Written by Liz Gannes
Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 at 10:34 AM PT

 

Hardly Any Video Apps for Your iPhone

With no officially supported video capture and no Flash, the iPhone’s video options are abnormally limited. And some developers, such as the CEO of mywaves, Rajeev Raman, say they are treading cautiously onto the iPhone out of fear Apple will constrain them in order to push its paid video offerings. (To which Steve Jobs reportedly replied: “He’s right. We will compete.”)

But nonetheless, we scoured the iTunes app store and found a few (a very few — we had to add movie info apps to get to five) video-related iPhone apps.

vSNAX Videos: Watch CBS, Spike, VH1, etc. Made by Rhythm NewMedia. See our original coverage from before WWD. Free.


Truveo Video Search: Search for video that plays on the iPhone. Made by AOL, which acquired Truveo before the big video bang and now makes it available via free APIs. Free.

mDialog: Personal video sharing. Made by mDialog, which we recently mentioned for its partnership with Unicef. Free.


BoxOffice. Movie times, reviews, tickets. Made by Cyrus Najmabadi. Free.


Movies. Show times, trailers, tickets, maps. Made by Jeffrey Grossman. Free.

Of course, if you’d like to jailbreak your phone, you can have a lot more options, including live video streaming.

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Comments (9)

  • Ah, yes, but you can still go to YouTube to watch the skateboarding bulldog video for the 500th time.

    Jason2:39 PM on July 11, 2008 Reply

  • Will there be a QT app… does adobe have anything lined up? Yikes, I can’t watch my video without uploading to YouTube, that’s just lame.

    DCSmitty7:50 PM on July 11, 2008 Reply

  • Whatever happened to that company that had raised 28 million dollars to do mobile video, Vivio or something?

    Video Boy — 9:44 PM on July 11, 2008 Reply

  • Downloaded Vsnax and like it because the videos are from TV stations not amateurs. Looking forward to the speed increasing a bit, but overall it’s working pretty well.

    Cec — 2:39 PM on July 14, 2008 Reply

  • don’t forget quicktime sharing application. this one can easily offer you great converions of videos from other video file formats. with it, you can easily download videos to your iPhone from a short period of time. truveo search videos is good but i do recommend this Ipod Download Movies. Most of my friends reffered it to me and it’s been best so far.

    Nick Sparks10:07 AM on February 9, 2009 Reply

  • I didn’t see i.tv mentioned. Not only does it give accurate program listings, but you can watch a preview of the episode and other bonus clips, along with trailers from the latest television movie AND cinema releases. You can also manage your Netflix queue and remotely set your TiVo to record a show using your iPhone. I’ve been using it for a while now and it rarely crashes or has issues. Definitely check it out folks!!

    Gary B — 8:15 PM on March 9, 2009 Reply

  • was a nice sharing thanks

    dizi izle4:30 PM on September 5, 2009 Reply

  • @dizi
    nice sharing and nice app ;-)

    vpn3:13 PM on November 19, 2009 Reply

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