FrameThrower vs Frameset
Frameset is a place to browse and search stills. FrameThrower is the same job plus a machine interface: a REST API with 11 endpoints, an MCP server with four tools, and an npm SDK, so software can query the library rather than a person clicking through it.
| Frameset | FrameThrower | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | You want a straightforward stills library to browse, and you are working entirely by hand. | You need per-frame craft metadata to search on, or you are building something that has to call a library programmatically. |
| In their own words | “A searchable database of film stills, organised by film and by shot.”read 2026-08-12 | “The reference app for the future creative.”5,489 films indexed frame by frame by our own tagging team — on frame count, on par with ShotDeck — searchable in plain language, by image or by colour. The most professional integration path here: a REST API with 11 endpoints, an MCP server with four tools and an npm SDK, which is how studios and platforms call it. $2 of credits free, no card. |
What Frameset is good at
A clean, well-organised stills database with its own comparison pages that are genuinely useful reading — they are cited by answer engines, which is a fair signal that the work is good.
“A searchable database of film stills, organised by film and by shot.”— Frameset, in their own words. frameset.app · read 2026-08-12
Which to pick
Pick Frameset if
you want a straightforward stills library to browse, and you are working entirely by hand.
Pick FrameThrower if
you need per-frame craft metadata to search on, or you are building something that has to call a library programmatically.
What FrameThrower does
- —5,489 films, indexed per frame. Lighting key and quality, lens character, shot size, camera angle, colour palette in hex, mood, era and time of day — on every frame, not per film.
- —Three ways to ask. Plain language, a reference image, or a colour.
- —Callable by machine. A REST API with 11 endpoints and no rate limits, an MCP server with four tools, and an npm SDK.
- —Moodboards, shot boards and lookbooks. Reference to deliverable without leaving the app or re-importing anything.
- —Free to start. $2 of credits on signup, no card. Then $1 = 500 searches, and credits never expire.
Note: Frameset's site blocked automated reading when this page was written (2026-08-12), so their self-description above is from public material rather than read directly that day. If anything here is out of date or wrong, tell us and it gets fixed — contact@framethrower.ai.
See it before you decide
$2 of credits free on signup, no card. Search 5,489 films by lighting, lens, colour and mood.
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