Japan’s Vidssage is a Video Messaging App That Wants to Leave You Word-Less

Moso, a Tokyo-based startup that developed the online video effect app that wowed us at our Startup Asia Jakarta event this year, has just released a new iPhone app for video messaging with your buddies, called Vidssage. The name fuses together ‘video’ and ‘message’ – its core feature.

It allows you to create a video with special effects – and also provides lots of templates in the app – so that you can easily send your friends a professional-looking and well-edited video message in an instant way. Just like sending text messages.

Moso was founded in 2012 by globe-trotting video DJ and tech entrepreneur Shinji Murakoshi. After his experience with the Mac-only Moso app, he recognized the need to develop not a desktop app but a mobile app – and, even better, something that’s social. It seems he and his team have taken several months to accomplish this feat with Vidssage, a product that’s a sort of Whatsapp that focuses on videos, not words or emoticons.

Find the free Vidssage app for iPhone in the App Store.

This one-minute promotional video of VidMessage, starring pop-culture artist/photographer Julie Watai, is worth seeing:

(Video link for mobile readers)