NINJAPHONE
The iPhone upgrade for content creators
Transform your iPhone into a pro-grade streamer, recorder, and monitor with flawless shot setup using your DSLR camera
USD/EUR 399
MSRP / Excluding sales taxes
The ultimate smartphone accessory
Today’s smartphones are technological marvels, with amazing displays, cutting-edge Wi-Fi 6E and 5G connectivity. But how do you connect your pro camera? With Ninja Phone! Attach it to a compatible smartphone, plug in an HDMI-equipped camera, install the app, and you’re Ninja’d up and ready to go!
Ninja Phone turns your smartphone into a high‑end 10‑bit recorder, monitor and streamer for your professional video camera or other HDMI‑equipped device.
How does it work?
Ninja Phone takes any HDMI video signal and instantaneously converts it into a high-quality video file format. This video data is then transferred in real-time to USB-C equipped smartphones and tablets, turning them into professional low-latency video monitors, recorders, and live streamers.
It’s ideal for professional filmmakers, social media content creators, and a wide range of applications like gaming where you need to record or stream a video source without a computer. It also sets you up for hyper-efficient camera-to-cloud workflows.
Ninja Phone walkthrough
Monitor, record and stream with ease
MONITOR
Make your phone display a pro video monitor
Turn your smartphone into a top-notch HDR monitor. Connect your camera, and you have access to some of the world’s best portable displays. Atomos’ Ninja Phone app adds a host of professional monitoring tools and even adapts to vertical orientation. Today’s smartphone displays are incredible OLED devices with extraordinary 2,000,000:1 contrast ratios, 460ppi resolution and, with Ninja Phone, the ability to display the output from any HDMI-equipped camera.
RECORD
Capture 10-bit video from any HDMI camera
Ninja Phone is the only way to connect professional cameras with HDMI to a compatible smartphone and record directly into 10-bit Apple ProRes*, the absolute standard for professional video production and post-production, or 10-bit H.265.
*iPhone only
Apple ProRes 422
Bitrate (Mbps): 294
TB / Hour: 0.132
Hour / TB: ~7.5
Apple ProRes 422 LT
Bitrate (Mbps): 204
TB / Hour: 0.092
Hour / TB: ~11
H.265
Bitrate (Mbps): 4.5
TB / Hour: 0.0040
Hour / TB: ~250
H.265
Bitrate (Mbps): 30
TB / Hour: 0.0135
Hour / TB: ~74
* Codecs all 1920 x 1080, 60fps
STREAM
Send via 5G or Wi-Fi 6E to social platforms
You won’t find a more compact set-up for streaming professional-grade video directly from your camera. Ninja Phone and an iPhone Pro Max weigh only 335 grams, and the combination is packed with the latest technology, including pristine 10-bit, H.265 encoding, Wi-Fi 6E, and low-latency 5G for the ultimate in mobile live streaming.
A billion more colors and shadows
Stunning, 10-bit, HDR pipeline
Atomos uses its unparalleled experience in video encoding to pass 10-bit, 1080p or 4k HDR video from your camera’s image sensor over HDMI to Ninja Phone, then through USB-C to your smartphone or tablet’s processor. The result is stunning, professional-quality images on your device’s incredible screen, with virtually no latency.
10-bit video preserves massively more picture information, both in terms of color and brightness, than 8-bit formats. The number of colors goes from millions to billions and the detail within the brightness range – the highlights and shadows in the image – is more than 4 times that of 8-bit.
Today’s camera sensors all capture more than 10-bit, and all modern TVs, smartphones and tablets have advanced 10-bit HDR screens too, so with Ninja Phone you can deliver the best possible video quality on every shoot!
8-bit vs 10-bit
With Apple ProRes encoding, Ninja Phone sends 10-bit color and brightness information from your camera to your smartphone’s screen. Professionals demand 10-bit, because it shows accurate colors, highlights and shadows, and removes contours between similar colors. So, a blue sky looks real, or a candle looks vivid in the dark, with no washed-out painting-by-numbers pictures. With 8-bit, you’re throwing away the subtlety and nuance, often leaving visible steps and flat imagery that can’t be repaired in editing. We solve this problem by not causing it in the first place.
In the same way 10-bit video encoding and compression preserves color, it also preserves shadows and highlights to give depth and nuance in the image, just like our eyes can see. This is High Dynamic Range, or High Brightness Range. 10-bit gives a billion levels of shadows and highlights in an image, to recreate all the depth and reality of real life. All on your smartphone – and direct from your professional camera and lens.
With iPhone 15/16 Pro
HDR OLED display
1600nit peak brightness
2,000,000:1 contrast ratio
460ppi screen resolution
Superb monitoring tools
Ninja Phone comes with a comprehensive set of monitoring tools for greater control over image, exposure, and composition. It has everything you need to keep in focus, frame your shots perfectly — e.g. for social media platforms — and get the right exposure. It comes with a choice of waveform, zebra, and false color displays.
Focus Peaking
Flip
Scopes
Guides
False Color
Aspect Ratio
Desqueeze
Zebra
Atomos isn’t new to touchscreens – the original Ninja had one. But smartphones take them to another level, so we’ve written an app to run natively on your smartphone that controls and configures your Ninja Phone. We’ve made it work the way you’ll want to use it – so if you’re shooting portrait vertical 9:16 video, the app goes vertical too. It’s easy to use in either Landscape or Portrait. It’s slick, responsive, and makes Ninja Phone and your smartphone feel like they’re a single, integrated device.
