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Picture is good, but overall not worth it
Used the free version to make some instructional videos so my phone could provide Picture in Picture. Worked fine for that purpose. Be sure to connect over USB. WiFi connection is very laggy and unreliable. Very difficult to connect over usb, however. Had to turn off WiFi on my phone, because the app defaults to WiFi connection. Upgraded to the full purchase for 1080p live-streaming and it did not work for what I wanted. Opened task manager. The PC app is very CPU heavy and with OBS and Cubase running, the picture lags and freezes. My other webcams are fine. I was hoping to use it for another camera angle. For that it is completely useless.Show lessBobbity boo
Excellent app, but beware multiple users on same network
This app has been great and works as advertised. Overall, you can’t do better for the money. BUT...However, I really wish there was a way to choose which PC to connect to before it automatically connects. Where I teach, several teachers in my building have discovered how great this app is. However, we are all on the same network and the app wants to connect to the first connection it finds. I often have to close the connection several times before it finds my PC and the other teachers have to do the same. There is direct IP connection, but our IP addresses aren’t static and IP addresses are cumbersome to look up. I did reach out to the dev with these concerns a few months ago but never heard back.Show lessnatefish
Great app! - some multi cam advice here!
I was tasked with streaming a small outdoor wedding to 200 people who couldn’t come because of the pandemic. Never did anything like it before but determined to make it great, despite no ability to have additional helpers.
Installed 3 instances of ivCam. Mounted 2 in strategic positions. Set up one attentive guest with it for a different vantage. (Added a wired in DSLR for a great main view) and fed it all into OBS. Some smooth transitions between all the views and the finished product got rave reviews.
One confusing point for me. You have great control over the camera from the ivCam application on the pc - quality, exposure, etc. and an all important setting for hardware decoding. But I could not figure out how to get to each camera instance. Sometimes I got instance #1. Sometimes #2. It was all working in OBS, but couldn’t find the ivCam controls for each of the 3 cams. Turns out that I’d you just keep launching the ivCam application, it will load the additional instances. You don’t specify which instance - just keep launching and eventually you get them all.Show lessCommuter bookie
Not sure how to rate
I just made a booster box opening with this app and it made my video keep freezing through out the whole video. Of course I was unaware and ended up being disappointed when rewatching to see how it came out. I like the app and tested it a few times before actually making my video with it being completely fine. But when making my video it made it come out horribly.
Update: I bought the app for $9.99 it was working great making another video I managed to notice half way through that the WiFi signal got weak for no reason. My router is only about 2 feet from where I’m sitting and everything else works fine. It started to make my video choppy again so I had to cut the video. I’m not too sure what is going on with this and why the app decides that the WiFi signal is weak when it’s not. I tried connecting it with a USB and it still relies on a WiFi signal. Think I will try to get a refund.Show lessXZombiecrusherX
Developer Response
Please check the FAQs here: https://www.e2esoft.com/ivcam/faq/Spammed with ads
I watched a streamer recommend this app and i thought it would be very good since I had just built a pc and didn’t have a webcam. To my great surprise, it was totally the opposite. After the free trial, the app is loaded with ads that pop up ever 45 seconds. Then when I X out of them, I can’t see what the camera sees on my own phone; I only see “IVCam”. Would it make it worse if I told you that half of the time the camera doesn’t even have the correct orientation? I have to flip it a few times before I can record anything. It also spends forever focusing at its aweful framerate. I know I can’t expect everything to be good in an app that has a premium version that I’m not paying for, but they push the premium version too much and it is completely unbearable. I ordered a webcam yesterday.Show lessSLCYES
Great app not worth the $24
The one time purchase is simply not worth it. I understand the effort put into this app but looking at how many people are reviewing it there’s plenty of people using it if the devs charged like $2-5 for a one time charge to unlock all features that would be more reasonable and would easily make lots more people who daily drive this app purchase it. Aside from that this app works flawlessly and is great for streaming.Show less@amazingjelly2
Here’s my only request.
As the iPhone generations progress not in hardware but in software, allowing each new phone’s camera to be a step up for the last, the only thing apps like this are missing is the ability to manually adjust blur and focus. This should be an option if not available to both versions at least available to the pro version so that people like myself and adjust the blur of my background while keeping myself in focus. This to me is the only thing holding this app from being the best iPhone to webcam app on the AppStore.Show lessGabe🎙
Audio not good
1. The information for microphone settings is ambiguous. At first I couldn’t get the audio to play on the PC. And then when I did, even when I turned off the app the microphone from the mobile phone still played through the PC.
2. The room noise coming in through the mobile phone microphone is really loud! A filter option would be beneficial. 3. There should be a mute button on the phone screen. 4. Audio quality is really poor with much skipping and static-like noise.Show lessWeekly subscription fee
Desktop Application
The app worked perfectly fine for my use case. The only thing I would include on the desktop version is a notification or pop up message that tells you what short you press. I like to use af/ae lock on my phone but there is no indication on the desktop program when I use the short cut. I have no idea if it’s enable or disabled and it frustrating to see my refocus on its on. Some sort of prompt or notification would be helpful when triggering shortcutsShow lessHarudo_
Free version becomes impossible to use
For the first month, it was working well for me, with two minor problems - 1) the watermark on the screen, which is fine considering this app is currently free, 2) once it shows an ad, I always end up having to close and restart the app to get the camera working again.
Now that I left a review to use the “camera flip” feature, they started showing me ads that I couldn’t close (because close button was too far up to click), and the ad never went away after restarting the app. (EDIT: The ad problem seems to have been mostly fixed after this review!)Show lesss3z3v
