Larix Broadcaster Reviews

I loved LarixBroadcaster when it was free now that it has subscriptions with bugs that have been there since the beginning it sorta is disappointing to see. The bug that I been running into is while swapping between cameras it sometimes causes the application to drop all audio. If that was fixed possibly maybe I’d consider getting the subscription but until then I’ll see myself out. All I can ask is to please reconsider I get it is better to get paid for your work but at least fix the bugs before you decide to make it a paid product.

UPDATE: I did update to your new version from 2 days ago, and the rotation bug is NOT fixed for overlays on PREVIEW, which I use extensively to read live chat and alerts! Its still upside down on preview and only right side up on the live end feed. Please test your product because its frustrating having to pay subscription for the product and be your QA as well. I use the software 5 days a week and this has been broken for 2 versions now, I can now only broadcast without live rotation mode until this is fixed… very frustrated.

Had no problem with paying monthly fee except now there are more bugs than ever!! Latest bug makes overlays upside down when using live rotation mode, is there anyone even testing LarixBroadcaster before releasing new versions? Not to mention it now crashes freq and does not support srtla … it was a good app I will give it one more week to fix the upside down overlays before deleting and cancel my monthly sub.

This company screwed its customers by taking a free application and then making it a monthly fee. They jumped from the best option, to the absolute worst option. I don’t mind if they make LarixBroadcaster a one time purchase, I’d even be willing to spend $100 on it. But I’m not paying a monthly fee just to possess an app. They don’t provide any monthly service, you have to provide your own details into LarixBroadcaster . So they are literally collecting free money every month.

It would have been nice to have received an email notice that you were changing to a subscription based service. You offered something really great for churches, enabling those of us who are small, to go live and have a presence out there. But to only find out that you now charge and cut us off on the day we need you the most…really poor business practice. Your generosity was great while it lasted but if this is the way you do business we can’t be involved. Thanks for the NO heads-up.

Great features! Best live streaming app out there especially for twitch IRL from an iPhone. until recently you could go live as long as you wanted no issues. Now if you stream over 30 minutes they place an ugly watermark over your stream unless you pay them 9.99 a month. This is unacceptable especially with the lack of a manual and explanation of features. I googled “audio engine Larix” to see how this feature works and there is little or no information explaining most of the features in LarixBroadcaster . They also offer ndi streaming for $20 and fail to explain what the feature provides. Do I no longer need a server to push my feed to OBS if I use NDI over cellular data? That’s the only way I can justify paying $20 a month since servers cost money. I am confused. Maybe work on some documentation for your software then start charging for basic features that were already free.

Update July 2023:

Instead of offering new, add on features behind a paywall, developers blanketed a $9.99 monthly charge on everything.

Greedy and deceitful.

5 stars for functionality, 1 star for taking advantage of your customers.

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First for the developer: Can you add a switch to disable the iPhone’s image stabilization? I am streaming from a moving vehicle, and the smallest windshield vibration causes the stabilization to over correct resulting in jello. (It’s the phone not LarixBroadcaster ) I don’t know what else to say about LarixBroadcaster, but it just does what it is supposed to. No gimmicks, no problems, just runs perfectly for hours on end. I used it with an iPhone 6 for 8hrs a day over 10 days to feed live storm chase video online. Flawless.

I’ve used LarixBroadcaster for several years to broadcast softball games in the Gamechanger app because it allowed me to zoom in and out and add a team overlay. I broadcast a handful of games a month just for fun. $9.99 is a little much but for just using it 2-3 times a month for kids softball at 720p. Oh well. If you added a cheaper pricing tier at maybe $2.99 or $4.99 I’d be happy to support your work. Maybe lower pricing for limited use or lower quality?

LarixBroadcaster has constantly been my “go to” app for streaming RTMP from my phone. It has solid features, it is reliable, and easy to use. I have recommended LarixBroadcaster to many people over the years, as I use this technology almost daily.

Recently, I’ve been watching as each update takes away standard features and puts them behind a rather premium subscription - $9.99 a month or roughly $120 a year. Most recently, a limitation was added to free streaming to your own self-hosted endpoint. My streams are usually about two hours long and would be cut off.

While I completely understand needing to make profit on one’s labor, I cannot justify spending that kind of money on this product when there are other capable apps that allow free streaming and pay-once-for-the-feature upgrades. Furthermore, slowly taking away features that were already part of LarixBroadcaster ’s free offerings and placing them behind a paywall, in my opinion, is not good.

