ZestCam vs SRT Multiviewer

ZestCam turns your iPhone into a professional camera for OBS. Stream a clean 4K picture over Wi‑Fi with SRT, or send it over USB and HDMI. No watermark and no on-screen controls in your shot. TWO WAYS TO CONNECT • Wireless SRT: stream over your local Wi‑Fi straight into an OBS Media Source. Encrypted, low latency, no capture card needed. • USB and HDMI: connect the iPhone to your computer or a capture card. The screen becomes a clean full-screen feed and the controls hide themselves. On HDMI, the phone's own screen dims. PRO IMAGE QUALITY • Up to 4K at 60 fps, plus 4K30, 1080p60 and 1080p30, depending on your iPhone. • Picks the best camera format automatically, with video stabilization. • H.264 or HEVC. HEVC uses about a third less bandwidth at the same quality. • The picture follows how you hold the phone, in landscape or portrait. AUDIO • Turn on the microphone to send sound to OBS along with the picture. CAMERA CONTROLS • Tap to focus and expose. Long-press to lock AE/AF. Slide to adjust exposure. • Pinch to zoom up to 5×, moving smoothly between the ultra-wide and wide lenses. • Switch between the front and back cameras in one tap. BUILT TO STAY LIVE • Reconnects automatically after short network drops. • Lowers the bitrate when Wi‑Fi gets busy and raises it again when it clears. • Brings the picture back after calls and other interruptions. • Steps down from 4K to 1080p if the phone gets too hot, so the feed keeps going. • Keeps the screen awake while you're live. • Shows bitrate, frame rate, latency and packet loss on screen. SET UP IN A MINUTE 1. Enter your computer's IP address. 2. Copy the link, share it, or show it as a QR code, then paste it into an OBS Media Source. 3. Tap Start streaming. A built-in guide walks you through it, and every error tells you what went wrong and how to fix it. GREAT FOR Live streaming, online classes, church services, meetings, podcasts, tutorials, product demos and multi-camera setups. Works with OBS Studio on Mac and Windows. SUBSCRIPTION ZestCam Pro unlocks every feature. Choose a yearly subscription with a free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings > [your name] > Subscriptions. Support: qiueye@gmail.com Privacy Policy: https://waynerqiu.github.io/ios_privacy_policy/ZestCam.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

$39.99 once. No subscription. Ever. SRT Multiview shows you every SRT feed at once, tells you which one is unhealthy, and explains what the numbers mean while you work. Pay once, own it, monitor your feeds. TEACHES THE PROTOCOL AS YOU WORK Every metric the app shows — RTT, packet loss, jitter, reconnect state — has a one-tap explanation: what it is, what good and bad look like, and the one lever that moves it. When a stream goes unhealthy, the diagnostic tells you what the app already tried and what is left for you to try — including when the bottleneck is your network and nothing in the app will fix it. SRT reject reasons appear with a plain-language translation, not just a code. WHAT IT DOES — Plays SRT streams in a live multi-view grid, up to 16 tiles on iPad (4×4) and up to 9 on iPhone (3×3). One AVPlayer per tile, one socket per tile. No time-slicing, no silent decoder pauses. — Import and export your stream library as JSON presets — from a file or a QR code. A tech lead provisions a preset; the crew scans it on arrival; the grid is live in seconds. Your setups move between devices. — Exposes the full per-stream SRT control set under an Advanced drawer — latency, oheadbw, maxbw, passphrase, caller/listener/rendezvous mode — without forcing first-run users to configure anything. — Auto-reconnects per tile with exponential backoff when a feed drops, without disturbing the other tiles. — Shows per-stream health as colored tile chrome (green / amber / red) keyed to RTT and packet loss. The "which one is unhealthy" question gets answered in under a second. — Runs a capacity probe before lighting up a heavy grid. Tells you the iPad can drive six 1080p tiles before you commit to eight. WHO IT'S FOR Broadcast engineers running cellular contribution from the field. Livestream operators monitoring 4+ feeds during a multi-cam event. AV technicians staging IP video. Sports and event camera ops. IPTV power users with their own URLs who want a clean, ad-free player. LITE (FREE) vs PRO ($39.99) Lite: single-stream SRT plus 1×2 multi-view at 1080p, basic stats, JSON preset import, no ads, no account, no time limit. Pro: 2×2, 3×3, and 4×4 grids; full per-stream SRT tuning; stats export; preset export; keyboard shortcuts; PiP on iPhone; Family Sharing. Pro unlocks once. No subscription renewal. No "Pro Plus" upsell. BUILT FOR THE FIELD Industry research puts cellular contribution at 54% of broadcasters in 2026, up from 46% the year before. The SRT feed originating from a phone is no longer the exception. SRT Multiview is built for that workflow: VideoToolbox hardware decode per tile, low-latency configuration, and a reconnect state machine that survives the elevator and the tunnel. PORTABLE PRESETS Import and export your stream library as JSON presets. One preset file moves your setups between the devices you carry — provision once, run anywhere. PRIVACY No accounts. No analytics SDK collecting personal data. No ads. Stream URLs and passphrases stay on the device, in app-private storage. The only network connections the app initiates are the SRT sessions you configure. Built by a working developer who ships a craft release every quarter.