What Camlane does
Camlane has two jobs: give your computer a camera and microphone, and watch places with phones you already own. Everything below works on your own network, without an account, and no feature costs money.
Three modes
| Mode | Runs on | What it's for |
|---|---|---|
| Share camera and mic | Phone and computer | The phone is your computer's webcam and microphone, for calls, streaming and recording. |
| Camera | Phone or tablet | The phone becomes a room or security camera that saves its battery and shows when it's recorded. |
| Watch | Computer (Android in progress) | See every camera on a wall, record them, play back by time, and let other computers watch. |
Every feature
- Your phone as a webcam and microphoneCamlane shows your Android phone as “Camlane Camera” and “Camlane Microphone” in Zoom, Meet, Teams, OBS and Discord, with 30–80 ms of delay on 5 GHz Wi-Fi.
- Pro camera controls, live during the callSet ISO, shutter, focus, white balance and zoom by hand, add 3D LUTs, filters and blur, and let auto-framing keep you in shot, from phone or computer.
- Several phones, one studioConnect several phones, cut between them or let the auto-director follow the speaker, and make phone mics sound produced with studio audio.New in 0.2
- Camera and Watch: room cameras on your own networkTurn an old phone into a room camera that saves its battery, and watch and record every camera from your computer. No cloud, no subscription.New in 0.2
- Recording and playback, kept on your computerRecord cameras motion-only or continuously, encrypted with AES-256-GCM, in small files. Play back by time at up to 100×, jump to motion and export MP4 clips.New in 0.2
- The camera wallSee up to 16 cameras live in one grid, full screen or in their own windows, and zoom into any part of a picture with a sharper stream of that area.New in 0.2
- Two-way audio: talk through the cameraHold to talk on the computer and the camera phone plays your voice from its loudspeaker, with echo cancellation, one talker at a time, over your own network.New in 0.2
- Privacy mode: camera and mic off, at onceOne tap, a Quick Settings tile or the computer closes a camera phone's camera and releases its mic, for a set time or until you turn it back on.In progress
- Private AI that never leaves your computerOpt-in, fully offline AI on your own recordings: recognise people you name, see what they were doing and read a summary of each day. Nothing is uploaded.New in 0.2
- Remote viewing from anywhereComing soon: watch your Camlane cameras from outside your home network, end-to-end encrypted, with no account and no sign-in.Coming soon
How it looks
Real screenshots: the desktop app with three phones, and Camlane on a phone streaming to it.
