MixCam vs DualCapture: which dual camera app should you install?

MixCam is made by Mixcord, and its App Store rating count is far ahead of anything newer in this category. If you want the app other people have already stress-tested, that is a real argument.

It also runs on older hardware. The listing says it requires iOS 15 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later, which covers an iPhone XS from 2018. DualCapture requires iOS 18; the listing allows iPhone XS and newer, and we build and test for iPhone 15 and newer. If your phone cannot run iOS 18, MixCam is your answer and you can stop reading here.

MixCam has modes DualCapture does not. MixOver moves the front camera feed to somewhere your thumb can actually reach while you hold the phone one-handed. A group photo mode keeps whoever is holding the phone from being cropped out. You can also switch which camera fills the screen while you are still rolling.

Then there is the purchase list. Weekly at $1.99, Business Monthly at $9.99, Pro Camera at $49.99, and a standalone $2.99 item called Remove Watermark. That last one answers a question you were probably going to ask.

Stop a DualCapture recording and three files land in your library. The front camera on its own. The back camera on its own. The merged version. Turn on Dual Orientation, a Premium setting that is off by default, and each camera is saved as both a vertical and a horizontal video instead.

If you post straight from your phone and never edit, two of those are clutter. If you do edit, they are the difference between a short job and a re-shoot. You can cut to the face, then back to the scene, without trying to pull apart a composite that was baked in at record time.

Settings go up to 4K and 60 fps, and your iPhone model can hold either lower with two cameras running. 4K needs Premium. MixCam's App Store page does not publish a maximum resolution or frame rate, so the table below says "not listed" rather than guessing on its behalf.

Free exports carry a DualCapture.com watermark and free takes stop at 3 minutes. Premium removes both.

Every cell above comes from the two App Store listings as they read today. Where a listing says nothing, the cell says "not listed".

The device requirement decides this for a lot of people. DualCapture needs iOS 18, so an iPhone that cannot run iOS 18 is out, even though that hardware can record both cameras at once. MixCam goes back to iOS 15 and the iPhone XS. Check which iPhone you actually have before you read another comparison.

MixOver and the group photo mode have no equivalent in DualCapture either. And if you only ever want one finished video, MixCam's single-output flow means less to sort through afterwards. Extra files are only worth having if you open an editor.

A merged composite is a decision made at record time, and you cannot take it back. Separate camera files leave that decision until you are at a timeline with the footage in front of you. That is the whole argument for a dual camera app that writes more than one file.

The other reasons are duller. The listing names 4K and a 60 fps setting rather than leaving them blank. One Premium plan removes the watermark and the 3-minute cap on takes, and adds 4K and every layout. If the watermark is all that bothers you, MixCam's $2.99 purchase is cheaper.