other end.
Being fair about it
For review and approval, nothing here competes.
Frame-accurate comments, version stacks, an approval trail. If you are running an edit past a client, use Frame.io. We do not do any of that and are not trying to.
Price may not even be your objection.
Published plans run $15 per user per month on Pro and $25 on Team, checked 21 August 2026 — and worth saying plainly, it is included at no extra cost with a Creative Cloud All Apps, Premiere Pro or After Effects subscription, which many teams reading this already have. So price may not be your objection at all. The shape is.
Side by side
The differences that actually change your week.
| Frame.io | Team Capture | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Reviewing and approving a cut | Collecting raw media as it is shot |
| Who uses it | Editors and clients | Everyone working the event |
| The unit | An asset and its versions | An event, and everything the team sent |
| Pricing | Per user, per month | Flat per workspace, never per person |
| Casual contributors | Another seat each | Included in the band |
| Capture on a phone | Not the point of the product | The whole point of the product |
Checked against public information on 21 August 2026.
Where it stops working
The people shooting are not the people reviewing.
Most of your contributors will open the app for ninety seconds a month. Giving each of them a review seat is paying for a tool they will never open.
You want the pile before you want opinions on it.
Approval matters once the material exists. The step that fails at an event is earlier than that.
The two things happily coexist.
Collect here, cut elsewhere, review in Frame.io. Nothing about this asks you to stop using it.
Which one you want
Frame.io starts after the step that breaks.
If your problem is getting a client to sign off on an edit, Frame.io. If your problem is that four hundred photos were taken at the launch and you received eleven, that happens weeks before Frame.io is involved.
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