CoreView — Your Cameras, Your Network, Your Control

CoreView is a professional-grade camera streaming and recording platform built natively for every Apple device. Monitor, record, and manage all your cameras from a single app — no cloud accounts, no data leaving your network unless you choose otherwise. CoreView is designed from the ground up to work fully offline.

Coming April 1, 2026.

Why CoreView

Most camera apps force you into a single vendor's ecosystem or route your video through remote servers you don't control. CoreView takes a different approach: it connects directly to cameras on your local network and keeps everything under your control. You decide where footage is stored, who can access it, and whether anything ever touches the internet.

• No cloud dependency. CoreView works entirely on your local network. There's no service that can go offline and take your cameras with it.
• No vendor lock-in. Connect to virtually any IP camera — ONVIF, RTSP, UniFi Protect, Rhombus, or any device that speaks standard protocols. Mix and match brands freely.
• One app, every Apple device. iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Vision Pro are all first-class. The same cameras, the same layouts, the same recordings — everywhere.

What You Can Do

Discover and Connect Cameras Instantly

CoreView automatically finds cameras on your network using three discovery methods — ONVIF broadcast, RTSP port scanning, and Bonjour/mDNS — and presents them in a unified search interface. Add a camera in seconds. You can also stream from your device's built-in cameras or capture your Mac's screen.

Supported camera sources:

• ONVIF-compatible IP cameras (the broadest industry standard)
• Any RTSP, raw H.264, or HLS stream via URL
• UniFi Protect cameras with full authentication support
• Rhombus cameras
• Built-in device cameras (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
• Screen capture (Mac)

Monitor Everything at a Glance

The multi-camera grid view gives you a live dashboard of all your cameras at once. It's fully customizable:

• Choose between 1 and 10 columns
• Scale individual cameras to 2x2, 3x3, or larger to emphasize what matters most
• Drag and drop to reorder your layout
• Go fullscreen on any camera with a tap
• Set up a slideshow that automatically cycles through cameras on a timer
• On Apple TV, navigate the entire grid with your Siri Remote

CoreView is smart about resources — it only streams cameras that are currently visible on screen, so scrolling past a camera pauses its stream automatically.

Record Locally or to the Cloud

Record any camera's stream continuously or on your own schedule. Footage is written an efficient format with optional AES-256 encryption, and you choose where it goes:

• Local storage — right on the device or an attached drive
• Amazon S3 — your own bucket, your own keys
• Azure Blob Storage — same idea, Microsoft's cloud

Browse recordings by date, view snapshots taken at regular intervals, and play back any segment directly in the app.

Export Timelapses

Turn hours or days of footage into a polished timelapse video. Choose your frame rate, bitrate, and frame skip interval. Filter to keyframes only for ultra-fast generation. Output is encoded in HEVC for excellent quality at small file sizes.

Share a Web Portal

CoreView can host a secure HTTPS web portal directly from your device — no separate server software needed. Anyone on your network can open a browser and view live camera feeds, browse recordings, and download footage. The portal uses a self-signed TLS certificate generated on-device for encrypted connections.

Stream Live to YouTube

Broadcast any camera to YouTube Live using MPEG-DASH. CoreView handles the full pipeline: Google account authentication, broadcast and stream management via the YouTube Data API, and real-time DASH segment generation. Go live from your security camera, your desk setup, or any RTSP stream.

Privacy and Security First

CoreView is built around the principle that your camera footage is sensitive data and should be treated accordingly.

• Offline by default. The app never phones home, never requires an internet connection, and never sends video anywhere you haven't explicitly configured.
• Encrypted recordings. Files can be encrypted with AES-256-GCM. Your encryption key is stored in the device Keychain — not in a remote database.
• Credentials stay local. Camera passwords, OAuth tokens, and API keys are stored in the system Keychain, protected by the hardware security your Apple device already provides.
• No tracking. CoreView includes crash reporting (Sentry) to help us fix bugs, but there is no analytics, no usage tracking, and no ad infrastructure.

Runs on Everything You Own

CoreView is a single universal app that runs natively on:

Every feature works on every platform unless the hardware makes it impossible (screen capture is Mac-only; the web portal isn't available on tvOS or visionOS).

How It Stores Your Data

CoreView keeps things simple. There's no database engine, no sync service, and no hidden complexity:

• Camera configurations, groups and preferences are saved locally on your device.
• Secrets (passwords, tokens, encryption keys) go into the Keychain.

Get Started

Add your first camera in under a minute:

1. Open CoreView on any device.
2. Tap Discover Cameras — CoreView will scan your network automatically.
3. Select a camera from the results, enter credentials if needed, and you're live.

From there, arrange your grid, set up recording, or share the web portal with your household. Everything else is optional and can be configured as you need it.