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Mirage Capture

The crew you already own.

Use your iPhone as a wireless camera in OBS and as your Mac’s webcam, record every angle in sync, and turn your iPad into a capture-card monitor.

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One purchase for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. No subscription.

Every camera you own, in one studio on your Mac.

Mirage for Mac brings in your iPhones and iPads over Wi-Fi, adds the Mac’s own camera and screen, and arranges them for you. Use the result as your camera in any call, stream it, or record every angle.

Mirage for Mac with an iPad’s capture card as the main picture and the Mac’s camera in a bubble

Drag one source onto another to make a group, and Mirage arranges it for you: side by side, or cameras in bubbles over a screen or a capture card.

  • Your iPhone as a studio cameraZoom, focus, set exposure, and record on it from the Mac, when the iPhone allows it.
  • Stream and record at onceSend the show out over RTMP or RTMPS, up to 1080p at 60 fps, while every camera records.
  • PrivateNo account and no cloud. Connections between Mirage devices are encrypted and paired with a six-digit code.

Requires macOS 26 or later. Included with Mirage Capture. More about Mirage for Mac

Camera on iPhone on its side, filming a podcast host, with lens, zoom, focus, and Record

On Windows, macOS, or Linux, Mirage shows up in OBS as an NDI® source, with its sound. OBS 31.1.1 or later needs the DistroAV plugin and the NDI Runtime: set it up.

Your iPhone is a camera for OBS.

Your iPhone’s camera and microphone, over Wi-Fi, as an NDI® source in OBS, as your Mac’s webcam in any call, or in a browser, while the iPhone records its own copy.

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Director on iPhone running a Mac’s studio: the Interview group on the stage, Replay, Marker, Stop, and Stream, and Studio Controls with the layout, the main camera, and Follow the Speaker on

Replay, Marker, Record, and Stream under the Mac’s stage; Studio Controls for the layout and Follow the Speaker. A tap only changes the stage: the Virtual Camera button decides what calls see.

Run the show from your iPhone or iPad.

Run your Mac’s studio from across the room: put any source on its stage, record, add markers, replay, and stream. Or watch up to four cameras at once.

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The Mirage for Mac player with a podcast take: the picture, a timeline, and a lane for every source
Microphone on iPhone heard by a Mac, with its level, Mute, and Record

Any iPhone is a wireless mic.

Put a spare iPhone near the voice you want. Your Mac hears it over Wi-Fi and gives every voice its own track, even with the phone’s screen locked.

The iPhone can also record a copy of its own, which a Wi-Fi drop can’t reach, for the Mac to collect when you allow it.

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Capture Card on iPad with false color: the exposure of the picture shown as colored zones

False color shows brightness as zones: red where it clips, pink for skin, green for middle grey. The tools stay on your iPad: recordings and broadcasts get the clean picture.

Your iPad is a camera monitor.

Plug a camera, a console, or a computer into a USB‑C iPad through a UVC capture card, and watch it with its sound. Check focus and exposure with false color, zebras, and focus peaking.

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Director on iPad showing Mihir’s iPhone’s screen full screen, with its sound on: the grid of class photos the iPhone is sharing with Screen Share
An iPhone sharing its screen: a plain grid of class photos, with the red screen-sharing indicator in the status bar

Share your screen with the room.

Demo an app or walk someone through a task. Your iPhone’s or iPad’s screen, with the app’s sound, on another iPhone or iPad, a Mac, OBS, or a browser.

Director on the other device shows it full screen, as here; enter its code the first time. NDI and Browser need no code.

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Mirage Capture on Apple Watch recording an iPhone camera, with its picture
Camera
Mirage Capture on Apple Watch running a Mac studio: the podcast on its stage, and the Mac recording for 25 minutes
Director
Mirage Capture on Apple Watch recording an iPhone microphone, with Mute
Microphone

Roll from your wrist.

Record, flip the camera, switch lenses, and turn on the light from Apple Watch, with the camera’s picture on your wrist. Run your Mac’s studio, or mute a microphone, without touching the phone.

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Three steps to your crew.

  1. The Mirage Capture home screen on iPhone

    Get it

    One purchase installs Mirage Capture on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.

  2. Camera’s Mirage Broadcast page on iPhone: broadcasting, one device connected, and the six-digit pairing code

    Start a source

    Camera, Screen Share, Microphone, or Capture Card. Its Outputs send it to Mirage, NDI®, or a browser.

  3. Director on iPhone asking for the six-digit code of a Studio iPhone, the first time only

    Pair it once

    On the same Wi-Fi, Director or Mirage for Mac lists it: enter its six-digit code the first time only. NDI and Browser need no code.

Everything a studio needs, built in.

Mirage for Mac does what a studio’s software does, with the iPhones and iPads you have.

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Made for what you make.

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One app, instead of a kit.

A webcam app, a way into OBS, a multicamera recorder, a capture-card monitor, a wireless mic: each is usually its own app or kit. Mirage Capture is all of them, bought once.

Questions

What is Mirage Capture?

Mirage Capture is one app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch that turns the Apple devices you already own into a video crew: your iPhone is the camera, your iPad is the monitor, your Mac is the studio, and Apple Watch is the remote. It uses an iPhone as a wireless camera in OBS (as an NDI® source) and as your Mac’s webcam in Zoom, Google Meet, and FaceTime, records every angle in sync with a timeline for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve, and turns a USB‑C iPad into a capture-card monitor with false color, zebras, and focus peaking. One purchase covers every device, with no account and no subscription.

Why use Mirage Capture instead of separate apps?

Because it does in one app what usually takes several. Using an iPhone or iPad for video usually takes a separate app for each job, often each with its own account or subscription: a webcam app, a way into OBS, a multicamera recorder, a capture-card monitor, and a wireless microphone kit. Mirage Capture does all of these in one app, bought once, and your devices talk to each other directly on your own network.

What do I need to use Mirage Capture?

An iPhone or iPad with iOS 17 or later, and your devices on the same local network. Mirage for Mac (the studio, Mirage Camera, multicamera recording, and streaming) needs macOS 26 or later. Capture Card needs a USB‑C iPad and a UVC capture card. NDI in OBS needs OBS Studio 31.1.1 or later with the DistroAV plugin and the NDI Runtime 6.3 or later.

Does Mirage Capture need a subscription or an account?

No. There is no subscription and no account. Mirage Capture works over your local network, with no cloud.

Can I use my iPhone as a webcam for Zoom, Meet, Teams, or FaceTime?

Yes. Mirage for Mac’s virtual camera, Mirage Camera, shows your iPhone, or a group of cameras, in any Mac app that lets you choose a camera. See How to use your iPhone as a webcam on a Mac.

Is Mirage Capture good for OBS?

Yes. Every Mirage source (an iPhone or iPad camera, a shared screen, an iPad’s capture card, or a microphone) appears in OBS as an NDI® source with its sound, on Windows, macOS, or Linux, wirelessly. OBS needs the DistroAV plugin (another site) and the NDI Runtime, then a restart. On a Mac, Mirage Camera also works in OBS with no plugin. See How to use your iPhone as a camera in OBS.

Is Mirage Capture good for podcasts?

Yes. Put an iPhone in front of each person and, if you like, a spare iPhone near each voice as a microphone. Mirage for Mac records every angle and every voice as its own file, in sync, switches to whoever is talking with Follow the Speaker, writes captions and chapters, and hands you a timeline for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, or DaVinci Resolve. See How to record a video podcast with iPhones.

Do I need to buy it for every device?

No. One purchase includes the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac apps.

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Get Mirage Capture.

One purchase for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. No account, no subscription.

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