Databender: Glitch & Datamosh

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About this app

Databender breaks pictures and videos the honest way: it damages the data inside them and shows you what a decoder makes of the wreck. No overlays and no filters, just flaws.

Pictures
- JPEG glitch: bytes inside a real JPEG are overwritten, giving shifted blocks and colour casts. Re-roll to move the damage somewhere new.
- PNG and RAW glitches (Pro): errors that smear right and down, or colour channels that rotate and rows that slide.
- Aim the damage (Pro): choose where in the data it lands, write your own payload or random bytes, and set the JPEG quality.
- Swell, Sound bend and Effects (Pro): ripple rows and columns, run the picture through echo, smear and bit-crush as if it were audio, then add noise, gloom, posterize, sepia and more.
- Crop to 1:1, 4:5, 16:9 or 9:16 and save up to 2400 px (Pro). The free version saves up to 1080 px.

Video
- Datamosh: take the key frames out and the next shot's motion drags the old picture around.
- Byte damage that builds until the next key frame.
- Bloom, damage targeting, cascade, and control over the decoder's detail and motion (Pro).
- Old video (Pro): play the result back through a worn VHS tape, bad tracking, a weak broadcast signal, a tube TV or an 8mm projector. 13 looks, from Camcorder to Silent film, with about fifty dials behind them.
- Raw file engine (Pro): bend the real bytes of MP4, AVI and MKV files.
- Whole videos at 360p, or 480p and 720p with Pro.
- A preview player with full screen, frame-by-frame stepping, playback speed, and saving any frame as a picture.

Save to your gallery or share straight to any app.

Private by design
Everything happens on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, and there are no accounts, ads or tracking.

Databender Pro
The JPEG glitch and the basic video mosh are free. Databender Pro unlocks everything else as a monthly or yearly subscription through Google Play. It renews automatically until you cancel, which you can do at any time in Google Play under Payments and subscriptions.

What’s new

Initial 1.0.0