NDI PTZ Control vs AnalogTV
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NDI PTZ Control
Control your NDI PTZ cameras with this app, offering full Pan, Tilt, and Zoom functionality. It includes a live joystick, preset recall, and a built-in monitor for viewing NDI sources. BirdDog users gain access to advanced color matrix tools.
- Full Pan, Tilt, Zoom control
- Live joystick interface
- Save and recall PTZ presets
- In-built NDI source viewing monitor
- BirdDog Cam Control integration
- Color Matrix tools for BirdDog cameras
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NDI PTZ Control is the ultimate iOS app with support for all NDI PTZ regardless of manufacturer. Featuring full Pan, Tilt, Zoom control including a live joystick, and save and recall pre-set PTZ positions. The inbuilt viewing monitor allows viewing of any NDI, NDI HX2, and NDI HX3 source in full screen. NDI PTZ Control becomes even more powerful for BirdDog PTZ Camera users with Cam Control built in to access all the Colour Matrix tools to shade your BirdDog PTZ camera. All this from an iPad or iPhone.
AnalogTV
This app simulates the entire analog television broadcast chain, from camera tube to CRT display. It offers realistic effects based on physics, not filters, with adjustable service menu options and unique phosphor types. Explore a full simulation of vintage television technology.
- Full analog television broadcast simulation
- Multiple camera tube models
- Composite signal encoding (NTSC, PAL, SECAM)
- Eight distinct phosphor types
- Adjustable service menu controls
- Realistic magnet and purity damage effects
- Tube aging and burn-in simulation
- 14 real-time test patterns
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AnalogTV recreates the complete analogue television chain - broadcast camera tube, composite signal encoding, RF transmission, and CRT phosphor display - simulated from physical first principles. Not a vintage filter. Not a post-process effect. A working simulation of every stage of broadcast television, from the camera neck to the phosphor screen. THE COMPLETE BROADCAST CHAIN. Not AI, Not a Filter, the Real Thing. Every frame passes through the same stages as a real television signal. A camera tube mode: Image Orthicon, Plumbicon, Vidicon, or CCD, captures the scene with its characteristic lag, halation, and MTF response. The signal is composite-encoded to NTSC, PAL, or SECAM standards, then decoded through the same mathematics a real television receiver performs. A Metal GPU fragment shader renders each frame onto a simulated CRT phosphor display at 60 fps. ANALOG CAM AnalogCam is a second way to use the app: a point and shoot camera with the console hidden and nine stompbox effect pedals along the bottom. Tap a pedal to latch it, hold it for a momentary hit. They are live while you record, so what you play is what is captured. EIGHT PHOSPHOR TYPES P22 colour television. P31 oscilloscope green. P45 white sub-millisecond. P4 B&W television. P3 amber radar. P7 dual-persistence radar - white flash fading to yellow-green afterglow. P11 deep blue photographic. P24 cyan-green flying-spot. Each calibrated from manufacturer datasheets and IEEE literature. Each shifts the IIR decay constants, rendered colour, and shutdown spot tint independently. SERVICE MENU Access the hidden service menu to make adjustments a television engineer would use: RGB drive and cutoff, convergence, focus voltage, G2 screen voltage, purity, HV regulation, and degauss. Every control operates at the physics level, changing focus changes the modelled electron beam diameter, not a software blur. TUBE AGEING AND SHUTDOWN Cathode emission falls with use. The screen accumulates burn-in at sustained high-brightness areas. Shut the set down and watch the EHT bleed, beam defocus, and phosphor decay to darkness with optional HV arc sounds. 14 TEST PATTERNS SMPTE and EIA colour bars, pluge, crosshatch, multiburst, zone plate, flat fields, and more. Every pattern is generated mathematically in real time. TECHNICAL SUMMARY - Metal GPU rendering at 60 fps - NTSC, PAL, and SECAM composite encoding and decoding - Eight phosphor types from primary source measurements - Four camera tube models with authentic lag and MTF physics - 14 test patterns generated in real time - Shadow mask magnetisation with 128×128 persistence texture - IIR phosphor decay with per-channel time constants - Aperture grille, shadow mask, and slot mask geometries Also on Apple TV as AnalogTV for TV, a separate app with a Teletext interface built for the Siri Remote.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: AnalogTV at $9.99 against NDI PTZ Control's $19.99. AnalogTV also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.4) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). NDI PTZ Control's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On ratings volume, ads, monetization model 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 PTZ Control costs $19.99 and AnalogTV $9.99 up front. AnalogTV sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. NDI PTZ Control asks for nothing beyond the download.
AnalogTV holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 16 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of NDI PTZ Control's written reviews are positive against 91% of AnalogTV's.
NDI PTZ Control ships an update every 3 months, AnalogTV every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NDI PTZ Control | AnalogTV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | $9.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.4 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 230 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BirdDog Australia PTY LTD | Alastair Bor |
Customer experience
NDI PTZ Control
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In-app purchases
NDI PTZ Control
No in-app purchases
AnalogTV
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