Minus5 is a pre-record camera for iPhone, made for moments you can't see coming. While the camera is open, it keeps the last seconds of video. Tap after the goal, the kickflip or the cat's leap, and the clip starts before your tap, already named for the event.
Free, no ads. The highlight reel comes with Minus5 Pro.
Then watch the game, the skate park or your cat. Pre-record keeps the last seconds on a loop and writes over the rest, so nothing piles up.
The seconds before your tap are already in the clip. The button counts down the seconds after, and the clip saves by itself.
Each clip is saved with its event: goal, kickflip, lightning or a name of your own. With Pro, they join into one highlight reel.
Tap after the goal. The clip starts 5 seconds earlier
The football (soccer) preset puts goal, save, conceded, foul and moment on screen, with shot, card, penalty, corner, free kick, offside, skill and counter one switch away. Film your kid's match from the sideline and come home with only the goals and saves.
Tap after the leap. The leap is already in
The pets preset has zoomies, leap, cute, fail and silly. Point the camera at your cat or dog and save only the moments worth keeping.
Tap after the flash. The seconds before it are saved
The street preset has lightning, bang!, wow, beautiful and wild, for storms, city nights and anything over in a second.
Ready-made sets, or build your own
Football, basketball, combat sports, skate, pets and street, five buttons each, ready to go.
Any name, icon and color, in any preset.
A save, then a goal ten seconds later: tap both, get both clips in full.
Each extra tap adds 5 seconds. MAX grabs everything the camera remembers.
Volume buttons or a Bluetooth remote start and stop it. Your eyes stay on the game.
Labeled on the video. Send it before the final whistle
The event's name on the video, for the whole clip or only at the start, middle or end.
Shorten the start and end before export. The original clip stays as recorded.
Pick another event for a clip at any time, or remove it.
Tag the moments during the game, then put the clips into a Match project after the final whistle. The teams, score and match time go right onto the video.
Score, match time and event name, right on the video
Tick the clips in the gallery, then New project → Match. They line up in the order you shot them and save as one video: every clip, or only the goals.
Set when each half starts, to the second. The video then shows the real match time, with added time as +1:23 past the half's length.
Scoreboard, match time, name and date, placed your way
Pick one of four themes and place the blocks: scoreboard, teams, match time, score, event badge, date and name. One clip saves with the graphics for free. Two or more clips in one video take Pro.
Tap +1 on the goal. The scoreboard follows on every clip after it
If a goal happened off camera, or you started filming mid-match, set the score on that clip. The clips after it count on from there.
Pre-record overwrites itself. No 90-minute videos in Photos
The match stays in the gallery as one project with its clips, each marked with its match time and score.
Open a pre-record camera before it happens. The built-in Camera starts recording at your tap, and a Live Photo reaches back only about 1.5 seconds. Minus5 keeps the last seconds of video while its camera screen is open, so you tap after the moment and the clip starts up to 60 seconds before the tap.
Each event button keeps up to 60 seconds before the tap and up to 30 after. REC can start up to 90 seconds in the past and records until you stop it. MAX pulls everything the pre-record holds into the clip in progress.
No. There are ready-made sets of event buttons for football, basketball, combat sports, skate, pets and the street, and Custom, which starts empty. Any preset takes your own buttons with a name, icon and color.
Most pre-record apps have one record button and save videos without names. In Minus5 every moment gets its own event button, so each clip is saved under its name (goal, dunk, kickflip), and Pro joins a match's clips into one highlight reel with a badge on each.
At 1080p and 30 fps, yes. The phone warms up as much as it would filming that long in the Camera app: the heat comes from Apple's camera and video encoder, and keeping the pre-record adds next to nothing. Settings → Help lists what keeps it cooler.
No. The pre-record takes a fixed amount (about 20 MB for 30 seconds at 1080p) and writes over itself. Only the clips you mark stay: a 15-second clip at 1080p is about 10 MB.
Minus5 stays free. Pro adds the highlight reel (several clips as one video, each with its own badge) and lets you turn off the logo at the end. Buy it once to keep it forever, or subscribe monthly.
Free on iPhone with iOS 18 or later.
