No subscription. No cloud. No compromise.

Your home.
Your cameras.
Your footage.

BeardWatch records everything 24/7, detects what matters, and lets you watch from anywhere. You own it outright. Nobody else ever touches your video.

Open BeardWatch How it works
$0/mo
Forever. No subscription.
24/7
Continuous recording
100%
Your data, your hardware
How it works

Simple to use.
Impossible to take from you.

Everything runs on hardware at your home or property. Your footage never leaves your network unless you choose to share it.

1
Cameras connect to your home network
Standard security cameras plug into your router or a simple switch. No special equipment, no professional installer required. If you have an outlet and an internet connection, you're ready.
2
BeardWatch records everything, automatically
The moment a camera is added, recording starts. Every minute of every day is captured and saved to your own storage. Nothing is deleted without your say-so.
3
AI flags what actually matters
BeardWatch watches for people, vehicles, and animals. When something is detected, you get an alert and a clip — not a wall of meaningless motion events triggered by wind and shadows.
4
Watch live or scroll back from anywhere
Open BeardWatch on your phone from anywhere in the world. Watch any camera live, scrub back through any day, download a clip, or share a time-limited link — all without giving anyone else access to your account.
What's included

Everything Ring charges for.
Nothing you don't own.

Every feature works from day one. No tiers, no unlocks, no gotchas buried in the fine print.

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24/7 Continuous Recording
Every camera records around the clock. Scroll back to any moment from the past weeks or months. Nothing is ever missed.
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AI Event Detection
Automatically identifies people, vehicles, and animals. You get meaningful alerts, not noise from every leaf that blows past the lens.
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Timeline Scrubber
See exactly when activity happened on a visual timeline. Jump straight to the moments that matter instead of scrubbing through hours of empty footage.
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Custom Detection Zones
Draw the areas you care about directly on your camera view. Only get alerted when something enters your zone — not every car that drives past the street.
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Two-Way Audio
Hear what your camera hears and talk through its speaker from your phone, anywhere in the world — without interrupting the live video.
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Remote PTZ Control
For cameras that pan and tilt, control the direction remotely. Save preset positions — driveway, front door, backyard gate — and jump between them instantly.
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Live View from Anywhere
Watch your cameras live from your phone, tablet, or laptop no matter where you are. No VPN, no technical setup. Just open the app and it's there.
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Instant Alerts
Get a push notification, text, or email the moment a real event is detected. You choose which cameras alert you and how.
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Shareable Clips
Generate a time-limited link to any clip or live view. Send it to a neighbor, your insurance company, or the police — without sharing your password or giving anyone permanent access.
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Evidence-Ready Export
Every downloaded clip has the timestamp and camera location stamped directly into the video. Ready to hand to law enforcement or an insurance adjuster.
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Records Through Outages
Internet goes down? Recording continues. Everything syncs automatically when your connection comes back. Your footage survives even when your ISP doesn't cooperate.
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System Health Alerts
If a camera goes offline or storage is getting full, BeardWatch tells you before it becomes a problem. You always know your system is working.
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License Plate Detection
BeardWatch reads and logs the plate number of every vehicle that appears on camera. Search any plate across any date range.
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Face Recognition
Add the faces of people who belong on your property. Get alerted only when an unfamiliar face appears. Processed entirely on your own hardware — never sent to a cloud service.
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Multiple Properties
Manage cameras at your home, your business, and any other property from a single login. Everything in one place.
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Full Activity Log
Every login, every clip download, every camera access — logged with a timestamp. A complete record of who saw what and when, built in from the start.
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Timelapse Export
Turn a full day of footage into a 30-second timelapse with one tap. Great for job sites, construction progress, or just seeing what happened while you were away.
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Storage Dashboard
See exactly how much storage your cameras are using and how many days of footage you have left at the current rate. No surprises, no running out of space unexpectedly.
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Homeowner Portal
Give your household or property manager their own login with view-only access. They can watch live and scroll back without touching any settings or other cameras.
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Guided Setup
Adding cameras is a walkthrough, not a manual. Point BeardWatch at your camera, confirm the view, set your zones, and you're recording. Takes minutes per camera.
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Stop renting your own security.

Ring, Nest, and Arlo give you great hardware and then charge you every month to actually use it. BeardWatch ends that.

Feature Ring / Nest / Arlo BeardWatch
Monthly cost $10 – $20/mo per home, forever $0/mo, always
Who stores your footage Their servers, their terms Your hardware, your rules
24/7 continuous recording Subscription required Included, always on
How far back you can scroll 30 days, then it's gone You decide — weeks or months
Who can access your footage You, plus the company, plus their partners Only you
Works if their servers go down No Yes — fully local
Works if internet goes down No Yes — keeps recording
Two-way audio Subscription required Included
AI event detection Subscription required Included
Evidence-ready export Download only, no timestamp burn Timestamp and camera burned in

Your cameras should work for you.

Not for a subscription. Not for a company's server farm. Open BeardWatch and take back your security.

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