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On the Mac App Store
Reolens for Mac now installs from the App Store and TestFlight instead of a downloaded DMG. Updates arrive the App Store way — the old Developer-ID DMG and Sparkle auto-updater are retired.
New in 0.8
The 0.8 line brings Reolens for Mac to the App Store — one multiplatform app across every Apple device — and rebuilds notifications around independent per-category controls.
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One app, every Apple device
Mac, iPad, and iPhone now share a single multiplatform App Store record and bundle id. Your camera list and motion history live in iCloud and carry over automatically; passwords stay per-device in Keychain.
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Per-category notifications
Notification settings became one list of independent switches — Motion, Person, Vehicle, Pet, and more. Turn on exactly the categories you want; each fires on its own, replacing the old AI-vs-Motion either/or.
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Mutes that sync across devices
Silence a category on your Mac and it stops pushing to your iPhone and iPad too — the cross-device relay now honors the same per-category toggles as the local banner, so a mute means quiet everywhere.
Built for the way you watch.
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Live multi-camera grids
Adaptive layout fills the screen. Switch to Spotlight, 2×2, 3×3, 4×4, or 5×5 with one tap — on every platform.
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Tap-and-hold to rearrange
Long-press any tile and watch them jiggle iOS-home-screen style. Drag to reorder; the order sticks per device.
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Camera search
Type a name to filter the device list — case- and diacritic-insensitive. Find one camera in a 16-channel NVR instantly.
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Save Snapshot
Capture the current frame on any tile. macOS writes to your Pictures folder; iOS writes to Photos with add-only permission — Reolens never reads your library.
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Recording & motion schedules
Visual 7×24 weekly editors for when each camera records and when motion fires alarms. Per-AI-tag overrides let you quiet a specific tag without silencing the rest.
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Cross-day natural-language search
"Packages this week", "vehicles yesterday at the driveway." On-device FoundationModels handles synonyms and camera-name fuzziness; deterministic fallback everywhere else.
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Bookmarks + background download
Long-press / right-click / swipe to bookmark without playing. The clip downloads in the background — Wi-Fi by default, cellular toggle in Settings — so it's available offline.
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Picture-in-Picture (iOS)
Keep a camera in a floating window while you use other apps. Smooth hand-off — no extra decode.
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Pinch-to-zoom (iOS)
Up to 4× digital zoom on the live tile to inspect a license plate or package label. Double-tap to reset.
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Full PTZ control
Pan, tilt, zoom, focus — all 17 PTZ ops from the dedicated control bar, including presets and patrols.
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Shortcuts & Siri
"Hey Siri, open the Front Door camera in Reolens." Plus Show Today's Events and Mute Camera Notifications App Intents. No credentials ever cross the intent boundary.
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Rich alarm notifications
When motion fires, you get a notification with the still that triggered it — not just text. Per-camera mute + per-tag filters + an overnight digest, all syncing across your devices.
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Widgets & Live Activities
Camera snapshot, last-motion, and overnight-digest widgets on the Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Control Center. Hub-grouped Live Activities + Dynamic Island for in-flight motion events.
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Native, not a wrapped browser
SwiftUI + Apple's video decoders. Cold launches in under a second, costs almost nothing in battery, and feels like every other Apple app.
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Updates the Apple way
One multiplatform app delivered through TestFlight and the App Store on Mac, iPad, and iPhone — updates arrive like any other Apple app. We never phone home with anything else.
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Mac, iPad, iPhone — synced
Camera list, grid layouts, rotations, codec preferences sync via iCloud Drive. Passwords stay per-device in Keychain — never copied off the device they were entered on.
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Open source
Swift 6, MIT-licensed, on GitHub. Engineering principles in AGENTS.md, security policy in SECURITY.md.
What it looks like.
The camera views shown here are procedurally rendered ("stock" scenes) rather than real footage — privacy-clean, license-clean, and a more honest look at the app's chrome than blurred captures.
Get it.
Mac · iPad · iPhone (TestFlight)
Reolens ships as one multiplatform app through TestFlight. Open the invite on each device and TestFlight installs the right Mac, iPad, or iPhone build for you.
Join the betaBuild from source
Prefer to build it yourself? Clone the repo and run:
./Scripts/build-app.sh runSystem requirements
- Mac — macOS 26 Tahoe or later, Apple Silicon or Intel
- iPad / iPhone — iPadOS / iOS 26 or later
- Reolink cameras, NVRs, or Home Hubs reachable on the local network
- HTTP/HTTPS access to each device's CGI port (default 80 / 443)
- iCloud account (optional) — used to sync the camera list and relay motion events between your own Apple devices
Users on macOS 14 / iOS 18 should stay on the 0.4.x security-backport track. FoundationModels-driven features (Today digest, NL search) fall back to deterministic implementations on devices without Apple Intelligence.