Frame.io set the standard for timecoded review, and at enterprise post-production scale it's still the deepest tool in the category. But for a production company, approval isn't the end of the job — it's the moment the invoice and the delivery are supposed to happen.
Camera-to-Cloud, the Premiere and Resolve integrations, enterprise storage pipelines — if you're a post house moving terabytes a week through a facility workflow, Frame.io earns its price. No argument.
In Frame.io, "Approved" is a green checkmark. A human still has to notice it, send the final invoice from another tool, chase the payment in a third, and release files from a fourth. Each handoff is a delay — and usually the person doing the relaying is the owner, at night.
In Cutvey, review lives inside the project that came from the signed proposal. Clients comment on the exact frame (and draw on it), versions compare side by side, revision rounds count against the contract and bill overages automatically, internal sign-off gates protect rough cuts, and final approval fires the final invoice. When it's paid, delivery unlocks. Nobody relays anything.
| Capability | Frame.io | Cutvey |
|---|---|---|
| Timecoded comments & annotations | ✓ | ✓ incl. frame drawing |
| Version stacking / compare | ✓ | ✓ |
| Camera-to-Cloud & NLE integrations | ✓ (deep) | — (roadmap) |
| Clients review without accounts | ✓ | ✓ |
| Revision rounds tracked against contract | — | ✓ with automatic overage billing |
| Approval triggers final invoice | — | ✓ |
| Payment-gated delivery & galleries | — | ✓ |
| CRM, proposals, contracts, call sheets | — | ✓ |
| Per-seat cost at 5+ seats | Adds up fast | Included in flat plans |
| Best for | Enterprise post pipelines | Production companies running client work |
Comparison reflects published capabilities as of July 2026. See Frame.io's site for current features.
If your bottleneck is moving camera originals into a facility pipeline, keep Frame.io — that's its home turf. If your bottleneck is the gap between "client approved it" and "we got paid and delivered," that gap is exactly what Cutvey closes, and it closes it for every phase of the job, not just review.
Yes — video, images, audio, and PDFs share one review room, so boards, stills, and mixes get the same timecoded/annotated treatment.
No. One link, any device, no account. Presence and comments update live.
Some studios do during transition — Cutvey runs the business thread while Frame.io handles a specific facility workflow. Most drop the second subscription within a quarter.
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