Plug a USB-C capture card into your iPad and CamX turns it into a low-latency capture display for gaming, streaming, and filmmaking — with real-time video effects and broadcast monitoring built in.
Real-time effects, professional monitoring, and full manual control — a studio in your pocket.
CRT scanlines, screen curvature, shadow masks, retro pixel styles, LCD grids, VHS, NTSC composite, dithering, night vision, film grain, chromatic aberration, and more. Apply live and capture directly into your video and photos.
Save and switch between custom effect presets instantly. Dial in your look once — recall it with a tap.
Enhance low-resolution sources with sharper visuals. Three-tier engine: VT Super Resolution, MetalFX Spatial, and a Metal unsharp shader.
RGB, Luma, and RGB Parade histograms. Waveform, RGB waveform, and vectorscope — all Metal-accelerated, full frame rate.
Focus peaking with color and sensitivity, zebra stripes for overexposure, and false-color heat maps. The same tools your DP uses.
Real-time preview with custom .cube LUT import. Plus built-in presets — Film, Teal & Orange, Vintage, Monochrome.
Manual exposure, white balance, and lens adjustments. Custom resolution, frame rate, and codec settings. Plus picture profiles — contrast, saturation, color temperature.
Aspect ratio masks (2.39:1, 2:1, 1.85:1, 4:3, 1:1, 9:16), rule of thirds, golden ratio, crosshairs, center marker, and configurable guide colors.
Connect a USB capture card to an iPad with USB-C — instantly turn it into a portable display for gaming, streaming, or filmmaking.
Clean feed mode with HDMI / USB-C output — no overlays on the external display. Perfect for monitors and streaming setups.
Manage photos and videos directly in the app. Lock the screen to prevent accidental touches during long recordings.
Switch modes to reconfigure the UI, the HUD, and the performance envelope — so the camera gets out of your way.
Minimal overlay with low latency, optimized for capture cards. Perfect for consoles and retro hardware.
Full monitoring tools including histogram, scopes, focus peaking, LUTs, composition guides, and picture adjustments.
Pro unlocks VFX effects, advanced monitoring tools, custom skins, and more. Everything you already love about CamX stays free.
20+ effects across 7 categories, rendered in Metal. Real-time and recorded.
Scanlines · Curved · Lottes · Aperture grille · Shadow mask · Barrel distortion · Bloom.
LCD subpixel grid · Pixel sharp · Retro classic · Retro color.
NTSC composite · VHS · Digital glitch · Dithering.
Night vision · Film grain · Chromatic aberration · Color halftone — cinematic looks applied in real time over the full capture pipeline.
FXAA · SMAA · CAS · AI upscaling — pristine output even from modest sources.
Written in Swift with an @Observable state model, lock-free capture pipelines, and a GPU-first rendering architecture.
Zero-copy YCbCr→RGB via CVMetalTextureCache. Custom fragment shaders for every effect.
CIFilter chains for picture adjustments, LUTs, and monitoring overlays.
AVAssetWriter with thread-safe WriterState behind OSAllocatedUnfairLock.
Native UVC capture on iPad with USB-C — full format, resolution, and frame rate control.
Yes, on iPad with USB-C. CamX supports UVC-compatible USB cameras, webcams, and HDMI capture devices on iPad running iPadOS 17 or later, with full control over format, resolution, and frame rate. iPhone does not support USB cameras.
Yes. Connect a USB-C capture card to an iPad and CamX instantly turns it into a low-latency portable display — perfect for gaming, streaming, or filmmaking.
Yes. When VFX or picture adjustments are active, CamX bakes the effects into the recorded video and photos — not just the preview.
CamX requires iOS 17.0 or later and runs on both iPhone and iPad. Photo capture via the volume button requires iOS 17.2+.
Free to download. Pro features unlock the full studio.