VHS Camcorder

- August 18, 2017

Everyone

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Description

⭐️ The best VHS app just got better: you can import videos! ⭐️

It's 1984, and you've got a camcorder! It'll look that way when you record and send old, messed up-looking videos to friends. They'll swear you built a time machine: "OMG, how'd you shoot that?"

Reviewed by WIRED, TechCrunch, Mashable, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Popular Mechanics, The Independent, Macworld, and many, many others!

With VHS Camcorder, you'll make home movies that look and sound like video tapes pulled out of storage after 30 years. You can change the on-screen date to trick your friends, create flashing cheesy custom titles, mess up the picture by shaking your device and use the zoom lens feature to emphasize those truly embarrassing moments!

Trust us, we asked literally everyone and it's unanimous: this app is freakin' amazing!

Here's Why You Need It:

• Four words: Best. Throwback. Videos. Ever.
• Create videos of your kids that look like the ones from your childhood
• Impress the new girl by using our app to convince her you built a time machine
• The only app you should ever consider to capture your 80s and 90s-themed parties
• Make your kids' incredibly boring school plays actually watchable

And Also Because of This:

• Realism: the ORIGINAL and BEST app for simulating old videotape recordings
• Change the on-screen date so people think you're way younger--or older--than you really are
• Create custom F*L*A*S*H*I*N*G titles for the ultimate in on-screen cheese
• Phony zoom lens feature dramatically enhances the cheese factor
• Mess up the picture during recording using your finger or by shaking your device
• Don't think we forgot to make things sound bad--we didn't
• Widescreen recording option (but would you REALLY want to use it?)
• Play, share and delete clips using the built-in clip viewer
• Import videos from other apps

*** PLEASE NOTE: THIS APP DOES NOT WORK ON ROOTED DEVICES WITH CUSTOM ROMS. If you don't know what "rooted" means, don't worry about this. ***

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Reviews

4.4

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Janoria Corven

Gonna be honest. i took two seconds to look at this and thought " Oh yes. This is going to be used for my pc video streaming"... This app does exactly what it sets out to do, and that is provide an older, more VHS feel to your videos. and it does it EXCELLENT (Pun intended if you know the show... if not.. *makes guitar noises*)

Derek Hodges

The recent update makes this app pretty close to perfect. Two suggestions I have (which I have seen other people mention): Option to disable the distortion lines entirely and an option to disable the audio buzz. Other than that, it's fantastic. Really appreciate the work put into it.

Rizky Fitrah

Great app, nailed the vhs effect on my camera phone. But one thing that curently bugged me is the Imported video on Nexus 5X is always turned upside down due to Nexus native image sensor. I hope that in the future updates this could be fixed.

Mica Medrano

Really cool. Although I hope they'll make an update so that there will be and option to rotate imported videos. And i was wondering why the stills won't save automatically in my photo gallery?? There's no export option either

El Jingco

Downloaded this a few days ago and been using it everyday since then. So far, so good but I wish it had a few more features. More filters would be nice, a feature that allows users to control the glitches/ lines would be awesome. Also, it would be very useful if it had settings wherein the videos save automatically to the SD card since it stops recording when memory becomes full. Also, it would be awesome if it gave a camera feature where you can just take photos instead of a video. Another suggestion is letting users import music into the video, letting us edit it. But i love how the music on my phone doesn't stop playing once I start recording.

MCMine Tube

This app looks awesome, but when I tried to download it gives me an error message. Could you please fix that problem?

User reviews

Janoria Corven August 21, 2017

Derek Hodges August 18, 2017

Rizky Fitrah August 29, 2017

Rarevision August 29, 2017

Try taking the phone out of selfie mode before trying to import video. That should fix it! If it doesn't, contact us. We'll fix this in the next update.

Mica Medrano September 21, 2017

El Jingco August 18, 2017

Rarevision August 18, 2017

Great suggestions! You can control the lines by dragging your finger on the screen. You can also take stills by holding down REC for one second. And we've got even more cool stuff planned! ❤️📼📹

MCMine Tube September 1, 2017

This app looks awesome, but when I tried to download it gives me an error message. Could you please fix that problem?

