GoPro Competitors: Which Action Cameras Compare?

[Kim Welch]

Is there a GoPro competitor?

Update, November 2026
Yes. DJI's Osmo Action and Insta360 cameras are strong GoPro competitors, along with phones that now offer action-style stabilization. Choose based on stabilization, battery life, mounts and low-light performance.

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[Tim Kolb]

New ones every day it seems...Replay, Contour, JVC... I'm sure there are more.

 

[Kim Welch]

Why don't I hear about them? Poor marketing and advertising?

 

[Tim Kolb]

Don't know...I hear about them. Contour cameras are fairly well-known. Replay is lower priced...they were all over the NAB store.

JVC seemed to have made their "Adixxion HD" cameras and hid them under a rock, but they're around...

Papago sort of started as in-car driving cams for consumers, like the ones that capture all that great Russian traffic disaster footage that YouTube is so full of...

AEE makes a pretty brazen GoPro knockoff.

Sony's POV "action cameras" (as they call the category now) look like tiny palmcorders...long instead of squat like an SLR camera style of the GoPro.

Kodak has something called a PIXPRO.

Something out there branded as a "Mobius" action camera...

Coleman of camper and cooler fame brands a couple POV cams...

A couple I've seen from a company called PYLE USA...

Bravolink makes one that is claimed to be the smallest 5MP camera...

The list goes on...there are tons of these devices available from more manufacturers than I can count.

 

[Kim Welch]

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