iVCam Webcam

CASH GRAB! So it gives you most of the features for an hour, takes away a little, and then takes away more features gradually until you're left with an unusable, crappy program. What's worse is that whenever you try to use a feature, it pops up a 1 click buy buttom. Very sneaky producers. Make a good product and people will buy it. P.S. My five star review was because they have a popup that offers to give back features the program took away for a five star review, only to take them away again.

Beware of the newly-added, nasty, intrusive adware! I have been using this app for 3 years and it has worked flawlessly. Went to use it at the beginning of the year for a business meeting and I was horrified that as soon as it launched, an ad began screaming over my cell even though the volume was turned down. You can no longer just purchase the PC version, you must purchase the mobile version as well, and the ads run even while trying to place the order. SOOOO incredibly annoying.

Update to the previous review: I stand corrected. You must enable USB Debugging in developer's options for USB connection to work. It's even explained on their website. Changed to 5 stars. Great app + much cheaper than purchasing a dedicated high quality webcam. Works great with Wi-Fi turned on in the phone's settings. BUT, it is advertised to work over USB too, yet I am unable to get it to connect to my PC over USB only. I purchased the full version only to find out that USB only does not work. Installed it on multiple devices and same thing happens.

I purchased the 9.99 version of this app. At the time of purchase it mentioned nothing of 1 year subscription. Now it is limited to a subscription model of $10 a year. It has been less than 1 year and the app is completely locked down now. I can't adjust lighting etc., there is a watermark, and the company has completely ignored any attempts to contact them via their website. Do not purchase this app. I don't know if there is better software out there, but these guys are shady.

This does allow you to use your cell phone as a webcam and it does that well. On my S9+ the picture was great. However, the problem is audio. Even with a hard wired connection between camera and PC there was a serious delay between the sound and video with the sound lagging the video by over 1/2 second. I tried VSC with no change. Apparently the way sound and video are processes aren't synced. This is particularly odd because the sound processing is much less CPU intensive than the video. The actual video delay wasn't too bad, visible but OK. However with the sound delayed so far it really wasn't usable on Zoom. If the authors ever fix this to really do lip sync, it would be excellent.

I found DroidCam first and had lag issues (about a half-second of video lag) that I couldn't resolve. Just by luck, I saw a random recommendation in a forum for iVCam, gave it a try, and now my phone works as a really good webcam! I really couldn't be more pleased, although I do have to shut off the autofocus because otherwise every time I move, the picture refocuses - but I can shut it off, so that's no problem! Great app!

TERRIBLE. It kept freezing in the middle of the meeting and disconnecting and I needed all the time to restart the app on my phone and on my computer and even though, sometimes was not working and I needed to keep restarting. AND I PAID FOR THE PREMIUM. I emailed them two days ago requesting a refund BUT THEY DIDN'T ANSWER ME. I don't want to try this app anymore. I Just want my money back.

Update: I paid for yearly subscription and it's just gone now. It is by far the best app in the market. No flicker, no buffering. Easy to use. Just use with usb debugging. Works instantly. For 10 bucks a year it's a no brainer. One thing I'd loved is if there was a contrast setting. And exposure lock. There's brightness Option but no exposure. Also for some reason I can't blur my camera. The blur option seems disabled, can you help ?

Keeps shutting down on my android phone. Showing adds after purchasing. So far it seems to work better on my iPhone but, I don't think I trust it enough to use for an upcoming seminar. Even trying to download it onto my laptop, it's I'm guessing game on what you should click on. Says I need to update to the latest version on my laptop but, I I'm unable to locate the update. I suggest you save the 25 bucks for the lifetime membership and find a more professional solution.

