Why shoot twice or waste 20 minutes cropping? Dualora lets you record 16:9 and 9:16 simultaneously. Here is the dev's clever trick to avoid overheating.
We've all been there—the classic content creator's dilemma. You shoot a beautiful landscape (16:9) video for YouTube, only to realize you now have to crop it into a vertical (9:16) format for Shorts, Reels, or TikTok. You either lose your framing entirely, spend 20 tedious minutes cropping it manually on a desktop, or just give up and shoot the whole thing twice.
Enter Dualora, an Android utility built by Alik, an indie dev from India. It tackles this specific headache directly at capture time, rather than trying to fix it in post.
No overhyped AI buzzwords here. Dualora is a highly pragmatic tool designed for efficient multi-platform workflows:
The app quickly garnered 108 points on Product Hunt, stirring up some interesting debates in the comments:
The "No Login" Fan Club: User Jack Donovan cheered: "Finally, something where you don't have to go through seven circles of hell just to sign up!" Alik agreed, noting that he built it this way because he personally despises jumping through hoops just to test out a simple utility.
The Skeptic: One user pointed out that a tool called Firework did this over 10 years ago and flopped. Alik's retort was spot-on: "A lot has changed in a decade... especially the rise of short-form vertical platforms. It's a genuine workflow problem for modern creators now." Timing is indeed everything.
The Hardware Nerds: Another dev asked a critical question: "Does it split the feeds in post or actually record two separate video files simultaneously? Gushing two high-res feeds on Android is bound to drop frames and cook the battery."
Alik revealed his clever performance hack: Instead of trying to render two high-res video streams in real-time while recording (which would definitely melt most Android devices), Dualora captures the raw feed efficiently first. Once you hit stop, it puts the rendering tasks into a queue to process the two native files right after. Your phone stays cool, and your recording remains butter-smooth.
Behind this seemingly simple utility lies a masterclass in practical indie hacking:
What do you think of this approach? Would you use an app like this, or do you prefer the old-fashioned way of manually cropping in Premiere? Let us know in the comments!
Source: Product Hunt
