# HDMI Monitor - Orion — user reviews > 155 indexed App Store user reviews of HDMI Monitor by Lux Optics Incorporated, rated 4.14/5 from 2,180 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hdmi-monitor-orion/id6459355072/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hdmi-monitor-orion/id6459355072.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,550 · 4★ 105 · 3★ 48 · 2★ 53 · 1★ 366 ## What do users think of HDMI Monitor? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 💡 Useful for IT professionals - 🚀 Works seamlessly - 👍 Aesthetically pleasing - 👍 Excellent CRT filters - 👍 Charming retro UI aesthetic **Cons** - 🐛 Screen tearing issues - 🐛 Doesn't work with certain devices - 🐛 Lag and display issues - 🐛 No audio support - 🐛 Doesn't fill the screen properly **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes and freezes - Doesn't recognize input - Incompatible with new iOS updates - Paid version not working **Most requested features** - Native video recording - Aspect ratio controls - Frame rate settings - PiP mode - More scaling and adjustment options ## Newest reviews (12 of 155) ### 2/5 — Randomly does not work. *2026-08-16, version 1.1.0* Feed works fine on my M1 iPad Pro running 18.7.2 but does not work on my iPad Mini 6 running the latest iPadOS. It did at one point! Is it about iOS26? ### 3/5 — Working good so far *2026-02-20, version 1.1.0* Great app, does what I need, display my Switch screen with audio, thank you. Good to see it’s not a subscription too like all the other greedy developers, I bought it mainly to support the devs, don’t really need the pro features, though the 4K upscaling does improve the video a little which is nice… One feature request, could you please add code to hide the home indicator bar at the bottom as it’s distracting when using the app? Also, sometimes when switching between apps the audio stops being captured and I have to disconnect and reconnect the usb-c cable, can this be fixed? Fives stars if you can fix these two things…. ### 2/5 — Retro feel is fun until it isn’t *2026-02-18, version 1.1.0* Initially I liked all the retro look and cheeky stuff, but it gets annoying when they are loading. Don’t give me all these options that don’t exist and send me on a loop of slow animations. When I’m actually using this thing I don’t want to know it is there. And if I hit an option on accident I don’t want to wait for another animation to finish before I can get back to my screen. It’s only cool the first time, and exponentially decays from there. ### 2/5 — Doesn’t play Blu-rays *2025-12-25, version 1.1.0* Doesn’t play Blu-ray’s on Blu-ray player even with hdmi cable and video capture card. ### 1/5 — Does not work *2025-12-07, version 1.1.0* Tried this, recognised the connection but then a black screen. Bought a new HDMI capture card (the one recommended by Orion) and new cable but still black screen. Saw someone else’s review who couldn’t get Orion to work and tried HDMI app - I did the same and that works. Also Orion UI is ‘cool’ and ‘edgy’ but is slow, annoying and useless info, suggest focussing on making the product work as a starting point ### 1/5 — Why just why *2025-12-02, version 1.1.0* 0.01FPS ### 1/5 — Junk App *2025-10-08, version 1.1.0* Rarely ever connects. Go grab the Genki app instead. ### 1/5 — Black bars even with upscale *2025-09-25, version 1.1.0* No matter what resolution I set my PC monitor to, there are black bars on top/bottom of Orion app. I Paid for the upscale and it still doesn’t let me go full screen with the video. Very disappointing. (iPad 10th gen 2022 with iOS26) ### 1/5 — iPadOS 26 issues *2025-09-24, version 1.1.0* App will lag after a while in iPadOS 26. Instant lag whenever notification tray or action menu used. Please fix! ### 3/5 — Something about this app *2025-09-21, version 1.1.0* I made it a 3 star because I wonder is other video captures would be in this app. ### 4/5 — Good app, insane icon downgrade *2025-09-20, version 1.1.0* Just because Apple’s new icons are hideous doesn’t mean yours has to be. Bring back that beautiful CRT! ### 2/5 — It’s alright *2025-08-22, version 1.0.2* I was super excited to try this, so I bought the video capture card, and watch tons of tutorials. It works perfectly fine, smooth gameplay, zero lag. But 5 minutes later my gameplay paused and wanted me to pay more money just to keep the gameplay going. