NDI Camera vs OBS Controller
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
OBS Controller
Control your OBS Studio scenes and audio directly from your mobile device. This app allows you to switch scenes, manage audio sources, and control stream outputs with ease. It offers features like hiding unwanted scenes and delaying commands for synchronization.
- Mobile OBS scene switching
- Control stream/recording output
- Mute audio sources
- Hide unwanted scenes
- Configure command delays
- Show/hide scene elements
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Simple is better. This app is focused on having a simple mobile scene switcher in OBS. In OBS v28 and later it should work out of the box. For earlier versions, it requires the obs-websocket plugin to be installed. You can download it here: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-websocket-remote-control-obs-studio-from-websockets.466/ - Hide scenes that you don't want to accidentally switch to - Control your stream, recording or virtual camera output - Show/hide individual scene elements - Mute audio sources - Configure a delay for the commands in case you want to sync scene switches with camera delays
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: OBS Controller at $1.99 against NDI Camera's $19.99. OBS Controller also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). NDI Camera's advantage is review sentiment (38% vs 23%) and chart position (#37 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
NDI Camera costs $19.99 and OBS Controller $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
OBS Controller holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 187 and 52 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of NDI Camera's written reviews are positive against 23% of OBS Controller's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
NDI Camera ships an update every 2 months, OBS Controller every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NDI Camera | OBS Controller |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.1 (187 ratings) | 4.2 (52 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.6% of reviews — better | 23.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 187 — better | 52 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #37 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vi(z)rt, Inc | Fallen Starlight AB |
Customer experience
NDI Camera
OBS Controller
Bugs and requests
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
OBS Controller
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
NDI Camera
No in-app purchases
OBS Controller
No in-app purchases
Questions
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