The short version
InsetCam is a camera preview overlay for macOS. It has no account, no telemetry, and no server of its own. Camera frames are processed locally in real time and are never recorded or uploaded.
InsetCam does not record or stream your screen. That is done by the recording or streaming software you run alongside it.
Your camera
When you allow camera access, InsetCam shows a live preview of your camera on your Mac. The frames are processed locally for display and are not recorded, stored, or sent anywhere.
You can revoke camera access any time in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Camera. InsetCam works with whatever camera the system lets it see — it picks the built-in front camera when one is available and otherwise the system default.
Settings stay on your Mac
Your preferences — where the preview sits, its size, aspect ratio, mirroring, and corners — are stored in the app's preferences file in your home folder. There is no account, and nothing is synced or sent anywhere.
The network
InsetCam makes no network calls of its own and works fully offline. It has no servers, no telemetry, and no auto-updater. The only things that touch the network are apps you open yourself, like your recorder or browser.
About recording
A camera window on your screen is visible to whatever records that screen. If you record or stream with another app, that app captures InsetCam's preview together with the rest of your screen — under that app's own privacy rules. Record or stream only with software you trust.
This website
This site is a static website. It runs no analytics scripts and sets no tracking cookies. It is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, which may keep standard access logs (such as IP addresses) as part of its hosting service.
Where this page comes from
This is a plain-language description of how InsetCam behaves; the behavior it describes ships with the app. The application code is licensed under the MIT License. If a release ever changes how the camera or your data are handled, the change ships with that release and is noted in the changelog.
Questions about any of this belong in an issue on GitHub, where the answer is public.