Wired Camera Monitor for iPad

MonitorPad fills a hardware gap: most non-Sony cinema cameras don't expose low-latency monitoring through a phone, and iPad-based wired monitoring solutions barely exist. The app gives non-Sony filmmakers a wired iPad monitor with the pro-grade tooling they'd otherwise pay a dedicated hardware monitor for.

Wireless is too lossy and too laggy for on-set monitoring; the operator needs to trust what they're seeing. MonitorPad takes a wired HDMI capture path through a USB-C bridge so latency stays sub-frame. Reliability over convenience — every shoot, every time.

Focus peaking, false color, and a real-time waveform — the same tools that ship on dedicated $1500 monitors. Each runs as a Metal compute shader so they layer onto the live feed without dropping frames. Pulling focus by phone shouldn't feel like a compromise.

Crews shoot with their hands full. Tools toggle from a single edge gesture, with the most-used ones reachable without looking. Overlays hide by default and surface only when called; nothing ever covers the frame for longer than the operator wants.

iPadOS with SwiftUI for the surface. AVFoundation for capture-device negotiation and frame plumbing from the external HDMI bridge. Metal and MetalKit for the live render path; CVPixelBuffer goes straight into GPU textures so latency stays minimal. Each monitoring tool ships as its own Metal shader.