IkaCamera for Splatoon vs TetherCam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IkaCamera for Splatoon
This app lets you create images that resemble Splatoon ink paintings. Select an image, paint it with ink, and then save or share your creation on social media.
- Ink painting effect
- Image selection
- Interactive painting tool
- Save and share functionality
- Social media integration
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# What is Squid Camera? It is an image processing application that allows you to create images that look like they have been painted with Splatoon ink. # How to use 1. First, select the image you want to process by clicking the "Make" button on the top screen! 2. Tap the selected image and paint it with ink! 3. Save the completed image or share it on SNS such as Twitter! # Attention This app is an unofficial application of Splatoon. This app is not affiliated with Nintendo Co.
TetherCam
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Your iPhone, instead of a webcam. TWO APPS, ONE CABLE TetherCam is two free apps. TetherCam for Mac is downloaded from tethercam.app; TetherCam for iPhone is this one. Install both, connect the phone to the Mac with the USB cable you already own, and the iPhone shows up as the camera "TetherCam" on the Mac, in the same camera picker as the built-in one. It works in every Mac app that lists system cameras: Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, FaceTime, QuickTime Player, Safari, Chrome and the rest. Zoom and Microsoft Teams were verified on 10 September 2026. Nothing travels over Wi-Fi, nothing passes through a server, nothing is uploaded anywhere. There is no account, no pairing code and no discovery step. The cable is the whole path, which is why the picture stays stable in a crowded room where wireless cameras start to stutter. WHAT YOU NEED An iPhone with iOS 17 or newer, a Mac with macOS 14 or newer, and the USB cable that came with the phone. The free TetherCam Mac app asks once for approval of its camera extension in System Settings; after that the camera is simply there. THE HONEST LIMITS The Mac app carries the picture only. A Mac camera extension has no audio stream, so the sound stays with the Mac's own microphone. Audio over the cable exists, but only on the OBS path below. This iPhone app stays open in the foreground while it sends. The phone serves one receiver at a time. The Mac app and the OBS plugin are not used together; whichever connects second is told that the line is busy. ON THE PHONE Live preview from the moment you open the app, before anything is connected. A camera and lens picker for the wide, ultra wide and telephoto lenses or the front camera, switching the stream immediately. Automatic rotation that follows the horizon rather than the interface. Turn the phone and the picture stays level, because the orientation is resolved on the capture side. There is a manual angle override when you want to decide yourself. Hardware HEVC encoding, which keeps the phone cool and the latency low. A diagnostics panel that shows what is actually happening: listener state, connection, frames per second, bitrate and the measured levelling residual. FOR STREAMING AND RECORDING: OBS STUDIO The TetherCam plugin for OBS Studio is the pro path, also free and also at tethercam.app. It adds a source called TetherCam directly in OBS, finds the phone through the same cable, and it is the only path that brings the microphone of the phone across as well. PRIVACY No account, no analytics, no advertising, no purchases. The camera picture goes to your own Mac and nowhere else. Nothing is collected. TetherCam for iPhone is free and open source under the MIT licence at github.com/Kanevry/tethercam.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: TetherCam at none against IkaCamera for Splatoon's shown. TetherCam also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 52 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
IkaCamera for Splatoon ships an update every 52 months, TetherCam daily. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IkaCamera for Splatoon | TetherCam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 52 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Keisuke Tatsumi | Bernhard Goetzendorfer |
In-app purchases
IkaCamera for Splatoon
No in-app purchases
TetherCam
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is IkaCamera for Splatoon free?
Is TetherCam free?
Do IkaCamera for Splatoon or TetherCam have ads?
Which is updated more often, IkaCamera for Splatoon or TetherCam?
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