Discreet - Black screen camera 4+

Only one fix

I am not a fan of the showing the video while recording. The point of this is to be able to record and show them that my phone is not recording. This only happened recently as the front of my screen shows what is recording in a small view. Only being nitpicky otherwise best app I have come across except for my accidental pushing of the stop recording button when I didn’t mean too lol.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your valuable feedback. In order to avoid accidental stop of recording please consider using the “double tap to stop” feature. Also, you can get rid of the small view uninstalling and reinstalling the app, is a known bug that we are going to fix in next release

Impossible to tell if you're recording

This app WOULD be excellent for capturing domestic violence situations without alerting your abusive family member that you are recording. Unfortunately the gesture for turning video recording on and off is the same (tap the screen once to begin recording and once again to end recording) so it’s impossible to know whether you are recording or not as the tense situation unfolds. In such a situation is just not possible to take your eyes off the situation and check your screen. To be useful, the gesture for turning the recording on and off needs to be different; perhaps swiping up over 2/3rds of the screen would turn the recording on and swiping down would turn it off, and repeat swiping in the same direction would have no effect so you could swipe up several times and be assured that it is recording. Otherwise as I have unfortunately experienced, the whole situation can be over and you find that the only part you recorded was a few seconds that didn’t even matter.

I found a way to contact the app author, and he may be able to address my concern… if so, I will change my review to a full 5 stars.

Developer Response ,

Please upgrade to the latest version and activate “video helper”

It’s perfect… if you pay…

Before downloading the app, I was not aware the video feature was only available once your purchase the “pro” version. HOWEVER, In my opinion I believe it was worth every penny, thanks to the app I was able to successfully film pranking my little brother.

The only complaint I would have is that for iPhone users who have the slide bar, it shows very faintly on the bottom of the black screen which could potentially defeat the whole purpose of being discreet. Hopefully the developer could solve this issue though I personally don’t think it’s TOO much of a big deal.