A real virtual camera
Every Mac app sees LemurCam as an ordinary webcam — no plugins, no fiddling. Pick it in Zoom, Meet, Teams, FaceTime, OBS and anywhere else.
Ditch the cable.
Keep the camera.
LemurCam turns any RTSP or ONVIF IP camera into a virtual webcam and microphone on macOS — so you show up on every call with the lens you actually want.
Universal · Apple Silicon & Intel · Signed & notarized
Shows up everywhere you already are
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Everything in the box
Small menu-bar app. Big camera energy.
LemurCam lives quietly in your menu bar and does one thing beautifully: makes your IP camera feel like it was built into your Mac.
Camera audio, too
Flip on the optional LemurCam Microphone and your camera's sound flows straight into calls — AAC, G.711 and L16 all pass through.
RTSP & ONVIF
Paste an RTSP URL, or let ONVIF discovery sweep your Wi-Fi and find cameras for you. No port-hunting required.
Demand-driven
Streams only when an app or the preview is actually watching, then quietly idles. Your camera and CPU get a break.
Native & smooth
A native VideoToolbox pipeline keeps video buttery at 30fps while sipping CPU — frames stay in their native format end to end.
Up in three steps
From IP camera to webcam in minutes
01
Enable the camera
A guided setup turns on the LemurCam system extension — and the optional microphone — in a couple of clicks.
02
Add your camera
Discover cameras on your network or paste an RTSP URL. LemurCam connects, decodes, and shows a live preview.
03
Pick it anywhere
In any app's camera menu, choose LemurCam. You're live — with the lens you actually wanted to use.
A closer look
Thoughtful, native, out of the way
A sidebar for settings, device cards that tell you exactly what's running, and a guided setup that walks you through every step.
Plays well with
Bring the camera you already own
If it speaks RTSP or ONVIF, LemurCam can stream it. That covers most popular IP-camera lines — and microphone pass-through works whenever the camera sends common audio formats.
- RTSP URLs and ONVIF auto-discovery
- AAC, G.711 and L16 audio pass-through
- Credentials stored safely in your Keychain
TP-Link Tapo
Reolink
Hikvision
Dahua
Amcrest
UniFi Protect
…and most other RTSP / ONVIF cameras
Ready to ditch the cable?
Download LemurCam, point it at your camera, and pick it in your next call. Free and open source.
Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later