Your phone is a perfectly great camera, but the right software can make it better. And if you have more than one phone and need more than one camera, Blackmagic’s freebie app could help.
It’s always nice when something free pops up, especially when it’s something that can help make your phone a little better. That’s usually and upgrade for your device, but it can also be a new app.
If you’re someone who likes to dabble in filmmaking, an update to free camera app could be just what you’re looking for, as Australia’s Blackmagic Design releases an update to its camera app designed to let you do a little more with your phone camera.
The addition changes what launched in the Blackmagic Camera app for Android previously, not only expanding support to new phones including the Galaxy S25 range, but also adds support for running multiple phones and tablets as cameras at the same time.
It means if you have spare phones or tablets, you can actually use each one of these as an individual camera and camera angle, connecting them together as one system.
The idea isn’t out of kilter from something Apple’s own Final Cut Camera does with Final Cut Pro on the iPad, but focuses on the Android side of things.
To make this work, all the phone cameras working together have to be sing the same WiFi network, connecting together to a phone as a device controller, with each phone camera seen as a shot that can be started and stopped from the main device. It means if you’re operating out and about, you might want to bring with a portable WiFi hotspot to ensure each device is talking to each other nicely.
While that’s happening, each camera can let you control the video settings more specifically, such as ISO, white balance, frame rate, and more, with support for focus controls, as well.
The addition is now rolling out in Blackmagic Camera for Android 2.0, available from the Google Play Store.
