A broadcast camera in your pocket. Real manual control, real log, a clean feed and NDI out, from the phone you already own, and the whole camera steered from a second phone or a tablet.
In development · tested every day on a Google Pixel 7
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Most camera apps give you either a pretty automatic picture or a wall of sliders. This one gives you both, parameter by parameter, and then sends the picture where a production needs it: to a card, to NDI, to a screen-share, to OBS.
ISO, shutter, focus and white balance each on a thick mixer fader with its own A / M switch. Pull focus yourself while the camera keeps exposure. Shutter presets in degrees, ISO presets at the sensor's cleanest and highest.
Sony S-Log3, Panasonic V-Log, ARRI LogC3 and LogC4, Blackmagic Film Gen5, in the phone's own tone mapper: in the file and on the stream,.
With no log curve, the phone's own broadcast HLG: a soft highlight shoulder like film, a wide gamut, none of the smartphone processing that flattens light. Half the size of H.264.
The phone appears as a camera in vMix, OBS, Wirecast, NDI Studio Monitor. Over Wi-Fi, or over a USB cable with no network at all.
One key, FULL, and there is nothing on the glass but the picture. Mirror the phone to a computer and it is ready to broadcast.
Tap anywhere to focus there. Pinch the mark from an eye to the whole frame. A focus puller with keyframes on a distance scale racks from one to the next at the speed you choose.
Your own .cube LUTs, focus peaking, false colour and zebra, drawn by the GPU on the monitor only, so the recording keeps its full range.
Kelvin from tungsten to daylight. Tap the triangle on something white: it reads, steps and locks neutral in a few moves.
Record-run timecode, REC, the free space and the hours left on the drive, to the phone or a USB-C SSD. Every lens one key. The LED as a light on a fader. An UPDATE key brings the newest version.
A phone's screen is wider than 16:9, so the keys go in the black margins and never sit on the shot. Grey is off, green is on, dark is a key this phone cannot honour.
Screenshots from the phone are on their way.
Put a phone on a tripod as a camera and steer it from a second phone or a tablet with Camera Remote, the sister app that comes with every release. The camera's own screen appears on the remote and every touch goes back: record, lens, focus, exposure, white balance, the look. In the room over Wi-Fi, or from anywhere in the world over 4G through a free private network.
Phones on tripods as cameras, Sony Alpha bodies beside them, every picture and every control on one tablet.
No tablet at all: Camera Remote on one phone runs the camera phones, and Mantra Sony Remote runs the Sony bodies.
A focus puller on the remote: a distance scale with keyframes, and a rack between them at the speed you set. The phone's lenses are its zoom: wide, main, tele, one key each. Quality per network, set live: frame rate, size and bit rate, Wi-Fi and 4G each remembering their own.
Next to the phones, Sony Alpha bodies join the same tablet through Mantra Sony Remote: one key per camera and a multiview of what is live.
Santoshi Kirtan Band carries its whole sound and video in one rolling rack. One drawer holds the tablet: open it, and every camera, the recording and the picture are in your hands.
Google Pixel 7 is the reference phone: a feature is not called done until it works there, and every release survives 20,000-touch stress runs on its emulator. Nothing Phone (2a) is being tested. Phones differ in what their cameras can do: the app says so in words when a phone cannot, and carries on.
About €22, with a free trial: every feature on your own phone before you pay. Until then the latest build is free to download and install.
The latest build on GitHub →Exposure that knows the log curve, a grey-card sweep that finds white balance by itself, waveform and vectorscope, the phone as a webcam for a Mac, and tracking focus.
The camera is free to try while it grows. Every gift goes into its development: the phones to test on, the hours of coding, the next features on the list above. Give what feels right.
