VHS-88: VHS Camera & Filter

Your phone, but it's 1988.

VHS-88 is a VHS filter for video AND audio. Film something new through a real 1980s camcorder, or convert any video you already have into an old tape — picture and sound together.

FREE FOR 7 DAYS, THEN PAY ONCE
Try everything free for 7 days: all 12 tapes, no watermark. After that, keep filming with VHS SP for free (with a small watermark), or unlock all 12 tapes and remove the watermark with a single one-time purchase. No subscription, no ads.

▶ CONVERT ANY VIDEO
Pick any clip from your gallery — holiday videos, TikToks, music clips, old phone recordings — and VHS-88 dubs it onto "tape". The picture gets the smear, colour bleed and tracking lines; the sound gets the hiss, wobble and muffled tape tone. The result is saved as a normal MP4, ready to share.

● RECORD LIVE
Film through the filter in real time, with sound. What you see in the viewfinder is exactly what ends up in the file.

🔊 A REAL AUDIO FILTER, TOO
VHS-88 doesn't stop at the picture. It runs your sound through the same machine: band-limited, saturated, hissed and wobbled like a linear VHS track — or clean stereo on the Hi-Fi formats.

📼 12 TAPE FORMATS
VHS SP and EP, Betamax, VHS-C, Video8, Hi8, S-VHS, U-matic, a mistracking tape, a third-generation copy, a worn rental tape and a 24-hour security camera. Each one is modelled as a real signal path — lens, tape and television — not a colour grade with noise on top.

📅 YOUR OWN DATE STAMP
The date and time are burned into the picture and smear with the tape, just like the real thing. Use a date from the tape's own era or type your own: change the tape speed (SP, SSP, EP), REC, PAUSE, PLAY, the date and the time.

MORE
• Tape dropouts, letterboxing for widescreen clips and picture rotation can be switched on or off.
• Two output sizes: tape resolution (640×480) or high (1280×960).
• Works fully offline. No accounts, no ads, no tracking — VHS-88 does not even ask for internet access.

Requires Android 8.0 or newer.

Recent changes:
Asks once if the picture is the right way up, shows how many trial days are left, and fixes the unlock button.