Tom Peirce August 19, 2017

This app has been a favorite of mine since I found it last summer. I'm loving the new features, but the date doesn't show up on the screen when I want it to. It was working earlier too. Still great though

Rarevision August 19, 2017

Hmm, we might need to have a look into that. Contact us via our support email or website and we'll get that pesky date problem fixed right up for you! 🔧😸

Jānis Vasara August 29, 2017

Need improvments, because old tape sound is very loud and need speak very loud to hear me! And change time from pm to 24h. Btw thanks developer and hope you change sometime volume to old tape sound...

aBBeY NoRMaL September 11, 2017

The Titler has a large white bar across the left hand side of it. So it won't show all of my text. I'm on the latest version of Android (8) and have a Pixel XL.

Rarevision September 11, 2017

Oh no! That sounds bad. Contact us via our support email (or website) and we'll get you fixed up!

Ant R September 9, 2017

Paying the 3$ is worth it. Compared to the free ones that have limitations. This one is easy and works smooth.

André Fiúza August 21, 2017

Amazing app, been waiting for this since the iPhone release. Nice work guys!!

Rarevision August 19, 2017

You can take pictures by holding down the REC button for one second. Give it a shot! 📸

George Apostolou August 31, 2017

any chances of adding a button for photos?

Rarevision August 31, 2017

You can take a still by holding down REC for one second. Try it! 📸

Zulfahmie Adha August 21, 2017

great app! cant wait for more update from them 🔥

Yu Lei August 24, 2017

Imported videos are upside down, close to perfect otherwise

Rarevision August 25, 2017

I think we found the problem: turn off selfie mode before importing a video. If selfie mode is on when you try to import, the picture will be flipped! We'll fix this in the next update. 👍 Thanks for letting us know!

krybaby Gina September 1, 2017

its awesmoe . i wish it was able to take pics too

MarioStar92 September 16, 2017

I love this app A LOT!

Jordan Bland September 9, 2017

Tubular

Megyn Smelly August 22, 2017

Love the new update, dude😁

Xx_fireside_xX August 20, 2017

best VHS app

Sebastian De la Garza August 19, 2017

Jared Talcott October 13, 2016

Great, only one suggestion Really digging this app. As someone who wants to record videos featuring music It would be great to be able to remove the audio noise so you have the vhs vibe without the hiss over whatever music I may be recording. A+ app though!

Ford Coukell November 10, 2016

Worth the money but no frame rate changer. I love this app as I'm obsessed with old cameras and the like. I will try it out more over the next few weeks and update my review. I only gave the app 4 stars because it lacks the ability to change the frame rate like on the iPhone something that really is a big deal as phones have high frame rates and with a high frame rate the video doesn't look fully retro seeing as this is on iPhone I implore you please add this feature!

ville perko November 5, 2016

Best of the bunch! Works flawlessly, great effectd and easy ui. Low battery drain too! Edit: For some reason, not sure if a feature or a flaw, but autofocus and focus overall is set too far. Cannot focus into close objects. It tries to change the focus point but goes back after refocusing.

Kenrick Caldwell November 14, 2016

Definitely worth it! This app is really neat I got to say I love it. As mentioned in some of the other comments, an option to add this effect to videos previously recorded would be neat. Also I'd like to see a button to add static to the video. Kind of like when the video cuts out and cuts in to another scene for example. I think that would be neat.

Jack Wolf November 3, 2016

Only one thing I want to hear my board pop off the ground and the little skrt noise my board makes, the buzzing sound ads a good little detail but have an option to turn it off and record from the mic please. Close to perfection

Daniel Jurek October 4, 2016

Awesome! The only issue I've seen so far is that it doesn't handle orientation very well. I have to lock it in landscape, then relaunch the app. Also, it'd be nice to have an option to have the interference happen randomly rather than just on tilt, with a slider for frequency. Aside from that, I love it!

Hayden Dekker December 25, 2016

I've got one suggestion. This app is definitely the best VHS camera app, but I've got one suggestion. It would be nice if one had the option remove the white lines that appear at the bottom of the screen. Not all VHS footage had these lines, and I'd like to be able to control them with a switch or a slider.

