Viddycom Press Kit

Quick Facts

Blurbs

One-Line

Viddycom is the first natural-language, voice-controlled iOS camera app for solo creators who shoot photos and record video hands-free — so you can stay in frame instead of fumbling for the shutter.

50-Word Blurb

Viddycom is the first natural-language, voice-controlled camera app, built for solo content creators. Just say “take a photo” or “start recording” — no wake word, no tapping, no timers, no remote shutter. It handles photos, video, zoom, background blur, flash, and camera flip entirely hands-free. Available on iPhone, iOS 18.6+.

150-Word Blurb

Modern content is made by one person in front of the camera, but the camera UI was designed for two people with a videographer. Viddycom fixes that: it's an iPhone camera app that listens. Open it and talk — “take a photo”, “start recording”, “zoom in”, “blur the background”, “flip camera”. The camera listens for the whole shoot by default: no wake word, no tapping, no touching the phone at all. Say up to three commands in one breath and it does them all, in order. Viddycom understands natural language, so you don't have to memorise rigid phrases — and it ignores normal conversation, acting only on commands. Prefer a wake word? Turn on “Show Time” in Settings and the camera waits until you call it. Command matching runs on-device; on newer iPhones with Apple Intelligence, natural-language understanding runs on-device too. Viddycom is built for fitness trainers, makeup artists, dancers, cooks, parents — anyone who needs both hands and still wants a great shot. iOS 18.6+, iPhone.

300-Word Blurb

Solo creators are everywhere — fitness trainers demonstrating poses, makeup artists with cream-covered fingers, dancers mid-routine, cooks covered in flour, parents recording their kids. They all share one problem: the iPhone camera was designed for someone with a free hand to tap the shutter. Remote shutters help, but they're one more thing to hold or forget. Gimbals are overkill. Timers are clumsy.

Viddycom is the first natural-language, voice-controlled camera app, and it solves this the obvious way: it listens. Open the app and tell it what you want — in your own words. “Take a photo.” “Start recording.” “Zoom in and flash on.” “Flip camera then take a photo.” The app hears you, does the thing, and gets out of the way. It listens for the whole shoot by default — no wake word, no touching the phone at all — and normal conversation is simply ignored.

Natural-language understanding means you don't have to memorise exact phrases. Say several commands in one sentence (up to three) and Viddycom executes them all, in order. Prefer the camera to wait until called? Switch on the optional “Show Time” wake word in Settings.

On iPhone 15 Pro and newer with Apple Intelligence enabled, language understanding happens entirely on-device. Older iPhones use an on-device open-source recognizer with a lightweight cloud fallback only for rare edge cases — and only a sanitised text transcript is ever transmitted, never audio or identifiers.

Viddycom is iPhone-only, iOS 18.6+, and sells as a subscription — $9.99/month or $79.99/year with a 3-day free trial. Early subscribers get Founder pricing locked in for life, even as new tiers are introduced over time.

The app is designed with a single philosophy: when your hands aren't free, your camera shouldn't need them either.

The Story

I kept noticing solo creators fumbling with their phones mid-shot — fitness trainers drifting out of frame, makeup artists trying to hit record with cream-covered fingers, dancers missing the start of a clip. Modern content is made by one person in front of the camera, but the camera UI was designed for two people with a videographer. I built Viddycom so the camera listens. — Marcus, Founder of Viddycom

What Viddycom Does

Core features

• Continuous listening by default (one of the most powerful features). Open the app and it's already listening. Run through an entire session — “start recording” → do your thing → “stop recording” → “flip camera” → “take a photo” — without touching the phone once.
• Natural-language voice commands. Say what you want in your own words — Viddycom understands. No rigid phrasing to memorise.
• Multi-command — say several things in one breath. “Zoom in, flash off, and take a photo.” Viddycom hears the commands in your sentence (up to three) and does them in order. Works whether you use words like “and” and “then” or just run the commands together.
• Optional “Show Time” wake word. Prefer the camera to listen only when addressed? Toggle the wake word on in Settings and Viddycom starts listening when you say “Show Time”. Wake-word detection runs entirely on-device.
• Photos and video — all voice-controllable: rapid-fire burst photos, background blur, self-timer, slow-mo zoom, steady mode, HDR video, composition grid, save-or-discard (“don't save that”), and aspect-ratio overlays for popular platforms (TikTok, Reels, YouTube, Instagram) or any ratio (9:16, 16:9, 1:1, 4:5), by voice or in Settings — see your crop before you shoot.
• Tap-to-listen as an alternative to the wake word. Tap the waveform button in voice mode to start listening immediately — handy in loud rooms.

