# NDICam

> iOS NDI camera for professional IP video broadcasting. (iPhone/iPad app by Mark Gilbert.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ndicam/id1074065391 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Mark Gilbert](https://appshunter.io/developer/593898292)
- Category: Photo & Video
- Price: $9.99
- Rating: 4.20/5 from 13 App Store ratings · 76 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 10.0 · 3 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2016-03-31
- Data updated: 2026-09-01
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ndicam/id1074065391/reviews.md

## What is NDICam?

* Special Offer Price *

NDICam is the original NDI iOS camera built by the world's leading NDI broadcast infrastructure developers - Sienna. 
Mature and feature rich, uniquely with both Full NDI and NDI HX3 modes.

The NDI (Network Device Interface) protocol connects to professional vision mixers and other devices, and delivers a high quality, low latency connection. NDICam is compatible with All TriCasters, VMix, Wirecast and hundreds of other professional IP video systems, software and hardware, which support NDI.

- Simple to use - nothing to configure on your iOS device
- Switch between front and rear cameras during broadcast
- Auto Focus, AF Lock and Tap to Focus
- Auto Exposure, AE Lock and Tap to Expose
- Illumination light on/off
- Audio Mute Control
- Manual Naming of NDI Stream source
- 4 quality / performance levels to suit your device and network, plus NDI HX Option 
- Pinch to zoom (where zoom is supported)
- Auto-lens mode for multi-lens cameras
- On screen live / preview tally plus optional use of camera flash as talent tally (with red gel cover).
- Option to prevent iOS device sleep
- Select 25FPS or 29.97FPS standard rate.
- Choice of Full NDI or NDI HX3 compression modes (HX2 at 2 to 20 mBit, plus HX3 Ultra)
- Rotation support for Portrait or Landscape Video Modes.

Front and Rear cameras can be selected at the touch of a button and NDICam features a 4 position quality vs frame rate slider to deliver optimum video suited to the quality of your wifi connection and your iPhone's processing performance. Depending on your iOS device, compression mode selected and Wifi network performance NDICam supports up to 1080 full HD resolution.

Control of flashlight, touch to focus, focus lock, pinch to zoom and audio enable are also included.  You can even use the phone's torch as a Tally Light, by covering it with a red gel.

Note: Depending on the performance of your iOS device and your WIFI network, you may not see full frame rates when operating at maximum 1080 resolution with a full HD camera. Using HX3 mode will help if the bottleneck is your WIFI network.

Note: NDI is a high bandwidth protocol designed for local area Gigabit networks. In order to see good results you will need a fast, uncontested wifi connection.  If you see slow frame rates, try improving the wifi environment, with a better router, less interference, directional antenna or maybe switch to 5GHz if you are on 2.4GHz. . 
NB HX3 Ultra will use around 50mBits of bandwidth, so it's lower than full NDI, but still quite high. Use one of the lower bandwidth HX3 modes if your network connection is struggling.

NDICam is also compatible with wired ethernet connections to iOS devices which can help deliver smooth video compared to a poor quality Wifi network. Good results have been seen with lightning to ethernet adaptors.

You can specify an NDI discovery server in the application settings. Note that you will need to restart the app for any changes to take effect.  Specifying a discovery server will disable the standard mDNS (Bonjour) advertisement for the NDI Cam source, so your iOS device must be able to reach the discovery server one the network.  If you experience problems - delete the Discovery Server entry and restart the app.

NB: NDI HX3 Ultra mode requires a recent NDI compatible receiver.

