Drive recording from your wrist.
The best framing usually puts the iPhone a few feet away — too far to tap. NexCam turns your Apple Watch, or a second iPhone, into a teleprompter remote: start the take, pause to breathe, nudge the speed, and glance at the line you are on, all without leaving your mark or breaking eye contact with the lens.
$9.99 once · ios 17+ · the remote is included, not an add-on
Why a remote changes the shoot
Shooting solo means being the talent and the crew at the same time. The framing you want — a clean medium shot, the lens at eye level, a little distance so you are not filling the frame — puts the phone out of arm's reach. So you walk over, tap record, walk back, find your mark, and hope the first second is not you settling in. Then you do it again for every take.
A wrist remote removes that whole dance. You stand where the shot looks right and run the recording from there. The phone never moves, your framing never changes, and the take starts when you are ready, not when you have finished jogging back from the tripod.
What you can do from your wrist
The Apple Watch remote mirrors the controls that matter during a take, so you rarely need to touch the phone once you are rolling:
- Start and stop the recording without walking to the phone.
- Pause and resume to collect a thought or reset, with the take continuing seamlessly.
- Change the scroll speed on the fly when a passage needs to slow down or pick up.
- See the current line — a live read-out of where you are in the script, so you never lose your place when you glance down.
No Apple Watch? A second iPhone running NexCam works as the same remote, with the same start, pause, speed, and current-line controls. Handy when a friend is operating, or when you want a bigger read-out of the line you are on.
Setting it up
The remote is designed to just work, with no pairing codes or accounts to wrangle:
- Install NexCam on both devices — your iPhone and your paired Apple Watch (or a second iPhone), signed in to the same iCloud as usual.
- Open NexCam on the iPhone and set up your take — script, framing, and scroll mode.
- Launch the remote on the Watch or second iPhone; it connects to the session on your recording iPhone.
- Stand on your mark and roll — start, pause, adjust speed, and follow the line, all from the remote.
Who it helps most
Solo creators get clean starts and stops without the run-back, so every take begins on your terms. Presenters rehearsing a keynote can stand at a lectern with the phone across the room and still control the scroll. Educators recording a long lecture can pause to think and resume without breaking the shot. And because the take is crash-proof and written to disk as you film, controlling it from a distance never puts the footage at risk.
Common questions
Can I control the teleprompter from an Apple Watch?
Yes. NexCam's Apple Watch remote can start and stop, pause and resume, change scroll speed, and show the current line, so the iPhone can stay a few feet away at the right framing.
Do I need a Watch, or can I use a second iPhone?
Either works. The remote runs on an Apple Watch or on a second iPhone running NexCam, with the same controls.
Does the remote cost extra?
No. It is part of the single $9.99 purchase — no premium tier, no add-on fee.