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Camera for OBS Studio

Last updated 2026-08-18 · benchmark measured 2026-08-18 — deterministic & reproducible

Use your iPhone as a high-quality camera source in OBS Studio.

Is Camera for OBS Studio production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Camera for OBS Studio 78 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Camera for OBS Studio (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 99/100
• Accessibility — 96/100
• Security — 45/100
• Privacy — 25/100
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 90/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 293 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

Will Townsend (@wtsnz)

Who it's for

Content creators · Streamers · Podcasters · iOS device owners · Budget-conscious broadcasters

Pricing

Free to try, no upfront payment

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