Self-hosted VMS for Mac · iPhone companion

Your cameras. Your Mac.
Your footage.

Sentinel is a self-hosted video management system with on-device AI. Record every camera at full quality, watch live from anywhere, and keep every frame on hardware you own. No cloud, no monthly cloud fee.

Download for Mac See pricing

Free for your first camera · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel

Sentinel VMS · Live View
Sentinel VMS for Mac showing a live multi-camera grid with AI detection, recording timeline, and the camera inspector
ONVIF & RTSP On-device AI H.264 / H.265 recording Mac + iPhone No cloud relay First camera free
Live view

See every camera, the moment it happens

A native macOS live wall in 1, 4, 9, or 16 tiles, with motion and person markers on the timeline and 6–8 second glass-to-glass latency over standard HLS. Scrub back through recordings without leaving the grid.

  • ✓ Multi-camera grid with drag-to-reorder and fullscreen
  • ✓ Timeline scrubber with motion & AI-event markers
  • ✓ One camera, many viewers, with built-in restreaming
Sentinel live camera grid on macOS
On-device AI

AI that understands what it sees

People, vehicles, faces, license plates, animals, and loitering, all detected on-device with Apple's Vision framework. No internet, no per-event cloud bill. Turn on Ring-style natural-language descriptions whenever you want a one-line summary of who's at the door.

  • ✓ Six detection types, processed locally
  • ✓ Live person tracking with stable IDs
  • ✓ Optional AI scene descriptions & push alerts
Sentinel iOS AI event feed with scene descriptions
iPhone & iPad · free

Take it with you

Pair once with a QR code, then watch live, scrub recordings, and get push alerts from anywhere, on Wi-Fi or cellular, automatically. A tapped alert opens straight to the camera that triggered it. The companion app is free on iPhone and iPad.

  • ✓ Universal app for iPhone and iPad
  • ✓ Live grid, pinch-zoom, Picture-in-Picture & fullscreen
  • ✓ Push alerts that deep-link to the right camera
Sentinel on iPad showing the home dashboard with cameras and recent AI activity
Sentinel on iPhone showing the home dashboard with live alerts and recent activity
Self-hosted & private

Own your footage. Every frame stays on your Mac.

Your Mac is the only server. Video, recordings, and AI all run on your hardware and your network. No third-party cloud can read your cameras, and there's no subscription just to watch your own footage.

No cloud relay in the data path Keychain + Touch ID credentials Signed evidence export · SHA-256 Secure remote access, no port-forwarding
Easy setup

Find your cameras in minutes

Sentinel discovers cameras automatically over ONVIF, mDNS, and an active subnet scan, with brand presets for Hikvision, Dahua, Axis, Reolink, Amcrest and more. The media engine is bundled inside the app, so there's nothing else to install.

  • ✓ Auto-discovery: ONVIF, Bonjour & subnet sweep
  • ✓ 12 brand presets + generic ONVIF / RTSP
  • ✓ Bundled GStreamer + MediaMTX, zero dependencies
Sentinel Add Camera dialog with ONVIF network scan and automatic profile discovery
Simple pricing

Your first camera is free.
Add more for $30/year each.

Full recording, live view, on-device AI and remote access on every camera. Optional AI scene descriptions are $4.99/month. The iPhone app is always free.

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Get Sentinel

Install the Mac app — it's the server, with Linux on the way. Add the free iPhone companion to watch from anywhere.

Desktop app · required

Sentinel for Mac

The server: discovery, recording, live view, on-device AI, and remote access. Run your first camera free, forever.

macOS 13+Apple Silicon & IntelDeveloper ID signedNotarized
Download coming soon
Notarized build ready — get notified at launch.
Server · coming soon

Sentinel for Linux

The same self-hosted server, built for Linux — discovery, recording, live view, and remote access on a NAS, mini-PC, or home server.

x86-64 & ARM64NAS & home serverSelf-hosted
Coming soon
On the roadmap — get notified at launch.
Field companion · free

Sentinel for iPhone

Pair with a QR code and watch live cameras, recordings, and AI alerts from anywhere. Free, no in-app purchases.

iOS 16+iPhone & iPadFreeNo tracking
Coming to the App Store
Free companion app — get notified at launch.