GyroSidecar — Gyro logs for stabilization

Film. Sync. Stabilize.

Gyro-based stabilization beats crop-based smoothing — but it needs motion data most camera apps never embed. GyroSidecar records that data alongside any footage, and turns a full day of takes into ready-to-stabilize clips.

Film

Start a recording in GyroSidecar, switch to your camera app, and shoot. Logging continues in the background, crash-safe from the first sample — an optional Shortcut can even open your camera app and start the take for you.

Sync

Back at your Mac, drop the whole day's folder on GyroSidecar Sync. Clips pair with motion sessions by recording time, the lens is detected per clip, and Sync All aligns every take by its reference audio.

Stabilize

Every synced clip gets a ready-to-open project file — open it in Gyroflow, or apply it on your timeline with the Gyroflow OFX plugin in DaVinci Resolve.

A whole shoot day, one click.

The free Mac companion takes the tedium out of sidecars: no manual pairing, no per-clip syncing, no guessing which log belongs to which take.

GyroSidecar Sync batch table: eight clips matched to seven motion sessions, six synced with excellent or strong audio correlation and refined Gyroflow projects, one clip without a matching session, and one weak-audio failure with its reason shown — A real shoot day: one orphan clip and one weak-audio take flagged with reasons — everything else synced and refined automatically.

Auto-match by recording time — overlapping sessions ask, orphan clips explain themselves.
Per-clip lens detection from the movie's own camera metadata, with one-click override.
Sync All runs the audio alignment across the day; a failed clip never stops the rest.
Create Gyroflow Projects writes a .gyroflow project beside each clip, refined headlessly with autosync-verified offsets — drop-in ready for the OFX plugin.

GyroSidecar Sync batch mode empty state inviting you to drop a day of footage — Drop the folder. That's the workflow.

Works with footage from camera apps such as Blackmagic Camera. Autosync refinement uses the free standalone Gyroflow app.

A logger that stays out of the way.

On the phone, GyroSidecar is deliberately boring: one button, dependable background logging, and sessions that take care of themselves.

GyroSidecar Record screen (App Store screenshot coming soon)

GyroSidecar Sessions screen (App Store screenshot coming soon)

App Store screenshots coming soon.

100 Hz device-motion logging with live rate and gap metrics.
Crash-safe incremental writing with one-tap recovery.
Optional reference audio for waveform-precise alignment.
Optional camera handoff via your own Shortcut, with auto-stop when you return.
Sessions named by start time, so logs sort right next to your clips.

Free · Requires iOS 26.1 or later

Private by design.

No accounts, no analytics, no ads — and no network access at all. Recordings stay on your iPhone until you share them yourself. The App Store privacy label is “Data Not Collected.”

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