ViewPane
Kenneth Campbell
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ViewPane is the companion app for Frigate NVR — the open-source, self-hosted network video recorder trusted by thousands of self-hosting enthusiasts. Your cameras. Your network. Your phone. NATIVE HEVC LIVE VIEW Tap any camera for a fullscreen live view played as real video with hardware H.265/HEVC decode — full resolution, full frame rate, no server re-encoding. Pinch to zoom, pan while zoomed, rotate for landscape. ALL YOUR CAMERAS IN ONE GRID A clean 2- or 3-column grid with thumbnails you set yourself — capture the exact frame you want for each camera. Live Wall (Pro) turns the grid into an auto-updating multi-camera view with Auto, Large, Medium, or Small tiles, and a long-press pins any camera as the big tile. BROWSE AI-DETECTED EVENTS Scroll events with thumbnails, confidence scores, and zone labels. Filter by camera, detection type (person, car, dog, cat), or time range (Pro). Tap any event for the snapshot and recorded clip. PLAY, SAVE, AND SHARE CLIPS (PRO) Event clips and continuous recordings download to your phone, play smoothly mobile-optimized, and hand off to the system share sheet — save to your files or photos via the share sheet, or send to anyone. GET NOTIFIED (PRO) Motion alerts through your own self-hosted relay container, driven by your MQTT broker. Per-camera schedules, tap an alert to jump to the live view and snooze that camera. No cloud middleman — the relay runs on your hardware. Delivery is best-effort: alerts ride your network and Apple's push service, so treat them as a convenience, not a guarantee. WORKS EVERYWHERE Connect over your local network at home or remotely through Tailscale or a reverse proxy — ViewPane automatically picks the right URL. Sign in with Frigate's own built-in login (0.16+), Basic Auth, or a Bearer Token. The app refuses to send credentials over unsafe public HTTP. PRIVACY FIRST No analytics, no tracking, no accounts, no cloud. Server credentials live in your device's secure keychain. Camera footage flows directly between your phone and your server — we never see it. The only optional external service is push delivery (an anonymous device token; never video or credentials). BUILT FOR FRIGATE USERS Works with Frigate 0.14 or newer (tested on 0.16, 0.17 and 0.18), community or Frigate+. Multi-server support (Pro). Demo mode lets you tour the full app with sample data before touching your config. Built and tested daily on a 10-camera Frigate install. ViewPane is for viewing cameras you own and operate. It is a viewer, not a security or alarm system: it does not monitor anything itself or contact anyone on your behalf, and push notifications are best-effort and can be delayed or dropped by your network or by Apple's and Google's push services. ViewPane is a viewer for cameras you own and operate. It is not a security or alarm system, does not monitor anything on your behalf, and is not a substitute for a monitored service. Free tier: one server, the camera grid, fullscreen native-HEVC live view with pinch-zoom and landscape, the last 20 events, LAN + Tailscale access, and demo mode. ViewPane Pro ($9.99/year — under a dollar a month) adds push notifications, full event history with filters, clip playback and saving, unlimited servers, and Live Wall. ViewPane is not affiliated with the Frigate NVR project. Privacy Policy: https://viewpane.app/privacy · Terms of Use (EULA): https://viewpane.app/terms
What's new
Version 1.0.2 · Oct 26, 2026
Alerts - Tap an alert while something is still happening and you go straight to the live camera. Tap it later and you get the clip. - Every alert now has Live, Clip and Snooze 1h buttons. Snooze pauses that camera's alerts on this phone for an hour. - Choose what each camera notifies you about: only certain objects (for example, people only) and only certain zones you set up in Frigate. - Alerts older than an hour are no longer delivered late. - Object and zone choices and the one-hour limit need the latest ViewPane relay (0.6). If yours is older, the app tells you when you save. - Turning Motion Alerts on registers this phone with your relay right away, and Settings tells you if something is blocking it. Watching - Swipe left or right in full screen to move between cameras. - Step through events with Previous and Next without going back to the list. - Events that are still happening show a Live button in the list and a Watch live bar on the event. - Recordings has a new timeline: pick a day, see which hours have footage and where events happened, and tap to jump there. - Pro: filter events by recognized name, zone or license plate. - Opening the app after the phone has been asleep waits for the connection instead of showing Server Unreachable. Fixes - Live view recovers on its own when the first attempt cannot reach the server, and explains why when a stream will not start. - Full-screen live view works on stock Frigate 0.18, using the same stream Frigate's own web page plays. If a phone can't play that stream, it shows a fresh snapshot about once a second and links the setup step instead of an error. - Subscription purchases and restores handle slow connections and interruptions better, and the price shown always comes from the App Store. - Clips load faster. - Many smaller fixes to connection handling, thumbnails and snooze timing. Feedback: ken@campbellsoftstudios.com
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- ViewPane ProSubscription$199.00 / year
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