Floating Camera: always-on-top/picture-in-picture MacOS webcam/iSight/security camera live feed viewer.
Notarized/hardened/sandboxed

Feb19 new version. Double clicking in the view triggers autofocus and autoexpose at that point.

Cmd+H to hide when selected is functional.

What is this: this is is a MacOS app that uses available camera/webcam/iSight/FacetimeHD in order to display the video feed live, full 16/9 view (non-cropped), resizable, always-on-top (picture in picture).
Native, notarized, sandboxed, hardened, and coded using no dependeny, no external libraries and only the required code. And no mirror mode.

How to install? Move the extracted app in /Applications, or anywhere you choose.

How to use? Run the app, its window floats on top of all other windows. Resize by the edges/corners. Field-of-view is non-mirrored, and completly visible, giving 10% more on both sides compared to PhotoBooth.

How to uninstall? Delete the app.

Download from Releases.

Our values aim to limit quantity/lines of code to the minimum required amount, with no external library and with minimal (here: none) dependencies: actual executable is 211KB, and 80% of app weight is from its icons.

Any comment/issue, features, requests are welcome This is the first release. To do: exposure/contrast/saturation sliders movement detection ...

Floating Camera was inspired from Chi Won's FloatingMirror

Floating Camera was initially tought to check on those weird noises that I heard downstairs most nights.

Downstairs I have a powerhouse but broken screen macbookpro used via SSH/ARD for machine learning work.

FYI Amazingly the noises were from two cats that sneaked in through a window I leave ajar.