Tape Eater Video Effects vs UFO Camera
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.
UFO Camera
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The truth is out of focus. UFO Camera turns perfectly good iPhone video into terrible UFO evidence from the 2012–2014 era. Record a sighting or import a clip, point out the subject, and let deliberately bad camerawork do the rest. BRING YOUR OWN MYSTERY Record normal video or import from Photos. Trim clips to 30 seconds or less, with portrait and landscape footage kept in its original proportions. REAL TRACKING. QUESTIONABLE FRAMING. Select a subject to track through your footage, then add lag, drift, shaking, and poorly timed reframing. Prefer pure chaos? Skip tracking and apply the effects directly. If tracking loses your subject, the app tells you. FOUR WAYS TO MISS THE MOMENT • 2012 Flip Phone: low resolution, choppy motion, hunting focus, and crushed shadows. • Area 51 Tourist: aggressive zoom, shaking, delayed tracking, and panic reframing. • Government Leak: monochrome, heavy compression, and scan lines. • My Uncle Recorded This: warm color, chroma bleed, blur, and erratic framing. DIAL DOWN THE EVIDENCE Adjust Evidence Quality from Convincing to Completely useless. Compare Original and Processed footage, toggle a timestamp, and keep or mute the original audio. Preview the first five seconds before exporting the complete clip. READY TO SHARE Save the finished video to Photos or open the iOS share sheet. Processing happens on your iPhone, with no account or video uploads. One recoverable edit lets you pick up where you left off. START FREE. GO PRO ONCE. Preview every preset for free. Make unlimited watermarked exports with 2012 Flip Phone. A one-time UFO Camera Pro purchase unlocks all four presets and removes the watermark. No subscription. Restore purchases using the same Apple Account. UFO Camera is a comedy video editor for entertainment. It does not generate aliens, detect UFOs, or verify the authenticity of footage. Privacy: https://ufo-camera.tinyinternet.dev/privacy Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tape Eater Video Effects at none against UFO Camera's 1. UFO Camera's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. UFO Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tape Eater Video Effects asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Tape Eater Video Effects | UFO Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | todd cunningham | Joshua Tonga |
In-app purchases
Tape Eater Video Effects
No in-app purchases
UFO Camera
- UFO Camera Pro$4.99
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