Dashcam by Code Red

Code-Red

About this app

Mount the phone, open the app, drive. Dashcam by Code Red records the road in a loop, keeps the footage that matters, and logs your speed and route alongside it.

• No ads and no tracking
• Footage, routes and sound stay on your phone; nothing is uploaded
• Sound is off unless you turn it on
• No account needed; sign-in is optional

LOOP RECORDING
• Records in a loop of videos: 10 videos of 10 minutes by default, both numbers yours to change. The oldest unsaved video goes first
• Works out how much space the loop needs and warns you when it would take most of your free space
• Keeps recording with the screen off or another app (navigation, music) in front, with an ongoing notification that has Save and Stop
• Leave the app while recording and a small floating picture-in-picture window keeps Save and Stop within reach
• Stops before the phone fills up or gets too hot, and says so

SAVE WHAT MATTERS
• Tap Save, or let the phone feel an impact: about 90 seconds before and 60 seconds after are kept and protected from the loop
• Impact sensitivity is Low, Medium or High. A phone cannot detect every impact, and a jolt on a bad road can trigger one, so treat it as a helper, not a guarantee

SPEED AND ROUTE
• Large speed readout, with GPS speed and route recorded for each trip
• Trips show distance, driving time, top and average speed, and the route on a map coloured by speed, with your saved clips as markers
• Play a whole drive back with the map and a speed timeline following the video
• Optional speed limits for the road you are on from OpenStreetMap, off by default. Where a limit is unknown the app shows a dash rather than a guess
• Make a timelapse of a trip on the phone after the drive

AUTO START
• Open the driving screen and recording starts by itself at 10 mph (you can change it) and pauses after 3 minutes parked
• Start from the home-screen widget or the Quick Settings tile
• Recording only happens while you have opened the app or set a schedule: Dashcam never starts recording on its own in the background

SCHEDULED RECORDINGS
• Record at set times, for a commute or a parked watch: a name, a start time, a length and the weekdays or a date
• To open the app by itself, Android needs permissions you grant once from the Schedules screen: "Appear on top" (display over other apps) and "Alarms & reminders". Dashcam uses them only to start the recordings you scheduled. The recording notification stays visible while it runs
• If a start could not happen, the schedule lists the reason and the fix

SOUND (OPTIONAL)
• Turn on Record sound and set microphone sensitivity from -12 to +18 dB against a live meter; choose the microphone source and cut engine and wind rumble

KEEP AND SHARE
• Review saved clips with playback, notes and favourites; mark whole trips as favourites to keep their footage
• Save a clip to the gallery, or share the video with subtitles (time, speed, position) and a GPX file of the route
• The original footage is left clean: the overlay travels as separate files
• Storage screen shows what the loop uses; delete footage older than 7, 30 or 90 days

CAMERAS
• Road camera, plus rear (selfie) camera on phones that can record both at once. The cabin camera is off by default and films whoever is in the car

GOOD TO KNOW
• Mount the phone safely and set it up before you drive. Do not touch it while moving
• Maps use OpenFreeMap tiles only while a route is on screen; turn "Map under trip routes" off and nothing is fetched
• Footage can show other road users and number plates. Sharing it publicly is your responsibility under the law where you live
• A phone is not a certified evidence recorder
• Optional tips support development; they never unlock features. Crash reports are off unless you choose to send them
• Android only

What’s new

First release of Dashcam by Code Red.
• Loop recording that carries on with the screen off
• Save a clip with one tap or on an impact
• Speed and route for every trip, on a map coloured by speed
• Auto start at driving speed and scheduled recordings
• Optional sound with microphone sensitivity
Footage and routes stay on your phone. No ads. No account needed.