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Record the first take
Frame it, hit the red button, act. Nothing here is unusual yet — it is a camera, and it behaves like one.
PoseCut · iOS & Android
Make things
disappear.
Record a take. PoseCut holds its last frame over the live camera like tracing paper, so you can step out of shot, move the thing, and line the next take up exactly where the last one stopped. Cut them together and the join is invisible.
Free while in TestFlight · nothing uploaded · works offline
How it works
Three takes, one shot.
The trick everyone knows is hard for one reason: after you stop recording, you can never quite stand where you were. PoseCut fixes exactly that and nothing else.
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The last frame stays on screen
Stop recording and the final frame of that take is ghosted over the live viewfinder. Move the fruit, leave the room, change your shirt — then line yourself back up against the ghost until the two agree.
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Cut them together
Takes land on a timeline as numbered clips. Scrub it, trim a clip, tap a seam to pick how it joins. Export.
The seam
Tap the join, choose the lie.
Every boundary between two takes is editable. A straight cut sells a vanish. A shake sells a teleport — it is the jolt a real camera makes when someone lands next to it, and your eye forgives a great deal in the frames where it happens.
Under the hood
Small app, specific opinions.
Most of the work in a cut like this is not the cut. It is keeping two separate recordings similar enough that a viewer never gets the chance to notice they are separate.
On device
Your footage never leaves the phone.
There is no account, no upload, no bucket somewhere with your kitchen in it. Capture, alignment, joining and export all happen locally. The app works in aeroplane mode, which is the honest test of that claim.
The ghost
An onion-skin, not a screenshot.
The reference is the decoded last frame of the previous take, composited under the live preview at capture resolution. You can scrub the filmstrip to reference any frame in the take, not just its end — useful when the moment worth matching is mid-clip.
Exposure
Locked, because auto ruins the join.
A camera left on auto re-meters between takes and your two halves no longer match. PoseCut pins exposure and white balance to whatever the first take settled on, so the cut reads as one continuous shot instead of two lit differently.
The seam
A cut, or a deliberate jolt.
Straight cut with no overlap is the default and usually right. Shake puts a hard camera jerk across the join — the thing people fake in post to sell a teleport. It is one tap on the seam.
Format
1080p, 60fps, no surprises.
Clips record and export at a single consistent format, so the timeline never has to resample halfway through. Zoom steps at 0.5×, 1×, 2× and 5× map to the physical lenses rather than a crop.
Non-destructive
Trims are a range, not a razor.
Trimming a clip stores in and out points. The original take stays whole on disk, so a cut you regret at 1am is one drag away from being uncut.
Get the app
It is not in the stores yet.
PoseCut is in TestFlight while the join maths gets shaken out on real footage. Press a badge and it will tell you the same thing, politely.
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