# iRTSP — RTSP camera server + VIO > RTSP camera server + VIO (iPhone/iPad app by Ryan Rudes.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/irtsp/id6789029918 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Ryan Rudes](https://appshunter.io/developer/1698870132) - Category: Developer Tools, Photo & Video - Price: $3.99 - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 4 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-15 - Data updated: 2026-08-27 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/irtsp/id6789029918/reviews.md ## What is iRTSP? iRTSP turns your iPhone into a professional RTSP camera server. Stream your camera and microphone live over your local network to any standard player — VLC, ffmpeg, OBS, Blender, or your own code — with a full suite of time-synchronized sensor channels for robotics, AR, and computer-vision work. STREAMING • Standard RTSP (RFC 2326) server — connect from VLC, ffmpeg, OBS, or any RTSP client • H.264 or HEVC video with AAC audio and RTCP audio/video sync • Front or back cameras, multi-lens zoom • Optional username / password authentication • Bonjour discovery — the app shows its rtsp:// URL and a scannable QR code PRO CAMERA CONTROLS • Manual ISO, shutter, focus, white balance, and exposure • AF / AE / AWB locks, EV compensation, torch control • Apple Log on supported devices • Save and recall named, color-coded camera profiles SENSOR DATA FOR VIO / ROBOTICS / AR (all opt-in) • IMU: accelerometer, gyroscope, and fused device motion, with live camera intrinsics • GPS location, compass heading, and barometric altitude • LiDAR metric depth on Pro devices • ARKit 6DOF world-tracking pose Every stream is time-stamped against the same clock as the video, so the data lines up frame-for-frame. PRIVACY Everything streams peer-to-peer on your own Wi-Fi or hotspot. No account, no cloud, no data collection — nothing ever leaves your local network. iRTSP is built for makers, researchers, and anyone who needs a high-quality, low-latency iPhone camera and sensor feed. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.6 — 2026-07-30 RECORDING • Select several takes in the library at once — export the whole set as one archive with a folder per take, or delete them together • A take that hits a write failure part-way through is now salvaged and saved instead of being discarded • Sizes shown throughout the app are correct; audio was being counted twice in a take's footprint CAMERA INTRINSICS • The camera matrix is now streamed and recorded once per video frame, stamped with that frame's own timestamp, so it pairs with a frame exactly • Each one carries the lens position and focus state, which makes a change in focal length attributable to a refocus rather than something you have to infer ARKIT POSE MODE • Camera settings that ARKit overrides are shown locked, with the value they are forced to, instead of appearing adjustable and quietly doing nothing • ARKit's autofocus is now a control of its own, and is reported to connected clients FIXES • The sensor chart on a take's detail screen no longer draws outside its card • The chart's traces are no longer thinned by channels it doesn't plot ### 1.5 — 2026-07-29 Settings now tells you exactly what the camera will capture. • Resolution and frame rate list only the formats the current mode can actually record. Modes like ARKit pose, LiDAR depth and Multi-Cam each limit what the camera offers, and a line underneath now names the exact format you will get. • Video is no longer stretched to a size the camera never captured — what you pick is what is recorded. • Recorded takes now always include the camera intrinsics, even when nothing about the camera changed during the take. • Exported intrinsics CSVs mark which rows are periodic re-reports and which are real changes. ### 1.4.1 — 2026-07-25 Fixes a bug where longer recordings could fail to save and disappear without warning. • A recording is no longer thrown away because of an audio glitch — the video is kept. • If a recording does fail, the app now tells you why on screen instead of failing silently. • Fixed a rare problem that could corrupt the start of a recording when the disk was busy. ### 1.4 — 2026-07-24 Record offline — instead of streaming, or at the same time. • Recording modes: Stream, Record, or Both. A take captures video, audio, IMU motion, GPS, and LiDAR depth to the phone, all on one shared clock. • Faithful capture. A recording muxes the same encoded video the stream carries — no second encode and no added loss. Optional ProRes formats are available for local capture. • New Recordings library. Search by name, date, codec, resolution, or which sensors a take carries; filter and sort; rename takes; swipe to share or delete. Disk usage and free space at a glance. • Playback with a sensor overlay. Scrub the video and watch the motion traces track it on the same timeline. • Export what you actually need. The whole take as one archive, or individual tracks: combined video+audio, video only, audio only, per-channel CSV (accelerometer, gyroscope, pose, camera intrinsics), and the raw motion and depth data — all with trimming. • AR replay. Fuse a take's LiDAR depth frames into a colored 3D mesh and watch the recorded camera fly through it in your own room. • Remote record trigger. A controller on the same network can start and stop several phones together over RTSP, and the recorded clock anchors make the takes alignable afterward. Also: recording keeps working with no viewer connected, and takes are visible in the Files app for easy transfer. ### 1.3 — 2026-07-23 Full control over how the camera and microphone capture, plus new audio formats. AUDIO • Choose your audio codec: AAC-LC, HE-AAC, AAC-ELD (low delay), Opus, or L16 (uncompressed/lossless). • Mono or stereo. • New microphone & audio session controls: session mode (including Measurement for the flattest, least-processed response), microphone mode, which built-in mic to use, polar pattern, input gain, sample rate, and buffer size. CAMERA • New Advanced Camera settings: geometric distortion correction, video HDR, tone mapping, low-light boost, auto-focus range, maximum exposure time, auto frame rate, lens auto-switching, face-driven autofocus/exposure, smooth autofocus, and subject-area monitoring. • Video stabilization now offers the full set of modes. • New live toggles in the pro controls bar. For odometry/VIO users: the settings that affect image geometry are automatically held at their calibration-safe values while odometry is streaming, and the data stream now reports exactly which capture settings were applied. ## More apps by Ryan Rudes - [Programming Notebook LITE](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/programming-notebook-lite/id1519715994) - [Programming Notebook PRO](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/programming-notebook-pro/id1521883614) - [PicoStar](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/picostar/id6444901007) All apps by Ryan Rudes: https://appshunter.io/developer/1698870132 ## Related topics [ularcam](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/ularcam) · [octostream rtsp streamer](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/octostream-rtsp-streamer) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*