Your cameras. Your footage.
No monthly fee.
A smart recorder for the cameras around your house. AI that knows a car from a cat, alerts on your phone and watch, and every minute of video kept on your own computer. Free for home use, with no camera limit.
Better than paying every month for every camera.
No per-camera fees
Footage stays home
Works with cameras you own
AI that runs at home
Everything at home is free. Pay only to reach it from away.
- Unlimited cameras and recorders
- Local recording on your own drives
- Local AI detection, no graphics card needed
- Named objects, pets and cars
- Alerts to your phone and watch through ntfy
- Camera health with advice on how to fix it
- Desktop viewer for Windows
A free registered account removes the small Unregistered mark from the viewer.
Download Free- Everything in Free
- Remote access from anywhere, no port forwarding
- Push alerts with a picture of what was seen
- Cloud Vision for small or far away objects
- Still unlimited cameras
90-day trial, no credit card. Compare plans.
Start the free trialLookout learns Maple is your cat.
Other systems tell you "animal" a hundred times a day. Lookout groups what it sees into objects you can name. Call the cat Maple once, and the next alert says "Maple - Back Porch" instead of "Cat". Name the family cars, the dog, the neighbor's truck.
- The Objects page shows everything Lookout has met, with a thumbs up or down on each
- A thumbs down marks it not real, and lookalikes stop alerting
- Ignore here silences one spot on one camera, like a garden statue
- Every correction is listed on the Corrections page, where you can undo it
A spider web is not a burglar.
At night a camera's infrared lights up every cobweb and moth near the lens, and most systems alert all night long. Lookout spots a camera that never goes quiet on night vision, ignores that patch at night only, and keeps alerting on everything else. The camera tells you the lens could use a wipe. It does not wake you up.
- Learns spots that move all day but never hold anything real, like a flag or a branch
- Each learned rule is written down where you can read it and switch it off
- Camera health explains what is wrong and where to fix it
- The Analytics page starts with a to-do list, so you know what needs attention
Know who is at the door from your wrist.
Short, clear titles
"Car - Driveway". "Maple - Back Porch". The name of what was seen comes first, then the camera, so you know whether to look without opening anything.
Phone and Wear OS
Alerts go out through ntfy, a free app for Android and iPhone, and show up on a paired watch, including Wear OS. With Home Pro, push and remote viewing come through the Lookout app. The Android app is in early release and not on Google Play yet; an iPhone app is planned.
Fast Alerts for the driveway
Turn on Fast Alerts for the one or two cameras that matter most, and Lookout checks them ahead of the others when it is busy. The car pulling in reaches your phone first.
Your home is not our data.
No video in our cloud
Recordings stay on your drives. Remote access with Home Pro streams video to you through a relay only when you ask for it.
AI without uploads
Detection runs on your PC. Cloud Vision is optional, off unless you turn it on, and sends only the single picture it is asked to check.
No account required
Lookout runs without signing up for anything. A free registered account only removes the small Unregistered mark.
Build your own box, or have an installer do it.
Do it yourself
Any Windows PC that stays on will do: a spare desktop, a mini PC or a home server. The sizing calculator tells you how many cameras your computer can run and how much disk you need for the days of video you want to keep.
Have it done for you
A Lookout installer can supply the computer and cameras, run the cable and set everything up, then hand you the keys. Your footage is still yours, on a box in your house.
Run Home Assistant? Beta - coming soon
The LookoutNVR integration turns named objects into sensors, puts a Recent Objects card on your dashboard and fires automations the moment something is seen.
What home users ask first.
Is LookoutNVR really free for home use?
Do I need a graphics card?
Will it work with the cameras I already have?
Where is my video stored?
Will a spider web or bugs at night flood me with alerts?
Can I get alerts on my phone and watch?
Does it work with Home Assistant?
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