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Bruh *2026-08-02, version 1.1.0* Ur app is dumb no one wants to hear olden timey radio ok ### 1/5 — Does not work *2026-06-16, version 1.1.0* No troubleshooting. Hooked up HDMI to see cable. Shows no signal. ### 1/5 — Never works *2026-05-10, version 1.1.0* It never works on my switch to iPad I use a hdmi 4k uhd to usb c I don’t recommend this to anyone ### 1/5 — Down loaded paid $14.99 AUD ,had to reset my iPad to default setting, now I am unable restore purcha *2026-03-31, version 1.1.0* Waste of money ### 1/5 — Won’t work with Xbox x *2026-03-28, version 1.1.0* Doesn’t work with my Xbox ### 1/5 — Sucks *2026-02-07, version 1.1.0* It’s sucks I plugged my dongle in and it did nothing ### 1/5 — Trash *2026-01-16, version 1.1.0* This app is straight garbage literally I’m trying to connect my switch to it. It keeps resetting to the main menu every second. It’s so annoying it’s slow. The graphics are made and I do not recommend spend money on a better app because this is straight garbage ### 1/5 — Help *2026-01-14, version 1.1.0* I don’t remember getting this app ### 1/5 — No microphone *2026-01-10, version 1.1.0* So if you want to screen record with the microphone this in an awful choice because though you can hear the game, you cannot use the microphone. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work with the recommended capture card *2025-12-14, version 1.1.0* Not sure if it is the HDMI cable being too but it is not working for me at all. All I get is black screen when the connector is in ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Absolutely insanely good!! *2026-08-18, version 1.1.0* So I have my capture card and this is worked since the start of today basically what I had to do is plug-in my capture card via USB-C first and plug in the HMDI then turn on the PS5 with the Nintendo switch two and it actually worked!! 1000/10!! ### 5/5 — Love it! *2026-07-16, version 1.1.0* Thank you so much for this app! Other apps were absolutely useless, but this one was the only one of 2 that worked! Will be using this for my gameplay videos. Thank you. Love the old-fashioned TV aesthetic too! ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-07-10, version 1.1.0* Stupendous ### 5/5 — Superb for hdmi input *2026-03-05, version 1.1.0* Exactly what I was looking for to use my iPad as a monitor with an hdmi video capture card. Just great! ### 5/5 — Great! *2026-03-02, version 1.1.0* The app does exactly what is says, and it does it well! I purchased the one time payment because it’s exactly what is says it is! I do wish they would make a version comparable with Mac as well, that would be the only improvement that could be made for this app! ### 5/5 — Amazing with Switch 2 *2025-12-16, version 1.1.0* I have two different types of video capture cards: one with just HDMI to USB-C and the other HDMI to USB-C with PD. Having a capture card with PD just looks amazing on the iPad Pro. 😍 ### 5/5 — Major problems on iPad mini A17 *2025-11-11, version 1.1.0* 10-15 Seconds latency. App arbitrary quits. No support. ### 5/5 — Just works! *2025-08-19, version 1.0.2* Works great right out of the box. No latency issues either. Tried it with a ps5 and a desktop computer with a cheap usbc hdmi capture dongle, no problems. 10 stars. ### 5/5 — Working good so far *2025-08-01, version 1.0.2* Great app, does what I need, display my Switch screen with audio, thank you. Good to see it’s not a subscription too like all the other greedy developers, I bought it mainly to support the devs, don’t really need the pro features, though the 4K upscaling does improve the video a little which is nice… One feature request, could you please add code to hide the home indicator bar as it’s distracting when using the app? ### 5/5 — Great Solution *2025-06-23, version 1.0.2* Have a desktop W11 Pro and wanted to extend the screen. Purchased the recommended dongle and plugged it in and opened the app. System instantly identified the 2nd monitor and away I went. Purchased the Pro version to support the dev’s and it added brightness control. I have to say I get zero lag, runs smoothly and a great addition to my home setup. 100% recommended as for around £22 (dongle +Pro) it’s added a great display --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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