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Product news, hands-on guides and engineering notes — everything about streaming from iPhone.
Guide · Multicam
How to live stream multicam from iPhones — completely free
Two or more iPhones become a wireless multicam studio: live multiview, tally lights, remote control — and every output from one free Mac app. No capture cards, no subscriptions.
Developers · Protocol
Build a receiver with an AI assistant
The wire format is an 18-byte header and some JSON — the size of problem an assistant handles well. The build order that works, and the three things it will get wrong.
Guide · Automation
Make tally drive your presentation software
Two open interfaces that have never been introduced: the tally state Airlive broadcasts, and ProPresenter’s HTTP API. A small script closes the gap.
Perspective · Pricing
What the paid unlock buys
One purchase exists in the whole stack, it costs $14.99 once, and it doesn’t unlock a feature. The reasoning behind charging for the finish rather than the capability.
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Guide · Live events
Put an iPhone on the venue screens
IMAG at a concert or a service without a cable run: the phone reaches ProPresenter, Resolume or anything else that takes NDI — plus the automation nobody has built yet.
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Guide · Multicam
A turnkey multicam iPhone stream — the OBS AirPlay setup
A handful of iPhones, one Mac, one Wi-Fi network: Blackmagic Camera for the image, AirPlay into OBS, Airlive as the switcher. The full rig one operator can run — from a real production.
Perspective · Live production
Do you still need a pro camera rig to live stream?
Platform encoding caps what viewers see. Where dedicated cameras still win, where they don't — and two real budgets: $25,000 vs $260.
Guide · Migration
EpocCam is discontinued — free ways to keep your iPhone in the stream
Elgato has wound EpocCam down. Free, working replacements — Continuity Camera, VDO.Ninja, and the Airlive stack — plus a migration checklist.
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Guide · OBS
iPhone as an OBS camera — 60-second setup, no subscription
A wireless iPhone camera source in OBS Studio in about a minute: free plugin, auto-discovery, latency presets, tally and remote control.
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Guide · Live production
Stream Blackmagic Camera live with Airlive Bridge
Bring a Blackmagic Camera iPhone into your switcher with no capture card — Bridge receives it over AirPlay, then restreams to NDI, SRT, RTSP and OBS.
Explainer · Engineering
Why phones overheat while live streaming — and what actually helps
The physics of phone heat on long streams, field tips that genuinely work, and what a pipeline engineered to run cool actually changes.
Explainer · Engineering
Fixed vs drifting latency: why multicam falls out of sync
Why a fixed, known delay on every camera beats “as fast as possible”, and how latency presets keep cuts clean.
More from the blog
Explainer · Integration When NDI is enough — and when it isn’t Perspective · Engineering Open protocols used to need a developer Developers · Web A camera receiver in the browser Guide · Production Control the cameras, send no video at all Developers · Vision From an iPhone camera into a vision model Developers · Graphics Same machine, no network Explainer · Security What the receiver password actually protects Guide · Outputs How to get NDI, SRT, RTSP or HDMI out of an iPhone Explainer · Tally A tally light on a phone: the broadcast feature mobile never got Explainer · Color Apple Log on iPhone: honest flat monitoring, explained Developers · Protocol An open protocol for iPhone video — build your own receiver Guide · Remote control One operator, four cameras: remote iPhone control over LAN