Coming soon to Google Play & the App Store · Closed beta in progress

Frigate, on your phone.
No cloud. Native H.265.

ViewPane is the companion app for Frigate NVR — Android and iOS. Built for self-hosted users who already run their own stack, want it on their phone, and refuse to hand camera feeds to a vendor cloud to make it work.

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Self-hosted Tailscale-ready MQTT push $9.99/yr Pro
Why ViewPane

Built by someone who actually runs Frigate.

Every feature here exists because the existing Frigate-companion apps in the Play Store don't ship it, get it wrong, or hide it behind a subscription that makes the math worse than just opening a browser tab.

H.265

Native HEVC playback

No $0.99 codec from the Microsoft Store. No re-encoding on the server. ViewPane decodes H.265 directly on Android — full 4K, full frame rate, full clarity.

Frigate web UI fails this
NO ☁

Zero cloud, zero telemetry

Your camera feeds never leave your network. No vendor account. No data harvesting. The app talks to your Frigate server, full stop.

TS

Tailscale-native remote access

Connect to your Frigate from anywhere without port-forwarding, dynamic DNS, or punching holes in your firewall. Just install Tailscale and ViewPane finds your server.

MQTT

Push alerts via your own broker

Object detection events trigger sub-second push notifications through a self-hosted relay. No Frigate cloud, no FCM-as-a-product. Your broker, your alerts.

Pro
GRID

Multi-camera live grid

2x2, 3x3, custom layouts. Low-latency RTSP/HLS. Pinch-to-zoom into any tile. Built for the way real users actually monitor a property.

EVT

Event browser + filters

Scrub Frigate's clip history right from your phone. Filter by camera, object class, or time. Zones, scores, and frame metadata show on every event card. Tap to jump to the exact moment.

NVR

Frigate+ NVR compatible

Works with self-hosted Frigate (community build) and Frigate+ NVR commercial hardware. Same app, same config flow, no separate SKU.

AUTH

frigate-auth + App Lock

Plays nice with the official frigate-auth nginx setup — your existing login persists. JS-only PIN lock on the app itself for shared phones, no biometrics required.

The stack

Designed to fit the way you already host.

ViewPane ships as a thin client. Your Frigate, your broker, your storage, your network. The app just gives you a great phone-shaped window into all of it.

runs_on: Android 10+ · iOS 16+ # single codebase, both stores
talks_to: Frigate 0.13+ (community build · Frigate+ NVR)
remote_access: Tailscale, WireGuard, or LAN # no port-forwarding required
push_relay: self-hosted MQTT bridge (docker-compose template provided)
codecs: H.264, H.265 / HEVC, MJPEG # native decode
storage: your Frigate's recordings — ViewPane stores nothing
telemetry: none # no Crashlytics, no analytics SDKs, no third-party calls
source: marketing site open-source · app private until v1.0
Pricing

One price. No upsells.

Free is a real product, not a 7-day teaser. Pro adds real-time push notifications and the multi-server, full-history features power users actually want — but if you're happy with the browser, the browser is fine, and we mean that.

Free

$0
forever
  • 1 Frigate server
  • Live single-camera view
  • Multi-camera live grid
  • Event browser (last 24h)
  • LAN + Tailscale access
  • H.265 native playback

Pro

$9.99 /year
≈ $0.83/mo · cancel anytime
  • Unlimited Frigate servers
  • MQTT push notifications
  • Full event history + filters
  • App Lock (PIN)

Pro subscriptions fund continued development. Bug fixes ship, the docs stay current, and the app keeps up with Frigate releases instead of bit-rotting in the Play Store.

v1 launch

Get the link the day it goes live.

Drop us a line and we'll send you the Play Store link the moment ViewPane ships. No drip campaign. No newsletter. One email, then silence unless v2 is wild.

Email ken@campbellsoftstudios.com
Goes straight to Ken's inbox. We use your email exactly once. No tracking pixels, no ESP, no list.