CH3 Camcorder

Feeling nostalgic?

CH3 turns your phone into a 1990s camcorder. Everything runs in real-time. What you see in the viewfinder is what you record. No post-processing, no filters applied after the fact.

THE CAMERA

4:3 aspect ratio. 24fps. Low resolution. Portrait orientation with a landscape crop, just like holding a real camcorder. The on-screen display is rendered inside the viewfinder, just like the real thing.

THE EFFECTS

25 adjustable parameters that simulate every stage of the VHS signal chain:

- Chromatic aberration, chroma smear, and chroma delay

- Tracking distortion and head-switch noise

- Scanlines, interlace combing, and scanline drift

- Film grain, tape warp, and glitch

- Bloom, vignette, soft focus, and luma ringing

- Brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, and split-tone color grading

- VHS timestamp burn-in and night vision

- VHS audio processing: low-pass filter, wow/flutter, tape hiss, and saturation

THE PRESETS

Built-in presets to get you started. Pro users can create and share their own. Presets sync across devices via iCloud.

THE TAPES

All recordings are saved to an in-app tape library with VCR-style playback controls: play, pause, fast-forward, and rewind. Save tapes directly to your photo library or share them.

PRIVACY

Remember when apps didn't know your name, your location, and what you had for breakfast? Good times.

No account. No sign-up. No analytics. No tracking. No ads. No data collection. No third-party SDKs. No internet required. The only permissions CH3 asks for are camera and microphone, because it's a camera. Your recordings never leave your device unless you share them yourself. That's it.

UPGRADE TO PRO

No subscriptions. No nonsense. One payment and it's yours forever.

- Unlimited recording duration

- No watermark

- Full preset editor

- Combine multiple tapes into one

- Custom preset sharing

- iCloud preset sync