Turn the old phone in your drawer into your own security camera.
Old Phone Cam turns an old phone into a camera on your local network. On your own Wi-Fi the video stays on your network: you watch it in a browser from any device on the same Wi-Fi, with no server in between, no account and no subscription required. Away from home, Premium+ adds remote viewing in the app.
Streaming on your Wi-Fi is free, with a watermark. Remote viewing needs Premium+.
Plug the old phone in, open the app, press Start Streaming.
Scan it with another phone, or type the address into a browser.
A browser, VLC or Home Assistant. Nothing to install.
The question worth asking: where does my video go?
The short answer: on your Wi-Fi, nowhere beyond your network. With remote viewing it leaves encrypted, and only your paired phones can decode it.
On your Wi-Fi, video stays on your network
No recording server, no cloud. The stream travels your network only, to the devices you allow.
No account to create
No email, no password, no profile. It works the moment you open it.
No internet needed on your Wi-Fi
The same Wi-Fi is enough. It works even when the router has no internet.
The stream is locked
The address carries a key. Without it a request is refused, and the QR code already carries it.
It does not cook the phone
It watches the temperature and lowers the frame rate itself when it has to, and says so on screen.
With tools you already have
A browser, VLC, Home Assistant. MJPEG is a standard stream, no special app required.
The free tier is genuinely useful
Streaming on your own Wi-Fi is never paid for. Premium lifts the limits for people who use it often. Premium+ adds remote viewing from outside your home.
Free
- 720p live stream
- Watermark on the picture
- 5 minutes per clip, 30 minutes a day
- Watch an advert to extend it, if you want to
- One viewer
Premium
- No watermark on stream or clips
- The highest resolution your phone supports
- Unlimited recording
- More than one viewer
Prices are shown in the store. Remote viewing is not included in Premium or in the one time purchase.
Premium+
- Everything in Premium
- Remote viewing in the app, from outside your home
- 30 or 60 hours a month, counted per viewer
- Up to 720p, 15 frames a second
- Up to 5 camera phones per subscription
Prices are shown in the store. Monthly only, no free trial. Only the camera phone needs the subscription: the phone you watch from needs the app and the pairing QR code. On iPhone the remote camera runs only while the app is open and in the foreground.
Your responsibility
This is a surveillance tool. Recording other people without their consent may be illegal where you are; how you use it is on you.
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