AwayCam Get AwayCam
Native macOS · local-first

Step away.
Stay present.

AwayCam loops a short, natural clip of you at your desk — so you can grab a coffee, calm a toddler, or just breathe — while your camera presence stays steady and completely under your control.

Download for macOS → See how it works

No cloud. No accounts. No telemetry. Your face never leaves your Mac.

Live Your real webcam feed

Click a mode — this is the switch you’ll make in any meeting app.

It’s a loop of you, recorded by you. Not a face-swap, an avatar, or a deepfake — and it never pretends to be live when you’re speaking.

Three steps

From “be right back” to back, gracefully.

01

Record a short loop

A guided 3–15s capture of you at your desk, from your own webcam. Stored only on this Mac.

02

Pick “AwayCam Camera”

In Zoom, Meet, Teams, or FaceTime, choose AwayCam as your camera — just like any other.

03

Switch to Away, step away

One click (or a hotkey) swaps your live feed for the loop. Come back, switch to Live. Nobody’s the wiser.

The switch, live

Three modes. One menu-bar click.

Live is your real feed. Away plays your loop. Standby shows a clean “paused” frame. Move between them from the menu bar, a global hotkey, or automatically.

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AwayCam switching between Live, Away, and Standby modes
Illustration of the mode pill + preview switching (synthetic frames).
Pro

A loop so natural, nobody looks twice.

The tell of a fake feed is that it’s too perfect. Pro adds the small, human imperfections of a real call.

Realistic connection

A flawless loop gives itself away. This adds the occasional brief stutter of a real video call.

Lifelike lighting

The light in a real room never holds perfectly still. A subtle brightness drift keeps a loop from looking frozen.

Auto-Return

On-device Vision detects when you’re back at your desk and flips you to Live automatically. No identity recognition.

Scheduled loops

Set a recurring break — lunch, 12–1, weekdays — and AwayCam goes Away on its own, then comes back.

See Free vs Pro →
The promise

Built to be trusted, not just believed.

Tools that “keep you on camera” with cloud AI send your face to a server. AwayCam can’t — it’s sandboxed with no networking entitlement, so there’s nothing to leak because nothing leaves your Mac.

Read the privacy promise →
  • ✓ 100% on-device — record, store, play back, all local
  • ✓ No AI face data — it replays your clip, never models your face
  • ✓ No accounts, no analytics, no phone-home
  • ✓ Only your own camera — not a deepfake tool

Take the break.
Keep the presence.

Download AwayCam → Free, with a 7-day Pro trial