The idea

Camcorder is a video camera with one control. The screen is black, with a rounded square of live video in the middle and a red button near the bottom. Tap it to record, tap again to stop. Your clips string together into a film.

What it is

• A camera for remembering. Every clip is the same square, so there is no wrong way to hold the phone: the picture and your gestures stay level however you turn it.
• One film at a time. A project is one film and its clips. You keep as many projects as you want.
• Yours. Nothing is deleted unless you delete it. If the app cannot read a file, it sets it aside and keeps it.

What it is not

• It is not a pro camera. There are no frame rate, resolution or exposure screens, and no flash.
• It is not a video editor. You can cut a clip and delete a clip. Clips stay in the order they were filmed, and that cannot be changed.
• It does not count. No clip counter sits over the picture while you film.

Touching the picture

There is no flip button or filter menu. These things happen by touching the picture: a tap to focus, a double tap to flip, a finger held and dragged for light. The filters are on the ring around the red button, and your fingers move the look around once you are on one.

The look goes into the clip as you film, so what you see is what you keep. There is no undo for it.

The app teaches all of this through Quick tips, the bulb in a project's top right corner. See Settings and help (GS-3).

What costs money

Filming, exporting, watching channels and sharing with phones nearby are free. A Hosting Plan is for uploading films to your channels on the web. See Hosting Plans (PUB-2).