Mobile App Review: Dash Cam Apps
Looking for an affordable dash cam? One of our readers recently informed us that there’s an app for that!
iPhone Users
iSymDVR is a $2.99 dash cam app that’s available only on iTunes. It’s a ‘professional’ video recorder utility that functions on the iPhone, iPod touch, and the iPad.
iSymDVR features:
- Non-stop video recording
- Still photos while recording the video
- Recover video recording after returning from the background mode of after incoming call
- Location, speed and altitude reading
- GPX track writing
- Customizable subtitles in SRT format
- Portrait and landscape modes
- Power saving mode
- Favorites
- Password protection
- Built-in video/photo gallery
- Simple user interface
- Built-in Help
- Black screen mode
- Car mode
- Export to Camera Roll with built in map and subtitles
- Speed limit feature
- HTTP server to view and transfer files to a computer via WiFi network
- Frame rate adjusting
- Maps
- iPad supported
- Capture Frames feature
- Frame-by-Frame playback mode
- G-Sensor
- iOS 7 supported
- 640×480 resolution
Capabilities:
When a driver notices something important, they just have to tap the center of the screen and the current clip will be saved in ‘Favorites,’ and will not be automatically deleted.
There is a power save mode to increase battery life.
Connecting to WiFi will allow you to transfer video files directly to your computer.
iSymDvr can be used in unison with turn-by-turn navigation.
Android Users
DailyRoads Voyager is a free app available for Android users!
This app includes:
- Continuous video recording, with user-defined length and video quality; sound can be included
- User-defined storage space on the SD card with cyclic recording; i.e. the card never fills up
- One-touch video retention allows you to keep video files for interesting road events during the whole journey
- Auto retain video upon sudden shock (e.g. accident); configurable g-force sensitivity
- Automatically capture photos at user-defined intervals and resolutions; great for time-lapse photography
- Background video/photo capture, with optional buttons over other applications
- Auto start and shutdown based on car dock detection and related options
- Videos/photos are timestamped & geotagged
- Automatically determine street address of retained videos/photos
- Display videos/photos location on a map
- Display speed, elevation, timestamp and GPS coordinates on videos/photos
- Option to change speed units (km/h, mph) and date format
- GPS can be disabled to reduce power consumption
- Brightness adjustment option allows less distraction when driving at night
- Built-in file manager, video/photo browser
- Add title/description/bookmark to files
- Upload files to DailyRoads.com
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- Languages: English, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Dutch, Polish, Hebrew
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