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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Flipcorder’ lets you shoot retro footage on your iPhone Duo

Avatar for Michael Burkhardt  | Oct 24 2026 - 12:30 pm PT
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If you want more of a nostalgic video feel from your iPhone footage, Flipcorder is a great app to check out. It’s optimized for iPhone Duo, though the app also works on all other iPhone models.

Highlights

Similar to a real camcorder, Flipcorder lets you record to a tape. All of the footage you capture throughout the day saves to one tape, and it can hold up to 30 minutes of footage. You aren’t capturing videos, in a traditional sense, as all of your footage stays to one tape – recorded 20 seconds at a time.

It’s meant to help you capture small moments in an unedited sense. You just press the red record button and you’re set.

On iPhone Duo, you can take advantage of the larger inside display to get a preview of your footage, alongside its nostalgic-feeling UI.

You don’t have to record your footage in an old style, though. While the app does offer VHS and MiniDV style videos, you can also record a high quality video, while getting to take advantage of the cassette style compiled video.

Download the app

Flipcorder is available as a one time $4.99 purchase on the App Store for iPhone models running iOS 26 and later. After that, it’s smooth sailing with no additional in app purchases or ads.

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Michael is a 9to5Mac Reporter, leading all of our Apple news coverage on weekends and reviewing the newest Apple products and accessories. He got started in the world of Apple news during the pandemic, and it became a growing hobby. He’s also an indie iOS developer, and started the weekly Indie App Spotlight series, which has covered hundreds of blooming new apps since it launched. In his free time, he enjoys shooting street photography around New York City on his Sony A7RV.

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