Phonecast: Mix Monitor

Hear your mix or your video on a real phone speaker, live from your Mac. Check the voice, the level and the bass before you post.

Phonecast turns your iPhone into a real audio output for your Mac, so you can hear how your mix actually translates on a phone speaker: the most common speaker in the world, and the one most mixes fail on.

This free app is the iPhone half of Phonecast. It requires the Phonecast app for Mac, which installs a normal audio output device on your Mac. Route Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Final Cut Pro, or anything that plays audio, to it, and it streams to this app over the USB cable or your local Wi-Fi.

WHY IT MATTERS Studio monitors flatter the low end and stereo width that a phone speaker throws away. Exporting a bounce to check translates into minutes of lost momentum every time. Phonecast makes the phone-speaker check one click, in real time, while you mix.

WHAT YOU GET • Faithful 48 kHz stereo over USB or Wi-Fi. No coloration added • A loudness meter: now, whole song and peak, measured to the broadcast standard • A live 12-band EQ that shows, as the music plays, where your mix is too loud or too quiet, with tips in plain words • Streaming level: hear your mix at the volume streaming services play it • Compare with hit records in your genre, or with a reference track, level-matched • Tap a band to hear it on its own, and see whether your bass survives a phone speaker • A one-page release check of your whole song, to save or share • A mono check • Several phones and iPads at once, kept in sync • Keeps playing when you lock the screen or switch apps • Encrypted Wi-Fi. Only your own Mac can connect • No ads, no tracking. Your audio never leaves your devices

REQUIRES • The Phonecast Mac app (macOS 13+), available at phonecast.app • A USB cable, or both devices on the same Wi-Fi network

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