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Friday
Sep252009

New iPhone Photo App: Spy Camera

Description from the AppStore: Have you ever wondered what goes on when you're not around? Ever wanted to take a picture of someone without looking suspicious? Ever wanted to capture a time lapse video of anything you can point your phone at? Now you can with SpyCam.

SpyCam uses the iPhone's camera to take pictures at set intervals, then allows your to quickly browse through every frame and save the best (or most incriminating) to your personal photos.

Features:

  • Takes photos continuously or at intervals
  • Capture spy sessions or time lapses for hours
  • Quickly browse through your captured images
  • Save directly to your photos application on the iPhone

Note: Spy Cam uses iPhone hard drive space to store photos temporarily, freeing this space when you exit the app.

AppStore Link: Spy Camera - Price £0.59/$0.99

Editors comments: A self-timer app for secret agents??!! :)

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I decided to try this app because of the described abilty to save to memory and shoot continuously. Here is a copy of the review I posted on the App store. I'm not sure why this app is called spy cam as there is nothing really covert about it. I purchased this because I hoped the continuous mode would offer a sort of fast action camera for my 3g. The app uses the phones memory as a temporary hard drive to save the full resolution images. You can then choose which images you want to save to your camera roll. The nice thing I can say about this app is that the images are full res on a 3g, I don't have a 3gs to know if it is the same for it, but that's about it. For the not so good, continuous shooting equates to about 8 seconds between shots. Viewing the resulting images is very slow and inconvenient due to the UI. While the camera is operating, you can see the images it is capturing. So much for the spy part. The name and icon will attract the curious that may have access to your phone. Now for what i think this app needs. It needs to be much faster in both shooting/saving and viewing of the pre saved images. I suggest an option to lower image resolution to allow for faster shooting similar to ReplayCam which allows times as low as .1 seconds between shots. The UI that allows the user to select an image should work as the photos app works allowing swipes to view the previous or next image. If this is supposed to be a covert camera as the name implies, the screen should remain dark when shooting, and allow for the user to tap anywhere to end shooting. The time length adjuster is a slider that is too sensitive on the low range to allow for accurate adjustment. A save complete indicator would also be useful in helping to prevent the user from exiting before the image is saved. The icon should be changed and the corresponding name should be abbreviated if the author really wants this to be a "Spycam". This is a full resolution, but slow time lapse app. If that's not what you are looking for, I would pass on this app for the reasons I've stated above. If the developer improves this app, I will update my review.

September 26, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterrduatc

Let me try this again.
I'm not sure why this app is called spy cam as there 
is nothing really covert about it. I purchased this 
because I hoped the continuous mode would offer 
a sort of fast action camera for my 3g. The app uses 
the phones memory as a temporary hard drive to 
save the full resolution images. You can then choose 
which images you want to save to your camera roll. 
The nice thing I can say about this app is that the 
images are full res on a 3g, I don't have a 3gs to 
know if it is the same for it, but that's about it. For 
the not so good, continuous shooting equates to about 
8 seconds between shots. Viewing the resulting 
images is very slow and inconvenient due to the UI. 
While the camera is operating, you can see the images 
it is capturing. So much for the spy part. The name 
and icon will attract the curious that may have access 
to your phone. Now for what i think this app needs. 
It needs to be much faster in both shooting/saving and 
viewing of the pre saved images. I suggest an option to 
lower image resolution to allow for faster shooting 
similar to ReplayCam which allows times as low as .1 
seconds between shots. The UI that allows the user to 
select an image should work as the photos app works 
allowing swipes to view the previous or next image. If 
this is supposed to be a covert camera as the name 
implies, the screen should remain dark when shooting, 
and allow for the user to tap anywhere to end shooting. 
The time length adjuster is a slider that is too sensitive 
on the low range to allow for accurate adjustment. 
A save complete indicator would also be useful in 
helping to prevent the user from exiting before the 
image is saved. The icon should be changed and the 
corresponding name should be abbreviated if the 
author really wants this to be a "Spycam". This is a 
full resolution, but slow time lapse app. If that's not 
what you are looking for, I would pass on this app 
for the reasons I've stated above. If the developer 
improves this app, I will update my review.

September 26, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterrduatc

@rduatc. Thanks for the feedback on this app.

September 26, 2009 | Registered CommenterGlyn Evans

Thats a really cool trick. But do you really think that people who have purchased iPhone which really use it for spying purpose? I think their basic motive is to use the phone.

April 23, 2010 | Unregistered Commenteriphone spy app

People who are worried about this sort of thing need to relax. This guy definitely sounds like he is just upset because Pinch can identify all of his cracked apps.

May 12, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSpy Apps For iPhone

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