# Prewind: Instant Replay — Save what already happened

> Save what already happened (iPhone/iPad app by Troy Briley.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prewind-instant-replay/id6804208786 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Troy Briley](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896264283)
- Category: Photo & Video, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 3 MB
- Languages: American English, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-09-02
- Data updated: 2026-10-08

## What is Prewind?

Prewind is always a few seconds ahead of you — because it's already a few seconds behind.

Open the app and the camera starts remembering. There's no Record button to miss the moment with. When something happens — a trick that landed, a close call, a joke that caught you off guard — tap Instant Capture, and Prewind saves the seconds that already happened, not the ones still coming.

REC now includes the past.

• Always buffering — the moment is already saved before you even reach for your phone
• Works natively on iPhone and iPad, in portrait or landscape — rotate mid-buffer and Prewind keeps recording right through it
• Free 10-second buffer, no catch, no watermark
• Prewind Pro (one-time purchase, no subscription) unlocks 20, 30, 60 and 120-second buffers and ongoing recording after the capture.
• Slow motion capture at 1080p120 for the moments worth seeing twice
• Capture with the volume, Action or Camera Control button — no need to even look at the screen
• Optional overlays for timestamp, location, weather and season — off by default, on when you want the receipt
• Clips save straight to your Photos library. No account, no cloud, no ads.

Whatever just happened, it's already in the can.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Prewind Pro | $1.99 | one-time |


## Is Prewind safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Prewind.

## Is Prewind legit?

Prewind: Instant Replay has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Prewind is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.2.1 — 2026-10-08

Bug fixes and improvements.

### 1.2 — 2026-09-21

Prewind now works natively on iPad — a layout built for the bigger screen, not a stretched-out phone screen.

Rotate freely on iPhone and iPad alike, in portrait or landscape — and the buffer keeps recording right through the rotation, so turning your phone as something happens doesn't cost you the moment.

Autofocus is steadier: the camera no longer refocuses itself on ordinary handheld movement, so the picture looks calmer.

The buffer is more honest after a trip to another app: it won't say "ready" until it genuinely is, so a Capture right after switching back reflects what's happening now, not what happened before you left.

Clip playback now shows your video at its real shape, whichever orientation you recorded in.

### 1.1 — 2026-09-09

Rec now saves the whole recording — every second from before you pressed it to the moment you stopped — and shows the clip's running length while it records.

Capture ends at the tap: the last second before you pressed the button is in the clip. Your buffer also survives a trip to another app, so the next capture still has all of it.

Sharper, steadier, truer colour. Stabilisation is on, bitrates now match the built-in Camera, and clips with an overlay no longer look washed out. New: 1080p at 50 fps for 50 Hz lighting, and an optional HDR (10-bit) mode.

Better sound: 48 kHz stereo, no gaps between seconds, wind-noise reduction on iOS 18, and your music keeps playing when you open the camera. Turning "Record audio" off now really switches the microphone off.

A capture confirms with a haptic. Photos permission is asked up front, so a clip is never lost to a refused prompt — and if saving fails, the clip stays in Prewind.

The Prewind Pro screen now shows what you get and lets you choose your buffer length before you unlock. Restore purchases tells you what happened.

If Prewind ever closes unexpectedly, recovering the buffered footage is safer: you can decide later, and nothing is discarded until it has been saved.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-02

No release notes.

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## More apps by Troy Briley

- [BetaSuite: Tester's Toolkit](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/betasuite-testers-toolkit/id6766279266)

All apps by Troy Briley: https://appshunter.io/developer/1896264283

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