iPhone → video sender · remote control
A broadcast camera
in your pocket. Streamed anywhere.
Record locally or stream a clean feed over Wi-Fi to any receiver — Airlive Bridge, OBS, or your own app.
Streams to any receiver
Why Airlive
A camera first — open by design.
Power-efficient
Tuned hardware encoding keeps power draw low on long streams.
Full control
Manual exposure, WB, focus & ISO — color spaces and LUT import.
Send it anywhere
One feed, any receiver — Airlive Bridge, OBS, or your own app.
Open ecosystem
Studio-grade live, wide open.
We push the iPhone camera as far as it goes and hand you the whole pipeline. One open protocol carries the video and camera control, so your feed plugs into our tools or yours. No lock-in.
First-party · free
Airlive Bridge
A free Mac switcher: receive every camera in a live multiview, CUT between them, and restream — NDI, OBS, RTSP, SRT.
Open source
Airlive for OBS
Three plugins — Camera, Bridge, and Screen Mirroring — turn your feeds into clean OBS sources.
Open source
Build your own
Open code + spec: receive the feed, push camera controls, and tally.
How it connects
Pick the Mac. That's the setup.
No IP addresses, no capture cards, no pairing codes — the app finds your Mac on the network and you're live. The clips below are screen recordings of the actual apps.
Tally light
Operators always know if they're live.
CAM 1 is your iPhone. As the director cues and cuts, your tally glows — green when you're next, red when you're on air. Try the switcher →
Manual mode
No exposure jump when you switch lenses.
Shooting manual exposure? Each lens lets in a different amount of light. ISO compensation scales ISO per lens, so switching from 0.5× to 5× holds the same exposure — no jump, live.
Same exposure on every lens · example values
The whole point
Built to run cool.
Most camera apps cook the phone and start throttling. Airlive is designed to avoid that — a tuned, efficient pipeline that helps hold a normal temperature and a normal battery drain.
- Designed to avoid throttling
- Battery drains at a normal phone rate
Recommended setup
One good router, wired to your Mac.
It all runs on your local network. For a rock-solid stream: a good router, Mac on Ethernet.
A solid Wi-Fi network keeps every camera stable.
Open the app — they join as channels.
Wire the Mac with Cat5e (1 Gb) or higher — the stream never wavers.
Tripods, gimbals, and phone mounts — handy for steady, hands-free shots.
More iPhones? The limit is your network, not the app.
Pricing
One app. One small unlock.
Record and stream with the full app. The one paid unlock removes the watermark from your live stream — recordings are always clean.
Free
- The full camera app — use it like any camera
- Local recording
- Live streaming — with a small corner watermark
- Tally light included
- Connect as many iPhones as your network handles
Remove the live watermark
- Removes the live-stream watermark — that's it
- Everything else stays unlimited
- Pay once — yours forever
- No subscription, no feature gates
Early pricing — $15 one-time, may change.
Questions
Good to know.
What is Airlive Camera?
An iOS app that makes your iPhone a pro camera — record locally, or stream a clean feed to any receiver.
Where can I send the feed?
Airlive Bridge — our free Mac control room — plus OBS via our plugin, or your own app. The protocol's open.
What costs money?
Just one thing: removing the watermark from your live stream — $15 one-time. Recordings never carry a watermark. (Early pricing; may change.)
Will it overheat my phone?
It's designed not to throttle, and the battery drains at a normal rate. Runtime depends on your own phone and battery, so we don't promise a number — but nothing here pushes it harder than normal use.
Do I need a capture card or cables?
No. iPhones send a clean feed over Wi-Fi — no capture card, no cables.
Which iPhones work?
Any iPhone on iOS 17 or newer.
Can I build on the protocol myself?
Yes. The spec, the OBS plugins and example receivers are public on GitHub — read the feed, push camera controls, and wire Airlive into your own app or workflow.
Point your iPhones. Go live.
The iPhone app is coming soon to the App Store — it'll be free. Meanwhile, get the free Mac tools and the open protocol below.