The Free iPhone Video Recorder – Cycorder
If you have been missing that all-important video recorder functionality for your iPhone, look no further than Cycorder. Now before you get all excited let me first say the only way you will be able to get this app is to have a jailbroken phone along with Cydia.
Jay Freeman, the author of other jailbroken apps such as Cydia and Winterboard, released Cycorder. It does have ads, but I can assure they do not get in your way. Just keep in mind these ads are keeping this app free for all of us.
Cycorder’s video is shockingly decent for a cell phone video recorder. Recording in .mov format, Cycorder gets anywhere from 7-15 frames per second. It did not support audio when it was first released, but it does now. An update has just been released and it finally supports audio, though this clip does not contain any.
To get Cycorder simply go into Cydia and you will see it on the “Featured Packages” list on the front page. Download and enjoy!
Video and screenshot, after the break!
[Thanks for the tip Art!]
September 8th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
i wish they can comeup with better fps, just check out this site they had a amazing video for 60 fps video, they managed to get 6 seconds of it,, recording it was better than nokia n95. i dont know what happend to this project. pls check this site and download a demo to see urself
September 8th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
http://monsterandfriends.com/iphonevideo .. this is the site..
September 8th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
@Nikhil
Check the link out again. There is no mention of 60 fps… That is no way possible on the iPhone. Here is a quote from the link you provided.
“but right now i can capture 2mp quality at 10fps for 10 seconds.. when i lower the quality to normal phone size .mov i should be able to get a higher fps and a minute of video at least.”
This is no where near as good as Cycorder as you are not limited in recording time and Cycorder reaches 15 fps.
September 8th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
why can’t something like this show up in the app store? The lack of video recording has emerged as my biggest problem with my iPhone, and while I’d love to get this, I am not jailbreaking my phone. Is there a reason why an app like this is NOT in the App Store?
September 8th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
jason – the official iPhone SDK offers very limited access to the camera.
essentially, when you use the camera in any official iPhone app, it launches a default camera application. this application just takes a picture and then offers you the option to retake the photo or hand-off the photo data to the application you were originally using.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
And this is why people will still/always be jailbreaking the iPhone. Basically apple opened the iPhone up enough to get people off its back but still have a tight grip on what devs can and cant do. I swear apple is acting more and more like the “big brother” charactor in their 1984 commercial every second.
I love my iPhone but I hate apple
September 24th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Apple need to sort this out. EVERYONE wants a video recorder, and yet the only way they can get it is by jailbreaking their iPhone.
Apple don’t want people to jailbreak, so it doesn’t take a genius to work out that they should offer a video recorder app through the app store. There’s two or three available right now, so pick one APPLE.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:42 am
I totally a agree, apple needs to allow an app to be released or even release it themvselves! I’ve been waiting long eneough!!
September 29th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
ilike to have vídeo recorder in my iphone absolubly free please
September 29th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
so how can download video recorder did u know how?
October 1st, 2008 at 9:32 am
I have a jailbroken phone and would like to know where cycorder stores its files so i can remove them from phone and email them
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:30 am
how can I download cycorder from this website and then install it on my iphone since I am unable to download it from this site.
October 4th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Using WinSCP or any other SCP program, go to /private/var/mobile/Media/Videos, the files must be there.
I guess there is no other way to get them.
November 11th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
does anyone know how to move a cycorder video from the iphone to my macbook? I’d like to to be able to upload it to youtube.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
How to upload a video recorded with Cycorder on a jailbroken iPhone to your Mac using Netatalk:
This guide is a modified version of that provided at: http://www.simonblog.com/2008/09/07/netatalk-lets-you-transfer-files-between-iphone-and-your-mac-wirelessly/
Install Netatalk on your jailbroken iPhone (or use Open SSH or similar – I will not be outlining this method though). Netatalk can be downloaded using Cydia directly onto your iPhone.
For Mac OS 10.5 Once you’ve got Netatalk installed on your iPhone. Ensure the Wifi is turned on (for both your computer and iPhone).
Then you’ll find your iPhone has shown up on Finder window as shared device (as long as they are connected to the same wireless network). If you don’t have wireless internet, or if you are connecting both your iPhone and computer to a large work or school network you can set up your own ad-hoc network instead using “Create Network” on your airport preferences. Then connect your iPod to this new custom network.
If the iPhone has not shown up as a shared device, you may need to restart it if you have just installed Netatalk.
Next, click “Connect As” button (on your mac, selecting the shared device) to logon as another user. You’ll be prompted to enter name/password.
