Monitor and remote for Nikon ZR
SoloCrew turns your Android phone into a pro monitor and remote for the Nikon ZR. Frame, focus, expose and roll while you stand in front of the lens.
Free download PRO once for $14.99 Regular price $19.99 December 31, 2026 No subscription
ZR · LIVE · 1024×576
WI-FI OR USB-C · REC CONFIRMED BY CAMERA
Made by a creator who films alone, for everyone who shoots without a crew.
Shooting alone used to mean walking back to the camera after every take. Is it sharp? Is it exposed? Is it even rolling? SoloCrew answers from where you stand.
Peaking, 2× and 4× punch-in, and tap-to-focus. Know you are sharp before you roll.
False color, zebras, waveform, parade, histogram and vectorscope, computed live from the camera feed.
Iris, shutter, ISO, white balance and focus mode from the phone. Values locked on the camera stay readable.
WI-FI 25.6 fps ZR 100% 87%
Watches the link, the camera battery, the phone battery and phone heat, and tells you before any of them costs you a take.
A clean wireless picture of what the ZR sees, vertical or horizontal and mirrored when you face the lens. Play back the take right after you cut.
Dropouts are the most common complaint about wireless camera apps. SoloCrew was engineered around them. It holds the picture, reconnects on its own and always tells you the truth about recording. 1
time →
HOLD Live · 1024×576
Radio gap
Last frame held. Session kept.
Picture back. No reconnect.
Camera power-cycled
Session reopened on its own
When the radio goes quiet for a few seconds, SoloCrew keeps the session and the last frame, then carries on. No reconnect screen and no restart.
Pull the cable or power-cycle the camera. SoloCrew watches for the ZR to come back and reopens the session on its own.
The ZR falls back to 640×360 live view on every new connection. SoloCrew asks for 1024×576 again each time and steps down only when the radio cannot carry it.
REC turns red only after the camera confirms. If the link drops mid-take you see Still recording, and STOP is never resent behind your back.
Camera Wi-Fi
Your phone joins the ZR directly. No router and no internet.
Phone hotspot
The ZR joins your phone. The smoothest wireless picture in our tests.
Existing Wi-Fi
Camera and phone on the same network, for studio and home setups.
USB-C cable
No radio at all. The lowest latency and up to 56 fps 2 .
REC The camera confirmed it is recording.
REC? Link lost. The camera is still recording.
HOLD Hold-to-stop by default, so a stray tap never ends a take (tap-to-stop in settings).
A false-color scale is only as good as its math. SoloCrew computes every zone from the ZR’s own log curve, so each color means exactly one stop of exposure.
Original
Camera codes
Under the pointer
Point at the picture to read its zone.
Real Nikon ZR live view, log, LUT off. Zones are computed in your browser with the same math as the app.
Drag to compare Arrow keys move the divider.
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Each channel returns to linear scene light through the inverse Log3G10 curve. A 256-value table keeps it fast.
lin = Log3G10⁻¹(code)
2
Luminance uses wide-gamut weights that match how the ZR records color.
Y = 0.2867 R + 0.8430 G − 0.1297 B
3
Every zone is one stop wide and centered on middle grey, from −6 to +5.
zone = round( log₂( Y ÷ 0.18 ) )
4
Red means one channel is clipping and detail can still come back. White means every channel is gone.
max(R,G,B) ≥ A → recoverable · min(R,G,B) ≥ B → lost
0.6 stop
highlight error of a stretched generic scale
1–2 stops
shadow error of the same scale
1 stop
width of every SoloCrew zone
Errors computed for the scale SoloCrew replaced: a reference mapping of grey 105 and clip 250, stretched onto the ZR’s log codes.
Shadows are checked against the ZR’s measured noise floor. At ISO 800, a 1080p master reaches a signal-to-noise ratio of 4 at −4.8 EV.
Point at the picture to read its zone.
Shorts, Reels and TikTok want 9:16. YouTube wants 16:9. Preview the ZR either way while the camera records the full frame, so one take covers both.
Preview orientation
SoloCrew in portrait. Vertical live view from a Nikon ZR with iris, shutter, ISO, white balance and a REC button below the picture.
Turn the picture 90° either way. The camera keeps recording the full frame.
Flip the picture when you face the lens, so moving left looks like moving left.
Aspect ratios, matte, safe areas and thirds show the crop you will deliver.
Exposure, focus, color and framing tools, computed live on your phone from the camera feed.
Drawn from the same real ZR frame.
False color
FreeOne-stop zones from the ZR’s log curve, with a live legend.
Zebras
FreeSeparate marks for recoverable and lost highlights.
Waveform
FreeLuma and brightest-channel traces together, with an 18% grey line.
RGB parade
PROChannel balance at a glance.
Histogram
PROLinear or log counts.
Vectorscope
PROHue and saturation of the whole frame.
