# PadMonitor: HDMI Monitor

> Capture card & AI commentator

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6785609292](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6785609292)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6785609292`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** byteNine AS
- **Category:** Photo & Video
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-04
- **First published:** 2026-09-03
- **Size:** 27 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/padmonitor-hdmi-monitor/id6785609292)
- **Website:** [https://bytenine.com/padmonitor](https://bytenine.com/padmonitor)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://bytenine.com/padmonitor/privacy](https://bytenine.com/padmonitor/privacy)

## Description

The only iPad HDMI monitor with a live AI commentator — it watches your gameplay and reacts out loud, in eight personas. Plus recording, CRT filters and pro scopes.

Turn your iPad into a sharp, low-latency monitor for anything with an HDMI output — game consoles, cameras, computers, set-top boxes — using a USB-C capture card.

Then flip on the thing no other capture app has: a live AI COMMENTATOR. A caster watches your gameplay and reacts out loud in real time — pick from eight personas, from over-the-top esports Hype to a lovingly brutal Roast to a nature-documentary narrator where YOU are the wildlife. Everyone gets a free trial, no purchase needed.

Plug a UVC capture card into your iPad's USB-C port, connect your HDMI source, and PadMonitor shows it full screen with audio, recording, and tools no other capture app brings together.

THE AI CASTER
• Eight personas: Hype, Roast, Coach, Nature Documentary, Retro, Film Night, Focus Coach — or write your own.
• Premium on-device neural voice (free download), or any installed Apple voice.
• Broadcast-style ducking: the game dips only while the caster is actually talking.
• Honest and private: one downscaled snapshot every 30 seconds is analysed, only while you have it switched on. Nothing is stored.

WHY PADMONITOR
• Honest setup — a built-in checker tells you exactly what you need and warns you when a passive adapter won't work, before you waste time.
• Beautiful, fast image — a modern Metal + 120 Hz ProMotion pipeline. Sharp and responsive.
• Sound that just works — audio passthrough that locks to your capture card so AirPods can't hijack it mid-session.
• Built-in troubleshooter — green screen, no signal, black borders, no sound: each one explained in plain language.

FOR GAMERS
• Retro filters: CRT, scanlines, and sharp pixel scaling for that authentic console look.
• Low-latency render path and a live diagnostics readout (capture rate, refresh, latency).
• Record clips with synced audio.

FOR CREATORS
• Pro monitoring: focus peaking, false-colour exposure, and zebras.
• Fit / fill / stretch, rotation, mirror, and independent overscan crop — framed your way, never distorted.
• Clean, full-quality recording (not a screen grab that captures the app's own buttons).

WHAT YOU NEED
• A USB-C iPad (iPad Pro, iPad Air, or iPad mini 6/7) on iPadOS 26 or later.
• An active USB-C UVC capture card (e.g. an MS2130-based card or Elgato Game Capture Neo). A passive USB-C-to-HDMI adapter will NOT work.
• Note: copy-protected sources (HDCP — Apple TV apps, streaming services) cannot be captured by any capture card and will show a black screen.

PRICING
PadMonitor is free and fully usable as a monitor. A single one-time PadMonitor Pro unlock adds recording, retro filters, pro scopes, overscan crop — and the AI Commentator with 15 free minutes every day (everyone gets a 5-minute trial). Optional Commentary Hours packs cover marathon sessions. No subscription, ever — and never a paywall over a live signal.

## Rankings

- #1,606,847 — Overall

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