Type “root” or “mobile” for name and “alpine” for password. Then click “Connect”.
Now your iPhone is connected with your Mac. You should see a “mobile” folder and you can drag & drop files into the iPhone, or copy them off the iPhone, like we want to do.
To access videos recorded with Cycorder, go to: root/var/mobile/Media/Videos
And there you have it. I hope that this helps.
December 1st, 2008 at 4:21 am
I can’t help but feel that apple realase products like the iPhone underspec on prupose,having the simple things like mms and a video camara missing seems like great excuse to sell a shedload with more with another problem adressed,the firmware updates are **** with the only real big additions being the appstore & the genius playlist which are just 2 things designed to boost apples revenue,I’m on my second iPhone now & tempted just to jailbreak this one too,as apple doesn’t give the full control needed (like camara control & allowing apps to run in the backgound which an IM client would need) apple just seems to gradually get more sneaky,and my itrip doesn’t work with my new iPhone,or my old video cable,ok rant over!
December 6th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
hello, is there a possibility to get the video s from the iphone to a pc, i use cycorder, many thanks for your reply romeoalfayankee
December 8th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
On Mac to get the videos you can just use PhoneView and browse to Disk/Videos/. Very fast and simple! On win it’s a little harder, I’m looking for a solution myself for my gf who has a vista PC.
December 13th, 2008 at 1:44 am
In mobile Finder vids are stored at ~/media/videos. I copy ‘em from there to the airshare folder and then you’re good to go with Final Cut or whatever editing you use. Now if someone could tell me how to record with compression that would greatly reduce the file size, cuz these Cycorder-made .mov files are huge compared to mp4’s of the same length…
December 17th, 2008 at 11:17 am
A humble request to Mr. Steve Jobs and his dynamic team to please release Video Recording Software and THE WHOLE WORLD will buy it from APPLE STORE…I bet !!
December 17th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
How do i download this application?
December 17th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Does anyone know how to download this app?
December 20th, 2008 at 6:36 am
you can get the iphone games and apps free from http://myfreeiphone.co.uk/wordpress
December 30th, 2008 at 8:02 am
how can i open cycorder to windows xp?help me pls.
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:36 am
hey dude … i’ve recorded a video from ur software , but how do i take it out and put it in my PC ??
January 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 pm
yo i have cycorder but the main problem i m havin is that i dont know how to transfer the recordings to my laptop, please respond.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:48 am
I Have Cycorder On My Iphone…And Have Taken Many Important Videos In Which I Need To Upload On My Computer…I Don’t Have A Mac, I Have A Windows…Does Anyone Know How I Can Do It?
Please Email me At Sumeetpatel88@gmail.com
Thanks!!!
January 14th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
For PC users who have a wireless network and Jailbroken Iphone 3g:
Download Winscp (free) and install on your computer. Install OpenSSH on your Iphone 3G from Cydia’s featured page. While connected to your wireless network on your Iphone navigate to settings/wi-fi/> and find your phones ip address. Write this down. open WinSCP on your computer and type in your ip address under “host name”. Username is “root” and password is “alpine”. And change file protocol to “SCP” and hit login. You may want to disable “autolock” on your iphone because it seems to disconnect from winscp when the phone locks. From there navigate to /private/var/mobile/Media/Videos for your videos. If you right click on a file and hit copy it should try to create a folder on your pc and copy the video file to this folder.
January 14th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
how can download video recorder?
January 15th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
TTKA1347, Followed your directions and it worked like a charm. Thanks a lot dude!
January 16th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Yeah great job TTKA1347!
January 19th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Thanks TTKA1347!
January 20th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Since I do not have a wireless network at work I did a little research for wired connections and found the following:
http://code.google.com/p/iphonebrowser/
All you have to do is download and install the executable (found in the featured download block on the upper right side). Once you have installed this program simply connect your Jailbroken Iphone to your PC via the USB cable and then start the program. It should automatically detect and connect to your Iphone. I tried this on two windows xp computers with my Jailbroken Iphone 3g and it worked fine.
January 25th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
does anyone know how to move vidoes form my iphone to my pc
January 30th, 2009 at 6:54 am
For Windows users: visit http://code.google.com/p/iphonebrowser/ and run SetupiPhoneBrowser.1.81.exe
When install has finished, open iphonebrowser (iphone connected with usb) and browse towards private/var/mobile/media/videos
That’s all folks!
January 31st, 2009 at 12:40 am
Hans/TTKA1347,
Thanks for your tips. I was able to download my videos from the iPhone to my XP. I noticed a strange behaviour. After recording a few videos, I am not able to record anymore. I even deleted ALL the existing videos and there is 7GB of space available. Any ideas why this would happen?