LarixBroadcaster is great and functions well (5 stars). The pricing scheme has forced me to look elsewhere (-2 stars).

LarixBroadcaster works great and has great customization features. Especially in regards to quality for low bandwidth environments.

My only issue is the auto focus, LarixBroadcaster will auto focus every other second and you can see it on LarixBroadcaster and on the stream. If you change lenses, it’ll help a little but if you do it while transmitting then the audio encoder will crash and make everything sound like chipmunks. If these issues didn’t exist, I’d give 5 stars.

Getting Unsupported Audio errors trying to load h.264 files in mono or stereo any bit rate into Camtasia 2021 or even 2020

I've started streaming recently and have used LarixBroadcaster 3 times for for up to 4 hours at a time with no issues. Pinch and zoom works well and I'm able to change the resolution through LarixBroadcaster . Solid

Just used LarixBroadcaster on an iPad for a one hour live stream. Larix connected to an nginx rtmp server feeding OBS Studio, which added graphics and other content and then on to Facebook Live. It all worked flawlessly. It’s a nice way to use a quality IOS device in lieu of a cheap webcam.

Hello
Thanks guys for your huge effort i really like LarixBroadcaster its like a masterpiece for the streaming community

I have some suggestions.:
1.Can you please add. A way to set custom resolution and make the image adapt to that resolution like how OBS works you set a custom canvas size and you can resize your image and stretch it as much as you want.

2. Can you add way to input external sdi source or hdmi source using external usb capture card like the magewell usb capture plus, this would be awesome with apple silicon ipads

Again thanks alot

Abdlmalek Luttei
IT department Manager
TANASUH Foundation
Libya

If you want to live stream from a phone, this is by far the best option. I’ve been using it for 2+ years now and it’s constantly improving, and the developers are incredibly responsive.

Thanks Larix team for making such a great app that everyone can enjoy!

I tried pretty much EVERY iPhone app available for live streaming and Larix is far and away the best. After 4 months of use, never a dropped connection, great SRT AND H.265 connectivity, ability to switch portrait to landscape on the fly.........Larix covers all the bases. Larix Grove makes it a snap to communicate the correct settings to “naive” user in the field. FINALLY, something that just f’ing works!!

This is the first time I have actually left a review for an app. I can only echo what Dave already said. LarixBroadcaster is a beautiful gem within an ocean of not so great rtmp “irl” streaming apps. Also the fact you can send to multiple destinations from the phone!! Hands down this is the best app to send an rtmp feed from your iPhone, believe me I have gone through about 16 of them.

Great app that we have relied on for a while now! The new update is fantastic that allows for use of the multiple cameras on my iPhone 11 Pro Max but I wish it would say the current zoom level so I know what camera it is using much like the built in camera app shows. Other than that we love LarixBroadcaster and will continue using it!

Long time user and huge fan of this excellent application. That said, with one of the recent updates, we are now experiencing audio anomalies that are not hardware related. We use Larix and Facebook live to stream our services and there is now a loud distortion/popping anomaly that occurs with increasing frequency the longer the stream runs. Not sure how to proceed in isolating the problem and was not able to locate a proper channel to reach support. Any advice would be appreciated.

Every once in a great while you stumble across an app that just comes out of the gate doing everything nearly perfectly, and this is one of those apps. After live-streaming music from a full desktop setup for a few months due to quarantines I was looking for a way to take my multi-platform streaming solution back out to live gigs with the same improved audio & video quality I was able to achieve in a studio setting.

Many other apps and in-platform streaming solutions exist but provide limited functionality over video resolution, audio interface selection and encoding, etc. Larix allows me to do absolutely everything I did in the studio, including using a stereo external USB audio interface, customizing resolution and bitrate, recording locally, and streaming to multiple platforms. Literally the ONLY change is a step down to an iPhone camera from a full external DSLR, and that is absolutely incredible.

I cannot say GOOD JOB loud enough with this one, and I can’t wait to see where the team goes from here!

Thanks for making this.
-Dave

Easily the best streaming app I’ve seen for a mobile device. It’s clean, to the point, and works flawlessly! Another big plus: No data collection! Thanks for developing LarixBroadcaster.