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. 👋

Thank you!

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.

@afit Congrats on the Launch. I've waited sooo long for this. Thank you.

This is so great — one of those apps you've kind of always wanted or assumed should be baked into macOS but hasn't been. What a useful product!

Works like a charm. I was about to upgrade so that I could use the zoom and framing feature but I saw it was an annual license instead of a one time fee. Ugh. Good software though!

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!

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.

genius!

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

Downloaded it and will try soon . Must the iPhone screen be ‘on’ during the operation ?

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.

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

Hey Aidan, love this concept especially as a Mac user who likes to use his laptop in clamshell mode. Is it possible to make this available to 🇨🇦? Able to download on iOS but not Mac App Store...

We all know it: The built in computer camera (Apple or otherwise) is garbage. And so are most webcams. The back (or front) camera on my old iPhone7? Solid. I reached out and begged to beta test this - it's been something I've been asking for PRIOR to covid - and it's implementation is solid for a 1.0. Can't wait for the Windows versions. Can't wait for 2.0. But 1.0? Totally, TOTALLY usable.

FYI, I just tested it with Telestream's Wirecast app (I use it to broadcast my podcast video each Wednesday). Seems to work fine with the beta app. Camo doesn't have it listed as a supported app on their site. It also works to directly broadcast live on YouTube. Good luck on the launch!

?makers windows support has been 'coming soon' for a while now. Any update on this? Most of us with corporate computers are on Windows so I feel like there is opportunity here.

Used it in the beta stages and liked it!

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

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..