Gildam turns a mounted iPhone into a dashcam that records while the app stays open on screen. Mark the moments you want to revisit, then find them again on a map alongside the video once you have arrived. Trim just the part you need and save it to Photos or share it.
Gildam is designed to keep your hands off the phone while driving. You set it up before you leave, and you review and edit after the drive is over.
Before you set off, mount your iPhone securely and start a drive. Gildam records through the rear camera for as long as the app stays on screen.
A mark is a bookmark pointing to that moment in the original video. We recommend marking only when stopped, or letting a passenger do it.
Drives recorded with location show the route and your marks on a map, with the video playing picture in picture. Tap a mark to jump straight to that moment.
Select the range you need and save it to Photos or share it. The original recording stays untouched.
iOS Simulator captures. Korean interface; maps and drives are test data.
This is what is being built right now, described as it is. Details may change before release.
For drives recorded with location, a full map shows the route, start and end points, and your marks while the video plays in a small picture-in-picture window. Expand the video and the map floats as the picture-in-picture instead, so you can still see where you were.
A range opens 30 seconds either side of the playhead; drag its handles to adjust. Saving to Photos keeps the original quality, with an optional date and time stamp. When sharing, choose original, 1080p, or 720p. Video is never upscaled.
Choose resolution and frame rate within what your iPhone supports. The default is 1080p at 30 fps, and you can zoom or switch lenses mid-recording. Portrait or landscape mounting is set in Settings.
A mark does not cut or duplicate footage; it simply remembers a moment in the original. Even when the screen has dimmed, a double tap adds a mark without interrupting the recording.
With location access, Gildam saves the route and where each mark was made. Stretches without a location fix are never guessed or filled in, and recording and marking carry on without location.
After the delay you choose, the preview fades to a dark clock screen. A single tap brings it back, and recording carries on throughout.
While recording, Gildam shows the recording time remaining, and stops recording if free space drops below 2 GB so existing footage is protected. Automatic cleanup of older drives is off by default.
If the app quits unexpectedly, it is designed to recover the readable part of the recording on next launch, along with any marks inside it.
We would rather be clear up front about what is not supported.
Gildam is not yet on the App Store. TestFlight builds go to an internal test group while recording, review, and range saving are refined, and an App Store 1.1 build has been uploaded ahead of submitting it for review. When a public download opens, this page will say so first.
From the private GitHub repository, Sep 23 to Oct 8, 2026.
The software studio behind Gildam registered as a sole proprietorship.
TestFlight builds started going to an internal test group. This is not a public beta.
Pushing a version tag now produces an internal TestFlight build. Routes are colored by recorded speed.
Added a collapsible map PiP to fullscreen playback, moved to version 1.1, and kept the pinch hint clear of the recording controls.
Made the playback bar smaller on the portrait map.
A core-features 1.1 build, store listing, support page, and privacy policy are ready. It has not been submitted for review yet.
Build and evaluate the Claude API report-drafting feature described below. No release date yet.
Reporting a traffic incident in Korea, for example through Safety e-Report, means scrubbing the footage again and writing the date, place, and what happened by hand. Gildam already keeps the marked moment, the recorded location and speed, and the original video. We are preparing a feature that uses the Claude API to turn that material into a Korean report draft the driver can edit.
It starts only after the drive, from a marked moment or a range the driver chooses. It never runs while driving.
A few frames from the range are bundled with the recorded time, location, speed, and a short note from the driver. Ranges without location stay blank.
Claude reads the images and records and fills a fixed Korean template: date and time, place, and a description. Anything the footage and records do not show is left as “needs checking.”
The driver edits the draft, copies it, and pastes it into the reporting service. Gildam never submits on their behalf.
Less time rewatching footage to write a report, and the date and place copied accurately from the recording instead of from memory.
JP LAB is a small software studio making iOS apps. Planning, design, and development of Gildam are all done in house.
Protect the original footage. Show missing location as missing. Never promise performance that has not been verified. These are the standards Gildam is built to.
No. Gildam records only while the app is on screen. If you switch apps or a call interrupts recording, the footage up to that point is saved and closed, and you need to resume recording yourself.
Before you set off, mount your iPhone securely where it does not block your view, check that the portrait or landscape orientation in Settings matches how it is mounted, and then start recording. The app does not follow device rotation, so a mismatch saves the video rotated.
Long recordings need plenty of free storage and power. Do not operate the app while driving; add marks only when stopped or with a passenger.
No. There is no collision detection or automatic incident saving. Recordings stay on your iPhone until you delete them, or until automatic cleanup removes them if you have turned that setting on.
No. Gildam is still in development, and depending on device condition, heat, storage, permissions, and mounting, recording may stop or miss the moment you wanted. It is not a substitute for a dedicated dashcam or any safety device, and safe driving remains the driver's responsibility.
Gildam cannot submit footage to authorities. Save or share the range you need, then attach it yourself following the instructions of the service you are using. A report-drafting feature is planned; even then, the driver submits the report themselves.
That cannot be guaranteed. Image quality depends heavily on the iPhone camera, lighting, distance, speed, and the condition of the windshield. Gildam does not read plates automatically either.
Yes. Recording and marking work without location; those drives simply open straight in the video player, without a map. If you deny microphone access, video is recorded without sound.
On your iPhone. There is no account and no cloud upload; saving to Photos and sharing happen only when you choose to.
There is no public download yet. An App Store 1.1 build has been uploaded ahead of review, but there is no release date. Once there is, it will be announced on this page.
