VideoBro / Editing & Playback
Edit the footage. Don't edit the life out of it.
Two tools, nothing else: swipe to delete, hold to trim. Then watch it back like a tape, not an editing timeline.
Two tools. That's the whole editor.
No editing timeline, no tracks, nothing to drag. Swipe to remove a clip you don't want, hold one you do to trim its start and end.
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Swipe to delete
Swipe a clip row left, the same way you'd clear an email. It's off the tape for good, no undo, unlike a trim. Any member can delete any clip, not only the person who shot it: it's a shared tape, so it's a shared edit.
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Press and hold to trim
Hold a clip for half a second and the Edit Clip sheet opens. Pull the Trim Video handles in from either end, watch the Duration readout change, then tap Save.
Nothing about the clip gets cut or re-encoded here. The trim is a note VideoBro keeps, start here and end here. It's applied later, when someone on the tape with an account taps Develop and turns everyone's clips into one finished film. The original, untrimmed clip stays on the tape while it's still busy, and clears 30 quiet days after that; the film itself is never touched.
Two handles and a duration. That is the whole trim.
The Active Tape already plays like one thing
You don't have to wait for Develop to see it come together. An Active Tape plays straight through, clip to clip, in recorded order, trims already honoured.
Tap any clip and it starts there, then keeps going into the next one. A running total in the corner of the preview adds up how much footage is on the tape so far.
Tap
Play or pause.
Double-tap
Full screen.
Rotate the phone sideways
Full screen too. Turn it back upright to exit.
Swipe left or right
Jump to the next or previous clip.
Hold the left side
Rewind at 3x, static and all, reading “◀◀ REW” even across clip boundaries.
Hold the right side
Fast-forward at 3x, reading “FF ▶▶”.
Every tape tops out at 2 hours, on every plan: the alert titled "This tape is full" reads "Tapes can hold up to 2 hours. Start a new tape to keep filming."
The finished film plays a little differently
Once a tape is Developed, the film lives in the Tape Cabinet with its own player: full screen by default, with the same shuttle and a proper timecode.
Full screen, normal controls
A standard player with a scrubber, not a custom skin.
Hold to shuttle
The same hold-left-to-rewind, hold-right-to-fast-forward as the Active Tape.
A running timecode
A VCR-style counter, like 0:04:37, ticking up as the film plays.
There's no swiping between clips here: Develop folds every clip into one file, so the film plays as one thing, not a list. See what else the Cabinet does.
Can I make something without editing for hours?
That's really the point of two tools instead of forty. Swipe to delete, hold to trim, and there's nothing else to learn or spend an evening on.
An app like iMovie or CapCut will get you a more scored, tightly cut result, but it costs real editing time, and someone still has to gather everyone's clips first. An automatic option like the Photos app's Memories, or an AI highlight-reel app, is fast but picks what it thinks are the best moments for you, and the result can end up feeling like an ad for your own life. Here, the assembling already happened while everyone filmed into the tape, so what's left for a person to do is genuinely small.
That also makes it a reasonable way to turn videos already sitting on your phone into a keepsake: Add Clips, behind the + button on the clip list, pulls in horizontal footage from your camera roll, from any date, and it lands in the film at the moment it was actually recorded, not tacked onto the end. See a longer, honest comparison of the options at how to make a video without editing for hours.
It's not a filter. It's a different way to keep footage.
VideoBro never bakes a VHS look into your video. The finished film is your footage, re-encoded into one clean widescreen 1920x1080 file, with nothing added to it. The analog look exists, but as VHS mode: a switch for watching, off by default, that plays a tape or a film through a soft 4:3 analog picture and leaves the file exactly as it was.
The camcorder feeling comes from how the tape behaves, not how the picture looks: one tape, footage landing in the order it happened, a crew shaping it together, an editor with two tools instead of forty, and a rewind you can actually hold down and feel.
- Chronological, always. Clips play in the order they were recorded.
- The rewind you can feel. Hold a side of the screen and it shuttles, static and all.
- VHS mode, if you want it. Profile, Playback, VHS mode: the picture goes soft, 4:3 and a little wobbly, a VCR counter appears, and the file stays clean.
Questions people ask first
Can I reorder my clips?
No, and that's on purpose. Clips play in the order they were recorded, not the order they were added or uploaded, so the tape plays back the way the day actually happened. There's no drag-to-reorder anywhere in VideoBro.
Can I undo a trim?
Yes, any time before you Develop. Reopen Edit Clip and move the handles again. The trim is only ever a note VideoBro keeps about where to start and stop; the original clip is never modified, and a trim can be changed again any time before the tape is developed.
Can other people edit my clips?
Yes. Trim and delete are shared: anyone on the tape can edit or remove any clip, not only the person who shot it. It's one tape everyone is shaping together.
Can I add music or titles?
No. Trim and delete are the whole editor: no filters, no titles, no music. The film is your footage, in order, nothing layered on top of it.
What does the finished film look like?
Widescreen, 1920x1080. Develop combines everyone's trimmed clips into one file, in the order they were recorded. It's a straightforward re-encode of your own footage, not a stylized version of it. If you want it to look like a tape, VHS mode does that at playback, on your phone or in the browser, without changing the film.
Can I make something without editing for hours?
Yes. Swipe to delete and hold to trim are the only two tools, so there's no editing timeline to learn and nothing to spend an evening on. If you want a scored, tightly cut piece, an app like iMovie will get you closer to that, but it costs real editing time. Here the assembling already happened as everyone filmed; what's left to do is small on purpose.
Will the film feel too polished, like an ad?
No, and that's deliberate. There are no filters, no titles, no music and nothing gets curated or ranked for you. The film is everyone's footage, lightly trimmed, in the order it was recorded, which tends to feel more like the moment itself than a produced highlight reel.
Can I make a keepsake from videos already on my phone?
Yes. Add Clips pulls in horizontal video already sitting in your camera roll, from any date, even from before the tape existed. It won't pull in vertical video. Add what you already have alongside anything new, then Develop folds it all into one film in recorded order.