VideoBro / Sports seasons
One tape for the whole season, everyone's clips in order.
Whichever parent's at Saturday's game films it. Add the one you missed. One film when the season's done.
Free on iPhone, with 2 GB to start. No trial, no card.
A season isn't one afternoon
Games run from March to June, and whoever actually made it to Saturday's game is the one with footage of it. Everybody else hears about it later, or watches a shaky ten-second clip somebody sent to the group chat and forgets by Tuesday.
A trip or a party is one day to collect. A season is a dozen of them, spread across months, with a different parent behind the phone every time. That's what one Tape is for: start it before the first game and it stays open for the whole season, whoever's there films into it with ARM, everyone else adds the games they caught with +, and there's no editing timeline to build along the way. When the season's done, anyone on the tape with an account taps Develop and gets back one film with every game in the order it happened. If what you want at the end is a two-minute reel with music over the goals, that's an editor's job, iMovie or CapCut, and a tape won't do it: a tape gives you the whole season in order, trims aside.
Set the tape up before the first game
Four things, in order, and the first one takes about a minute.
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Start the tape before opening day
Tap New Tape and name it "Spring season" or whatever the team goes by. An Active Tape has no deadline: it stays Active through March, April, May, however long the season runs. It only leaves Active once you Develop it.
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Invite the crew
Tap Collab, then Invite. A tape holds up to 8 people, including you: the other parent, a grandparent who makes it to some games, whoever else shows up. Starting the tape needs an account; joining doesn't, so an invited parent can film and add clips right away. An invite link works for 7 days, so send a fresh one to anyone joining mid-season. More on how the crew works.
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Whoever's there taps ARM
There's no filming rotation to manage. Whichever parent made it to Saturday's game taps ARM and shoots with the iPhone Camera app, horizontal. Every horizontal clip shot while ARM is on lands on the tape by itself. Vertical video isn't added to a tape at all, so the phone has to be sideways. If a clip never turns up, that's almost always why.
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Add Clips for the game you missed
Somebody else caught the one you couldn't make. They tap + and pull it in themselves, or send it your way and you add it from your phone. Either way it lands at the moment it was recorded, not tacked onto the end.
Three Saturdays, three phones
Clips are sorted by when they were actually recorded, not by whose upload finished first. A parent whose phone had no signal at the field doesn't jump the queue once she catches up: her clip still lands exactly where it happened, between the games on either side of it.
What a season actually costs you
Short game clips barely test the two-hour limit; a long tournament stretch is the case most likely to fill one up. If one does fill up, start a second tape and call it "Spring, part 2." A tournament weekend can run on its own tape too, right alongside the regular season one, and you can keep several going at once.
- Run more than one tape at a time. A separate tape for a tournament weekend is normal, not a workaround.
- Eight people per tape, including you. Same number on every plan, no upgrade changes it.
- Two hours of footage, per tape. The tape screen keeps a running total of how long the tape is.
- Everyone's clips land on the owner's shelf. Every clip any parent adds to your tape uses your 2 GB, never theirs; joining someone else's season tape costs you nothing.
- Storage stays light. Short clips are small to begin with. What counts against your 2 GB.
It's not a highlight reel, on purpose
VideoBro doesn't pick the goals out for you. Clips play in the order they were shot, every one of them, and trim and delete are the only edit there is. What editing looks like.
Which makes what you point the camera at worth thinking about. Worth grabbing, beyond the actual plays:
- The bench between plays, not just the plays.
- The car ride home, still in uniform.
- The warm-up, five minutes before anyone's paying attention.
- The walk from the car to the field, cleats already on.
- The snack table, mostly gone before anyone's cleaned up.
- The handshake line at the end, win or lose.
Not just the goals. More on what to film. If the season is really just one chapter in a longer story, the same idea works across a whole year.
Develop after the last game
When the season's over, anyone on the tape with an account taps Develop. Close the app once your clips finish uploading, and a notification lets you know when the film's ready.
Everyone who was on the tape at that moment gets the finished film in their own Tape Cabinet, not just whoever hit Develop. Make a shelf called "2026 seasons," and every season lands there together, spring next to fall.
Anyone on the tape with an account can share the film with one link, so a grandparent who missed every game can still watch it in a browser: no app, no account.
Forgot the last game? For 30 days after Develop, whoever started the tape, only them, can tap Continue Editing to put it back on Active, then Develop Changes when it's ready again. That takes the film out of everyone's Cabinet until the new one is made, and there's no undo.
Questions parents ask
Can a tape stay open for months?
Yes, as long as it's Active. A season tape can run from the first game in March to the last one in June without anything happening to it. Only after you Develop does a clock start: once the tape has sat quiet for 30 days, the raw clips behind the film are cleared to save space. The finished film is never touched.
Whose storage does a shared season tape use?
The tape owner's, the person who started it. Every clip any parent adds counts against the owner's 2 GB, not their own; joining a tape someone else started and adding clips to it costs you nothing on your own shelf.
What if a parent joins partway through the season?
They join the tape from that point and can film and add clips right away. Only everyone who's on the tape when someone taps Develop gets the finished film in their own Cabinet, so joining right at the end still counts, joining after Develop doesn't.
Can a parent without an account develop the film?
No. Any member with an account can tap Develop, not just whoever started the tape, but an invited guest without an account can't. They can still film, add clips, and watch the finished film once it's ready.