January 31st, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Neil, As of right now I don’t have any ideas on what might have went wrong. You could try simply reinstalling cycorder. In case you do not know how, open Cydia, then open the manage tab at the bottom, then select packages and scroll until you find cycorder. select it and then select “modify” and you should be able to reinstall it. If I think of anything else I will post it.
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Updated to 2.2.1 all according to DEV-team, keeping it sim-unlocked. When I did so from 2.1 to 2.2 all files of Cycorder remained in my iPhone. Now the files seemed to have disappeared. Looked with SSH but no files. Can anyone confirm that this update (2.2.1) removes Cycorder files completely?
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 pm
It worked like charm. I also have another iphone but it shows No SERVICE anyone has any idea why. BTW I have done all kinda of fancy things like downgrading it to 1.1.4 and neutralizing the boot neuter, airplane mode on and off..Wondering if its a hardware failure, please help. Email me at pankaj_81@hotmail.com
February 12th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
7gb phone is weak.
February 15th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Why oh why doesn’t Apple release a decent video recorder for the iPhone, then people wouldn’t have to jailbreak theirs? It’s no good Apple complaining about the jailbreakers among us if they are not going to give the consumers what they want!
PS Nice blog mate. I’ll certainly be back.
February 16th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Just download DiskAid and go to the media/videos folder
February 16th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
to grab the videos you recorded on the iphone using cycorder
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Even though i was able get the files out i was not able to play them in any of the players. Not even in VLC or Quicktime . so suggest a player. thanks
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Arun, Have you tried Media Player classic? That works for me.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:59 am
beauiful! Thanks TTKA. Jailbreak is a beautiful thing.
March 1st, 2009 at 9:29 am
arun… if u want your file to works. u have to put the file extension when u save the video. example name it as cats.mov.. i have the same problem as u before. but after i put the file extension after the name. its works. after that u can play it at quicktime or any player. good luck trying!!!! ;p
March 4th, 2009 at 3:21 am
just installed the iphone browser app and works like a charm. Cycorder author should try and do what xgps does or some of the other apps where it hosts a webpage you can download them from wirelessly without having to navigate all the folders. Works well though
March 12th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I have a ? Is there a way to get cycorder without jailbreaking my Iphone, and if not what can go wrong with my Iphone if I do Jailbreak my phone?? let me know Thanks
March 14th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Mars, The answer is no, you have to jailbreak your phone to get this app. I think it fairly harmless to jailbreak your phone if done correctly. You can always restore your phone back to Apple firmware. The main risk to jailbreaking is it voids your year warrenty. As I understand it if something breaks but you are able to do a Apple restore via itunes then you will be ok. but if you cannot restore to apple firmware then they will not honor your warrenty. Plus once jailbroken you cannot update your phone via iTunes anymore. You must use an pwn’d updater. Once you jailbreak you will never want to go back to apple firmware, it simply opens up way to many things that SHOULD already be available.
March 16th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
how i can unlock my ihpone?
March 16th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
iphone
March 17th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I Have Cycorder On My Iphone…And Have Taken Many Important Videos In Which I Need To Upload On My Computer…I Don’t Have A Mac, I Have A Windows…Does Anyone Know How I Can Do It?
please mail me at vijaydeep.kohli@gmail.com
March 19th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
deepak kohli simply read this thread. I, and a few others, have posted detailed instructions on two methods of accessing, uploading to PC, and viewing cycorder video’s.
March 24th, 2009 at 9:59 am
how can i download this iphone recorder in free?it possible i can use free,without registration?
April 8th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
es bueno lo mejor
April 17th, 2009 at 11:15 am
could anybody tell that i recently purchased apple iphone but the problem is video recording and mp3 ringtones……send me mail hw to instal these softwares step by step i’m very thank full to u thanxxxxxx
April 24th, 2009 at 11:07 am
it was working with me on os 2.2 but when i upgraded to os3 beta 3 it stoped working it terminates after i run it any ideas or updates
April 29th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
my question is the same as half the people here. how do i take transfer the video on the iphone to the pc.
May 8th, 2009 at 7:48 am
download DiskAid it gives you acces to your iPhone as any external drive you can simply drag, copy and paste is avilable for PC and Mac I use Mac works perfect to copy Cycorder movies to desktop
have fun
May 20th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
i sortof hava problem.. i hava jailbroken iphone and i have cycorder on it too but i took so manii videos and i need to upload them on my computer.. but i have no wires or niithinq to pluq mi iphone with.. wat do i do?
