Director Utility vs NearStream Multicam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
NearStream Multicam
This app enables users to broadcast live video in 1080P HD to platforms like Facebook and YouTube. It supports simultaneous recording, custom watermarks, and audio/screen control for a richer streaming experience.
- 1080P HD live streaming
- Simultaneous recording
- Facebook and YouTube integration
- RTMP streaming support
- Customizable watermarks
- Audio and screen control
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NearStream allows anyone to broadcast live anytime, anywhere. Through wireless connection to NearStream devices, 1080P HD streaming live broadcast to Facebook, YouTube and other platforms is realized, and streaming simultaneous recording is supported Push the stream to the platform you want at any time: you can choose the live broadcast platform integrated in the application, such as Facebook and YouTube, or push the stream to the platform you want to live broadcast in the form of Rtmp 1080P HD recording: You can record audio and video to your local photo album of your mobile phone, or to the SD card of your VM33 device Add watermark: you can customize the video image, add watermark in the pull stream interface, and make the image richer Audio control: You can control the audio size of NearStream device through APP Screen control: you can achieve the desired screen effect by setting the precise parameters of the device screen
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Director Utility at 5.0 against NearStream Multicam's 2.0. Director Utility also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). NearStream Multicam's advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Director Utility holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 19 respectively.
Director Utility ships an update every 5 weeks, NearStream Multicam every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Director Utility | NearStream Multicam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 2.0 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 174 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nanjing Magewell Electronics Co., Ltd. | SUZHOU AUDITORYWORKS CO.,LTD |
Customer experience
Director Utility
NearStream Multicam
In-app purchases
Director Utility
No in-app purchases
NearStream Multicam
No in-app purchases
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