Visual feedback

Viddycom is designed to be used when you aren't looking at the phone. Three pieces of ambient feedback tell you what the app is doing, at a glance:

• Ambient edge colour shows what mode you're in. A subtle glow around the camera view: white for photo mode, red for video mode, pulsing while listening, teal-green on a successful action.
• Capture confirmation flash. When you take a photo or stop a recording, the camera screen briefly flashes a soft, teal-tinted white — so even if your phone is placed across the room, you know the shot was taken or the recording was saved.
• The app ignores normal conversation. Speech is analysed on-device only to spot camera commands — chit-chat, background speech, and non-commands are silently ignored: nothing is acted on, stored, or transmitted. In optional wake-word mode, speech is only processed after “Show Time” (or a waveform tap).

Voice command reference

This is a reference, not a requirement. You don't need to memorise specific phrases — speak naturally and Viddycom will understand. Common forms:

The full vocabulary covers everyday language plus photography terms (snap, shoot, capture) and natural film phrasing (roll camera, that's a wrap). Recognition runs on Apple's on-device speech engine, which handles a wide range of English accents.

What Makes Viddycom Different

Viddycom doesn't replace a gimbal or a pro rig — it replaces the moment you reach for the shutter. That's the moment that ruins the shot.

Version 1.0 — Known Limitations and Active Development

Viddycom 1.0 is a focused first release. We'd rather be upfront about current limitations than let reviewers be surprised:

• Competing voices. Viddycom handles everyday background noise well — music, ambient room sound, general bustle. Where it can struggle is several people talking loudly at once right beside it, when your voice has to compete with other voices for the mic. As long as the app can clearly hear you, it works. The streaming command-spotting engine (the default recognition path since v1.0.4) catches commands amid talking far better than before; further separation of your voice from other speakers is an active area of improvement.
• Distance and quiet voices. Voice pickup is tuned for conversational volume at ~1 metre, with useful pickup to ~3 metres. Whispered speech typically isn't picked up — this is intentional to prevent accidental triggering.
• Hardware differences. iPhone 15 Pro and newer with Apple Intelligence enabled get the fastest, most accurate on-device recognition. Older iPhones fall back to an open-source on-device recognizer. Both work; newer is better.

Active development continues across several fronts — more will follow over time. Viddycom ships with an in-app feedback channel where creators can report bugs, request features, and upvote other creators' requests directly from the app. What gets built next is shaped by what real users ask for, not a fixed roadmap we guess at in advance.

Visuals and Media

Three demo clips showing Viddycom responding to live voice commands are on the viddycom.com homepage and may be embedded or re-used in coverage. You can also find demo videos on our channels: YouTube, TikTok, and X (@viddycom).

High-resolution screenshots, the brand logo, app icon, and colour palette are available on email request: contact at viddycom dot com.

Brand Guidelines

Colour

Teal Mint is our single brand colour. Please keep it consistent in coverage.

Messaging order

Wherever it fits, the messaging runs in this order:

1. Viddycom (wordmark)
2. “The camera that listens.” — the lead line (the tagline leads, always)
3. Talk to your camera and it does the rest. — benefit line
4. Viddycom is the first natural-language, voice-controlled iOS camera app for solo creators who shoot photos and record video hands-free. — explanatory descriptor (this sentence carries the “first” claim)

Do

• Use the teal (#0D9488) when referencing the brand identity
• Capitalise “Viddycom” as a single word with no space or capital-C
• Pronounce it “vid-dee-com” (like “video-com”, short-i)
• Refer to the optional wake word as “Show Time” (two words, both capitalised; off by default — Viddycom listens continuously unless it's toggled on)
• Keep the “natural-language” qualifier welded to any “first” claim — “the first natural-language, voice-controlled camera” is the only true form

Don't

• Don't tint or stretch the logo
• Don't write it as “VidCam”, “VideoCom”, “ViddyCom” (camelCase) or “Viddy-com”
• Don't place the logo on busy backgrounds without a safe zone
• Never write the bare “world's first voice-controlled camera” — voice shutters and system voice control predate Viddycom
• Don't lead with the superlative — the tagline leads; the “first” claim lives in the descriptor sentence

For Reviewers

What's worth showing

Pick what fits your video's length. None of this is required — but these are the moments that land.