Jason Oakley November 26, 2016

It's great, but missing features for the price. A radical app that brings you back to the past. Changes the way you use your phone. This and the Adobe Clip is a match made in heaven. The problem is options. You pay $4 for a app that should have cost at least $1. It lacks so much content. I can't use Japanese characters in the titler. I would like a option to change saturation, contrast and color. A big problem a lot of reviewers are having, is the option to turn off noise distortion when record audio. This would be also a great feature. Please add this.

Rarevision November 26, 2016

Great suggestions! There's always room for improvement, and we want our users to have the tools they need to be creative. Keep your eyes peeled for some awesome upgrades in a future update!

/ netiekto September 30, 2016

This app is amazing! I really love the vibes of the videos that I film and the app is very easy to use. The only thing that I had a problem with - after a few days of using this app all of my videos appeared to be black and I didn't know what to do. I messaged the makers of the app and Thomas wanted to help and find out what was causing this to happen, but I just reinstalled the app and everything went fine. I usually never purchase apps because I'd rather buy some pizza (:D), but this app is worth it!

November 23, 2016

I love this app. I totally fooled a few friends with the videos I took, thinking I'd dug up the footage from 1994 lol. Can you guys please add an option to change the file destination? I want to save the clips to my SD card instead of internal memory like I can do with my normal camera app. Please add this feature to the next upgrade.

Mickey Tanasijevic March 18, 2017

A pretty cool app! I like all the additional bits you can control, like the date and color, definitely a nice feature that helps sell the aesthetic. The old school controls are a nice touch, too. I had a small issue with launching the app after updating, but a simple uninstall / reinstall fixed it for me.

Rarevision March 16, 2017

Sorry you're having a problem! Contact us via our support email and we'll happy to help you fix this!

Sean Collins February 21, 2017

Nexus 6p user, really love the concept. But video cuts off during playback when changing from back to front facing camera and vice versa. The audio will continue but the video freezes.

Rarevision March 5, 2017

Thanks for the report. We'll definitely look into fixing this!

Erick Sims September 26, 2016

Great camcorder app! I love this app. There is a lot of realism in the quality and color of the video. I would really like to set the date to anything before 1984 for fun reasons like I used to do with my camcorder, and would also like an option to flip the entire app 180° because I have to hold my phone in a strange way. 5 stars if at least one of these options is added, keep up the good work!

Ted Bragg February 26, 2017

Ive had to simulate vhs recording degredation and achieving that look is not easy. This lil app has a lot going on under the hood in realtime to get the color phase shifts, distortions, et al and not bog down the phone.

Alyyar Khan November 1, 2016

Love It...Just Needs 1 More Thing This effect is absolutely ace and worth the money. Just please add a feature allowing me to add thia effect to already existing vids! Thanks :)

Woo September 22, 2016

Needs an import button I love this app! However I was quite bummed when I found there was no way to add the vhs filter to a video in my gallery. Add a button that lets you import videos and I will love you forever!

Rarevision September 22, 2016

You talk, we listen. 😉 An import feature is in the works!

Pedro Maia February 17, 2017

Nice app overall, lacks more customization options mostly. Would like to shoot video above 720p and have more control over the effects it already has. Please keep adding more content for video customization and, maybe, a photo mode could be possible?

Nit Pick August 1, 2017

I really like this app, it's practically perfect. My only gripe is that didn't it show the date briefly when a recording starts. That's what VHS tape recordings did before right?

Bradley Leach January 3, 2017

Needs sound effect adjustment As with most of the people here, I was wowed by the vhs visual effect but the buzzing sound is so loud that I can hardly hear myself. Allow for a sound adjustment option on the noise and I'd be happy to give this 5 stars.

Connor Bonvillain January 30, 2017

I absolutely love it. But I will give it 5 stars once these features are added: the ability to adjust the volume of the noise distortion, change position and format of timestamp on screen, and a PAUSE BUTTON. <--- I believe the pause button is the most important one because pausing until another scene was one of the most common aspects of old VHS tapes.