Three surfaces, one link.
Photador Scout is a wireless link to your Canon body that turns your phone into three things in one — a scorer, a controller, and a settings keeper.
The camera link
The wireless link to your Canon body is the spine that makes everything else work.
- ·Canon mirrorless over Wi-Fi (CCAPI)
- ·USB connection for fast bulk transfer of large image sets
- ·Sony and Nikon on the roadmap
Gallery — Score and cull in the field
The Gallery scores every frame as it arrives from the camera and lets you cull at burst speed. Most photographers spend most of their Scout time here.
Auto-scoring
5-dim score (sharpness · highlights · shadows · noise · clipping) + aesthetics + genre on every frame. Phone or cloud — your choice in Settings.
Tinder-style cull
Default swipes: ← delete · → top · ↑ accept Scout. Configurable in Settings.
Bulk-delete
Sort by stars, delete all 1-stars in one tap.
Star write-back
Scout's ratings write back to the image file on the camera card.
Full-screen view
Cull from the image, not a thumbnail.
USB batch mode
Plug in for fast bulk transfer of a whole shoot.
Critique on demand
9-topic structured critique on any frame (20 SU; Cloud AI required).
Image editor
Adjust exposure, WB, and more — preview whether a flawed frame can be rescued before deleting.
Shoot — Control your camera from your phone
Three coordinated ways to operate the camera from your phone.
Phone controls
On-screen controls that mirror the camera's knobs and dials.
Voice commands
Speak settings out loud, hands-free. Speech recognition runs fully on your phone.
Linked-setting calculations
Lock the variables you care about; Scout works out the rest. E.g. pin DoF and distance → get aperture and FL.
Profiles — Capture settings, replay them anywhere
Capture every settable parameter from your camera; replay it later, in another light, on another body.
One-pass capture
Read every setting in one call.
Named storage
Name + notes; 6/12/24/∞ slots by tier.
One-tap re-apply
Push the whole profile back to the camera in one chunk.
Cross-camera transfer
Replay on a different Canon body (cross-brand on roadmap).
Under the hood — AI engine & privacy
What runs where, and what stays where.
On phone (offline)
Paid-tier benefit; no internet, no Scout Units. Critique stays cloud-only.
Cloud (Scout Units)
1 unit thumbnail score · 2 units 10×-resolution score · 20 units structured critique.
Cloud-with-phone-fallback
Optional sub-toggle under Cloud: on-phone fills in when the cloud isn't available.
Faster AI at Pro & Studio
Routed to faster cloud hardware + parallel scoring calls; about 4× and 8× faster than baseline (FAQ has the detail).
Images held in cloud memory only long enough to score, then discarded. Never stored, never logged, never trained on.