Broadcaster from BoxCast vs NDI Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Broadcaster from BoxCast
Stream live video directly from your mobile device. Go live instantly or schedule future broadcasts to platforms like Facebook Live and YouTube. Manage all your streams, track analytics, and even monetize events with ticket pricing.
- Go Live Now feature
- Schedule broadcasts in advance
- Stream to Facebook Live, YouTube Live, RTMP
- Manage all broadcasts
- Preview broadcast stream
- Event analytics and replays
- Charge ticket price for events
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Stream live video from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. With Broadcaster, you can go live instantly with the touch of a button or schedule your broadcasts in advance. Broadcast to Facebook Live, Youtube Live, or any RTMP destination you choose. Features: • Use the Go Live Now feature to begin streaming immediately without having to schedule your broadcast • Receive notifications reminding you of upcoming scheduled broadcasts • Add Facebook Live, YouTube Live, or any generic RTMP as a destination for your broadcast • Manage all of your broadcasts, whether they're from the Broadcaster app, BoxCaster, or BoxCaster Pro • Promote future broadcasts by scheduling them in advance (promote live and past events as well) • Preview your broadcast with a low-latency stream for enhanced troubleshooting • Broadcast using BoxCast Flow, a smarter protocol for transmitting video to the cloud • View event analytics and replay past broadcasts • Use channels to categorize related broadcasts • Charge a ticket price for your events • Easily keep score for games using the built-in scoreboard • Extremely small app size to prioritize the space on your device
NDI Camera
Transform your smartphone into a professional live-streaming camera. Easily send high-quality, low-latency video and audio to popular platforms like Zoom and MS Teams. Enhance your broadcasts with new camera angles and perspectives.
- Professional live-streaming camera
- Low-latency video and audio
- Seamless integration with popular platforms
- Add new camera angles
- Mobile source for live production
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The easiest live-streaming camera you will ever use! Turn your phone into a professional live-streaming NDI camera and start streaming high-quality, low-latency video and audio with the touch of a button. NDI Camera is the official NDI app that makes your phone seamlessly capable of sending video into popular platforms like MS Teams, Skype, Zoom, and many more. For professionals, it's the ideal tool to bring mobile phones as a source into your live production system. More flexibility and additional perspectives: introduce new camera angles and add vantage points to your coverage to bring completely new dimensions to your live broadcasts, webcasts, and presentations. Note: Requires support for NDI 4 or newer. Download NDI Camera and start streaming from your phone to your network today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Broadcaster from BoxCast at Free against NDI Camera's $19.99. Broadcaster from BoxCast also leads on rating (3.3 vs 3.1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). NDI Camera's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#38 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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
Broadcaster from BoxCast is free to download; NDI Camera costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Broadcaster from BoxCast holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 85 and 187 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 34% of Broadcaster from BoxCast's written reviews are positive against 38% of NDI Camera's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Broadcaster from BoxCast ships an update every 6 weeks, NDI Camera every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Broadcaster from BoxCast | NDI Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 3.3 (85 ratings) — better | 3.1 (187 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 34.1% of reviews | 38.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 85 | 187 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #38 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BoxCast, Inc. | Vi(z)rt, Inc |
Customer experience
Broadcaster from BoxCast
NDI Camera
User reviews
Broadcaster from BoxCast
From 85 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and set up
- ✨ Good video and audio quality
- 🚀 Streams to multiple places
- 💡 Remote account management
- ✅ Stable app performance (for some)
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and instability
- 🔒 Constantly logs users out
- ❌ Difficult account creation
- 🤷♂️ Search function issues
- 🔇 No sound in app
NDI Camera
From 187 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great quality video
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Low latency
- 👍 Works well with OBS
- 👍 Useful for live streaming
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes after updates
- 🐛 Compatibility issues with new devices
- 🔋 Overheating and battery drain
- 🐛 Unstable video transmission
- 🔒 Privacy concerns with open access
Bugs and requests
Broadcaster from BoxCast
Reported bugs
18 issues- Search function bombs on first letter
- App reverts to app screen on Apple TV
- App no longer stores favorites
- App has no sound
- App continually crashes after beginning to stream
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- Overheating issues
- Landscape/portrait orientation issues
- Cannot create an account
- Google verification doesn't work
- Always logging me out
- Crashes on startup
- Unable to stay logged in
- Cannot send link in iPad mini version
- App crashes every time it's opened after an update
- Latest update freezes before login
- Cannot stream as advertised
- Cannot connect to Facebook
- Password issues on app download
Requested features
10 requests- More flexibility in app
- Show sources consistently
- Show tech details
- Option to keep users signed in
- Add backgrounds in mobile app
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- Fix broadcast end time issue
- Allow changing private to public after broadcast
- Add multichat for live-streams
- Improve account deletion options
- Allow adding remote cameras (like Switcher Studio)
NDI Camera
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes on iPhone 17
- Freezing and loss of video feed
- Incompatibility with latest iOS versions
- Horizontal mirroring of video
- Inability to detect device on Mac
Requested features
5 requests- Support for multiple camera lenses
- Ability to select frame rate
- More camera settings (white balance, ISO, etc.)
- Remote control options
- Portrait mode support
In-app purchases
Broadcaster from BoxCast
No in-app purchases
NDI Camera
No in-app purchases
Questions
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