Only Highlights Camera vs Video Pre
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Only Highlights Camera
This app continuously records video in the background, allowing you to save a chosen segment after a highlight occurs. Never miss a precious moment due to storage or editing time. Capture sports, milestones, and more with ease.
- Continuous background recording
- Retroactive highlight saving
- Adjustable save duration
- Automatic re-recording
- Camera roll organization
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Capturing candid moments just got a whole lot easier! No more storing minutes or hours of video because you’re afraid of missing a highlight. Decide how much to save after the highlight has already happened. How many times do we stop recording because of storage limitations or time wasted clipping and cutting large amounts of footage? Ever miss capturing a highlight because of that? When you open the app a recording loop begins immediately. Wait for the highlight to happen and then choose the amount of time you want saved to your camera roll. The app immediately saves the chosen amount and begins recording again. Capturing everything from a sports highlight to a baby’s first words. Your camera roll is about to be full with only highlights!
Video Pre
This app continuously records video in the background, saving footage from moments before you hit the record button. It's ideal for capturing spontaneous events like wildlife, sports, or challenges without missing the action. Unlock HD quality and longer pre-recording with an in-app purchase.
- Records before button press
- Saves pre-recorded footage
- No storage until saved
- HD quality recording (in-app purchase)
- No watermark (in-app purchase)
- Supports portrait and landscape
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With Pre-Recorder, you have all the important moments on video! The app already records before you decided to do so. This takes no storage on your iPhone until you press the record button. This saves the pre-recorded video and continues to record as usual. This opens awesome possibilities: - Animal observations (Wait until the whale breaches …) - Sports events (Just point the camera into the direction while following the game. When a great scene happens, a klick is enough to save it forever) - Weather phenomena (The thunderstorm is really rolling? You have it on video after the flash!) - Stunts and Challenges (Your bottleflip needs 100 tries? No worries: let the app run and hit the button once you mastered the task) The best: you only record the scenes that you really want to have – without any post-editing and ready to share immediately on social media. No one is faster! Portrait or landscape format? It doesn't matter, the app adjusts to the current orientation of the device. Once the recording is started, there is no further switching between the orientations. The in-app purchase unlocks the full functionality of the app: - Up to 10 seconds of film before pressing the shutter button - Record in HD quality (1080p) - No watermark in the recorded video Need more features? Or other feedback? We can be reached via Github: https://github.com/noxone/videoprerecorder-web/issues
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Video Pre at Free against Only Highlights Camera's $0.99. Video Pre also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Only Highlights Camera's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (95% vs 73%). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Video Pre is free to download; Only Highlights Camera costs $0.99 up front. Video Pre sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Only Highlights Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.
Video Pre holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Only Highlights Camera has 29 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 95% of Only Highlights Camera's written reviews are positive against 73% of Video Pre's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Only Highlights Camera ships an update every 2 months, Video Pre every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Only Highlights Camera | Video Pre |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.2% of reviews — better | 72.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #179 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jace Mclaws | Olaf Neumann |
Customer experience
Only Highlights Camera
Video Pre
In-app purchases
Only Highlights Camera
No in-app purchases
Video Pre
- Feature Pack$8.99
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