Screen Off Recorder
Record with screen dimmed
$1.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Mount your iPhone and record for hours with the screen off. Dual cam: front+back in one PiP or split clip. Apple Watch remote. Timestamps. Rides, runs, drives, vlogs.
Screen Off Recorder is a native iOS camera app for long takes on a mount—cycling, running, motorcycling, road trips, skating, or a desk tripod for classes and meetings. It supports Apple Watch remote control and album timestamps, and version 1.6.1 adds front+back dual-camera recording.
THE CORE IDEA
While recording, turn on Screen Off: a near-black full-screen overlay lowers brightness to save power and prevent accidental taps. Recording continues as long as the app stays in the foreground. Tap to wake the controls, then Stop & Save to Photos or discard the clip.
DUAL CAMERA (NEW IN 1.6.1)
• Turn it on in Settings to record front and back cameras at once into a single video in Photos—capture the view and your reaction together
• Picture-in-picture: drag the inset, resize with the corner handle or a pinch; aspects 16:9 / 1:1 / 4:5 / 5:4 / 9:16; position and size are remembered
• Long-edge split: top/bottom in portrait, left/right in landscape; rear camera first by default, swappable
• Border styles: None, Thin white, Thick white, Black, Soft white—around the inset in PiP, around both halves in split
• One-tap primary/secondary swap; Apple Watch preview follows the current primary view
• Requires iPhone XS/XR or later (A12+), or iPad with A12X or later. Stabilization and lens switching are unavailable in dual-cam mode
DYNAMIC TIMESTAMP
• Pick a video from Photos and burn in a clock that advances with the capture time
• Six positions with live preview; multiple styles (classic, outline, yellow, cyan, red, and more)
• Saves a new video and keeps the original; HDR / Dolby Vision sources export as SDR
LONG TAKES, LESS WORRY
• Darker Screen Off overlay; the recording indicator stays visible
• Auto Save & Continue (off by default): every 5/10/15/30/60 minutes, save the current clip to Photos and immediately continue
• Stop & Save ends the session after saving the current clip; Discard drops only the unsaved segment
APPLE WATCH REMOTE
• Start/stop and save, preview the shot, enter Screen Off, and adjust settings from your wrist
• Live preview mirrors your iPhone framing (unavailable while recording); follows the primary view in dual cam
• Instant control while the iPhone app is in the foreground; the Watch app installs with the iPhone app
STANDALONE CAMERA · ADVANCED STABILIZATION (SINGLE CAM)
• Native Swift + AVFoundation drives the system camera directly—not a WebView shell
• Optional motion stabilization, preferring Extended Cinematic modes where supported; best at 1080p + Ultra Wide
HOW IT WORKS
• Large start / stop control
• Single cam: selectable frame rates, 1080p/4K, front/rear with Ultra Wide / Wide / Telephoto (device-dependent), zoom, tap to focus
• Dual cam: PiP or split, with its own aspect, border, and primary settings
• Screen Off manually, or automatically ~3 seconds after you start (optional)
• Preview and recording orientation follow how you hold the phone
• Multilingual interface (follows system language)
PRIVACY & DATA
• No account required
• No upload to our servers—videos are saved to your on-device Photos library
• iCloud Photos sync, if enabled, is managed by Apple
IMPORTANT NOTES
• Screen Off is an in-app blackout—not recording after the side-button hardware lock. Keep the app in the foreground.
• Dual cam uses more power and generates more heat than single cam; watch battery and temperature on long takes.
• Timestamps are on-device post-processing, not burned in live while recording.
• Auto-save creates multiple clips with a brief gap between segments.
• Watch preview and instant remote control require the iPhone app in the foreground.
• iOS may show green/orange privacy indicators while the camera or microphone is active—that is normal.
• Record only where you have permission and follow local laws.
Screen Off Recorder—dim the screen, keep recording; both cameras, one clip.
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• Record front and back cameras together—picture-in-picture into one video saved to Photos
• Drag the PiP window, resize with the corner handle, pick 16:9 / 1:1 / 4:5 / 5:4 / 9:16, and remember position and size
• Long-edge split view (top/bottom in portrait, left/right in landscape), border styles, and one-tap primary/secondary swap
• Dual-cam requires iPhone XS/XR or later (A12+)
• Apple Watch preview follows the dual-cam primary view; screen-off recording and album timestamps still work as before
The developer, Wujie Yibang (fuzhou) Software Technology Co., Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Wujie Yibang (fuzhou) Software Technology Co., Ltd
- Size
- 8.1 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 30 more
- English, Arabic, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Wujie Yibang (Fuzhou) Software Technology Co., Ltd
