Rarevision VHS: Retro Cam
u can't not love our VHS look!
USD 6.99 · Designed for iPad
The original Rarevision VHS look seen everywhere!
Used by Kendall Jenner, Snoop Dogg, BTS, Ariana Grande, Khloe Kardashian, Wiz Khalifa, Victoria Beckham, Die Antwoord and featured on SNL (S41E01) and in countless TV shows and music videos!
Covered by WIRED, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Popular Mechanics, The Independent, Macworld, TMZ, TechCrunch, Mashable and many others!
App of the Day for Friday, Dec 22, 2017
It's 1984, and you've got a VHS camcorder! It'll look that way when you record and send old, messed up-looking retro videos to friends. They'll swear you built a time machine: "OMG, how'd you shoot that?"
With Rarevision VHS, you'll make videos that look and sound like real retro video tapes pulled out of storage after 30 years. You can change the on-screen date to trick your friends, create custom animated titles, glitch up the picture by shaking your device and use the fake zoom to emphasize those truly embarrassing moments!
"That's freakin' amazing!" -Everyone
Here's Why You Need It:
• Four words: Best. Throwback. Videos. Ever.
• Create VHS-style retro videos of your kids that look like the ones from your childhood
• The only VHS cam app you should ever consider to capture your 80s and 90s-themed parties
• Shoot your own "found footage" movie and become a big Hollywood director like those other guys
• Make your kids' incredibly boring school plays actually rad
• Impress the new girl by using our app to convince her you built a time machine
• Pretend like you lived through the rad 1980s using our app!
What Rarevision VHS Can Do:
• Realism: the ORIGINAL and BEST VHS cam app for simulating the glitches of old videotape recordings
• Import videos and give them the VHS look
• Make your own signature look using the old-school picture adjustment menu
• Create your own animated titles for the ultimate in on-screen awesomeness
• Change the on-screen date so people think you're way younger (or older) than you really are
• Glitch the picture during recording using your finger or by shaking your device
• Fake zoom feature dramatically enhances the cheese factor
• Don't think we forgot to make things sound retro terrible. We didn't.
• Up to 60p recording for a more accurate VHS video look (depends on device capability)
• Widescreen recording option (but would you REALLY want to use it?)
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http://facebook.com/rarevisionvhs
Rarevision is a US-based company.
Copyright © 2015-2025 Rarevision LLC. All rights reserved.
more Guaranteed worst video quality in the business! Here's what we fixed:
• Fixed a bug with the titler text style
• Video stabilization preference now remembered
1.7.1 07/11/2025
Better, faster, stronger! The Rarevision way! Well, until it comes to video quality.
• You can now use the wide-angle camera
• New worse tape audio filtering!
• Added a FILTER button
• Korean language added
• Fixed an audio bug with import
• Remaining storage calculation bug fixed
• Fixed broken timecode display during import
1.7 17/09/2025
Yo! We're making awesome progress. Here's what's new:
• Fixed a bug with the clip viewer that could cause a crash
• Fixed a bug that could break the UI if REC was pressed while holding your iPhone a certain way
• Removed those speckled white dot thingys from the Hi8 filter
• Pressing REC when paused resumes recording instead of stopping it
• Other little VHS tweaks to make things look cooler
1.6.9 25/03/2024
We're making this app more awesome! This update includes:
• Touch to focus works better
• Other bug fixes
1.6.8 10/03/2024
• Fixed the annoying screen rotation bug
• Better remaining storage detection
• Fixed all-white photo bug
• Other bug fixes to maximize awesomeness
1.6.7 18/02/2024
• Fixed the annoying screen rotation bug
• Better remaining storage detection
• Fixed all-white photo bug
• Other bug fixes to maximize awesomeness
1.6.6 15/02/2024
• Fixed the annoying screen rotation bug
• Better remaining storage detection
• Other bug fixes to maximize awesomeness
1.6.5 10/02/2024
• You can now turn off the tracking static lines completely!
