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.
Thanks for the fun launch everyone, it was great getting some feedback and engaging with everyone and hope there are some new fans!
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I'd love to see what ends up on your first tape. đź“Ľ
Love the one tape a day constraint, a refreshing push toward short, intentional moments instead of endless perfect takes.
Is the 20 second limit per flip fixed, or can it be changed? Also, does the end-of-day compilation let you reorder or drop a clip before it plays?
Is the VHS look baked into the file, or can I export the clean footage too?
one dated tape for the whole day is a nice constraint
leaving the awkward pauses in gives it more of a home movie feel than another polished highlight reel
20 second flips with no editing is a fun limit. does the day's tape end at midnight or is there a cutoff you can pick?
I like that the pauses and the fumble for the stop button stay in. Those are often the bits that make a home video worth watching years later.
About Flipcorder on Product Hunt
“A 1991 camcorder for your iPhone, one tape a day”
Flipcorder launched on Product Hunt on October 26th, 2026 and earned 124 upvotes and 26 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
Flipcorder was featured in iOS (111k followers), Apple (15.6k followers) and Photo & Video (2.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 49.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Flipcorder?
Flipcorder was hunted by Matt Brewer. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Matt Brewer
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.