Calman vs QUBYX PerfectLum
Calman
calman.comQUBYX PerfectLum
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| Figure | Calman | QUBYX PerfectLum |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 2 |
| Spec score · Display Calibration Software | 7.9 (#6) | 7.8 (#8) |
| Headquarters | Pleasanton, California, United States | Wilmington, Delaware, USA |
| Purpose | Calman is color calibration software for improving display color accuracy across production, broadcast, and home viewing workflows. | PerfectLum calibrates, verifies, and performs quality assurance for medical displays, including DICOM GSDF calibration. |
Plans
Calman
- Calman Home Software Bundle$449, paid once
- Calman Professional Software Bundle$1,399, paid once
QUBYX PerfectLum
- PerfectLum License$480, paid once
- PerfectLum + SmartSensor S2$680, paid once
In their own words
Calman
Calman is paid color-calibration software for improving display accuracy in production, broadcast, and home-viewing workflows. Calman Professional targets film studios, broadcasters, post-production facilities, display manufacturers, and content creators. Studio provides automated SDR and HDR calibration, ICC profiling, 1D/3D-LUT creation, and display-validation wizards. Ultimate adds customizable workflows, advanced reporting, automated calibration, multi-display environments, and Design Mode. Calman Home is a simplified product for supported TVs, using a laptop, colorimeter, and reference video source. Hardware support includes displays, colorimeters, spectroradiometers, and video test-pattern generators from multiple manufacturers. Calman Ready support depends on the display manufacturer and may vary by model. Professional and Home downloads are for Windows, with requirements specifying Windows 7 or later; Patterns for Mac is also listed. The Home Software Bundle costs $449, paid once, and the Professional Software Bundle costs $1,399, paid once. Licenses include one year of updates and technical support.
QUBYX PerfectLum
QUBYX PerfectLum calibrates, verifies and runs quality assurance for medical displays, including DICOM GSDF calibration. It automates acceptance, constancy and routine QA tests with configurable pass/fail thresholds, scheduled daily, weekly, monthly or at custom intervals. Tests produce structured PDF reports with calibration and compliance results, luminance, contrast, ambient data and history. PerfectLum supports LUT calibration, ICC profile export and multi-monitor calibration for up to six displays. It works with QUBYX SmartSensor S1 and S2 and supported third-party measurement devices, and can connect to QUBYX RemoteQA for fleet monitoring, scheduled QA, failure tracking and centralized compliance reporting. Its workflows align with DICOM Part 14 GSDF, AAPM TG-18/TG-270, ACR, DIN 6868-157 and IEC 62563. QUBYX lists installers for Windows 10/11 x64 and macOS 12 or later on Intel and Apple processors. A free trial is available by email download link, with no duration stated. A workstation license costs $480 as a one-time purchase; a package with SmartSensor S2 costs $680, paid once.