## Key features

- Full NDI and NDI HX3 modes
- High-quality, low-latency NDI streaming
- Switch between front and rear cameras
- Auto/Manual focus and exposure controls
- Adjustable quality/performance levels
- On-screen tally and flash talent tally
- Portrait/Landscape rotation support

## Chart rankings

- #63 in Top Paid · Photo & Video (US App Store)

## What do users think of NDICam?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 🚀 Low latency streaming
- 👍 Works with vmix
- 👍 Works with OBS
- 👍 Works with iPad
- 👍 Works with iPhone
- 👍 Good for live streaming
- 👍 Good image quality
- 👍 Supports multiple lenses
- 👍 Works on older devices
- 👍 Better than NewTek app
- 👍 Fair price
- 👍 Good support
- 👍 Works well with Ethernet
- 👍 Simple to use
- 👍 Recognised as NDI camera
- 👍 Good for conferences
- 👍 Smooth and simple
- 👍 Works well
- 👍 Better than original NewTek

**Cons**

- 🐛 Lens switching issues
- 🐛 Rotation issues
- 🐛 UI obstructed on iPhone
- 🐛 Controls bunched at top
- 🐛 Ambiguous NDI settings
- 🐛 Poor user interface
- 🐛 Unreliable video
- 🐛 Defaults to wide angle lens
- 🐛 No image adjustment features
- 🐛 Cannot set up camera normally
- 🐛 Missing useful functions
- 🐛 Portrait mode issues
- 🐛 Icons disappear off screen
- 🐛 No 4K option
- 🐛 No 60fps option
- 🐛 Scaling issues
- 🐛 Laggy video
- 🐛 Poor image quality
- 🐛 Unusable video
- 🐛 No audio
- 🐛 Freezes and unusable
- 🐛 Catastrophic frame drops
- 🐛 NDI HX performance not good
- 🐛 Audio interfaces don't work
- 🐛 Crashes OBS desktop app
- 🐛 Huge lag
- 🐛 Doesn't work on Windows PC
- 🐛 No documentation
- 🐛 Bad performance
- 🐛 Slow
- 🐛 Dropped frames
- 🐛 Non-responsive customer service
- 🐛 Freezes and pauses
- 🐛 Choppy stream
- 🐛 Inefficient data usage
- 🐛 Grainy image
- 🐛 Frame jitter
- 🐛 App quits unexpectedly
- 🐛 Not compatible with Newtek monitor
- 🐛 Network heavy
- 🐛 Audio feed increases dropped frames
- 🐛 Black screen
- 🐛 No image
- 🐛 Unstable
- 🐛 Rudimentary features
- 🐛 Choppy on dedicated WiFi

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Lens switching not working
- Cannot rotate for widescreen
- UI obstructed on iPhone
- Controls bunched at top
- Icons disappear off screen
- Scaling issues on iPhone 13 Pro Max
- NDI HX3 slider is ambiguous
- App turns off by itself
- No audio
- App freezes and is unusable
- Catastrophic frame drops after a few minutes
- NDI HX performance not as good as NewTek app
- Audio interfaces don't work with the app
- OBS desktop app crashes when adding NDI source
- App crashes
- App quits unexpectedly
- Stream is choppy
- Application would quit at various times
- Not compatible with Newtek NDI Video monitor app
- App freezes, pauses
- Black screen
- No image
- Unstable
- App doesn't work
- Laggy video
- Poor quality image
- Terrible lagging issue
- Choppy on dedicated 5G WiFi
- Frame timing getting jumbled
- Speed mode is super grainy
- Mid quality is grainy/low res
- Quality is extremely choppy with frame jitter
- If phone put into standby, need to restart app
- App doesn't work with PC
- Cannot find NDI source with XSplit
- High quality looks like 15fps
- App crashes OBS

**Most requested features**

- Ability to name NDI stream
- Ability to lock landscape mode
- Control zoom with Bluetooth gimbal
- Better documentation
- Screenshots for documentation
- Clarification on NDI vs NDI HX3 slider
- More image controls
- Select from all lenses
- Simultaneously stream all camera angles
- Add 30fps to settings
- Add 50/60 FPS support
- Switch to prevent automatic vertical mode switching
- Resolution indicator
- Ability to select lens
- 4K option
- 60fps option
- Ability to select tele lens
- Simultaneously stream 2 camera angles
- Disable autofocus
- Turn iPhone light on/off
- Turn off sending audio
- Select focus and exposure
- Zoom functionality
- More stable application

## Recent user reviews (10 of 76)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ndicam/id1074065391/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Lens switching on iPhone 13

*2026-01-26*

I like using the app but the only problem I have is switching between lenses and zooming. I can’t get it to work.

