NDI Monitor

Don’t work at all, don’t buy

This app does an excellent job of finding NDI sources and of playing both NDI audio and video. Highly recommended!

Works to receive well, but can only view any source in landscape even if the source is portrait. It gets fit to window to yield big black bars on the left and right of a smaller portrait window

Beta app at best Things work on ipad but not refined No audio on iphone App crashed into a loophole

Finds and displays all available NDI feeds. Note- on some iPhones with silent switch on side, silencing the ringer will also silence NDI audio.

Once you enable Hi-Res NDI and Retina in settings, it looks halfway decent (those should be enabled by default, or at least you should be told that it will look like garbage until you do that). To those saying the audio doesn't work, I've discovered you cannot have your device in silent mode for it to work, unlike several other apps that show video or make noise. It freezes and crashes quite a bit. I found any time I switched sources, it would either crash or freeze requiring a full close and re-open of the app. Though, half the time, when closing the app, it'll crash itself, meaning if I switch to another app for a second and come back, it'll have crashed and I'll need to select my source again and wait the sometimes 30, even up to 45 seconds for it to reconnect to my source, if it does at all. I also find it randomly crashes, such as when getting a system-wide alert, or sometimes even when getting a notification from an app. Swiping down and opening control center (even just beginning to swipe down, by accident, and not opening it all the way) will also result in a crash, similar with pulling down to see your notifications in Notification Center. It also requires a fairly new device to keep the stream going. The preceding thoughts were written based on my experience using it on my iPhone XS Max. When it tried it on my iPad Air 2 (admittedly an old device but it still holds up to other tasks and even some games quite well), the stream was very jerky and the audio cut out a lot, eventually causing the app to crash. It should be noted the two devices were in the same physical location, which is quite close to the Wi-Fi access point, and gets a very respectable amount of bandwidth in iPerf tests on both my phone and iPad. I have not tried wiring the iPad (or my phone for that matter) in with the USB-Ethernet adapter + lightning camera connection kit, but I'll give it a shot. I suspect it won't help the stuttering and jerkiness on the iPad, though. Overall, I'm disappointed with this app and wish there were alternative apps available. The only reason I'm giving the app 2 stars is because it does actually receive and show NDI and audio (most of the time, anyways). It's interesting, because I quite frequently use the Sienna NDI Monitor app on my Mac, along with a few of their other NDI tools (I actually prefer their NDI Monitor over NewTek's), and would have expected more from them in an iOS app. The app is very much not worth the $9.99 I spent on this ap

A great app for monitoring our livestreaming PC without much delay! The app is much improved with the new version's auto relaunch of your last used source.

This is the only app out there that does what it does, so it’s hard to make comparisons. The basic functionality works fine — it detects and displays NDI a/v streams. Sometimes the video freezes when switching between apps and requires an app restart, but usually reselecting the source will reset it. Where it falls down are the little things that you expect to work but don’t. The audio output won’t play over Bluetooth, so you can’t use wireless headphones or speakers. The app hasn’t been built with iPad multitasking support, so you can’t do side-by-side mode or picture-in-picture, which would be really useful if you’re monitoring a stream that you’re controlling with another app. For the price, a little more polish would be nice, but until there’s some competition, I don’t know if we’ll see it.

Works great however having issues with audio (no audio seems to play) and newtec scan converter seems to crash it. Could be a great tool if issues addressed. Iphone Xs Max iOS 14.1/ Mac Book Pro/ Google Wifi AP

App works as described. But it can be difficult to exit app and it will not auto rotate. Tried emailing support, never heard back