Comparison

OBS HUB vs cool

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

OBS HUB

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OBS Hub — Live Production Controller Take control of your live production from anywhere in the room. OBS Hub is a professional remote control surface for OBS Studio, designed for church AV teams, live event operators, and broadcast technicians who need reliable, responsive control without being tethered to a computer. Scene Control Switch scenes instantly, monitor your program output live, and manage studio mode transitions — all from your phone. PTZ Camera Control Pan, tilt, zoom, and recall presets on your PTZ cameras directly from the app. Save custom positions for quick recall during live events. Audio Management Mute, unmute, and adjust volume levels on any audio source. Monitor filters and manage which sources are visible to keep your workspace clean. Stream & Record Start, stop, and monitor your stream and recording with live timers and status indicators. Built for Real Production Works entirely on your local network — no internet required Connects directly to OBS Studio via WebSocket Per-connection settings for multiple venues Designed for volunteers and professionals alike Requirements OBS Studio with WebSocket Server enabled (Tools → WebSocket Server Settings) Same local network as your OBS machine Port 4455 open (default OBS WebSocket port)

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cool

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cool-radar turns the radios already inside your iPhone into a radar for the devices around you — with no extra hardware, and without inventing a single number. WHAT YOU SEE Nearby Bluetooth LE devices appear as contacts with an estimated distance, a bearing once there is enough geometry to support one, and a ranked guess at what each device actually is. The Wi-Fi card shows the link your phone is really on: type, interface, local address and subnet, the default gateway and the gateway's manufacturer. Where both ends have UWB hardware, distance stops being an estimate and becomes a measurement. HONEST BY DESIGN Every value carries a badge. "Measured" is a hardware reading. "Inferred" is a value the math derived. Distances read "ā‰ˆ 4.5 m" because radio ranging is an estimate, not a ruler. When there is not enough geometry for a direction, the app draws a ring of possible positions and a question mark instead of a convincing-looking arrow. And when iOS simply does not expose something — neighbouring Wi-Fi networks, raw spectrum, Wi-Fi CSI — the app says so instead of filling the gap with fiction. THE MATH INSIDE • Log-distance path-loss inversion, with a per-device exponent that recalibrates itself from the geometry you walk • Kalman filtering with motion-gated noise, so a device that is standing still stops drifting on screen • Robust multilateration with Huber weights, so a single reflection off a wall cannot drag a position across the room • A naive-Bayes hypothesis engine that ranks device types from the broadcast name, company ID, advertised GATT services, transmit power, address policy and advertising cadence — and shows you the evidence behind every guess • Behaviour analytics over the signal time series: advertising interval, jitter, trend and periodicity • Radio tomography that maps excess path loss into an attenuation picture of the space FEATURES • Top-down radar with range rings, pinch to zoom, double tap to reset • Device list with search and type filters • Device card with signal history, ranked hypotheses and the evidence for each • Unwanted-tracker heuristics based on public advertising patterns • CSV export of a session • Full Russian and English, switchable inside the app PRIVACY All sensing and all math run on your iPhone. No account, no analytics, no tracking, no advertising identifier. One optional setting — off until you turn it on — may send a 24-bit manufacturer prefix to a public vendor database to name your router. Nothing else ever leaves the device. Use cool-radar only on networks and devices you are entitled to inspect. It does not decrypt Find My identities, does not enumerate neighbouring Wi-Fi networks, and provides no covert tracking of people. REQUIREMENTS iOS 18 or later. Bluetooth works on every iPhone. UWB distance needs U1/U2 hardware on both devices. Room geometry needs a LiDAR model. Anything unavailable on your hardware is shown as unavailable rather than simulated.

Screenshots

OBS HUB4 screens
cool4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: OBS HUB at 3 against cool's 1. OBS HUB also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
OBS HUB versus cool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOBS HUBcool
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB4 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperStanley StradlingZheniy Shacc

In-app purchases

None

OBS HUB

No in-app purchases

None

cool

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OBS HUB free?
OBS HUB is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is cool free?
cool is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do OBS HUB or cool have ads?
Neither OBS HUB nor cool shows ads.

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