NDICam vs FaceMagic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NDICam
Transform your iOS device into a professional NDI camera for live broadcasting. Stream high-quality, low-latency video to professional vision mixers and IP video systems. Offers flexible control over camera settings and stream quality.
- 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
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* 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.
FaceMagic
Transform your photos into unique artistic styles using AI. Create meta cosmic effects, animations, 3D visuals, and cartoon portraits with a variety of digital art filters and backgrounds. Easy to use for creating personalized images.
- AI photo editing
- Artistic style transformations
- Meta cosmic effects
- Animation and cartoon portraits
- 3D visual effects
- Over 500 height filters
- Easy to operate
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FaceMagic is a powerful and interesting application for AI photo editing. Turn your photos into various artistic styles. FaceMagic application uses artificial intelligence algorithms to transform human portraits into artistic portraits, posters, spectral art, double explosion vision, 3D and animation cartoons based on meta cosmic effects. At the same time, it is equipped with a unique background for each effect to produce a unique meta cosmic visual effect. If you like meta universe, spectrum art, 3D and cartoon portrait effects, this image editor will be your new friend. It has a variety of digital art filters. More than 500 height filters Photo Editor Portrait vision: through the analysis of portraits, the combination of painting, design and photography technology, combined with different styles of background, so as to form a new artistic style, so that your photos have a unique artistic personality. Animation and cartoon: through intelligent analysis of photos, turn your portrait into a cartoon character, and then planarize the cartoon character, combined with colorful background, patterns and decorative background pictures, turn your photos into a fashionable cartoon portrait with modern artistic style; 3D vision: through the combination of visual computing and image processing, turn your portrait into a three-dimensional cartoon image, add neon, street and mechanical scenes, and combine three-dimensional space with strong visual light to turn your photos into works with strong visual impact. Easy to operate Take a picture, click on the filter and edit the picture to make it look like artistic portrait, 3D or cartoon art. For your children, you can use this free image editor as a meta cosmic image application! FaceMagic provides a variety of functions to transform images into a meta cosmic style If you want to find an application that can easily design the visual style of meta universe, FaceMagic is a good choice! [FaceMagic VIP Service Statement] 1. Service name: - Monthly FaceMagic VIP; - Weekly FaceMagic VIP; - Yearly FaceMagic VIP; Hereinafter referred to as VIP. 2. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal.After successful deduction, Photo Art will be automatically extended for one subscription period. To cancel renewal, manually turn off automatic renewals in iTunes/ApplelD setup 24 hours before the current subscription period expires. 3. You can suspend or terminate this service by: Automatic renewal for Apple In App Payments (IAP payments, in-app purchases): Goto iPhone "Settings" —> Enter "iTunes Store and App Store" —> tap "Apple ID", select "View Apple ID", enter "Account Settings" page, tap "Subscribe", and select MagicPhoto VIP to cancel the subscription. 4. Terms of Use: https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/meta-face-f79e7.appspot.com/o/Meta%20Face%20Terms%20of%20Use%20Agreement.html?alt=media&token=70b1f8ab-f19b-455e-86be-363561a0776b 5. Privacy Policy: https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/meta-face-f79e7.appspot.com/o/Meta%20Face%20Privacy%20Policy.html?alt=media&token=4f2a0066-a840-4d8b-8167-508565ecd926
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: FaceMagic at Free against NDICam's $9.99. FaceMagic also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 months) and rating (4.2 vs 3.9). NDICam's advantage is review sentiment (37% vs 0%) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
FaceMagic is free to download; NDICam costs $9.99 up front. FaceMagic sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. NDICam asks for nothing beyond the download.
FaceMagic holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 9 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 37% of NDICam's written reviews are positive against 0% of FaceMagic's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
NDICam ships an update every 4 months, FaceMagic every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NDICam | FaceMagic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (14 ratings) | 4.2 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #89 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 14.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Mark Gilbert | 华 刘 |
Customer experience
NDICam
FaceMagic
Bugs and requests
NDICam
Reported bugs
37 issues- Lens switching not working
- Cannot rotate for widescreen
- UI obstructed on iPhone
- Controls bunched at top
- Icons disappear off screen
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- 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
Requested features
24 requests- Ability to name NDI stream
- Ability to lock landscape mode
- Control zoom with Bluetooth gimbal
- Better documentation
- Screenshots for documentation
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- 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
FaceMagic
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
NDICam
No in-app purchases
FaceMagic
- Meta Face VIP Weekly$3.997 Days
- Meta Face VIP Monthly$5.991 Month
- Meta Face VIP Annual3 Days trial$27.991 Year









