Camera Opus

Mobimax Apps

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Camera Opus allows to control camera functions from smartwatch. It shows camera view on watch in real time, scan QR/bar codes and has built-in motion detection engine which sends alerts after detecting movement in observed area.

Camera Opus supports smartwatches with: Wear OS, Harmony OS, Garmin and Fitbit.

Key features:
• Take picture
• Take picture with time delay
• Video recording
• Camera preview on watch
• Zoom in/out
• Torch
• Camera switch
• Motion detection sensor
• Find My Phone
• QR/Bar codes scanner

When to use? Examples.
1) Turn on your phone’s torch and use your smartwatch to see an inaccessible places.
2) Take a selfie with friends using only smartwatch to trigger camera button from distance.
3) You can watch your baby using smartwatch on a wrist and phone in baby’s room using camera preview or observe the room by motion detection engine.
4) Scan QR codes or bar codes from products and labels.

Camera Opus needs below permissions to work properly:
1. Camera permission: to control phone camera.
2. Microphone permission: to record video with audio.
3. Storage permission: to save photos and video recording files.
4. Display over other apps: this function allows to run camera view direct from background by watch app. Important: since Android 10 you have to add this permission manually in phone Settings / Apps / Camera Opus / Advanced.
5. Location: only when you enable adding location to taken pictures.

ⓘ The app required to be added to the list of apps which ignore Power Saving function. Otherwise background service will be killed by some phone manufacturers like Huawei or Xiaomi. Background service allows to connect to watch app automatically. It takes a little battery power and you always can turn it off in app’s settings in section Power Management if you don’t use this app for further time.

ⓘ This application works with Wear OS smartwatches since Wear OS version 2.1. Download watch app from Play Store on your watch.

ⓘ For Harmony OS powered watches you have to download app from Health / AppGallery.

ⓘ For Garmin watches you have to download app from Garmin Connect IQ Store. Supported the most of touch and button devices.

ⓘ For Fitbit watches you have to download app from Fitbit Apps Gallery.

ⓘ FREE version limitations: not all functions are available. Picture and video quality max. 1MP.

ⓘ You can buy premium version by phone or watch app in case Wear OS watch. For all watches you can buy premium version in Camera Opus on phone.

Found bugs and ideas please send us at support email. In case bugs click settings view in Camera Opus on phone, scroll down and click 'Send bugs report to developer' and write shortly what happens.

Ratings and reviews

It works. A little slow to respond and would like at pinch zoom on the phone app itself (I understand the stepped zoom on the watch controls). If there was a 1.5x zoom it'd be great. But this app really is the only option out there for Garmin watches. There are only like two other apps out there and they only offer a single shutter button with no zoom, light, timer, etc. So I'll take it.

So to use a feature of my smart watch I have to install a separate app beside Huawei Health, then to be able to do more than one (1) thing in it I have to pay for it just so I could take extremely pixelated pictures in a VERY plain camera app while the visuals lag so ridiculously I can't even see what I'm trying to photograph. The preview on my watch in a 1 cm x 1 cm (!!!) resolution OR if I tap 6 times it streches out and distorts the view while lagging. This is a joke. Get another brand.

Way too expensive for what it is, free version sort of useless, everything I want to try out is locked behind a paywall, how is that a good business model, "yeah try this app out, but only this bit" TBH, all the apps for this watch are too expensive. OK, maybe my OG review was a little harsh, there are some parts that you can try out, like photo & video, these are in a lower quality though, I wasn't trying to mislead anyone. Review Edited to help.

What’s new

ver 1.2.19: (11 Dec 2025):
Updated camera api.
Added 16KB page size for all native libraries.
Compiled under Android 16.