Hello Hunters, it’s Aidan, founder of Reincubate here. I'm excited to have just launched Camo. It'll give you quality close to that of using a $1,500+ DSLR setup on calls. Earlier this year our team moved to working remotely, and in video calls everyone looked pretty bad, irrespective of whether they were on built-in Mac webcams or third-party ones. People told me the best quality required using a DSLR camera and a device to connect it, which together would cost over $1,500. I tried a handful of high-end webcams, but the software sucked, the colours were cold, and they kept refocusing in calls. I noticed on the odd occasion when people joined calls directly from their iPhones or iPads, they looked incomparably better. Category-leading webcams are… noticably worse than an iPhone 7. This makes sense: six weeks of Apple’s R&D spend tops Logitech's annual gross revenue. Thus began my journey to build Camo: an iPhone has one of the world’s best cameras in it, so could we make it work as a webcam? I shared an early build of Camo with photography expert Jeff Carlson, and he put put together a detailed comparison. Camo has a perpetually free version with 720p video (colour balance, focus, light, etc. add more than resolution over a certain point), a choice or front or back lens, and a small watermark. No registration required. There's an optional upgrade to use all the lenses, change resolutions, adjust the image and more. Camo does all the processing on your phone to keep your Mac quiet and cool. Oh, and we bought all of the stands we could find on Amazon and reviewed them here, in case you need one. We're starting work on 1.1 now, adding support for portrait mode / bokeh, Windows and more. I’d love to read your feedback, and thanks for stopping by. 👋

Quite cool! But I thought it would stream to the Mac via wifi. Having the cable connected make me not know how to place the phone to stand up somehow..

@afit Thanks for making people look better on zoom!

Any plans for an Android release?

?makers, we are waiting for Windows support also : )

My desk is by a window, meaning I get a lot of light on one side of my face. My iMac camera is AWFUL with that kind of lighting. I got something salvageable from getting some software to manually force the camera's brightness down, but it was still annoyingly poor. I saw this software being reviewed by 9to5mac yesterday and gave it a go this morning. Amazing!! I instantly bought the pro version after making sure it worked as good as I needed it to. Very, very good. I've noticed a bit of a bug when changing lenses and having control over exposure duration - If I correct the exposure, move to another lens, sometimes I lose ability to change exposure. Moving the slider up and down results in no adjustments. I haven't worked out the exact way to get it working again, but usually if I switch lenses enough again I can manage to get it to work. Also, I'm unsure if I should be able to change ISO? For me it's entirely greyed out (I'm on iPhone 11 Pro). Overall I'm very impressed with this. For me, it's completely convenient and the fact the software is well thought-out with a smart user interface makes me feel like I'm not just finding a hacky solution. The feed is lag free and works as if you're using any external webcam. I want to see this product innovated and updated, it already has great potential and results, so I'm hoping for more to come!

Used it in the beta stages and liked it!

I was just about to buy the pro version. Sorry to say I "hate" subscription. So don't buy it now.

This looks great! I've been looking for something like this most of the year. Looking forward to the Windows release.

Waiting for windows

Launched at the right time. Congrats. There was twitter a thread recently asking for such an app and here we go. 👏🏻

Thanks Aidan, any plans to add in bokeh effect? A lot of people seem to use Zoom backgrounds, but I feel like it just be better for the background to he blurred out so the subject is in focus and and not competing with the bookshelf in the background

Cannot recommend this highly enough -- does exactly what I want from a webcam, far better than any webcam I've ever used. A total joy.

Such a wonderful product! I was beta tester and Camo improve a lot the quality of my video calls. I've tried some of other apps to replace my webcam, but Camo is way better than the competitors. I love it! Thanks for the good work and I'm really excited to see what's next!

I used Camo to deliver a remote conference talk yesterday and it works amazingly well. Good job, team! I loved how much control I had over zoom, cropping, hue, ISO and really any camera setting you can think of.

Looks great, but I wish it worked with older iPhones. I have an old iPhone 4 which would be great to have been able to be used with Camo. I understand the technologies used may no longer work on older OSes, just longing for finding an app which will allow me to use my iPhone 4 for this purpose.

Rather brilliant piece of software that turns your iPhone into a high quality webcam. There are a few other contenders in this field but Camo is very well executed and a joy to use. I don’t mind the cable - it lets me use my phone as a physical webcam, dangling upside down over the top of my non-webcam equipped 5k monitor. Can’t wait for the next bunch of features that will be added in future versions. Highly recommended!

The first impression is so often decisive. Bääääm!!! Running right now. And yes, I will buy the Pro Version, because I wanted to buy a Logitsch Cam first. I'm sure that there will be many improvements. Hopefully no frills Please, the important technical things first As I requested by mail some time ago, I would like to have a "real-time translation. My designation would be "CRTT Camo Real Time Translation" I get the option to say in which language I speak and into which language I want to be translated. And so I hear an Englsih Speaker e.g. in deutsc German That would be great for meetings. Cheers, Mischu

Love this, and can’t wait for portrait mode support

genius!