Features

See what Oriel can do for your home

Use a spare iPhone for live view, motion alerts, and recording playback.

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Warm living room with a spare phone monitoring the room
Viewer phone showing a calm living room live view

Live view

Check in without breaking the moment

Open Oriel to check your living room, nursery, pet corner, or front door. When a direct connection is available, video streams between the camera and viewer devices.

  • P2P live streaming
  • Uninterrupted viewing
  • Multi-camera glance
Warm front door scene for motion and person alerts

Smarter alerts

Know when something matters

The camera phone detects motion and, when enabled, checks whether a person is in the frame. An alert lets you decide whether to open live view.

  • Motion alerts
  • Person detection (Premium)
  • On-device AI
Oriel app preview showing event playback and camera history

Playback

Catch up on what you missed

If you miss an alert, review the event recording. When Continuous Recording is available and enabled, you can also check the timeline around it.

  • Event playback
  • Recording timeline
  • Continuous context

Coverage

See more of the room

Place a spare iPhone in a corner for a wider view, then add cameras for the doorway, pet area, nursery, or porch.

  • Ultra-wide camera support (Premium)
  • Multi-camera support
  • Room-by-room monitoring
Spare iPhone mounted in a warm room showing a wider field of view
Ultra-wide camera support (Premium) A corner phone can capture more of the room at once.
Viewer phone showing multiple Oriel camera feeds from different rooms
Multi-camera support Check several important places from one phone.
Warm hallway with spare phones set up in separate rooms
Room-by-room monitoring Add phones where your home actually needs coverage.

Privacy foundation

Designed around a private home

Live view prefers a direct P2P connection and may use an encrypted relay on some networks. Detection runs on the camera phone. Recordings stay there unless you enable cloud backup.

Realistic living room photo with a wall-mounted camera phone plugged into a lower outlet and a person checking the live view on another phone
Camera phone Captures home video and runs detection on device.
P2P live view
Your phone Shows the live view when you check in.
P2P live view Direct connection is the default design for live viewing.
On-device AI Detection runs on the camera device.
Minimal analytics Website measurement stays privacy-friendly.

Free and Premium

What’s free, and what Premium adds

Oriel is free to download and use. Premium is an optional subscription that adds longer history, HD video, and smarter detection.

Feature Free Premium
Video quality (live view and recordings) SD HD (720p)
Event recording playback 7 days 14 days
Continuous recording Up to 24 hours Up to 7 days
Motion detection and alerts Included Included
Multiple cameras Included Included
Person, vehicle, and pet detection Not included Included
Sound detection Not included Included
Detection zone Not included Included
Ultra-wide lens Not included Included
Cloud backup for event videos Not included Optional
Ads Shown None

Event recordings stay on the camera phone unless you turn on cloud backup. Some Premium features need iOS 15 or later on the camera phone, and the ultra-wide lens needs a phone that has one.

Ready to turn a spare phone into a home camera?

See the setup steps and App Store link on the homepage.

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