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 is built for iPhone 15 and newer and requires iOS 18. If your phone is older than that, 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 five files land in your library. The front camera on its own. The back camera on its own. The merged version. Then a tall 9:16 cut and a wide 16:9 cut of that merged version.

If you post straight from your phone and never edit, four 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.

Resolution runs up to 4K at 60fps. 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.

There is no watermark on any export, on the free tier or a paid one. Recording length is not capped.

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 starts at the iPhone 15. An iPhone 14 is out, and so is every phone behind it, even though that hardware can record both cameras at once. MixCam goes back to 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. 4K at 60fps is written into the listing rather than left blank. No tier adds a watermark, so there is nothing to buy your way out of. Nothing stops a long take partway through.