DollyCam: Cinematic Filming

DollyCam turns your iPhone into a one-person dolly zoom rig. The app tracks a face in real time and adjusts zoom as you walk toward or away from your subject, recreating the Vertigo effect made famous by Hitchcock -- no rail, no crew, no post-production.

DOLLY ZOOM

Tap a face, pick a direction, and press record. The app handles the rest:

- Walk Away: zoom increases as you move back, keeping the subject the same size while the background stretches

- Walk Toward: zoom decreases as you approach, compressing the background behind the subject

- Adjustable zoom response and intensity sliders let you dial in the exact look

- Noise rejection and frame smoothing eliminate jitter from handheld movement

- Monotonic ratchet prevents zoom reversal during recording for a clean, one-direction push

DUAL CAMERA (PiP)

Record from front and back cameras simultaneously:

- Floating picture-in-picture window you can drag anywhere on screen

- Drag to the top or bottom edge for a 50/50 split-screen layout

- Combined mode composites both feeds into a single video file

- Separate mode saves two synchronized files -- one from each camera

MULTI-ASPECT RECORDING

Capture portrait and landscape from a single take:

- Records 9:16 portrait and 16:9 landscape simultaneously

- Uses the ultra-wide camera for the landscape crop

- Both files receive the same LUT and stabilization settings

- Perfect for repurposing content across Reels, TikTok, and YouTube

CINEMATIC EXPOSURE LOCK

Lock the shutter to a 180-degree shutter angle at 24 or 30 fps for true film-look motion blur:

- Auto ISO adapts to changing light while shutter speed stays fixed

- Live ISO readout on screen

- Low-light and overexposure warnings so you never clip

COLOR GRADING WITH LUTs

Apply .cube LUTs in real time -- on the preview and baked into the recording:

- 10 built-in looks: Cinema Teal, Nostalgic, Monochrome, Vivid, Warm Fade, and more

- Import your own .cube files from any source

- Intensity slider blends from 0% to 100%

- GPU-accelerated Metal rendering pipeline with trilinear interpolation

PRO VIDEO CONTROLS

- 4K and 1080p resolution

- 24, 25, 30, and 60 fps

- HEVC (H.265), H.264, and Apple ProRes 422 (HQ, standard, LT, Proxy)

- Standard and Cinematic video stabilization

- Smooth Lens Switching for fluid 0.5x, 1x, and telephoto zoom targets

- Pinch-to-zoom keeps the highlighted lens target synced

- Physical Lenses mode remains available

- Auto, manual, and manual + focus peaking modes

- Six white balance presets plus lock-current

- External microphone detection with live audio level meter

- Tap to set focus and exposure point, then slide up or down to adjust EV compensation — works in auto and cinematic modes

- Front-facing camera selectable as the main lens, alongside ultra-wide, wide, and telephoto back lenses

BEAUTY CAM

Real-time skin smoothing and whitening for vlog-ready footage:

- GPU-accelerated Metal compute pipeline

- Adjustable smoothing intensity and whitening level

- Face-region gated on back camera, full-frame on front

- Quick access from the swipe-up Filter Tray alongside LUT controls

COMPOSITION TOOLS

- Rule of Thirds grid

- Crosshair + Thirds overlay

- 2.39:1 Cinemascope framing guide

SAVE ANYWHERE

- Automatic DollyCam album in your Photo Library

- Save directly to external drives, SD cards, or any folder on your device

- Browse, play, and manage all your recordings in the built-in video library

- Swipe-to-select for fast batch operations

DESIGNED FOR REAL SHOOTS

- Volume button triggers recording

- Accelerometer-based orientation detection for accurate rotation

- Thermal state monitoring warns you before the device throttles

- No internet connection required -- everything runs on-device

Download DollyCam for free for a limited time. Then it will be a single purchase with no subscription. The custom folder save feature is available as an optional one-time in-app purchase.