If you want to send private video messages to friends or relatives using your mobile phone you must have a Samsung Galaxy or other type of Android smartphone or even an iPhone and install a messaging application. The first app to think about when it comes to video messages is definitely Skype which now makes this particular function free for everyone and allows you to record video messages for 3 minutes.
To send free video messages to friends from an Android phone or an iPhone you can also use applications that, most likely, you already have.
Taking the list of the best applications for chatting and sending messages, we see that two of them, the most popular, also give the possibility to send video messages.
These are Whatsapp and Viber .
In WhatsApp just touch the paperclip button and choose to send a video by recording it directly from the smartphone camera.
You can use the front or rear camera to record videos. WhatsApp also allows you to send videos already created or saved on your mobile phone, selecting them from the gallery. Viber works identically and open a chat screen with someone, you can press on the + to send a photo or video.
You can also send video messages with Facebook Messenger, where just press the camera button to send a photo, but instead of pressing the button to take the photo, press and hold to record a video.
Video messages were added to Telegram in 2017.
To send video messages, you need to press the paperclip button and then select videos to record and send.
Video messages are also a feature of Skype, the Microsoft app for Windows Phone, iPhone and Android which is mainly used to make calls in VOIP. Each shared video lasts exactly two weeks, after which it disappears. You can also create small 5-second videos that remain in memory and serve when you don't have time to record one.
Very interesting is the function to send video messages with the Google Duo app, which allows you to record messages of 30 seconds and send them, leaving the possibility of being able to view and download them only within 24 hours, after which the video message disappears.
With DubSmash the video messages are dubbed with film phrases, to have a lot of laughs.
Obviously, if you want to send a video message to someone who does not have a smartphone or does not use these applications, you can always record the video and send it via email, as if it were a normal photo.
Video Email for Gmail is a Chrome extension that facilitates sending video messages through Gmail.
Another solution, perhaps the easiest to send video messages, is to use programs to record videos from the webcam . The recorded video can be saved on the computer to send it later as an mp4 file or to keep it preserved. Obviously, if the webcam does not have an internal microphone, an external microphone must also be connected to record the voice.
In another article, the best sites for sharing private videos with friends or family and applications for sending voice messages