• Minor tweaks and bug fixes
1.6.3 05/07/2021
• Fixed a bug with the titler that could cause a crash
• Reduced intermittent lag in preview
1.6.2 30/05/2021
• Fixed a problem where the titler wouldn't keep its size when importing
• Added ability to turn the additional tracking noise effect on/off
• Bug fixes
1.6.1 02/02/2021
• NEW picture menu: Tweak filters the way you want!
• NEW clip viewer: It's faster and you can import directly from the viewer!
• Fixed a problem on iOS 14 where the settings menu was all messed up
• Lots of other tweaks and bug fixes
1.6 21/01/2021
• Added color bars filter
• Fixed issue where Instagram 1:1 videos would import as portrait
1.5.4 23/06/2020
• Sweet quality improvements
• Tweaked filters
• Imported videos aren't as blurry
• Some other awesome bug fixes
1.5.3 31/05/2020
We listened to you, and adjusted the filters:
• Added a new Nuclear filter for edits
• Reduced brightness for imported videos
• Fixed bug that would cause a crash if device has a bad camera
• Updated Spanish translation
1.5.2 22/10/2019
The original VHS cam by Rarevision!
Changes in this version:
• Improved VHS effect
• New video filters
• New VHS graphic style (we kept the old one too)
• Move and zoom titler text
• New titler font and colors
• Enter titler text directly into viewport
• Switch cameras during recording
• Hold down SELFIE button to flop selfie camera
• On-screen date/time for an imported video is now the time it was shot
• Workaround for iPhone 7 with a broken microphone
• Spanish and Japanese translations added
• 1.5.1: Fixed settings screen layout issue with iOS 13
1.5.1 10/10/2019
The original VHS cam by Rarevision!
Changes in this version:
• Improved VHS effect
• New video filters
• New VHS graphic style (we kept the old one too)
• Move and zoom titler text
• New titler font and colors
• Enter titler text directly into viewport
• Switch cameras during recording
• Hold down SELFIE button to flop selfie camera
• On-screen date/time for an imported video is now the time it was shot
• Workaround for iPhone 7 with a broken microphone
• Spanish and Japanese translations added
1.5 10/10/2019
We're always improving the world's best VHS cam app for rad glitch and retro effects!
This release includes:
• Portrait recording now works with both cameras
• New red, green and blue filters
• Swipe left/right to change filters! Works while recording, too!
• Some bug fixes... and they're pretty nerdy so we'll spare you the boredom
1.4 05/02/2019
• Updated interface for iPhone X
• Fixed import problem with some videos
1.3.4 04/03/2018
• Fixed thumbnails in importer sometimes being grayed out if clips stored in iCloud
• Fixed intermittent crash after dismissing settings menu
• Improvements to importer
1.3.3 25/11/2017
• Sped up display of thumbnails in import browser
• Fixed crashes with videos encoded on other devices
• Fixed visual glitch in viewport after importing a 1:1 or portrait video
1.3.2 20/11/2017
• Fixed crash when trying to import a video
• Fixed issue where some videos would be rotated during import
• Disabled continuous autofocus (you can still touch to focus)
• Option to disable "Rolling Dropouts" now works
1.3.1 18/11/2017
• You can now import videos!
• Pause feature added for some slick in-camera editing!
• Reduced volume of audio tape noise/hiss per a few complaints
• Tweaks to VHS effect
• Added switch to turn off audio noise
1.3 13/11/2017
• Improvements to the VHS effect (you'll like it)
• Updated selfie camera to use mirrored picture orientation
• Selfie camera now shoots HD (if your device supports it)
• Improved finger tracking control
• Date spoof input now works better
• Improved audio sync
• Fixed recording problem when device storage almost full
1.2.4 22/02/2017
• Fixed the broken titler button when using the professional button style
1.2.3 26/02/2016
• Multi-color filter renamed
• Tweaks to the VHS tracking effect
• Minor GUI tweaks
1.2.2 20/02/2016
Guaranteed worst video quality in the business! Here's what we fixed:
• Fixed a bug with the titler text style
• Video stabilization preference now remembered
more Version 1.7.1 07/11/2025
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