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Description
TDLidar turns your iPhone into a live depth-sensing camera for TouchDesigner, OBS, Resolume, and any NDI-aware tool on your network.
Streaming the iPhone's TrueDepth or LiDAR signal into a live show used to mean cables, capture cards, custom drivers, and a lot of latency. TDLidar replaces all of that with a single tap. Open the app, tap Start NDI, and the iPhone shows up as a 1080p / 60fps NDI source on every machine on the same Wi-Fi or wired network — ready to drop into TouchDesigner, OBS, or any NDI receiver.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
NDI Depth Streaming
Send the front TrueDepth or rear LiDAR feed over NDI in real time. 15 colormaps, raw depth mode, topographic banding, posterization, depth clipping, and live HD upscale. Every visual setting changes the stream immediately, so you can dial in the look from the iPhone while the receiving machine renders.
OSC Tracking
ARKit body, face, and hand tracking streamed as OSC bundles to TouchDesigner. Plus motion sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, barometer, altitude), live audio analysis (FFT bands, levels, beat detection), and on-device speech transcription via SFSpeechRecognizer. All packaged into clean OSC namespaces with sensible defaults.
Point Cloud Streaming (Pro)
Send a real point cloud to TouchDesigner — either as a depth + RGB stream the receiver can reconstruct, or as direct OSC point data. Expand mode and Fixed Grid mode, with adjustable density, point size, viewer zoom, and per-axis flips.
Pro Features
HD upscale, extended LiDAR range, head overlay (front camera), point cloud streaming, point cloud OSC, raw mode customisation, and the premium colormap pack. Available as a yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase.
WHO IT'S FOR
VJs running live visuals — get a depth-aware camera into Resolume in under a minute.
Projection-mapping artists — drive masks and warps from real-world depth, not a flat camera.
AR / installation developers — prototype with ARKit body and face tracking sent straight into a TouchDesigner patch, no Xcode project required.
Streamers + content creators — depth alpha mattes for cleaner subject keying in OBS, no green screen.
WHY IT WORKS
• Real NDI® Advanced SDK — full bandwidth, low latency, no transcoding hop.
• On-device speech and audio analysis — nothing leaves your network.
• Built for live performance — every Pro setting can be changed mid-show without dropping the stream.
• No accounts, no telemetry, no analytics. Camera and microphone data stay on the phone or on your local network. Period.
REQUIREMENTS
iPhone with front TrueDepth camera or rear LiDAR scanner. iOS 18.6 or later. A receiver running NDI Tools, TouchDesigner, OBS with the NDI plug-in, or any NDI-aware app on the same network.
Download TDLidar, plug your iPhone into your show, and stop fighting your tools.
TDLidar Pro is available as a $9.99/year auto-renewing subscription with a 7-day free trial, or as a $29.99 one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple ID account settings.
What's New in Version 7.5
Version 7.5 sharpens the streaming experience and the controls that drive it.
• New lightswitch icon in the top bar. One tap flips between NDI streaming and OSC tracking — the old tab bar is gone, and the OSC switch has been removed from Settings so the mode change lives where you actually need it.
• Smooth cross-fade between colormaps. Cycling through depth color presets now blends from one to the next instead of snapping, so live audiences don't see a hard cut when you change looks.
• Manual NDI Wired toggle in Performance settings. Flip it on when the iPhone is plugged into a host with Personal Hotspot enabled — the Start NDI button updates to show you're going out over the cable.
• Resolution display fix. The on-screen resolution pill now updates immediately when you switch HD modes mid-session — no more stale numbers when you reach for higher quality.
• Flip Z toggle restored in Fixed Grid Point Cloud mode. Auto-flip stays on by default so depth still reads correctly out of the box; flipping the toggle on overrides it.
• Supercharge mode in Performance settings. Triples NDI buffer pool depth and pins a 100 MB resident scratch region so iOS doesn't compress the working set under load. Trades RAM for sustained FPS.
• Face Detail upgrades. Facial Detail slider now goes up to 5×, and a new Focus Point picker lets you center the depth band on the forehead, eyes, nose, mouth, or the whole face average — fixes a sharpness regression for users who liked the v7.1 look.
• HD Smoothing Strength slider in Filtering settings. Replaces the fixed Gaussian sigma with a 0–3 range so you can dial in just enough smoothing to hide the upscale stair-step without losing band-edge crispness.
• NDI SDK acknowledgements added. The Permissions / About area now includes the full NDI® attribution and license reference, satisfying the NDI SDK terms.
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Name
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Categories
Version
7.5
Size
47.9 MB
Game Center
No
VPP Device Licensing
Yes
Rating
Rated: 4+
Compatibility
iOS 18.6 or later
Devices
iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 16e, iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, iPhone 17e, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air11M4, iPad Air11M4Cellular, iPad Air13M4, iPad Air13M4Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation), Apple Watch Series 4
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