Comparison

Old Video Camera vs Make It 2004

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

Head to head
About

Old Video Camera

Features
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Old Video Camera turns your phone into an 80s camcorder. The soft, wobbly look of a worn tape is applied while you record, so what you save is already finished. Nothing to edit afterwards. How it works - Point and record. The analog look is written into the file, not added later. - Switch 4:3, 3:4, 1:1, 16:9 and 9:16 with a button. You never have to turn your phone. - Front or rear camera, with a T/W zoom rocker like the old decks had. The look - Colors bleed sideways, the way tape handled color. - Scan lines drift, a tracking band rolls slowly, the bottom edge tears. - Grain sits in the picture, and the sound takes on the narrow, wavering tone of a linear tape track. Date and readouts - Burn the date into the picture, with the time or without it. - Show the REC dot, battery and zoom bar the way a camcorder viewfinder did. - Every control answers with an old mechanical click. Privacy Your video and audio are processed on your device. Your video never leaves the phone unless you save it to your own photo library. Free with ads. A one-time purchase removes the ad shown after recording. Every camera feature is free.

About

Make It 2004

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Turn any photo into a 2004 digicam shot with one tap. And here's the magic: if your photo remembers when it was taken, MAKE IT 2004 stamps the REAL date in glowing orange โ€” your 2019 beach day becomes a found memory. Free. No account. Your photos never leave your phone. Old digital cameras had tiny CCD sensors and aggressive processing: harsh flash, blown highlights, crushed shadows, loud colors, grain, sharpening halos โ€” and that orange date stamp burned into the corner. People pay $150+ for a 20-year-old camera to get this look. Your thumb can do it for free. WHAT IT DOES โ€ข One tap: modern photo โ†’ 2004 digicam shot โ€ข Four moods: Flash (basement party), Vacay (oversaturated sun), Low Light (high-ISO grain), CYBR (cool Y2K chrome) โ€ข THE DATE STAMP KNOWS: if your photo remembers when it was taken, we stamp the real date โ€” your 2019 beach day becomes a found memory, stamped '19. Or set any year from '99 to '09. โ€ข Authentic 4:3 digicam frame, 3-megapixel output, real JPEG artifacts โ€ข Hold the photo to peek at the boring original PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your photos never leave your device. No account, no upload, no tracking, no data collected. No sliders either โ€” it does one thing.

Screenshots

Old Video Camera4 screens
Make It 20043 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Make It 2004 at none against Old Video Camera's 1. Make It 2004 also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Old Video Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Make It 2004 asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Old Video Camera versus Make It 2004: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOld Video CameraMake It 2004
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Fortnightly
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size13 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHosung HwangAndris Zimelis

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Old Video Camera

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99
None

Make It 2004

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Old Video Camera free?
Old Video Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Make It 2004 free?
Make It 2004 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Old Video Camera or Make It 2004 have ads?
Old Video Camera shows ads; Make It 2004 does not.

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