Introducing CoreView

Your Cameras, Your Network, Your Control

CoreView is a professional-grade camera viewing app built natively for every Apple device. Watch, capture, and control all your cameras from a single app. Video goes straight from each camera to your device over your own network.

CoreView works offline and off-grid.

CoreView is available on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro.

Get CoreView Now

• App Store
• TestFlight
• Web Download (Apple Notarized App)

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 the cameras on your local network and keeps your video there. Snapshots and recordings go to your own Photos library.

• Your network, not ours. Camera video and audio travel from the camera to your device and nowhere else. Your cameras keep working when the internet doesn't.
• No vendor lock-in. ONVIF, RTSP, UniFi Protect, Rhombus, and the cameras built into or plugged into your Apple devices all live in one library. Mix and match brands freely.
• One app, every Apple device. iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Vision Pro are all first-class. Set up your cameras once, then send the whole setup to your other devices with LAN Sync.

What You Can Do

Discover and Connect Cameras Instantly

CoreView finds cameras for you with ONVIF discovery, RTSP network scanning, and Bonjour discovery of UniFi Protect consoles. Adding a camera opens a page in the main window with discovery right beside the form. Pick a device, and CoreView fills in its address, loads its details, and shows every stream it offers as a card with a picture from that stream and its codec, resolution, frame rate, bitrate, and audio. CoreView briefly opens each stream to show what it really sends, which isn't always what the camera advertises.

Supported camera sources:

• ONVIF IP cameras, including NVRs and encoders with many channels
• Any RTSP stream by URL, in H.264, H.265 (HEVC), or AV1
• UniFi Protect systems, with API key or local account sign-in, secure RTSPS streaming, and optional SRTP
• Rhombus cameras, played directly from the camera on your network
• Built-in, USB, and Continuity cameras on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Monitor Everything at a Glance

Groups put several cameras together in one seamless mosaic:

• The automatic layout fits each camera's shape and fills the width of the window before it continues down.
• Make any camera larger to emphasize what matters most, up to the size the group's scale allows, from 1 to 10.
• Press and hold a camera to drag it into a new order.
• Double-tap a camera and it grows out of its tile to fill the screen, with pinch to zoom up to 8×.
• Save a snapshot of every camera, or record them all, with one action.
• On Apple TV, move through the mosaic with your Siri Remote.

CoreView is smart about resources: it streams only the cameras you can see, and browsing your library never starts a stream. Library cards show the last picture from each camera, and folders and search keep a large library tidy.

Watch Closely

• Turn each camera's sound on or off and set its volume. CoreView remembers both.
• Rotate or flip any camera that's mounted at an angle or upside down.
• Sound Levels shows the last 12 seconds of sound above the room's background noise, even while the camera is muted.
• Picture in Picture and background audio on iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro make CoreView a great baby monitor.
• If a stream drops, CoreView reconnects within about a second, and tells you what's wrong when it can't.
• AV1 cameras, such as the UniFi G6 PTZ, play too, through Apple's hardware decoder where the device has one and CoreView's own decoder everywhere else.

Pan, Tilt, and Zoom

Control ONVIF and UniFi Protect PTZ cameras right from playback. Turn on PTZ mode, then hold an arrow or zoom button to move the camera, go Home, or jump to a preset. Directions follow the picture you see, even when you've rotated or flipped it, and each camera has its own pan, tilt, and zoom speeds. On the Mac, the arrow keys pan and tilt; on Apple TV, a PTZ pad sits beside the video.

Snapshots and Recordings

Save a snapshot or record any camera, and it goes straight to your Photos library. Recordings keep the camera's original quality and audio, because CoreView saves the stream as it arrives without re-encoding it.

Copy Your Setup with LAN Sync

Set up your cameras on one device, then send the whole setup (cameras and their passwords, groups, folders, UniFi Protect systems, and Rhombus organizations) to another device on your network. The other device shows a six-digit code that matches yours, and nothing changes there until you choose Replace. The transfer is encrypted and never leaves your network, and the replaced setup can be restored.

Privacy and Security First

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

• Video stays local. Camera video and audio never passes through any servers.
• Credentials stay on your device. Camera passwords and API keys are stored on your device and never uploaded anywhere. LAN Sync sends them only to a device you choose, encrypted, on your own network.
• Logs only when you send them. Diagnostic logging is off by default and never includes passwords or video.

Try It Free

Without a license, CoreView streams for up to five minutes at a time, with every feature available. A device license removes the limit on that device. Sign in with Apple to buy as many licenses as you need, assign them to your devices, and move them whenever you like. A licensed device keeps working offline for up to 30 days.

Runs on Everything You Own

CoreView is a single universal app that runs natively on:

Every feature works on every platform unless the device makes it impossible: menu bar cameras are a Mac feature, Picture in Picture comes to iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro, and built-in and USB cameras can be used on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.