ShotBOT1.65 - App Store

ShotBOT is designed for professional visual effects supervisors, to use during production, to take all the necessary production notes when shooting visual effects scenes. It tracks all the VFX needs for film, TV, documentaries, music videos and commercial production. This app is designed by someone who has spent 20 years shooting visual effects. All advanced features are sold via in-app purchases so you only need to buy what you need. For more detailed information on ShotBOT, please check out our web site for demo screencasts and a comprehensive FAQ page.

FEATURES
-ShotBOT has all the fields you would expect. A full list of fields is at the bottom of this page.
-Track general scenes or individual takes.
-Print or email a comprehensive shooting report to your VFX artists after the shoot.
-Built in drawing feature to create diagrams or annotate pictures.
-App-wide built in help screens to explain every feature.
-Supports multi-camera shoots.
-Full support for user defined presets for all commonly used fields. Includes default set of presets for professional production. Entering the data for a scene is very fast!
-Scenes can be tagged to group sets of scenes together for complete organization of the scenes.
-Take pictures or import existing images for scene reference.
-View and grab frames from a wireless, live video feed from the camera. (Requires Teradek wireless encoder and in-app purchase)
-Print a variety of different style tracking marks in a variety of sizes. (Requires in-app purchase)
-Two different interface styles. Dark for indoor, Light for outdoor. You will always be able to view screen content without blinding your eyes.
-Export your data so you can import it into your own post production tracking software. (Require in-app purchase)
-Optional ShotBOT Cloud option to backup your data in realtime and sync between multiple devices. (Require in-app purchase)

JOB FIELDS
-Job Number
-Episode Name and Number
-Working Title
-Agency and Client Name
-Product Description
-Production Company Name
-Default FPS
-Job Description

SCENE FIELDS
-Scene Number
-Scene Description
-Slate
-Shot Date, Day Number, Time of day.
-Unit (First unit, second unit, plate unit)
-MOS or Sync sound.
-Interior/Exterior
-Day, Night, or Day For Night
-Shoot Location
-Scene Notes
-Flags for: HDR, Mirror Ball, 18% Gray Ball, Cube, Clean Plate, Tiles, Ref Plates, Dig Stills Ref, Dig Stills Texture, Set Survey, Lidar Scan, 3D Scan, Lighting Diagram, Rushed Enviroment.

CAMERA FIELDS
-Camera ID
-Camera Type
-Camera Rig
-Card/Clip Info
-Filters
-ISO
-Shutter
-Color Temp
-FPS
-T Stop
-Lens
-MM Start & End
-Camera Height Start & End
-Camera Tilt Start & End
-Camera Focus Start & End
-Camera Notes

TAKE FIELDS
-Take Number
-Hero or Circled Take Flag
-Take Notes

Version History v-1.65

-NEW FEATURE: Added the ability to select which scenes to use when exporting VES files. 1.65 Oct 3 v-1.64
ShotBOT now requires at least iPadOS version 18. This change is required to make way for better supporting iPadOS version 26.

-NEW FEATURE: Added a new commercial option when creating PDF reports. If checked, it will not show the fields: Episode Name, Episode #, Show Name.

-NEW FEATURE: Added a new field to the TSV Export file that contains all the relative file paths for exported photos per scene. 1.64 Apr 2 v-1.63
-NEW FEATURE: Added a clip name field to the take database and updated all the reports and exports. 1.63 Feb 13 v-1.62
-BUG FIX: Fixed some bugs in Export TSV file when using the “Use X” option. 1.62 10/20/2025 v-1.61
-NEW FEATURE: Added feature to opt out of new IOS 26 interface. 1.61 09/15/2025 v-1.60