UPDATE: Support team restored my license after writing this review. I am still needing to enter my license every time I open the app on the desktop version to unlock the features I paid for. Upgraded to 3 stars from 1 star because the functionality is good. I doubt I will renew the subscription unless they can fix the licensing issues and desktop client. TLDR: good functionality after you need to enter your license every time you open the PC client, but license stopped working. Stopped accepting my one-year license code after five months, this is on top of having to enter my registration code EVERY TIME I open the PC client. Now it is saying the license is being used by another user! You cannot currently register your product on their homepage either, so there is no way to verify your purchase. Sent a support ticket, so we will see how they resolve this issue. I have yet to receive a receipt of the ticket, so I am not confident they will have a resolution for me in a timely manner. So far, do not recommend this purchase.

Works pretty well, but better with a newer phone. I use a spare Samsung S9 phone. Sometimes a little trouble connecting. Takes a lot of power (which is understandable), phone gets hot when it's in use. And since I only use a spare phone I was able to installed an aluminum computer type heat sync on the back of the phone which helps.

This software is feature-packed and nearly flawless, and I was delighted to pay for it. The only real hump in getting it to work over USB is enabling developer options on the phone and then "USB debugging". Streaming HD is with iVCam is awesome. One snag though: I've found that using iVCam long-term, like for a monitor, is not as easy. Every once in a while, the app on the phone crashes and I have to relaunch it. Please make the app more stable if possible.

This camera works and works well! Great user interface, which is much more than I can say for competing apps. Good video quality. Lots of options in the free version too! They don't force you to pay unless you need special (unusual) features. Battery consumption isn't outrageous. Permissions aren't outrageous either. My one suggestion would be to have an option to turn on the phone's notification LED when the camera is activated. That would make me feel safer that nobody was using my camera from elsewhere and spying on me. Also, you should do a one-time pop-up on Android installs to tell them to enable USB debugging if they want to use the phone over USB. Overall, a great app! Good job devs, keep up the good work!

Finally got it downloaded and updated. Seems to be working, again. WARNING: Their site has ads from Slimware at the top, and even planted directly in the middle of the page that are totally unnecessary and very misleading imo, probably causing some users to download unnecessary items. The ads should be removed immediately, as they have nothing to do with the update. Also, I don't like a forced update that renders an app useless, until you update.

Ok, works but meh. Runs my phone battery down fast and hot and my computer froze using it. I have a 32 ram machine made for productivity and typically run excel, power point, zoom, a standard webcam, 20 tabs, all day long... ect. But this... my fan is blowing full speed and my computer crashed. Just this and zoom. Nothing else open. I don't recommend it. Plus the ads are annoying because some can't be closed.

The app is very good, but the problem is the app keeps crashing when I'm trying to switch cameras on my phone, this is very annoying. 😒😒

add usb support also and add for lens selection in my phone like wide, ultra wide, macro, zoom lenses etc....

There's always a delay of 4-6 seconds. Trying different frame rates didn't help. You're also limited to ISO and exposure when it comes to editing. Although there is an auto white balance option, when this is unticked, I can't find the means to alter white balance manually. Contrast, Brightness, colour intensity... lots of common editing options are missing from this app. Also, I have not been able to connect it via USB, only via Wi-fi. That is a fail straight out of the gatem

I bought the paid version of the app and it's been working great so far. I use it via USB cable and I get 0 latency or bugs while using it. That's great! I had one strange problem, though. When I first tried to zoom in within the app in my desktop computer, using the scroll wheel of the mouse like they instruct, my smartphone (a galaxy A5 - 2017) reeboted twice. I don't know if it is still happening and I didn't want to try that again. Another thing: I bought the App here, on the AppStore, but it keeps sending messages on my desktop client suggesting me to buy it also for my PC. I didn't have any problem so far, but it bothers me that the message keeps popping up.

Once set up, it is great. Using it over WiFi isnt that good. USB cable is the way to go for perfect, glitchy and latency free video. Setting it up on Android was a bit fiddly, as you need to install extra drivers, and Android is a bit more of the Wild West when it comes to this. I had to go to a Chinese site, translate the instructions and then run Windows in Test Mode to install. Hassle, but since doing that it has been perfect. Way cheaper than buying a 4K webcam too!