CCTV Calc Design Studio
Security camera system planner
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Free to download. Plan storage, PoE, lenses, cabling, fire alarm, access control and mass notification. Try every tool free for 14 days, then unlock CCTV Calc Pro once.
Free to download. Try every tool free for 14 days, then unlock CCTV Calc Pro with one purchase. Storage is always free.
CCTV Calc Design Studio plans a security system the way an installer does: how much storage the NVR needs, whether every PoE run will hold, which lens covers the scene, and the cabling, audio, fire alarm, access control and notification systems around it. It works offline, needs no account, and nothing you enter leaves your device.
STORAGE AND BANDWIDTH (always free)
• Enter cameras by group: 1 to 16 MP and multi-sensor cameras, H.264, H.265 or smart codecs, frame rate, scene, and continuous, motion or scheduled recording.
• Get the terabytes for your retention, the drive count for any drive size with RAID 1, 5, 6 or 10, the incoming bandwidth and the remote-viewing bandwidth.
• Already have the NVR? Enter its installed capacity and see how many days it holds.
POE BUDGET
• Each device's draw and cable length give the power the switch port must source, the voltage at the device, the loss in the cable and the IEEE 802.3af, at or bt class.
• See the switch budget used, the longest run each device can take on Cat5e, Cat6 or CCA, and the UPS backup runtime.
LENS AND COVERAGE
• Scene width, pixels per foot and per meter, and the DORI level (IEC 62676-4) at any distance, from the datasheet's field of view or the sensor and focal length.
• Work backwards to the lens that reaches Detect, Observe, Recognize or Identify at a given distance.
CABLING AND AUDIO
• Fiber Loss Budget: TIA-568 limits, with an optics margin check.
• Coax Loss: RG-59, RG-6 and RG-11 from 5 MHz to 3 GHz, with splitters.
• Speaker Line 70/100 V: tap totals, amp size and wire loss in AWG or mm².
• Low-Z Audio 4–16 Ω: speaker load in series, parallel or series-parallel, and cable loss.
FIRE AND ACCESS
• Fire Alarm Battery & NAC: the standby battery to install, and the voltage at the last appliance.
• Access Control Power: the supply's peak load, the battery for a UL 294 standby level, and the voltage at each lock.
NOTIFICATION AND COMMUNICATION
• Mass Notification: the battery to NFPA 72, DoD or European defaults, the amplifier and circuit spare, speaker wire loss and strobe current.
• Giant Voice: an outdoor array's coverage radius, the distance inside which it tops 120 dBA, and the site battery.
• Intercom & Two-Way: the voltage at each station, data-pair runs and the battery.
• School PA: the amplifier and wire for each zone, and call-in switch runs.
• Speaker Coverage: ceiling speaker spacing, count and loudness for a room.
REFERENCE
• Survivability: the pathway survivability level to consider for the construction rating and evacuation strategy.
• Guides: survivability and pathway classes, cable types and compliance notes, in plain words.
JOBS AND REPORTS
• Save jobs on the device, and keep your own cameras in My cameras.
• Share a report as text, PDF or CSV, in the customer's language, with a fingerprint you can check later.
FREE AND PRO
• Storage is free for good.
• PoE, Lens, Jobs and reports, My cameras and the tools under More are free for 14 days. After that, CCTV Calc Pro unlocks them with a one-time purchase.
• No subscription: nothing renews and nothing is charged automatically. When the trial ends, your jobs and settings stay on your device.
MADE FOR THE FIELD
• Feet or meters, light or dark, and four themes: Night Vision, Night Ops, Hi-Vis and Thermal.
• English, Español, Português, Deutsch and Français.
• A how-to page for every screen. iPhone and iPad.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, no ads and no analytics. Purchases go through Apple; the app itself sends nothing anywhere, and your jobs stay on your device.
CCTV Calc Design Studio is a planning tool. Check the datasheet, the code book and the authority having jurisdiction for the system you install.
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New: twelve tools for cabling, audio, fire alarm, access control and notification work, and Guides, in the new More tab.
• Fiber Loss Budget — TIA-568 limits in feet, kilofeet, miles or km, with an optics margin check.
• Coax Loss — RG-59, RG-6 and RG-11 from 5 MHz to 3 GHz, with splitters and signal levels.
• Speaker Line 70/100 V — tap totals, amp size and wire loss in AWG or mm².
• Low-Z Audio 4–16 Ω — speaker load in series, parallel or series-parallel, and cable loss.
• Fire Alarm Battery & NAC — the standby battery to install, and the voltage at the last appliance.
• Access Control Power — the supply's peak load, the battery for a UL 294 standby level, and the voltage at the lock.
• Mass Notification — battery to NFPA 72, DoD or European defaults, amplifier and circuit spare, speaker wire loss and strobes.
• Giant Voice — outdoor array coverage, the 120 dBA distance and the site battery.
• Intercom & Two-Way — voltage at each station, data-pair runs and the battery.
• School PA — amplifier and wire for each zone, and call-in switch runs.
• Speaker Coverage — ceiling speaker spacing, count and loudness.
• Survivability — the pathway survivability level for the construction rating and evacuation strategy.
• Guides — survivability and pathway classes, cable types, compliance notes.
• Quicker number entry: Done finishes in one tap on iPad, and a tap outside the field finishes on any device.
• Free to download: Storage is always free, and every tool is free for 14 days. Then unlock CCTV Calc Pro once.
• New Night Vision theme.
Settings now lives in More.
The developer, Ryan Hudgeons, 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
- Ryan Hudgeons
- Size
- 3.9 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 4 more
- English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- CCTV Calc Pro $14.99
- 14-day Trial $0.00
- Copyright
- © 2026 Ryan Hudgeons
