Launching today
Flipcorder
A 1991 camcorder for your iPhone, one tape a day
18 followers
A 1991 camcorder for your iPhone, one tape a day
18 followers
Currently #3 in Top Paid Photo & Video on the US App Store 🎉 Flipcorder turns your iPhone into a 1991 camcorder. We have lost touch crafting perfect videos for social media, and Flipcorder encourages you to take shorter "flips" of 20 seconds each throughout your day to enjoy as a home video at the end of the day. No editing, just shoot and enjoy in VHS or DV style. Made for iPhone Duo, works on any iPhone. $4.99 once. No ads, no subscription, no watermark, no account.
Hi Product Hunt! I’m Matt, and Flipcorder is the first app I’ve put on the App Store under my own name in about a decade. I’ve spent those years building apps and software for other people, so launching one of my own has me really excited. Like stupid excited!
It’s been a wild first weekend: it’s currently #3 in Top Paid, Photo & Video on the US App Store and I'm so humbled and amazed!
Flipcorder is a 1991 camcorder for your iPhone. You film little moments through the day, each one a “flip” (20 seconds by default), and they all land on that day’s dated tape. There’s no editing, so the chatter, the pauses and the fumble for the stop button stay in. Tonight, you play back one raw home movie in a warm VHS or crisp MiniDV look, date stamp and all.
I really wanted a way to capture those moments and keep authentic video alive - I feel we have lost so much chasing perfection for social media, that the messiness of a camcorder is appealing and comforting. Home movies can be for anyone, and Flipcorder is for those people.
I built it around iPhone Duo, which came out on Friday. The fold is the power switch: closed, the outer screen shows a lens cap; open it and the cap comes off. Fully open, the person you’re filming sees themselves on the outer screen with a red REC light. It works on every iPhone with iOS 26 or later too, with a big glowing POWER key instead.
A few things I cared about:
• $4.99 once. No subscription, no ads, no watermarks, no account needed.
• Your tapes stay on your phone unless you share them.
• Never lose footage: closing the phone, a call or low storage always saves the flip.
Today launches v1.1.0 that includes earning stickers, subtle streaks for your home screen widgets, some in app events (like Halloween coming up) and more. I have a lot planned for Flipcorder!
I’d love to hear what you’d film first, and anything you’d change. I’ll be here all day answering questions.
It feels like being back in 90 or 80s <3
@busmark_w_nika thanks, I really wanted something that encourages us to take authentic video and embrace that! The filters and UX are fun too of course, but the main point was capturing that unpolished collection of your day we used to have.
Love the one-tape-a-day constraint. Does the tape stop hard at a fixed length, or can a day's recording run until it fills? Curious how you chose the limit.
@moukangala the default is a 20 second limit for each “flip” you record. There are no limits on how many flips during the day on the tape. But I did enforce a 30 minute total limit on the tape myself - the duration of a DV cassette and a fun constraint.
There is a setting to remove the 20 second limit on flips if you like.
I chose the limits trying to give users enough option but really encourage the use throughout the day, and balance the export time for a long cassette as well for sharing.
Great question, is that clear?