DrvRec vs Opener ‒ open links in apps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DrvRec
This drive recorder app offers continuous or latest recording modes with adjustable quality settings. It timestamps all footage with date, time, and location, and can save videos locally or to your iPhone's camera roll. Features include rear and front camera recording, manual brightness adjustment for rear camera footage, and automatic recording stops after detected impacts.
- Continuous and latest recording modes
- Adjustable recording quality
- Timestamped video with GPS data
- Front and rear camera support
- Manual brightness adjustment
- Impact-triggered recording stop
- Local and camera roll saving
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This drive recorder app is intended for practical use. We aimed to use this app for day-to-day drive easily without constraint pursuing bare and really necessary functions thoroughly as a drive recorder. This drive recorder has the following functions. a. It has two modes; the continuous recording mode and the latest recording mode that retains about 2 or 5 minutes long of the most recent recording. b. It offers three recording qualities; high quality, medium quality and low quality. c. The recording quality can correspond to the performance of each iPhone from iPhone4S to the latest. d. It marks all frames of the recording with the time and date and the longitude and latitude. e. It can record using rear camera or face camera by switching them. f. You can adjust the brightness of the rear video using face camera manually. g. It stops recording in one minute after iPhone gets strong impulse. h. Real-time display of the recording capacity. i. Playback of recorded files. j. The video file recorded will be saved locally and can be saved in the camera roll of the iPhone body. k. Voice recording. l. Displaying map and drived route. m. To playback saved drive recorder video. n. Eco-mode It offers the continuous recording mode. It can keep all recording of the drive from departure to arrival in continuous recording mode.If you use it securely without worrying about recording capacity when the remaining memory capacity is small, you can select the latest recording mode. The recording quality can be automatically controlled corresponding to the CPU’s performance of each iPhone model; and beside you can also select three (low, medium, high) recording qualities. It marks all frames of recorded video with the time and date and the longitude and latitude. Since the video copied in the camera roll also has time and location information, you can reproduce and display the time and date and the longitude and latitude without depending on the playback application. iPhone is equipped with two cameras; one as rear camera(the back of LCD) and other as face camera(LCD side). You can record using rear camera or face camera by switching them. The rear camera is assumed to take an image of the front direction of the car and the face camera takes the direction of the rear car. When you shoot backward, it is usually too difficult to distinguish the image of the outside of the car because of the difference of the inside and outside brightness of the car. As this app can adjust the brightness of the rear video manually, it makes possible to distinguish the image by continuing to tap the bright part of the outside image. When the iPhone catches a strong impulse, it stops recording in one minute after the impulse. You can keep a recorded video before and after the impulse. As the recording capacity is being displayed at all times, you can monitor the capacity. The video file is made in the memory area of this app at first. When you tap the play button, it plays back the video file in the memory.The memory area of this app is overwrote every recording. This application uses following OSS. AssetsAccessor(Copyright (c) 2013 Shintaro Morikawa) [Note] It does not guarantee reliably recording at any time in any case. Even if you get strong impulse, there could be some possibility not to stop recording. The operation may become unstable because the iPhone body gets very hot if it is exposed to direct sunlight. Please set the iPhone to the place that does not interfere with driving or operation of the air bag. This application uses the location-based services. Please activate the location-based services. We are not able to compensate you for any damages or losses by any reason.
Opener ‒ open links in apps
This app lets you open web links directly in their corresponding applications, bypassing browser views. It supports over 280 apps and offers features like QR code generation and link shortening. Easily switch between apps for a streamlined browsing experience.
- Open web links in native apps
- Action extension for use in other apps
- Supports over 280 applications
- Open links in any browser
- Create QR codes and shortened links
- Preview links from popular services
- Open Google AMP versions of pages
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Opener is an app that allows you to open links from the web in apps instead! Copy a link and launch Opener to see the apps that it can be opened in, or use Opener's action extension right from other apps! Opener currently supports over 280 apps with more being added all the time. In addition to opening links in apps, Opener also supports: - Opening links in any browser of your choice. - Creating QR codes and shortened links using the long press menu. - Previewing links from a variety of popular services using long press menu. - Opening the Google AMP version of pages, which are significantly faster than normal web pages. "If you find yourself looking to view web links in apps often, Opener is a good timesaver that cleverly uses iOS extensions to speed up the process." — MacStories "It’s simple, handy, and makes browsing the web a lot easier." — LifeHacker "...lets you open links in their corresponding app, skipping the annoying Web view along the way." — CNET "As someone who spends huge chunks of my day tapping on my iPhone’s screen, I skipped my Starbucks latte today and bought Opener instead." — TechCrunch For a complete list of supported apps and browsers visit opener.link/apps
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Opener ‒ open links in apps at 68% against DrvRec's 42%. Opener ‒ open links in apps also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). DrvRec's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.00) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
DrvRec costs $0.99 and Opener ‒ open links in apps $2.00 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
DrvRec ships an update every 4 months, Opener ‒ open links in apps every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DrvRec | Opener ‒ open links in apps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.00 |
| Rating | — | 4.6 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews | 68.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HIROFUMI MARUO | tijo, inc. |
Customer experience
DrvRec
Opener ‒ open links in apps
Bugs and requests
DrvRec
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Opener ‒ open links in apps
Reported bugs
4 issues- Doesn't work for Google Maps or addressed links
- Crashes when opening links in Brave browser
- Doesn't support Apollo TestFlight app
- Doesn't work for Soundcloud
Requested features
7 requests- Add support for Bandcamp
- Add support for Rumble
- Add support for Deviantart
- Add support for Steam links
- Add a Safari extension for automatic link opening
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- Add in-app search and filtering options
- Add support for PiP (Picture-in-Picture) functionality
In-app purchases
DrvRec
No in-app purchases
Opener ‒ open links in apps
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is DrvRec free?
Is Opener ‒ open links in apps free?
Do DrvRec or Opener ‒ open links in apps have ads?
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