Camo is an app for using your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch as a pro-quality webcam.
It allows users to use high-quality video direct from the amazing camera on their iOS device as a webcam.
Reincubate Camo has two components: an app that runs on your iPhone or iPad, and an app that runs on your computer.
For the sake of clarity, the mobile app is referred to as "Camo", and the desktop app as "Camo Studio", as it allows you to control the image sent from the mobile device.
Camo is available in free and paid editions... Camo Free and Camo Pro.
Camo Free Editon
Camo's free edition is great for high-quality calls but lacks adjustments.
It gives you resolutions up to and including 720p video, along with a choice of the device's selfie lens, or its main back lens (the wide one).
You can connect multiple iOS devices and switch between them.
Camo Pro Features
- Access to every lens (modern devices have selfie, telephoto, ultra-wide & wide)
- Control of the device's flash for use as a light ( turn it on and off, control the brightness)
- Access to any resolution the device provides (opening up 1080p and 1440 x 1080)
- Removal the Camo watermark from your feed
- Video mirroring (Zoom only mirrors video in your view, not your viewers')
- Rotation of the video in 90° increments (you can always rotate your phone!)
- Zoom controls, with pan and tilt to get yourself front and center
- Focus adjustments (autofocus, focus on a particular area, manual focus control)
- Shutter speed and ISO adjustments
- Image adjustments including brightness, temperature, tint, hue, saturation, contrast, gamma, sharpness
- Price: US$39.99 (12-month subscription)
Download Camo
Get started with Camo today free on macOS and iOS. Download the 2 apps.
About Camo
Want to look your best on video calls?
The camera on your iPhone or iPad is far ahead of any webcam on the market, and Camo makes it easy to use your iPhone as a webcam.
iPhone cameras are getting better but webcams are getting worse. As the Wall Street Journal reported, some 2020 laptop cameras are worse than 2010 models, and many only do 720p, which even YouTube doesn’t consider “HD”.
Camo is taking a fresh approach to solving this: no ads, no spam, no fiddly pairing, no drivers, and a polished, simple app that lets you make the most of the amazing camera you already own.
Camo works by streaming camera data from our iOS app to your computer.
To use Camo, run the app on your iPhone or iPad, plug it into your computer, and launch Camo on your Mac. You’ll see Camo appear as a camera in your video apps!
Using your iPhone makes a huge difference compared to regular webcams, but Camo lets you do even more to look your best on video calls with detailed image adjustment controls.
There’s much, much more to come, including Windows and audio support.
From the Sales Page
Use your iPhone or iPad as a pro webcam and get powerful effects and adjustments for Zoom, Meet, and more. Look amazing on video calls.- High-quality video. Better than your built-in webcam with 1080p and super hi-res streaming directly from the cameras on your iPhone or iPad. No more low-res “720p HD” nonsense.
- Works on most video meeting apps. Supports Zoom, Meet, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Slack, Google Chrome, WebEx Teams, and many others, with no need to run any special commands.
- Tune your image. Adjust lenses & lighting, correct colors, zoom, crop, and focus. All controlled by your computer, without needing to fiddle with your phone.
- Preview always available. Look your best whilst on calls at all times with a resizable preview, even when your video meeting software, like Google Meet, doesn’t include a clear monitor.
- Plug and play. No extra hardware needed, and no drivers to mess around with. Plug your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, and youʼre good to go!
- Lots more. Beautiful native Dark Mode support. Global pause & resume hotkey. Recording indicator. Full iPad support. No ads. Configurable presets. Support for multiple devices.
- High-quality video. Better than your built-in webcam with 1080p and super hi-res streaming directly from the cameras on your iPhone or iPad. No more low-res “720p HD” nonsense.
- Works on most video meeting apps. Supports Zoom, Meet, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Slack, Google Chrome, WebEx Teams, and many others, with no need to run any special commands.
- Tune your image. Adjust lenses & lighting, correct colors, zoom, crop, and focus. All controlled by your computer, without needing to fiddle with your phone.
- Preview always available. Look your best whilst on calls at all times with a resizable preview, even when your video meeting software, like Google Meet, doesn’t include a clear monitor.
- Plug and play. No extra hardware needed, and no drivers to mess around with. Plug your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, and youʼre good to go!
- Lots more. Beautiful native Dark Mode support. Global pause & resume hotkey. Recording indicator. Full iPad support. No ads. Configurable presets. Support for multiple devices.
Adrian's Camo Review
Camo Review bullet script:
- Objective: Gain subscribers
- Audience: Zoomers
- Genre: How to video, not product promo
- Hook...
- How to use your iPhone as a webcam on your Mac with cable
- Intro...
- The story. The previous video. The free becoming paid NDI. Comments about cable not wifi lagginess.
- Download Free edition...
- Installation...
- Setting up...
- Test...
- Test free version first. Check quality and limitations. Cable and wireless. Test Apps that can run like zoom.
- Answer commenter questions in my current iriun video.
- CTA: subscribe for windows update, SVC, amzn webcam list
- Next:
- Compare iriun and NDI OBS.
- Then test with licence.
- "I started building this because I had a top of the range Mac, but it annoyed me that friends who joined calls on their iPhones got better quality than I did. I got a top-end Logitech webcam ($350!) and it wasn’t any good — the software sucked, the colors were cold and it kept refocusing all the time. Everyone I spoke to said the solution was to get a DSLR camera and an Elgato CamLink (around $1,800!). That’d give amazing image quality, but that’s a heck of a lot of money. So Camo came about as a way to capture that pro quality without all that money. We shared an early build of Camo with Apple photography expert Jeff Carlson, and what he found blew us away. The best external webcam doesn’t have a chance against your iPhone." - Camo Founder Aidan
- Which video app is Camo compatible with? Lots! More than 40, including Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, GoToMeeting, WebEx Teams, Slack, and more. You can see the list on our site, or in Camo Studio itself.
- What’s next on Camo’s roadmap? We’re not stopping with 1.0. In the coming weeks, we’re going to be shipping support for audio, portrait mode, 4K, translations, and a Windows version. You can read more in our FAQ.
Other points to consider:
- Low latency
- Uses less CPU
- vs NDI
- vs built-in webcam
- vs Logitech webcam
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What else should I add in the review?
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