A BeReal-style dual camera, without the feed
BeReal made the two-sided photo normal: your face and what you were looking at, captured together. DualCapture gives you that camera on its own, for photos and for video, with no timer and nowhere to post.
The part of BeReal people actually wanted
The appeal was never the daily notification. It was the shape of the picture. One frame that holds your expression and the thing causing it, so nobody has to ask what you were looking at.
What came attached was a social app: a two-minute window, a friends feed, and a post you could not take back easily. Plenty of people liked the camera and could live without the rest.
DualCapture is the camera part. Open it whenever you want, take the two-sided shot, and it goes to your Photos library. No account. No feed. No countdown telling you that now is the moment.
Photos and video, both sides at once
Photo mode captures both cameras from one tap and saves the selfie and the scene as separate images. Video mode records both lenses at the same time for as long as you hold the take.
That second part is where it goes past what a BeReal-style photo can do. A still tells you someone was at the concert. Thirty seconds of dual camera video tells you the song, the crowd noise, and the face they made when the riff came in.
Choose how the two sides sit together
BeReal has one layout: a small selfie window sitting over the wide shot. DualCapture has six.
Picture-in-picture works the same way, except you pick which corner the selfie window sits in. Split screen is the one to try next. It stacks the cameras top and bottom, or sets them side by side, and the divider is draggable, so the halves do not have to be equal. Give the view three quarters of the frame when the view deserves it.
A swap control trades the feeds mid-recording, so the front camera can take over as the main shot partway through a take. The layout itself is set before you press record.
Five files, and none of them leave your phone
One recording writes a vertical merge, a horizontal merge, the front camera alone and the back camera alone, straight into Photos. The vertical merge is the one that fits a Story or a Reel without cropping. The horizontal merge suits YouTube.
Because the individual clips are saved too, a moment you shot casually can become a real edit later. Nothing is posted anywhere by the app, so what you share and when is a decision you make afterwards, in whatever app you would have used anyway.
Exports have no watermark. Recordings have no time limit. Quality goes up to 4K at 60 fps, and there is a stabilization toggle for the back lens when you are moving.
What it needs
iOS 18 or later, and an iPhone with multi-camera support, which means iPhone 15 or newer. The app is free to download and record with. Premium adds 4K, all six layouts and unlimited exports, as a weekly, monthly or yearly subscription, or one lifetime purchase.
On iOS 26, Apple added its own Dual Capture mode to the Camera app for iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max and iPhone Air. It is free, and it records video with a front overlay you can drag around. It has one layout, produces one file, and does not take dual camera photos.
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Is this the same as BeReal?
No. BeReal is a social app built around a friends feed and a daily prompt. DualCapture is only the camera: it records both sides and saves them to your phone.
Can I take a BeReal-style photo without posting it?
Yes. Photo mode captures both cameras at once and saves the two images to your Photos library. Nothing is uploaded.
Does it do the small-window-over-the-big-picture look?
Picture-in-picture does exactly that, and you pick which of the four corners the selfie window occupies.
Can I record video from both cameras, not just photos?
Video is the main mode. Both cameras run together with no cap on how long a take can be.
Which iPhones support it?
Any iPhone that supports simultaneous multi-camera capture on iOS 18 or later. DualCapture asks for iPhone 15 or newer.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up, no profile and no feed. You open the app and record.
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