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Last fall, during covid-19, I started working on an app to use my iPhone as a webcam for my Mac. I had some interest in it, so I recently released it publicly last month.

There are similar apps out there, but to my knowledge my app is the only one that is both 100% free and supports 1080p @ 30 FPS.

Hope any of you find it useful: https://webcamplus.app



I love you for this. I was pulling my hair out trying to hack something together using the crappy apps out there for it. Can’t believe it’s not a native feature. Excited to try this and send it to some friends facing similar issues!


Thank you for the comment, I truly appreciate it! Let me know if you have any questions.


Cool. Are you aware of something similar but Android--> Ubuntu ?


I don't know of any unfortunately, but I have also not looked around for it, so it is possible it exists.


Does the iOS app speaks a known protocol over USB?


For the video stream I am using my own custom protocol, but it is on top of TCP. If that is what you meant.


Yes. Well I was wondering how hard it would be to support other platforms than Mac. Had it used a standard protocol it could have been possible to plug and play a different virtual webcam provider.




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