Indie App Spotlight: ‘CloudGear’ brings all cloud gaming platforms into one tvOS app

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On the Apple TV, gaming is a little bit of an afterthought for developers. Compared to iPhone, iPad, and even Mac – there aren’t a ton of options. Luckily, CloudGear exists as an all-in-one solution for bringing every major cloud gaming platform into one interface. It’s also available for iPhone and iPad.

CloudGear supports every major cloud gaming platform: GeForce Now, Xbox Cloud Streaming, Amazon Luna, and Boosteroid. It streams in up to 5K resolution at up to 120FPS, and also supports HDR, 10-bit color, and Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound.

Beyond those details, CloudGear also offers a few nice-to-have features. It supports controller vibration – and if your controller doesn’t have vibration, it’ll use your iPhone’s Taptic Engine. There’s also a feature to hand games off to your Apple TV from the iPhone or iPad app, in case you don’t want to do all the searching on your TV.

On iPhone and iPad, CloudGear offers home screen widgets – allowing you to bookmark games and quickly launch into them without interacting with anything else.

Lastly, CloudGear supports AR glasses plugged into your iPhone – like the XREAL glasses, allowing you to play games on a massive display right in front of your face.

CloudGear is available for free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad running iOS 17.6 and later, as well as Apple TV models running tvOS 18.6 and later. For the full feature set, you can subscribe for $1.99/month, $14.99/year, or $39.99 for a lifetime purchase. A 7-day free trial is available for subscriptions, and you can learn more about the app on the website.

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