The Airlive Blog.
Product news, hands-on guides and engineering notes — everything about streaming from iPhone.
Guide · Multicam
How to live stream multicam from iPhone cameras — completely free
Two or more iPhone cameras become a wireless multicam studio: live multiview, tally lights, remote control — and every output from one free Mac app. No capture cards, no subscriptions.
Guide · Control
Run Airlive Bridge from a Stream Deck
Every camera on its own key, lit red on air and green in preview. CUT, Auto Cut with its countdown, lens keys, and dials that drive the camera you are about to take.
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 iPhone cameras, 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.
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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