• Just talk (the killer feature). Open Viddycom — it's already listening, and the edge glow pulses teal while it listens. No wake word, no setup: the camera stays alert for the whole shoot.
• A single command. “Take a photo.” The camera fires and flashes teal-tinted white to confirm.
• Multi-command — this is the one that impresses. Try something like “Zoom in, flash off, and take a photo.” Viddycom does all three in order. (Chains are capped at three commands per sentence.)
• The optional wake word. Toggle “Show Time” on in Settings and the camera only listens after you say it — the waveform animates when it wakes. Wake-word detection runs entirely on-device.
• Video. “Start recording” → do something → “Stop recording.” The edge glows red while recording; flashes teal-tinted white when it saves.
• Pricing + availability (if relevant to your format). $9.99/mo, $79.99/yr, 3-day free trial, iPhone, iOS 18.6+.

Common gotchas to call out

(So reviewers don't mistake them for bugs.)

Reviewer-friendly quote you can use verbatim

“Viddycom isn't trying to replace a gimbal — it's trying to replace the moment you reach for the shutter. And that's the moment that ruins the shot.”

For Creators Featuring Viddycom

You have creative license to make the video you want — your story, your style, your length. One thing is required, one is strongly suggested, and the rest is yours.

The one requirement

• Show the app within the first 15 seconds. Viewers need to know what they're about to see before they scroll past.

The one suggestion

• Screen-record your iPhone while Viddycom is running. Showing the tool and the resulting photo/video in the same frame is the single best way to communicate the hands-free benefit.

A couple of small asks

• Make sure viewers can clearly hear the voice commands.
• If you show the optional wake word, use it verbatim: “Show Time” — two words, casual inflection. Please don't rename or paraphrase it.

Everything else — length, format, tone, edit style — is yours.

Tips when filming yourself with Viddycom

• Place the phone where you can be heard clearly. Voice pickup is tuned for ~1 metre, where it can hear your voice clearly.
• Continuous listening is on by default. The camera listens the whole shoot. String commands together: “start recording” → do your thing → “stop recording” → “take a photo” — no wake word needed between them.
• Don't whisper. Voice pickup is tuned for normal speaking volume, and the optional wake word intentionally ignores whispers (prevents false triggers).
• The optional wake word is “Show Time”. Not “Siri”, not “Hey Viddy”. Two words — and only needed if you toggle wake-word mode on in Settings.

About

Viddycom is built by Marcus, Founder of Viddycom Ltd — a UK-based solo operation. For partnership, press, and review enquiries, please email contact at viddycom dot com. The founder is not available for on-camera interviews.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Viddycom always listening to me?

Only while the app is open in the foreground — never in the background or from the lock screen. While it listens (continuously by default, or after the optional “Show Time” wake word if you switch that on), audio is processed in rolling buffers and discarded as soon as a command is classified — nothing is recorded or stored, and normal conversation is ignored.

Does my voice go to the cloud?

Almost never. Most common commands are matched entirely on-device in under a few milliseconds. On iPhone 15 Pro and newer with Apple Intelligence enabled, natural-language understanding also runs on-device using Apple Foundation Models. A small percentage of commands fall back to a cloud model — and only a sanitised text transcript is sent, never audio or identifiers.

Why iPhone only?

iOS ships best-in-class on-device speech recognition and, on newer phones, a free on-device language model (Apple Foundation Models). Android development is on the horizon but isn't part of this first release.

Why subscription, not a one-time purchase?

Viddycom has ongoing server costs for the occasional cloud fallback plus infrastructure. A small recurring fee keeps the app supported and updated. Founder-tier pricing is locked for life for early subscribers.

How does Viddycom compare to Siri or iPhone's built-in Voice Control?

Siri doesn't control the camera UI directly. iPhone's built-in Voice Control is a system accessibility tool — powerful, but literal and setup-heavy. Viddycom is purpose-built for photography and video, understands natural phrasing, chains commands, and is designed to stay out of the way during a shoot.

Will there be an Android version?

Yes, it's on the roadmap. Not part of this first release.

Is there an affiliate / referral programme?

Yes. A referral credit system is built into the app — every creator who converts through your link earns you credit toward your own subscription. Formal creator partnerships will follow post-launch — get in touch via the press contact on viddycom.com to register interest.

Press Coverage

To be populated post-launch. If you're writing a piece, let us know and we'll link back here.

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