-NEW FEATURE: When exporting a TSV file, you now have the option to export “X” vs true/false for all checkbox values.
-BUG FIX: Fixed text clipping on the PDF report for the camera focus fields. 1.60 09/08/2025 v-1.59
-NEW FEATURE: Added the ability to duplicate a job without all the scenes. This saves you from resetting up all the default job settings. To duplicate a job just long press on the job. 1.59 09/01/2025 v-1.58
-BUG FIX: Fixed bug that prevented unlinking from Dropbox. 1.58 08/19/2025 v-1.57
-BUG FIX: Fixed bug that would ask to link to Dropbox even if you never use Dropbox. 1.57 08/17/2025 v-1.56
-BUG FIX: If you use Dropbox with ShotBOT, please read. I completely rewrote the Dropbox integration to use their new API. It was a lot of changes, so please report any bugs you find. You MUST have the native IOS Dropbox app installed on your device and logged into your account. This rewrite will also make it easier for me to add support for other cloud based file sharing services. (Like Google Drive)

-BUG FIX: Fixed bugs with the date and time selector. 1.56 08/14/2025 v-1.55.1
-BUG FIX: Fixed scene sorting bug for PDF reports. 1.55.1 08/13/2025 v-1.55
-NEW FEATURE: Finally added support for iPad Split View Mode. The reason this took so long is because when you are in Split View mode, you have a lot less room for the content. I found a way to scale the content down to fit the smaller window. It works best when the iPad is in Landscape mode. If you find any interface bugs, please report them. This required a lot of changes to the app. Currently, iPad Slide Over mode is not supported. It works, but the window becomes so small it’s useless.
-NEW FEATURE: Changed the Scene sorting algorithm for scene number and slate to account for all the different naming formats. It handles numbers better without needing to use leading zeros. This is a huge help when you have a really large number of scenes. 1.55 08/02/2025 v-1.54
-BUG FIX: Fixed bug that prevented emailing VES report. 1.54 07/25/2025 v-1.53
-NEW FEATURE: Added previous and next buttons to scene detail view and photo views. 1.53 07/21/2025 v-1.52
-BUG FIX: Fixed bug that would cause you to relink with dropbox.
-BUG FIX: Fixed bug that would sometimes crop scene notes on a PDF report. 1.52 06/18/2025 v-1.51
-BUG FIX: Fixed bug on PDF reports that was not sorting by date correctly. 1.51 05/22/2025 v-1.50
-BUG FIX: Fixed bug on PDF reports that was not displaying images in the correct aspect ratio. 1.50 05/10/2025 v-1.49
-NEW FEATURE: When creating PDF report, there is now a checkbox called High Quality Images. When checked the images are inserted into the PDF at their original estimate. The images will be high quality, but the PDF file size will be larger. If unchecked, the images are compressed to make the PDF file size smaller. 1.49 05/08/2025 v-1.48
-BUG FIX: Improved the image quality of PDF reports. 1.48 05/04/2025 v-1.46
-BUG FIX: Fixed a bug that would clip the notes field on Per Scene PDF reports. 1.46 02/22/2025 v-1.45
-BUG FIX: Fixed a bug that would sometimes not setup Dropbox correctly.
-BUG FIX: Fixed text color on all search boxes.
-NEW FEATURE: Added feature to turn on/off the cover page when creating PDF reports. 1.45 02/19/2025 v-1.44
-BUG FIX: HUGE BUG FIX! Finally fixed several bugs that was making PDF unnecessarily large in terms of file size. This fixed also reduces the amount of RAM needed to create the report. So it should not crash when exporting a report. If you find any problems, please email me: support@shotbotapp.com 1.44 02/13/2025 v-1.42
-NEW FEATURE: Added the ability to select what data is exported for TSV exports. You have the same options as when creating a PDF report.
-BUG FIX: Fixed bug that would cause export IAP buttons to not show up correctly. 1.42 05/21/2024 v-1.41
-BUG FIX: Fixed bug that would show cropped images in the reports without the crop.
-NEW FEATURE: Added the ability to sort reports by Date & Time. 1.41 03/10/2024 v-1.40
-BUG FIX: Fixed some job report formatting bugs. 1.40 11/27/2023