PerchCam: Security Camera
Old Phone, Baby & Pets
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Turn a spare iPhone or iPad into a private home camera with local live view, smart alerts, event history, browser, HLS, and RTSP output.
Turn a spare iPhone or iPad into a private home security camera. PerchCam gives you local live view, event recording, and smart alerts without forcing your video through a cloud account.
OLD PHONE AS CAMERA
Use an unused iPhone or iPad as a live camera for your home, baby room, pets, shop, garage, or office. Place it where you need a view, plug it in for long sessions, and keep monitoring.
LOCAL LIVE VIEW
Watch from another PerchCam device, a browser, or compatible local players. PerchCam monitor devices can provide web, HLS, and RTSP outputs on your local network, so you can use another phone, a computer browser, VLC, an NVR, Home Assistant, or compatible tools in your own setup.
SMART DETECTION
Get notified when something important happens:
- Motion detection
- Person detection
- Baby cry detection
- Alarm and unusual sound detection
- Pet and animal activity
- Camera obstruction and scene changes
Events can be saved locally with snapshots and video clips, so you can review what happened without scrolling through hours of footage.
PRIVACY FIRST
Your camera feed is processed locally whenever possible. PerchCam does not require a third-party cloud account to monitor your own space, and your recordings stay on your device unless you choose to share or back them up.
USEFUL FOR
- Home security
- Baby monitoring
- Pet watching
- Elder care check-ins
- Small shop monitoring
- Garage, driveway, and entryway checks
- Reusing an old iPhone or iPad
- Local browser, HLS, and RTSP playback
PRO FEATURES
Upgrade to unlock the full monitoring workflow, including live streaming features, smart detection, extended event history, email alerts, webhook alerts, and advanced monitoring options.
PerchCam is for people who want a simple camera app with real local playback options, local privacy, and practical alerts.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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This update improves long-running monitoring reliability:
- More reliable sound-triggered night monitoring and Listen Only behavior
- Fixed audio capture stalls and improved camera session recovery
- Improved local streaming stability, Viewer reconnects, and resource management
The developer, 原野 葛, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- 原野 葛
- Size
- 33.4 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 26 more
- English, Arabic, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hausa, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- PerchCam Pro · مدى الحياة $2.99
- PerchCam Pro · Annual $0.99
- Copyright
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