Focus peaking
PROCyan, red or yellow, three sensitivities and a mono mode.
Punch-in
PRO2× and 4× punch-in with a minimap of the visible area.
Tap to focus
FreeMove the focus point on the live picture. Cancel tracking in one tap.
LUTs
PROBuilt-in 709 preview, your own .cube files, a library of 20 and A/B compare.
Frame guides
PROAspect ratios, matte, action and title safe, thirds and anamorphic desqueeze.
Monitor modes
Free · PRO looksSwitch looks in one tap. Expose and Clean are free. The Focus and Frame looks and three presets of your own are PRO.
Camera control
FreeIris, shutter, ISO, white balance and AF or MF.
Clip review
Free · PRO savingPlay takes from the camera card on your phone. Save and share them with PRO.
Link and batteries
FreeLink quality with real fps, camera battery and phone battery always on screen.
Heat guard
FreeEconomy mode lowers the load when the phone runs warm on long shoots.
Problem report
FreeA text log of the link with no pictures and no passwords. It leaves the phone only if you send it.
Kostiantyn Yakymenko
Founder of SoloCrew
9.5M followers 120M views every month 8 years making videos
“For years I filmed myself without a camera operator. Every take meant walking back to the camera to check focus, exposure and whether it was even recording. So I started building the crew I did not have, and I tested every version on my own shoots until nothing was missing.
| On set | In SoloCrew |
|---|---|
| On set Wi-Fi gaps froze the picture. | In SoloCrew SoloCrew holds the frame and carries on. |
| On set The ZR dropped to low-resolution live view after every reconnect. | In SoloCrew SoloCrew restores 1024×576 by itself. |
| On set Phones ran hot on long takes. | In SoloCrew Economy mode lowers the load. |
| On set A stray tap could end a take. | In SoloCrew Hold to stop. |
| On set Facing the lens felt backwards. | In SoloCrew Mirror view. |
SoloCrew is built by a solo founder working with Claude Code. Claude Opus 5.5 leads architecture, code review and on-device testing with a real Nikon ZR. That is how one person ships at the pace of a team.
unit tests ....... 4,099 passed failed ........... 0 skipped .......... 18 lint errors ...... 0 builds ........... hardware · operator · demo
Now
AvailableAvailable on Google Play.
Now
AvailablePlay takes from the camera card on your phone.
Planned
Z9, Z8, Z6III and more of the Nikon Z line.
Planned
SoloCrew on iOS.
Always
New tools and fixes in every release.
Download SoloCrew and shoot today. The self-healing link, stop-accurate false color, vertical and horizontal preview, full camera control and clip playback all work without paying. When you want the advanced tools, PRO is one small purchase. No subscription, no account, and it works offline.
$0
A complete, working monitor
One-time purchase. Yours to keep.
PRO tools work in the horizontal monitor.
Launch price until December 31, 2026. Regular price $19.99.
Try PRO free for 7 shooting days with your ZR.
A day counts after 5 minutes of live picture from the ZR. Start the trial in the app and use it within 60 days.
Prices in US dollars. Purchases are handled by Google Play.
The Nikon ZR today. Support for more Nikon Z cameras, including the Z9, Z8 and Z6III, is planned.
Android 10 or newer. A version for iPhone and iPad is planned.
The free app is a complete monitor: live view in both orientations, the self-healing link, false color, zebras, waveform, the Expose and Clean looks, full camera control and clip playback. PRO adds focus peaking, 2× and 4× punch-in, the Focus and Frame monitor looks, LUTs, frame guides, RGB parade, histogram, vectorscope, full-size scopes, three presets and saving clips to your phone, for one payment. PRO tools work in the horizontal monitor.
Not for shooting. SoloCrew talks to the camera directly over Wi-Fi or USB-C and nothing goes to the cloud. Only buying or restoring PRO goes through Google Play.
Your ZR records to its own card at full quality. SoloCrew shows the camera’s live view, controls the camera and plays back takes from the card.
Yes, for free. After you stop recording, open CLIPS to play takes from the camera card over the same connection. R3D and N-RAW clips play through their proxy, so turn on proxy recording in the camera. With PRO you can save clips to your phone and share them.
About 25–29 fps over Wi-Fi at 1024×576 with a strong signal, and up to 56 fps over USB-C with the camera at 120p. On weak Wi-Fi, SoloCrew can step down to 640×360 to keep the picture moving.
The camera keeps recording. SoloCrew shows Still recording, reconnects by itself and checks the camera’s real state before it lets you stop or start again.
No. SoloCrew is an independent app by Yakimenko Labs and is not affiliated with Nikon.
None. There is no account, no analytics and no ads. A problem report leaves your phone only if you choose to send it.
SoloCrew for Nikon ZR. Free on Google Play. PRO $14.99 until December 31.