Comparison

Tachyon vs beatCam

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tachyon

Control your camera remotely to start/stop recordings, play back footage in slow motion, and download videos directly to your iOS device. This app enhances your camera's functionality for seamless video capture and management.

Highlights
  • Remote recording control
  • Slow-motion playback
  • Video download to device
  • iOS device as remote
  • Compatible with Tachyon cameras
Features
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Tachyon iOS App is designed to use with Tachyon cameras. The user can use iOS device as a remote controller to start and stop the recording, to playback in slo-mo, and to download the videos to their devices.

About

beatCam

This app acts as a situational camera, continuously buffering video and saving clips when triggered by events like g-force or scene detection. It helps you capture important moments before and after they happen, organizing them into sessions with detailed evidence timelines.

Highlights
  • Continuous video buffering
  • Event-triggered clip saving
  • G-force and scene detection
  • Drive session grouping
  • Evidence timelines
  • Configurable capture controls
Features
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beatCam 6.1 turns your iPhone into a practical situational camera for drives, walks and moments where the important footage often happens before you press record. Start rolling capture and let beatCam keep the recent video buffer ready. When a relevant g-force event, scene detection or manual trigger happens, beatCam protects the clip and keeps the surrounding evidence together. Drive Sessions and Evidence Timelines make it easy to review related incidents in order. Core capture remains available without a purchase. Lifetime Pro is one non-consumable purchase—not a subscription. One-time unlock for custom capture timing, power and performance controls, storage choices, enhanced incident context, on-device scene analysis and evidence-package exports. The six advanced capabilities are: - Custom capture timing for buffer length, post-trigger delay and trigger sensitivity. - Power and performance controls for quality, frame rate, motion sampling, preview behavior and auto-dimming. - Storage choices for automatic cleanup while protected reports remain preserved. - Enhanced incident context with timestamp, peak force, location, speed, heading and route details when enabled. - On-device scene analysis with selectable responsiveness and automatic hazard saves. - Evidence-package exports with photos, PDF and text summaries, route data and annotated video. beatCam is designed for local capture first: start the camera, keep the buffer running and save the moments that matter with the context you need later.

Screenshots

Tachyon4 screens
beatCam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: beatCam at 100% against Tachyon's 0%. beatCam also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

beatCam holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Tachyon's written reviews are positive against 100% of beatCam's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tachyon ships an update every 6 weeks, beatCam every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tachyon versus beatCam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTachyonbeatCam
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChris WhitehouseJohannes Gluck

Customer experience

Tachyon

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

beatCam

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tachyon

No in-app purchases

None

beatCam

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tachyon free?
Tachyon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is beatCam free?
beatCam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tachyon or beatCam?
beatCam is rated higher. Tachyon averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while beatCam averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Tachyon or beatCam have ads?
Neither Tachyon nor beatCam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tachyon or beatCam?
Tachyon ships an update every 6 weeks, and beatCam every 3 weeks. Most recently, Tachyon was updated on September 26, 2026 and beatCam on September 10, 2026.

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