May 30th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Bluetooth from iPhone to your Mac. Or buy a connector, flash drive, etc.
June 4th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
when are we going to get cycorder working on firmware 3.
June 9th, 2009 at 7:56 am
after i downloaded few videoaas and it was fine now i am having a diffrent kind of problem it says IphoneBrowser Stopped Working. A problem Caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify if a solution is available
a tried almost everything repair, reinstall several times even tried older versions start the program then plug my iphone start the program with or without i tunes it is driving me crazy n.b. i am using vista
PLEASSSSSSSSSS HELLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPP
June 20th, 2009 at 2:24 am
my question is the same as half the people here. how do i take transfer the video on the iphone to the Mac.
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:05 am
to counsel successfully is directly proportional to the number of times the same question comes up. This forum saved me from insanity !!
June 27th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Can anyone in here read? the same question over and over and over. The answer was posted multiple times too. sheesh
June 30th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
TTKA1347 that was absolutely perfect :X thanksss…
July 15th, 2009 at 5:23 am
lan bir türkçe yazın layn
hepinizin amuna koyam
bak simdi anlamaz bu (tenks man)amına kodugum için:)
July 15th, 2009 at 5:24 am
len dalama kafalılar şerefsinizi sikeyim bu kadar olur yav arakdaş siktigimin gavurlarına bak 250$ a al üstüne her bir bokumu yap biz ise 1000$ a alıyoruz sokarım len
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:19 am
Hey, Just to make this clear: Apple will never (ever) put a video recorder on the App store because they want you to buy the new Iphone 3GS instead, so they make more money.
August 1st, 2009 at 4:34 am
OK
August 7th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
After I transfer Cycorder videos to my PC, I am unable to change the name of the file. A message pops up saying the file is in use by another person or application but that’s not the case. I sent one of the files to another PC and changed the name. But once I sent it back to my PC, again, I was unable to modify the file name. Can someone please help? Thanks.
August 9th, 2009 at 2:30 am
hi,
the answer to transfer cycorder videos to a PC has been repeated, but can someone tell me how I can do this on a MAC?
August 10th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Amber, Install openssh from cydia’s feature page. If you are on a wireless network install “ifile” from cydia’s featured page. This app will allow you to create a local webserver from which you can access all of the iphones root folders. If you are not on a wireless network try the free programs Fugu, ipoddisk or cyberduck.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Ifile recently became shareware and therefore costs a few dollars. I can’t remember the exact amount.
August 11th, 2009 at 9:37 am
I recently upgraded my jailbroken iphone to OS 3.0 but stupidly forgot to save my more recent videos taken by Cycorder. Tried to retrieve them through the iPhoneBrowser but i keep on getting the ff error message:Unhandled exception has occured etc …Unable to find an entry point etc.
Is there any other way to retrieve them? do you think the videos are still in my phone and does the iphoneBrowser work on iphones that are not jailbroken? it used to work fine when i was running on OS 2.something, and jailbroken phone. =(
August 11th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Veeno, I am sorry to say that if you upgraded then all of your videos and anything related to your old jailbreak will be gone. The upgrade process replaces all files on the partition. Hence, once you upgrade or restore to official firmware all traces of the jailbreak will be gone and your warranty will still be good. And Iphone browser will not work with a non-jailbroken phone as apple does not want you to have access to the root folders.
September 6th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
i wish that yu could take that video out of your iphone becuase i have 2 weeks trying to take one video and put it on youtube and i cant. if someone know how to do it pls show me
September 19th, 2009 at 4:00 am
how do you transfer the videos from the iphone to the computer
Ayaz
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:54 am
anybody else have any problems with recording volumne. If i speak directly into iphone recording is fine, but very very faint when people are more than a few feet away. thanks
October 7th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
good job thanks
October 8th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
TTKA I followed all the instructions I got SCP to work..i got to opening media part but the folder’s empty…The videos are still in my cycorder library. what to do?
Thanks
October 16th, 2009 at 12:57 am
am i missing something here? i want to download cycorder, and all i get are explanations of what it is…..hello……..
October 16th, 2009 at 12:59 am
i went to that featured packages site, there are no options for downloading!
October 19th, 2009 at 10:25 am
After I installed iphonebrowser 1.81 for windows, everytime I open it, it says this program is not working..Any other suggestions
October 19th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
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October 25th, 2009 at 9:27 am
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November 4th, 2009 at 12:39 am
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