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.
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.
Native HEVC playback
Hardware H.265 decode on both Android and iOS. No re-encoding on the server, no codec store dance — ViewPane uses the HEVC silicon already in your phone. Full 4K, full frame rate, full clarity.
Mobile browsers fail thisZero 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.
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.
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.
ProMulti-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.
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.
Works with any Frigate install
Self-hosted Frigate (community open-source), Frigate+ subscription with custom-trained models, or a commercial Frigate appliance — same API, same app, no separate SKU.
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.
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.
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
- 1 Frigate server
- Multi-camera live grid
- Native H.265 playback
- Fullscreen + pinch-zoom
- Last 20 events
- LAN + Tailscale access
- App Lock (PIN)
Pro
- Unlimited Frigate servers
- MQTT push notifications
- Full event history + filters
- Clip playback + download
- Live Wall (multi-camera grid)
$9.99/year is two coffees. Buy me two coffees a year and we keep ViewPane in its best shape — bug fixes shipping, Frigate-version compatibility holding, docs current. That's the whole deal. No drip campaign, no newsletter, no engagement funnel.
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.