Camo overview

Camo is an app for using your phone, iPad, or iPod Touch as a pro-quality webcam. It allows you to use the high-quality video directly from your device's amazing camera on your Mac or PC.

To learn more about Camo and its features, please see Camo's product page.

Reincubate Camo has two components: an app that runs on your phone or iPad, and an app that runs on your computer. For the sake of clarity, we refer to the mobile app as "Camo", and the desktop app as "Camo Studio", as it allows you to control the image sent from the mobile device.

Camo vs Camo Pro

Camo is available in free and paid editions. We hope users love both versions, for different reasons. Here's how we think of them.

Camo's free edition is great for straightforward, 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 it's main back lens (the wide one). The free version of Camo also lets you access your device's audio. You can connect multiple iOS devices and switch between them.

If you upgrade to Camo Pro, you get the following:

• Access to every lens on your phone (such as selfie, telephoto, ultra-wide & wide)
• "Portrait mode" on iPhone's that support it, with bokeh effect and shallow depth-of-field
• 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)
• Video mirroring
• Rotation of the feed in 90° increments (in case your phone is orientation locked)
• Zoom controls, with pan and tilt to keep you front and centre
• 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

You can see some of these controls in action in adjusting your video.

Compatibility

Camo is compatible with any iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch running iOS 12 or above. Camo for Android is in beta, and we'll be publishing a list of the devices it is compatible with soon.

Camo Studio is compatible with any macOS computer running macOS 10.13 or newer, or any Windows computer running Windows 7 64-bit or newer. It is compatible with M1 Macs.

Many popular video calling and streaming apps such as Zoom, Google Meet and Twitch are compatible with Camo. If you’re using Zoom, Camo requires Zoom 5.0.5 or above. You can see the full compatibility list here.

Camo Studio should stream 1080p fine on a low-power 12” 2015 MacBook. Similarly, it performs well on 2012 iMacs. If you encounter slowdown on older or slower machines, try decreasing the video resolution in Camo Studio to 720p.

Portrait Mode

Camo supports Portrait Mode on any iPhone or iPad with an A12 processor or higher. Note that this is different from Apple's Portrait Mode within the Camera app, which works on some slightly older devices. You can use the table below to find your device and check compatibility.

Model	Processor	Portrait Mode
iPhone 12 Pro Max	A14	✅
iPhone 12 Pro	A14	✅
iPhone 12	A14	✅
iPhone 12 mini	A14	✅
iPhone SE (2nd gen)	A13	✅
iPhone 11 Pro Max	A13	✅
iPhone 11 Pro	A13	✅
iPhone 11	A13	✅
iPhone XS Max	A12	✅
iPhone XS	A12	✅
iPhone XR	A12	✅
iPhone X	A11	❌
iPhone 8 Plus	A11	❌
iPhone 8	A11	❌
iPhone 7 Plus	A10	❌
iPhone 7	A10	❌
iPhone SE (1st gen)	A9	❌
iPhone 6s Plus	A9	❌
iPhone 6s	A9	❌
iPhone 6 Plus	A8	❌
iPhone 6	A8	❌
iPhone 5s	A7	❌
iPad Pro (11-inch, 4th gen)	A12Z	✅
iPad Pro (12.9-inch, 4th gen)	A12Z	✅
iPad Pro (11-inch, 3rd gen)	A12X	✅
iPad Pro (12.9-inch, 3rd gen)	A12X	✅
iPad Pro (12.9-inch, 2nd gen)	A10X	❌
iPad Pro (10.5-inch, 1st gen)	A10X	❌
iPad Pro (12.9-inch, 1st gen)	A9X	❌
iPad Pro (9.7-inch)	A9X	❌
iPad (2020, 8th gen)	A12	✅
iPad (2019, 7th gen)	A10	❌
iPad (2018, 6th gen)	A10	❌
iPad (5th gen)	A9	❌
iPad mini 5	A12	✅
iPad mini 4	A8	❌
iPad mini 3	A7	❌
iPad mini 2	A7	❌
iPad Air (2019, 3rd gen)	A12	✅
iPad Air (1st gen)	A8X	❌
iPad Air (2nd gen)	A7	❌
iPod touch (2019, 7th gen)	A10	❌
iPod touch (6th gen)	A8	❌