Vidometer Review

By George Harding

Here is one of the neatest applications for iPhone that I've seen. It uses many of the internal facilities of the iPhone at the same time to record your activity.

Here's what shows on your screen:

Speed
Altitude
Attitude (tilt)
Acceleration
G-force

All this info shows in the upper left corner of your screen as you take video while you are driving, skiing, biking or other mobile activity.

There are many iPhone apps that use one of the internal iPhone facilities, such as Altimeter, Level, Compass and so on. Vidometer is the only one I know of that uses so many.  This app uses the accelerometer, GPS and gyroscope to build its graphical overlay on the video screen.

The video you take is recorded and can be played back and a library of the recordings is available for later viewing.

There is a power save mode that engages after a minute or so of recording. This saves your battery when making an extended video.

And, best of all, it's free!

It's available for iPhone 4 and higher and several models of iPad. Requires iOS 5 or later.

Vidometer        www.hitcase.com/vidometer        Price: free