HomeCamCheck
Turn your Mac’s camera into a local surveillance tool — on-device person detection, optional alerts, and smart home integration.
Local, on-device detection
Video analysis runs on your Mac using Apple’s Vision framework
No cloud backend — your camera feed stays on your device
Live preview with detection overlays when a person is found
Flexible alerts
macOS local notifications when someone is detected
Optional Telegram photo and video alerts via your own bot
Optional SMS alerts through the Free Mobile API
Smart home ready
Local webhook server for Homebridge and Home Assistant
Raw H.264 TCP stream for homebridge-camera-ffmpeg
Turn the camera on or off from your automation setup
Local video archive
Save short clips when a person is detected
Retention by age and storage cap — you stay in control
Open or purge the archive from Settings
Privacy by design
Runs in the macOS App Sandbox with limited entitlements
Secrets stored in the macOS Keychain
No Precellence account required
macOS native
Light and dark themes
Keyboard shortcuts — ⌘K to start/stop the camera
Requires macOS 26.4 or later