Corsair acquires EpocCam app that turns an iPhone into a Mac webcam

EpocCam is a two-part app that turns your iPhone into a webcam, and it has been acquired by Corsair to bolster its content creator product portfolio.

Corsair is known for its mouse and keyboard products as well as its Elgato subsidiary. Elgato specializes in streaming hardware and software, and the EpocCam app will be joining the company's product line.

To note the purchase, EpocCam has relaunched on iOS with an all new UX and better integration with Elgato products. The company notes that further updates are planned to improve product integrations.

Corsair says that EpocCam is one of the leading video apps in the App Store. The app uses the cameras on an iPhone or an iPad to function as a webcam for Windows PCs and Macs for use with Zoom, Skype, OBS Studio, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams.

You can download the EpocCam app combo from the App Store, with one component on your iPhone and one on your Mac or Windows PC, and it will enable 640x480 streams wirelessly for free. A pro version is available for $7.99 for full 1080p streams, enables using the iPhone as a mic, and adds HDR support.

Apple's latest Mac models have taken some criticism for only including 1080p webcams. Users often seek out expensive 4K cameras for use in their streams or video calls, though that isn't necessary.

The push for WFH has seen many new apps and startups try to innovate in the space, like Camo. AppleInsider previously covered the best ways to handle video conference in from home, and mentioned EpocCam as an option.

4 Comments

kevinp 3 Years · 1 comment

About 3 years ago

Er what new Macs come with 1080p web cams as standard? Not the brand new M1MacBook Pros anyway. Having paid fir the top of the range with 2TB, 16gb Ram etc, I’m disgusted to discover it still has a horrible 720p web cam, the kind of resolution you get with something fir the price of a cup of coffee in your local store. Otherwise people wouldn’t still be struggling to find solutions to a basic communications problem computers should have lung since solved. More of the ongoing greed of the Apple Machine methinks.

Mike Wuerthele 8 Years · 6906 comments

kevinp said:

Er what new Macs come with 1080p web cams as standard? Not the brand new M1MacBook Pros anyway. Having paid fir the top of the range with 2TB, 16gb Ram etc, I’m disgusted to discover it still has a horrible 720p web cam, the kind of resolution you get with something fir the price of a cup of coffee in your local store. Otherwise people wouldn’t still be struggling to find solutions to a basic communications problem computers should have lung since solved. More of the ongoing greed of the Apple Machine methinks.

The iMac does.

While I agree with the fact that 1080p should be across the line, "struggling to find solutions to a basic communications problem computers should have [long] since solved. More of the ongoing greed of the Apple Machine methinks" is really over-the-top hyperbole, especially since your video signal is about the size of either an index card to as small as a postage stamp, depending on how many meeting participants there are.

crowley 15 Years · 10431 comments

AppleInsider said:

Apple's latest Mac models have taken some criticism for only including 1080p webcams. Users often seek out expensive 4K cameras for use in their streams or video calls, though that isn't necessary.

Seems a little judgemental for AI to decide what is and isn't necessary for undefined users of streaming and video chat. Unecessarily judgemental, I'd say.

crowley said:

AppleInsider said:

Apple's latest Mac models have taken some criticism for only including 1080p webcams. Users often seek out expensive 4K cameras for use in their streams or video calls, though that isn't necessary.

Seems a little judgemental for AI to decide what is and isn't necessary for undefined users of streaming and video chat. Unecessarily judgemental, I'd say.

There is not judgement, unnecessary or other, in the text. Given that nearly every Zoom call streams at 1080p or less, it isn't necessary for nearly every user. Twitch streamers or the like? Sure. Nearly every other user? Literally no need.

There's a reason the front-facing camera on an iPhone is 1080p, when it could easily be 4K.

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