FrankenFrame

see films the way directors built them

Overlay professional composition grids on any video - from Netflix masterpieces to YouTube clips

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Composition analysed with FrankenFrame grids

For everyone who creates visual content

Students & film schools

FrankenFrame trains your eye and teaches you to see the hidden geometry of a frame in any film you watch. Stop guessing why a shot looks perfect.

Directors & production designers

Instant moodboards and references. Overlay a grid on a film still to brief your crew in the language of the exact geometry they need to recreate.

Bloggers & content creators

Making reviews or tutorials on cinematic shooting? Turn on FrankenFrame to show viewers exactly how a shot is built - Tarantino’s or your own.

Editors & visual artists

Check where the viewer’s attention lands in your own footage - eye line, rule of thirds and more.

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Nine ways to read the director’s logic

Works on top of the apps you open every day

Disney+HBO MaxNetflixDaVinci ResolveYouTube PlexPrime VideoVLCIINAQuickTime Premiere ProCriterionLightroomCapture OneFinal Cut Pro

FrankenFrame never gets in the way of watching films or creating content

Flexible analysis frame

Overlay grids directly on top of a playing film or your editing app in real time. Fine-tune the opacity of the lines, their thickness and even their color so nothing pulls you out of the story - and resize the frame to fit any player, at whatever aspect ratio you need.

Disappears in one click

Switch between analysis and viewing instantly. Press a hotkey and the control panel hides, leaving nothing but the clean film.

Click-through with Focus Mode

Control your computer right through the grid. Turn on Focus Mode and the grid becomes click-through - it stays on screen but lets every mouse click pass straight through. Scrub the video, hit pause, or keep working underneath.

100% private

FrankenFrame runs 100% locally and requires no subscription. It uses no analytics, needs no account, never connects to the internet and collects no data whatsoever. The overlay simply draws on top of your screen - it never records or reads your video.

3
days free — full functionality
One-time purchase
No subscription. Buy once, keep it.
9
composition tools
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5
languages
No tracking. No account.
Fully offline.
Your settings never leave your Mac.
Native macOS
Apple Silicon & Intel

Every great film is a lesson. Start reading it

Try every feature free for 3 days
$19.99 one-time

Then unlock FrankenFrame with a single purchase. No subscription. Purchases are processed by Apple; refund requests are handled under Apple’s policies.

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Free for 3 days

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