Super light, super silent
Ninja Phone is designed around AtomIC 5, the next generation of Atomos silicon that allows for low power, silent operation while encoding 10-bit ProRes and H.265 with exceptional USB-C connectivity. Drawing just 2.4W in full flight, Ninja Phone combined with your smartphone is silent in operation, even while performing complex video processing tasks. The powerful IC allows for a super lightweight footprint – Ninja Phone weighs in at just 94 grams!
How do you shoot?
Video Professionals
Great things happen when technology comes together. With Ninja Phone and a compatible smartphone, you get a cutting-edge, connected professional filmmaking experience with a tiny footprint. You can go anywhere, shoot anything, and collaborate with colleagues around the world.
Connect any HDMI-equipped mirrorless or cinema camera
No compromise on quality: capture into a production-quality codec directly from your camera’s sensor
Work collaboratively with colleagues using hyper-efficient Camera to Cloud workflows in 10-bit H.265 HDR!
Use your smartphone as a superb OLED viewfinder
Take perfect shots with Atomos’ best-in-class scopes and monitoring tools
Content Creators
How do you shoot professional-looking video with maximum portability and the minimum amount of gear? Ninja Phone and its app are designed from the ground up to give you the mobility and versatility you need. Switch from landscape to portrait and back again seamlessly.
Connect professional HDMI compact, mirrorless or cinema cameras to your smartphone for professional quality social media broadcasts
Upload your footage to the cloud while shooting and start editing within seconds
The Ninja app understands 9:16 portrait mode and adjusts automatically to accommodate it
Stream directly to all major streaming platforms
Capture in high-quality 10-bit video while streaming H.265!
CAMERA TO CLOUD
Direct to cloud high speed workflows
Dual record 10-bit ProRes and H.265 for Camera to Cloud
Ninja Phone is your gateway to hyper-efficient cloud production workflows. You can choose to work with production quality 10-bit master files and H.265 proxies for full cinematic images or encode 10-bit H.265 only from Ninja Phone for the simplest, fastest workflows. If you record directly to 10-bit H.265 with a higher bitrate, you can use these files for Camera to Cloud and publish them directly to social media or news and sports channels, without having to re-conform the original camera files. It’s literally the fastest way from lens to likes.
Powerful cloud services
Your smartphone’s connectivity makes it easy for Ninja Phone users to access to Atomos Cloud Studio and its services. This gives you the means to work collaboratively with other video professionals. Start editing while you shoot. Get almost instant approval from clients. Publish to social media within minutes of taking the shot. Share video with Atomos’ cloud partners including Frame.io, Sony Ci Media and MediaSilo. And even produce multi-camera live TV from anywhere, to anywhere, with Atomos Live Production.
Edit on your phone in HDR
Delivering amazing videos on today’s multitude of social platforms means no compromise in speed or quality. Ninja Phone ensures that you capture the highest quality by unlocking the large sensor of a mirrorless camera, which is a big step up from your smartphone’s sensor.
Once you’ve recorded to your smartphone or tablet, you can use your favorite phone app to finish the job. Simply open an app like CapCut, iMovie, or similar, select the Ninja Phone recorded files on the phone, edit and post in minutes.
Ninja Phone is all about quality – and compatibility, too! Recording is in 10-bit ProRes (or 10-bit H.265) and are fully compatible with traditional professional NLEs and grading tools too! Ninja Phone files work seamlessly in all finishing packages, including Avid Media Composer, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Adobe Premiere Pro.
Better Image Quality
Ninja Phone’s 10-bit HDR pipeline lets you see your images the way they are meant to be seen.
Better Cloud Integration
Ninja Phone is the perfect gateway to Atomos’ hyper-efficient cloud workflows.
Better User Experience
Ninja Phone is made for video on the go. A tiny footprint, cutting edge technology and an intuitive app that knows when you’re shooting in landscape or portrait.
Frequently asked questions
How does the iPhone charge when being used as a Ninja?
It can be charged via Ninja Phone, which is in turn powered by battery or USB-C power bank. When using battery and USB-C power together, you can hot swap them while recording too.
For how long can I record on my iPhone?
This depends on what codec you are using, for example (all 1920 x 1080, 60 fps):
- H.265 (4.5 Mbps): approx 250 hours per 1TB
- H.265 (30 Mbps): approx 74 hours per 1TB
- Apple ProRes 422 LT (204 Mbps): approx 11 hours per 1TB
- Apple ProRes 422 (294 Mbps): approx 7.5 hours per 1TB
Please note that continuous recording at a high bitrate in high ambient temperature (>30 degrees C) may cause the iPhone to overheat and affect performance.
Do I need a dock to transfer files to my computer?
No. You can either transfer files wirelessly using AirDrop, or connect to your Mac with a USB-C cable and transfer at up to 10Gbps.
What if there is an incoming call while I am shooting/recording?
Do Not Disturb settings can be configured in the Focus section of iOS Settings. Remember to set Allow Repeated Calls in the People section to Off.
What is the latency from camera to iPhone monitor?
Because the Ninja Phone has the latest AtomIC 5 chip, the process of converting video over HDMI to ProRes is very, very fast, so there is minimal latency. Therefore, you can expect it to monitor and record just like a Ninja or Shogun.
NINJA PHONE
Now your phone can be a Ninja too
