Three readers, one Start.
Cards from the camera, drone and wireless mic join one queue. Each gets its own verification and report.
Offload cards.
flow for Mac copies your footage, checks every file
and puts it in the right project. From card to certainty.
Leave your e-mail and the download link arrives right away. No payment.
macOS · iPhone, free · flow Pro until 24 October when you sign upSD · CFexpress A and B · SSD
From card reader
to a ready project.
Choose a step to see it in the app. Your source card stays untouched.
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flow knows what has been copied.
All of it without touching the card: flow only reads the source, you format when you decide it is time.
More situations from set
Shooting day from the recording date.
The card knows whether it is Day 01 or Day 03. Footage shot past midnight splits into days, and a clip and its XML never land in two.
A card never overwrites a card.
The next card from the same camera goes into its own folder. The first copy stays in place.
One card, two projects.
A day already copied to another project is visible and unchecked. A click will not drop one client's footage into another client's folder.
Camera clock set wrong.
Correct the date before copying. The footage goes into the right shooting day.
You see the card before the Mac mounts it.
MacBook slot, USB reader, Blackmagic drive. flow shows the media and its reader, even when the card is empty.
Your Mac ingests.
Your phone says when it is done.
Habitat Flow on iPhone shows live what your Mac is ingesting and tells you when the copy is verified. You can step away from the desk.
- Live statuscard, copying, verifying, speed and time left
- Start from your phonecard in the slot, tap Start on the iPhone, the Mac ingests
- A “verified” pushalso with the app in the background
- Ingest historycamera, shooting day, GB, clips, ASC MHL
Get it on the App Store
Free for every account, Free plan included. No in-app purchases. iOS 17 or later, works with flow on your Mac.
Copying is the first step.
flow compares checksums for the source files and their copies. It saves the result in an ASC MHL report.
1:1original card structure
Every fileverified with xxHash64
ASC MHLthe report stays with your footage
Need a second copy? flow Pro writes to two drives at once.
Show clients how
you handle their footage.
Copy, verification, report. Describe the process in your quote.
Copy the ready-to-use paragraph alongside.
"We ingest footage from set in a controlled process: we write a 1:1 copy to two independent drives, compute and compare xxHash64 checksums and save an ASC MHL report. Every ingest ends with a result we can verify, not with a declaration."
This wording assumes an active flow Pro plan, two target drives and a completed verification.
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Habitat Flow on iPhone
Your phone shows live what your Mac is ingesting and tells you when the copy is verified. Free, with no in-app purchases.
No need to watch the ingest window
A sound on your Mac and a notification on your iPhone tell you when the card is ingested and checked. The flow window can stay in the background.
When the drive runs out of space mid-ingest
What flow does when a file does not make it to the drive: a list of missing files, a card without a tick, and copying only what is missing.
Start with Free.
Choose Pro when you need more.
You start at zero. Pro removes the limit. Or pay once, keep it forever.
flow Free
the whole process up to 150 GB€0
No card, no commitment
150 GB per week, on your desktop
Bit for bit verification (xxHash64)
Folders and shoot days straight from the preset
Up to 3 custom folder presets
SD, CFexpress Type A and B, SSD drives
An ASC MHL report with every ingest
get flow
The download link comes by e-mail.
flow Pro
no limit, with mirror€59/ year (€5 / mo)
€59 upfront for 12 months.
Everything in Free
No GB limit, no weekly reset
Mirror to 2 drives at once
Unlimited custom folder presets
get flow
The link comes by e-mail, you pick Pro in the app.
flow Pro forever
one payment, no subscription€139/ once
A year of updates included. Licence with no expiry.
Everything in Pro
Pay once, the app is yours
A year of updates included
After that year the app keeps working on the last version you downloaded
get flow
The link comes by e-mail, you pick Pro in the app.
Habitat Flow on iPhone is free on every plan, Free included. No in-app purchases. What the phone shows
Prices per user, VAT included. You pay in euro in Europe and in US dollars elsewhere. One payment, nothing renews by itself. flow works anywhere; the physical habitat system ships in Poland only for now.
Hardware has its place. Footage has flow.
available since 24 Sep 2026
Your first import can happen today.
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