Smarter than the apps your cameras came with.

• No re-encoding, about 0% CPU

  Glimpo stream-copies the camera’s H.264 or H.265 into crash-safe fragmented MP4. Picture quality is exactly what the camera sends, and a Raspberry Pi can keep up.

  ~0.4% CPU per camera

• Three record modes

  Events keeps 5 seconds before to 8 seconds after motion. Smart 24/7 records the low-res sub-stream around the clock and full quality around events. Continuous records everything.

  80–95% less than 24/7

• Every destination at once

  S3, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi and MinIO; WebDAV for Nextcloud and Synology; any folder, NAS share or USB drive; and 100+ more through rclone. Add several and every clip goes to all of them. One-tap sign-in for Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive is coming soon.

• Retention that tidies itself

  Continuous footage for 7 days, events for 30, starred clips forever, and a cap on the hub’s local disk, all automatic. Adjust the defaults whenever you like.

• A limit for every cloud

  Tell Glimpo to use at most, say, 200 GB of your bucket or NAS. It deletes its own oldest files first, never starred ones, so the rest of what you keep there is left alone.

• Coming soon

  Folders you can actually browse

  For Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive, minute-long segments will be joined into 10-minute files before upload, organised by camera and date. Fewer files, and no API throttling.

• Disk guard

  When the hub’s disk runs low, Glimpo prunes the oldest footage that’s already uploaded first. If it’s nearly full, recording pauses and you get an alert instead of a silent failure.

• Pro

  Overnight H.265 compression

  On hubs with a hardware encoder, older H.264 footage is recompressed to H.265 overnight, about 40% smaller, and the cloud copies are replaced.

  ~40% smaller

• Import your SD cards

  Bring old recordings with you: MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI and Dahua, Imou and CP PLUS .dav files, with the original times read from the file names.

Guides:Storage destinations →Record modes →Retention & disk space →

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• Live in under a second

  Live view uses WebRTC straight from your hub. On your home network or Tailscale it skips the internet round-trip entirely.

  ~0.9 s to first frame

• A grid that’s already there

  The camera grid shows live-refreshing snapshots served from the hub’s warm cache, so 16 cameras don’t melt your phone. Real video decodes only when you focus a tile.

• Unified timeline

  Scrub every camera on one timeline with thumbnails, whatever the brand. Jump straight to an event or keep scrolling through continuous footage.

• H.265 that plays everywhere

  Cameras that record H.265 get an automatic H.264 live stream for browsers and devices that can’t play H.265. Recordings keep the original.

• Daily Reel

  A 30-second highlight reel of each day across every camera, people first, built on the hub’s hardware encoder in seconds.

• Glimpses

  A 5–10 second clip of every event that you can open from anywhere, even when your hub is offline. Send someone the Glimpse instead of a screenshot.

• Camera health at a glance

  Each camera shows whether it’s online, its codec and its bitrate, so a dropped Wi‑Fi camera doesn’t go unnoticed for a week.

• Share a clip from your own cloud

  One tap creates an expiring share link from S3-compatible storage (Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive when they arrive). For destinations without encryption, because encrypted clips can only be opened with your key.

• Plus & Pro

  Proof Pack

  Export clips and snapshots as a signed, hash-chained ZIP for police or insurers. Anyone can check it hasn’t been altered with the included offline verifier.

Guides:Remote access →Pair a device →

• Person, vehicle & animal detection

  Every motion event is classified on your hub by an Apache-licensed model in about 70 ms, even if your camera has no AI of its own.

  ~70 ms per event

• Uses your camera’s own detection

  Many Dahua, Imou, Hikvision and Reolink cameras detect motion on-chip. Glimpo can listen to those ONVIF events and save hub CPU, falling back to its own detection when needed.

• Plus & Pro

  Porch Watch

  Door cameras notice when a parcel arrives and when it leaves, with an alert for each, so porch pirates don’t get a head start.

• Pro

  AI search in plain English

  Type “red car yesterday” or “someone at the door” and Stay-Home AI ranks events across every camera, privately on your hub. Other plans get keyword search.

  ~20 ms per query

• Home, Away & Night modes

  Switch mode in one tap. Indoor cameras go fully private in Home mode, and each mode has its own alert types.

• Quiet hours & snooze

  Set quiet hours, or snooze alerts for 30 minutes, an hour or until 7:00 from the alert itself, your phone or your watch.

