MLive vs Director Utility
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MLive
This app allows users to remotely configure streaming devices, adjusting settings like resolution, bit rate, and frame rate. It also enables pushing video streams to RTMP platforms for broadcasting.
- Remote device configuration
- Adjust resolution, bit rate, frame rate
- WIFI settings management
- Push video streams to RTMP
- Aggregation streaming device support
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The M Live app mainly serves aggregation streaming devices, and can remotely configure device resolution, bit rate, frame rate, WIFI, etc; Push video streams to the RTMP platform;
Director Utility
Transform your smartphone into a mobile camera source for live shows or SRT streams. This app offers flexible multi-camera switching and remote control for your production devices, ensuring you capture every moment with ease.
- Smartphone as mobile camera source
- Real-time image streaming
- SRT server compatibility
- Flexible multi-camera switching
- Remote assistant control
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The Director Utility App can convert a smartphone into mobile camera, and add the real-time images captured by the phone as a source to a show created in the Director device, or stream to the SRT server. With features of fast access, free control, flexible switching of multiple cameras, you can always grasp the wonderful moments. At the same time, the App also provides a remote assistant function, which makes it much easier control Director device conveniently.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Director Utility at 4 against MLive's 1. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MLive against 5.0 for Director Utility. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
MLive ships an update every 6 weeks, Director Utility every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MLive | Director Utility |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 98 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen yibowangshi Technology Co., Ltd. | Nanjing Magewell Electronics Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
MLive
Director Utility
In-app purchases
MLive
No in-app purchases
Director Utility
No in-app purchases
