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.