KeepWatch: IP Camera Viewer

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About this app

KeepWatch finds the IP cameras on your network, shows you what they see, and keeps it on your phone: no account, no cloud. Nothing leaves but what you share.

Open it on the Wi-Fi your cameras are on. One ONVIF® probe, and whatever answered is listed. Pick yours, give it the camera's password, and it is on the Live grid. A camera the probe cannot reach, or one that is only an RTSP address, is added by its address.

Watching

Live is every camera at once, in zones named after where they are. A camera that stops answering says so on its card; one that sees movement moves to the top. A camera's own screen puts Live, Playback and Control under the picture: pan, tilt and zoom, with presets, on a camera that has them.

Walls, with Pro, are saved arrangements: one camera at a time, four, or one big and three small. A wall can show only what is moving: a camera takes a tile when it sees movement and gives it up when it stops.

Winding back

What you watch is kept on the phone, in the room you give it, to wind back through on a camera's screen or a whole wall at once. A camera that keeps recordings of its own is wound through those instead.

A stretch worth keeping becomes a clip: mark where it starts and ends, up to five minutes, and the phone writes an MP4. Clips and snapshots stay in the app until you delete them, to be shared or saved to the gallery.

Movement

Motion is found on the phone, in the picture as it plays, not reported by the camera. Paint which parts of the picture count. Each time movement begins, an event lands in Events with the picture at that moment.

Events is what the app itself saw: movement, and cameras that dropped out and came back, kept as many days as you choose.

What it will not do

• Send your video anywhere you did not. At home there is no server between you and your cameras; with Relay on, ours passes the pictures, sealed, between your phones, and keeps none.
• Open your cameras to the internet, or watch while it is closed: a viewer that remembers, not a recorder that runs all night.

Watching from away

Relay goes through a phone of yours. Sign in on the phone that stays with the cameras and turn Relay on; sign in to the same account on the phone in your pocket and, with Pro, add the one at home from the +: its cameras go on Live, live and wound back. The pictures and the cameras' passwords go through our server sealed under a passphrase only your phones know, passed on and never stored. The phone at home relays while the app is open on it, and needs no Pro.

The phone as a camera

Broadcast turns the phone round. One switch, and its camera is an IP camera for the rest of the Wi-Fi. Choose the lens, size and frame rate, and whether the microphone goes with it. What it sends it can keep, for the others to wind back through. An old phone on a shelf is a camera.

What stays, and what leaves

On the phone: your cameras, with their addresses, passwords, zones and walls; what you watch and what is kept of it; events, snapshots and clips.

Off it: a crash report when something goes wrong, and a camera problem report only if you send one (your note, the cameras' addresses, models and answers, the recent log), never with a password; anonymous usage, only if you say yes, and never a camera's name, address, password or picture; what you share or save to your photos, which goes where you send it; with an account, your email address; and with Relay or Sync on, your cameras' names, addresses, passwords, zones and walls, sealed so our server cannot read them.

What it costs

Free with up to two cameras. Pro is a subscription, by the 3 months or the year, that lifts the cap and adds walls, watching another phone's cameras, and Sync between your phones. Everything else is free. The first subscription starts with 7 days free. A lapse deletes nothing: every camera saved stays watchable.

KeepWatch is not ONVIF conformant. ONVIF is a trademark of ONVIF, Inc.

What’s new

Various bug fixes and improvements.