### 5/5 — Very good.

*2025-11-09*

Works well with all camera lenses.

Please delete/ignore my previous review.

### 1/5 — No longer rotates

*2025-07-12*

With the latest iOS you can no longer rotate the phone for widescreen

### 1/5 — No longer rotates

*2025-06-07, version 7.31*

With the Kate’s iOS you can no longer rotate the phone for widescreen

### 3/5 — Critical features missing

*2025-05-09*

Please add the ability to name the NDI stream. Using simultaneously several cameras, a random « NDICam » « NDICam2 » assignation at startup is a nightmare to use in a project. And please, add the ability to lock the landscape mode. Otherwise this app is the fastest (less latency), too bad it is not usable for me as it is.

### 5/5 — Works great

*2025-03-31*

Works great with vmix. The full ndi setting is actually a toggle, was pretty confusing but once we figured that out it’s been fantastic!! I wish I could control zoom with my dji Bluetooth gimbal but not apps fault. Overall great

### 5/5 — Works for us

*2025-03-26*

We use it once or twice a year for live streaming in odd places. Just make sure to have a solid 5gig WiFi connection. I like the tally light. Works with iPad or iPhone.

### 3/5 — Leaves a few things open

*2024-12-19*

The app works and allows to set some good details. Unfortunately on an iPhone 16 Pro that is held vertical, the iPhone top bar will obstruct NDICam’s UI that can then not be used.

### 3/5 — iPhone 13 not displaying properly

*2024-11-21*

Installed and connected to ndi studio.  Looks correct on iPad.  On iPhone 13 the controls are bunched at the top and you can’t access to configure.  No red box around video as shown in App Store

### 5/5 — Worked great for festival livestream

*2023-09-24*

I recently used several iPhones running NDICAM as part of the camera setup for a 3 day festival livestream, using Lightning-Ethernet(PoE) connections. They worked well with only minimal issues. 
Edit: one improvement I would like to see is better documentation. The online docs aren’t quite up to date, don’t mention all of the features, and could use some screenshots. For example, one thing I struggled with is that the “NDI vs NDI HX3” slider is ambiguous, do you slide it toward the one you want, or does the “off” position mean full NDI is off (the opposite), that can really mess you up since most connections using a phone don’t have enough bandwidth for full NDI.

## Frequently asked questions about NDICam

### What is NDICam?

NDICam is an iOS application that transforms your iPhone or iPad into a professional NDI camera. It allows you to stream high-quality, low-latency video over your network to compatible professional vision mixers and IP video systems.

### What are the key features of NDICam?

Key features include support for both Full NDI and NDI HX3 modes, the ability to switch between front and rear cameras, auto and manual focus/exposure controls, adjustable quality settings, on-screen tally lights, and support for portrait or landscape video modes.

### How much does NDICam cost?

The application is available for a special offer price. As it is a paid application, there are no in-app purchases or subscriptions required for its core functionality.

### What devices is NDICam compatible with?

NDICam is compatible with all professional IP video systems, software, and hardware that support the NDI protocol, such as TriCasters, VMix, and Wirecast. It requires an iOS device and a stable, high-bandwidth network connection, preferably Gigabit Ethernet or a strong Wi-Fi connection.

### What are common use cases for NDICam?

Common use cases include live event broadcasting, remote interviews, multi-camera productions, and adding additional camera angles to existing NDI workflows. It's ideal for situations where a high-quality, low-latency video feed from a mobile device is needed.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 7.31 — 2024-09-18

Fixed issue when running on macOS Sonoma
Now uses NDI Name for Host Name and Device Name
Updated NDI

### 7.30 — 2024-09-18

Fixed issue when running on macOS Sonoma

### 7.20 — 2023-10-11

Fixed crash with older iOS 12.x devices

### 7.10 — 2023-09-28

Added NDI Device name support for iOS 17 compatibility

### 7.00 — 2022-03-26

Added HX3 Ultra Support (50mBit)
Added support for rotation - Portrait Mode Vertical video.

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