Tape Eater Video Effects vs Even Longer Remote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tape Eater Video Effects
Transform your videos with intentional glitch and broken-tape effects. Easily warp footage from your camera or gallery to achieve a damaged VHS or corrupted file aesthetic. Save your creations as silent clips or still images directly on your device.
- Apply glitch and broken-tape video effects
- Warp video from camera or gallery
- Push, smear, and scramble picture
- Save silent clips or stills
- Deep live controls and presets
- Includes Silt mode thermal/smear effect
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Tape Eater turns ordinary videos into glitchy, broken-tape looks — on purpose. This is a video effects app, not a music player: it warps video. What it does • Open your camera or a video from Photos • Push, smear, and scramble the picture until it looks like damaged VHS or a crashing file • Save a silent clip or a still — everything stays on your device Why it’s different • Built for melting video as the main toy, not a tiny filter buried in an editor • Deep live controls if you want to dig in — or tap presets and go • Includes Silt mode: a second thermal / smear look in the same app • No account. No cloud. No ads. You don’t need to know video jargon. Open a clip, mess it up, save it.
Even Longer Remote
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Even Longer Remote turns an iPhone, iPad or Mac into the viewfinder and control surface of an Even Longer long-exposure camera running on another device. It needs an Even Longer camera to connect to: Even Longer with remote control switched on (a PRO feature there). WHAT YOU GET • The camera's live viewfinder, with its grid, histogram and celestial overlay • Full manual control — ISO, shutter, EV, focus, white balance, lens, and aperture on the iPhone 18 Pro • Accumulation mode, sequence target, file format and every camera setting, exactly as the camera offers them • Live capture progress, pause, resume, stop and save • Finished files delivered to the controller as they are saved — RAW, ProRAW, TIFF, HEIC or JPEG, whatever the camera wrote PAIRING Local network only. The camera announces itself, both screens show a short code, you confirm it by eye — and that camera is remembered. TLS-secured, no cloud, no account, no sign-in. In the field, the camera phone's personal hotspot is all the network you need. ONE CONTROLLER FOR ANY EVEN LONGER CAMERA The controller offers exactly what the camera it is driving can honour, and nothing it cannot. That camera can be any iPhone or iPad running Even Longer. THE TWO APPS • Even Longer Remote — this app: the controller. It does not capture on its own. • Even Longer — the paid camera app for iPhone and iPad. Remote control is part of its optional PRO in-app upgrade, alongside RAW, Apple ProRAW and TIFF output, ShadowIQ, the celestial overlay, scheduled capture, the intervalometer, interim saves and anamorphic desqueeze. No account, no ads, no data collection. English and German. Built in SwiftUI for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tape Eater Video Effects at Free against Even Longer Remote's $4.99. Tape Eater Video Effects also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Even Longer Remote's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks) and chart position (#188 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Tape Eater Video Effects is free to download; Even Longer Remote costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tape Eater Video Effects ships an update every 4 weeks, Even Longer Remote weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tape Eater Video Effects | Even Longer Remote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | — | #188 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | todd cunningham | Mario Tomiak |
In-app purchases
Tape Eater Video Effects
No in-app purchases
Even Longer Remote
No in-app purchases
Questions
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