iCameraPlus vs TetherCam

iCameraPlus turns any old iPhone into a powerful security camera — no extra hardware needed. Mount a spare iPhone, press REC, and keep an eye on what matters from anywhere. WATCH LIVE FROM ANYWHERE See your camera in real time from any web browser. No extra app needed on the viewing device — just sign in to your private panel. REMOTE CONTROL Start or stop recording, switch between front and back camera, and change quality or clip length right from the web — even while you're away from the phone. RECORDING LOCK (NEW) While recording, the screen locks itself against stray or ghost touches — a pocket tap can't stop your camera. Hold the lock button for 3 seconds to unlock; it relocks automatically after 10 seconds. FLEXIBLE PLANS — UP TO 2.4 TB Choose what fits you: 2, 4, 6, or 8 cameras with 600 GB, 1.2 TB, 1.8 TB, or 2.4 TB of private cloud storage. Upgrade or downgrade anytime — the change is prorated automatically. CONTINUOUS RECORDING Records in back-to-back clips so nothing is missed. When storage fills up, the oldest clips are removed automatically to make room for new footage. SECURE PRIVATE CLOUD Recordings are uploaded to your own private cloud over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection and kept in your personal archive. Browse and play them from any browser. HIGH-QUALITY VIDEO H.264 video with AAC audio. Choose 480p, 720p, or 1080p. A timestamp and camera name are stamped onto every frame. BATTERY-FRIENDLY Keep the iPhone plugged in with the app open; the screen dims automatically while recording to save power. (iOS requires the app to stay open for the camera to record.) FLEXIBLE CLIPS Set clip length from 2 to 30 minutes. Browse, play, and delete recordings right inside the app. MULTI-LANGUAGE English, Turkish, German, and French — including the permission prompts. PRIVACY FIRST Your video is recorded on your device and uploaded only to your own private archive. Audio is off by default and records only if you enable it. We never store, share, or sell your footage. SUBSCRIPTION - Four auto-renewable yearly plans: iCameraPlus Yearly (2 cameras), 4 Cameras Yearly, 6 Cameras Yearly, and 8 Cameras Yearly — each with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. - The price is shown in the app before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. - The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple ID is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the period. - Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID Account Settings. - If you buy during the free trial, any unused trial time is forfeited. Terms of Use (EULA): https://icameraplus.com/terms.php Privacy Policy: https://icameraplus.com/privacy.php

Your iPhone, instead of a webcam. TWO APPS, ONE CABLE TetherCam is two free apps. TetherCam for Mac is downloaded from tethercam.app; TetherCam for iPhone is this one. Install both, connect the phone to the Mac with the USB cable you already own, and the iPhone shows up as the camera "TetherCam" on the Mac, in the same camera picker as the built-in one. It works in every Mac app that lists system cameras: Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, FaceTime, QuickTime Player, Safari, Chrome and the rest. Zoom and Microsoft Teams were verified on 10 September 2026. Nothing travels over Wi-Fi, nothing passes through a server, nothing is uploaded anywhere. There is no account, no pairing code and no discovery step. The cable is the whole path, which is why the picture stays stable in a crowded room where wireless cameras start to stutter. WHAT YOU NEED An iPhone with iOS 17 or newer, a Mac with macOS 14 or newer, and the USB cable that came with the phone. The free TetherCam Mac app asks once for approval of its camera extension in System Settings; after that the camera is simply there. THE HONEST LIMITS The Mac app carries the picture only. A Mac camera extension has no audio stream, so the sound stays with the Mac's own microphone. Audio over the cable exists, but only on the OBS path below. This iPhone app stays open in the foreground while it sends. The phone serves one receiver at a time. The Mac app and the OBS plugin are not used together; whichever connects second is told that the line is busy. ON THE PHONE Live preview from the moment you open the app, before anything is connected. A camera and lens picker for the wide, ultra wide and telephoto lenses or the front camera, switching the stream immediately. Automatic rotation that follows the horizon rather than the interface. Turn the phone and the picture stays level, because the orientation is resolved on the capture side. There is a manual angle override when you want to decide yourself. Hardware HEVC encoding, which keeps the phone cool and the latency low. A diagnostics panel that shows what is actually happening: listener state, connection, frames per second, bitrate and the measured levelling residual. FOR STREAMING AND RECORDING: OBS STUDIO The TetherCam plugin for OBS Studio is the pro path, also free and also at tethercam.app. It adds a source called TetherCam directly in OBS, finds the phone through the same cable, and it is the only path that brings the microphone of the phone across as well. PRIVACY No account, no analytics, no advertising, no purchases. The camera picture goes to your own Mac and nowhere else. Nothing is collected. TetherCam for iPhone is free and open source under the MIT licence at github.com/Kanevry/tethercam.