• Alerts where you are

  Browser notifications from the web and desktop apps, plus ntfy and Telegram (with an optional snapshot). The iPhone and Android apps, coming soon, add push alerts with Mark seen, Star and Snooze buttons and a snapshot fetched straight from your hub, so the image never passes through Apple or Google.

• Privacy zones

  Draw over parts of the picture you don’t want watched, like a neighbour’s window. They’re blacked out in snapshots, alert previews and timeline thumbnails, and motion detection and AI ignore them. Recordings keep the camera’s full picture: the hub saves its stream untouched and never re-encodes.

Guides:Alerts & notifications →Record modes →

• Vault: sealed with your key

  Every clip is sealed with AES-256-GCM and its own key before it leaves your home, and heads to your cloud as it’s recorded. Your storage provider only ever stores ciphertext, and a thief who takes the camera doesn’t take the footage.

• Your recovery key, your footage

  Only your recovery key decrypts footage. The Glimpo decrypt tool turns clips back into standard MP4 files offline, even without a subscription.

• Image-free notifications

  Push alerts carry only the camera name and event type. The app fetches the snapshot straight from your hub, so no images pass through Apple, Google or ntfy.

• Locked-down pairing

  Pairing codes are single-use, expire after 10 minutes and lock out after 5 wrong tries. Each device gets its own token you can revoke from Sessions.

• Short-lived media links

  Video and snapshot links use read-only tokens that expire after 15 minutes, so long-lived credentials never appear in a URL.

• Secrets sealed at rest

  Camera passwords and cloud tokens are encrypted on the hub. Sign-in tokens are stored only as hashes.

• Coming soon

  Narrow cloud permissions

  When Google Drive sign-in arrives, access will be limited to files Glimpo created. Dropbox and OneDrive will use an app folder.

• No port-forwarding, ever

  Remote access goes over the end-to-end encrypted Glimpo relay, which only ever forwards ciphertext, or Tailscale if you use it. Glimpo never asks you to open your router to the internet, which is how camera botnets spread.

• Blind Relay

  An opt-in path for when no hub is online: clips pass through Glimpo sealed to your key, so we can carry them but can’t open them. Off unless you turn it on.

• Audited internally

  An internal security audit found 14 issues; all are fixed and covered by regression tests. A third-party audit is planned before 1.0.

Guides:Encryption & recovery key →Remote access →

• Web and desktop

  An installable web app and desktop apps for Mac and Windows. Native apps for iPhone, iPad and Android are coming soon. The interface is dark first, so video is the hero.

• Pair with a QR code

  Scan a QR code or open a link from the hub and the device is paired. No accounts to create, no cloud login.

• Plus & ProComing soon

  Apple Watch & Wear OS

  Watch apps to switch mode from a complication or tile, mark a camera private, snooze alerts and see recent events with stills. Until they ship, phone alerts show on a paired watch.

• Remote access, built in

  Away from home, the app uses the Glimpo relay: everything is end-to-end encrypted between your device and hub, and live video still goes peer-to-peer when it can. No Tailscale needed.

• Savings, in dollars

  Onboarding adds up what your vendor plans and SD cards cost, so you can see what switching saves.

• Works with Tailscale too

  Already use Tailscale? Glimpo detects it on your hub and switches between your home network and your tailnet automatically.

• Pro

  Family roles

  Invite family as owners, members or temporary guests, each with their own alerts.

• Pro

  Multiple sites

  Home, office and your parents’ house in one app.

Guides:Pair a device →Watch apps →

• Your Mac or Windows PC

  Install the desktop app and that computer is the hub. It keeps recording from the menu bar or tray, and shuts down cleanly when you quit.

• Raspberry Pi 4 or 5

  One installer sets up a hardened service on 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS or any Debian/Ubuntu box, with hardware video decode.

• NAS or Docker

  Run the hub with Docker Compose on Synology, QNAP, Unraid, TrueNAS or any server, and record straight to its disks.

• Coming soon

  Home Assistant

  Install the hub as a Home Assistant add-on next to the rest of your smart home. Until then, run it with Docker.

• Your own server

  No machine at home? Run the hub on your own VPS and have cameras that support RTMP push send their video to it, gated by a per-camera stream key.

• Light on resources

  About 80 MB of memory plus about 50 MB per camera, and API responses in a few milliseconds.

  1–6 ms API latency

Guides:Choosing a hub →Raspberry Pi hub →Docker & NAS →