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RECSPMAY 18 2002  7:42:36 PM

After●Tape

Memory Camera

The camera made for tomorrow's nostalgia. Capture today's moments with the look and feel of home videos — so they already feel remembered.

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The difference

Everyone else made a filter.
We made a memory camera.

The App Store is full of one-tap VHS filters — apply them, post once, forget. AfterTape isn't a filter you add later. It's a camera that shoots the memory already finished, and keeps it for you forever.

Baked in, live

What you see is what you keep

The look is rendered into the picture and the sound as you record — in the viewfinder, in real time. Nothing to apply afterward.

A keeper, not a one-off

Your own memory library

Every tape lives inside AfterTape — a warm archive of your moments that resurfaces on anniversaries, not a clip you lose in the camera roll.

You can hear the tape

The look is in the sound

Hiss, warble, band-limited audio — the era is baked into what you hear, not just what you see. Almost no one else does this.

Yours forever

Buy once. No subscription

No monthly fee, no ads, no watermark holding your memories hostage. Pay once and it's yours — the way owning a camera should feel.

What it does

Three simple ideas

No panels of sliders. No jargon. Just a camera that earns every part of itself.

01

Capture beautifully

Open it, pick a look, press the red button. The tactile MiniDV camcorder does the rest — point, shoot, keep it moving.

02

Feel instantly nostalgic

Real-time looks inspired by the home videos you already love — VHS birthdays, Hi8 vacations, MiniDV, early digicam. Grain, bloom, tracking, timestamp and all.

03

Rediscover later

Your memories are saved beautifully and easy to share — a personal archive you'll actually come back to, years from now.

How it works

Ready before you press record

The whole experience is a camera, not a settings screen. Here's the entire flow.

Pick your look

Flip through the camera roster right on the console — Birthday, Vacation, MiniDV and more. The viewfinder changes live, so you frame the shot already knowing how the memory will feel.

Press the red button

Record. The vintage look and sound are captured into the file itself in real time — no rendering, no waiting. A firm tap and tone confirm you're rolling.

Set the shot

Tap the viewfinder to lock focus. Steady it, pick 4:3 / 16:9 / 1:1, flip to selfie, or arm the self-timer to get in the frame. Add tape noise or a rolling tracking glitch if you want more character.

Relive in Memories

Every tape lands in your Memories library — play it back, save it to Photos, or share it in seconds. Your whole reel, in one place.

◉ REC
FLASH
RATIO 4:3
STEADY
STAMP
FOCUS tap
FLIP
TIMER 3/10s
FX noise · tracking
The looks

Every look tells a different story

Fourteen cameras — from VHS and MiniDV to faded film stocks and black-and-white — each with its own grain, color, and sound.

JUN 7 1989
BIRTHDAY '89

VHS family tape

Soft mush, chroma bleed, head-switch flicker, warm cast. The camcorder in the closet.

JUL 12 1993
VACATION '93

Hi8 holiday

Cleaner tape, saturated Kodak-vacation color, golden afternoons that never end.

0:12:34:05
FIRSTBORN '99

MiniDV

Sharp 4:3, interlace edges, cool digital cast, running timecode. The turn of the century.

MAR 3 1986
NEWSDESK '86

Betacam broadcast

Strong signal, compressed highlights, that evening-news smear on the bright bits.

CAM 01 · 22:30
LOBBY CAM

Security tape

Desaturated, choppy frames, big timestamp. The uncanny charm of found footage.

APR 3 2004
POCKET '04

Early digicam

Crunchy movie mode, blown highlights, jelly white-balance. Peak-MySpace energy.

Plus eight more moods — MALL MEMORY · TAPE NOIR · PRETTY IN PINK · DIGITAL WINTER · SUNGOLD · AGAVE · SLIDEDECK · FADED JEANS

Friends together, a memory worth keepingAUG 11 2000  6:13:24 PM
Memories

The moments you'll want back.

Ordinary evenings. The people at the party. The last day of something. AfterTape makes them look the way you'll remember them — and keeps them where you can find them again.

Memories never fade.
Simple

One camera. Yours forever.

No subscription. No ads. No watermark. The way owning a camera should feel.

Free to download
$9.99 to unlock
  • Start free — two cameras & a taste of the effects
  • Unlock all fourteen vintage cameras — picture & sound
  • Your own Memories library, kept forever
  • Focus lock, stabilizer, self-timer, ratios
  • Tape noise & tracking + import your own videos
  • No subscription. No ads. No watermark.
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