OldReel - Vintage Camcorder

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4.6
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About this app

OldReel: Capture Life, Reel by Reel.
OldReel is a retro film digital camera app inspired by various film cameras, classic Polaroids, old digital phones, and vintage camcorders. It offers a variety of camera filters suitable for different shooting scenarios. You can use it to capture photos directly or import image/video files to easily generate images in styles like early digital cameras, vintage film, classic Polaroid, and 90s retro DV.

Classic Filter Effects:
-90s: Inspired by classic retro DV cameras, it conveys a gentle and hazy retro beauty through its unique color saturation and slight blur, making the whole picture seem immersed in the mist of time. This camcorder is not only a tool for recording life but also a bridge connecting the past and present, allowing people to review and cherish every simple and real moment in an emotional way.
-8mm: Simulates the effect of classic 8mm film cameras, restoring the style of film. The classic film photography texture gives a nostalgic and friendly visual experience, rendering each element in the picture both realistic and storytelling. It is a camcorder that can tell stories of life vividly.
-Noki: Restores the unique digital photography aesthetics of the millennium-era keypad phones, adding emotional depth and visual impact to photos. With the unique VHS dreamy low-pixel effect, it brings an irreplaceable retro feeling and artistic atmosphere to modern life.
-DV: With unique soft tones and natural light and shadow effects, it gives the picture a sense of time passing and storytelling, recording the real and unadorned beauty of life, allowing people to record life in a more classic and artistic way. Get a Japanese drama atmosphere in minutes.
-Hi8: By combining classic color grading and delicate, layered light handling, the simulation of the classic Hi8 effect creates a soft, muted color palette that renders a sense of nostalgia and warmth unique to past images, bringing back memories of a dreamlike world.
-DCR: The perfect combination of light projection and shadow tones creates a cozy and comfortable visual experience, evoking a warm retro photography atmosphere.
-4s: With its unique soft light effect, saturated yet natural retro colors, and subtle overexposure, it creates a dreamy, hazy beauty that transports you back to a simpler time.
- slide:Warm, delicate colors; a realistic yet dreamy scene, like an old photo album.
- VHS:Simulating VHS with faded textures and frame skips, this retro tones gently tell precious stories.
- LOFI: Vintage gray tones and low saturation colors that evoke nostalgia for the 80s and 90s.
- Golden: Warm, vintage cinematic tones that pay homage to old film projectors.

Highlights and Features:
-Designed with a native camcorder aesthetic, featuring a clear, concise layout for ease of use. The single-handed operation mimics a traditional DV camcorder for quick and effortless functionality.
-Analog Camcorder Filters: Offers a range of preset DCR magnetic tape camcorder filters, complete with various vintage-style DV filters. Switch between presets effortlessly without manual adjustments, allowing for instant creation of distinct, atmosphere-rich recordings suitable for various life scenes.
-Enhance low-light captures with the built-in flash and flip the lens for retro-style selfie vlogs.

Capture Life, Reel by Reel.
Updated on
Feb 20, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
App activity and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.6
2.72K reviews
Lijin Jayan
February 26, 2025
*0/5 - A Catastrophic Disaster: Avoid This Camera App at All Costs!* I've had the misfortune of using this camera app, and it's been an unmitigated disaster. The sheer audacity of the developers to release such a bug-ridden, slow, and quality-destroying monstrosity is staggering. *Bugs Galore:* The app crashes more often than a teenager's mood swings. It freezes, it glitches, and it's a miracle if you can even take a picture without it locking up on you. *Importing: A Snail's Pace:* When you
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zy
March 2, 2025
Fantastic range of camera presets. One thing is that when you are taking the video or photo the preset isn't fixed on the camera view. It is only after you take the video that the preset is superimposed on top of the video. There is also no option to change shutter speed.
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gamerjolt90
February 7, 2025
Compared to other camcorders apps this one is one of the best I've seen. The effect looks realistic and isn't too inconsistent. The only issue is that some of the cameras have a deliberately low framerate but it should be adjustable.
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