By recording outside of the regular apps which interface with the Photos hub, video Diary sues the silo'ed nature of apps on Windows Phone to its benefit. Videos won't show up in your photo stream, will not be automatically synced or backed up, and will not be available from other third party apps using the Windows Phone OS media selection tool. In that sense these videos are private, but anyone picking up your phone will still be able to open the app and watch the videos.
It does mean you are reliant on the application itself to get the videos off your phone, but Video Diary will allow you up upload your videos either to your SkyDrive account (to a specific folder, away from other video uploads) or to a DropBox account.
If you are looking to share a video outside of those services, the 'pro' version of the app is called Video Journal, which allows sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, and Windows Live. It also allows you to use the forward facing camera on your Windows Phone to record the video.
The major features of the app, from the App Store listing, are:
- Video Diary Skydrive Portal.
Create a private Skydrive album for you to upload to. You can upload to any other of your albums, too! - Tight Dropbox integration.
Send any video you like to Dropbox in one click. You only need to sign in the first time. - Full recording reminder service.
You can set a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly reminder that will deeplink you directly to the app. In and out in seconds! - Live Tile.
Your tile notifies you of the staus of your reminder service. - Automated save system.
No need fumbling around trying to name your recordings properly. After you record, just hit back and the app time/date stamps the video as the name!
Video Diary is a free download for your handset and you can find it in our App Directory, while Video Journal is available for £1.29 / $1.49