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CLUSTER PHONE-CAMERA-TURNS · 12 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-06-04

Phone-as-IP-camera apps

This cluster consists of apps that repurpose a phone as an internet-accessible camera with remote viewing and control, often adding features like motion alerts and AI control. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from, with only four dated entries before the index start. Traction is led by GhostCam (4 stars), followed by NovaGuard (2 stars) and Husk (0 stars).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2016: 1NOV 2019: 1DEC 2023: 1AUG 2024: 1JUN 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 3OCT 2026: 3
AUG 2016OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 11 unlabelled

Operator · 5 hobby · 1 commercial · 5 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 12 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01OpenPocketCine266★25 daysliveMobile app that turns a phone into a field monitor for DJI Osmo Pocket cameras.
  2. 02GhostCam6★9 days—hobbyApp that streams a mobile phone camera over the internet to a Windows PC and saves video directly to disk in real time.
  3. 03GhostCam4★12 days—hobbyApp that turns a phone into a remote camera, streaming live video over the internet to a PC that records it with nothing stored on the phone.
  4. 04camerold3★4 dayslivehobbyApp that turns an old Android phone into a live security camera viewable from any browser or another phone over Wi-Fi or 4G with end-to-end encryption.
  5. 05Husk0★24 daysliveopen sourceApp that turns a spare phone into a remote camera and control rig with browser streaming, motion alerts, and scripted actions.
  6. 06Barkio: Dog Monitor & Pet Cam0★1 molivecommercialApp turning a phone into a remote pet camera, providing live video, bark detection, two-way audio, and activity logs for pet parents.
  7. 07Android IP Camera0★19 daysliveopen sourceTurns an Android phone into an IP camera with a built-in server and remote web controls for streaming video.
  8. 08aiwebcam0★1 mo—hobbyMobile app that turns a phone into a networked camera and sensor server, allowing AI agents to view and control it remotely.
  9. 09phonecam-cctv0★1 mo—hobbySelf-hosted home security system that turns an old Android phone into a CCTV camera with live streaming, motion detection, and remote viewing.
  10. 10UVC Camera / Usb Camera custom0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceAndroid app that connects USB cameras and lets users adjust streaming settings for video capture.
  11. 11FadCam0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceAndroid app for background video recording, screen recording, and remote camera control with local network streaming.
  12. 12Endoscope0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMobile app that streams live camera video from one Android device to another over a local Wi-Fi network.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.