Your cameras.
Your hardware.
Your footage.
Professional video management for IP cameras that records to your own disk and plays back in your browser. No cloud. No subscription to watch your own cameras.
Launching September 2026 · free Community tier · one email, no spam.
Real support — you reach the developer directly, not a call center.
A well-built tool, not surveillance-as-a-service.
Everything that matters about recording your cameras — without the cloud, the subscriptions, or the config files.
Your footage stays yours
Self-hosted by design. Video — live and recorded — lives on your disk. We have no access to it, and there's no cloud storage to breach.
No subscription
A genuinely free tier, a pay-once Pro Forever option, or yearly plans. No monthly toll to watch your own cameras.
Set up in minutes
One install script on your Linux box, then add cameras from the browser. No YAML, no config files to hand-edit.
Smart, not just recording
Motion and AI events, searchable and filterable, with mobile notifications — the intelligence, without the complexity.
From zero to recording in three steps.
Get your free key
Enter your email and we send you a Community license — instantly, no card.
Install in minutes
Download the release and run one script on your Debian or Ubuntu machine.
Add your cameras
Our built-in scanner finds the cameras on your network — add them with a click.
Upgrade anytime — enter a paid key to unlock more cameras and features. No reinstall.
The complete picture.
Continuous recording, smart detection, and remote access — the full offering, in one clean web UI.
Recording & playback
Continuous 24/7 recording
Records to local disk with no re-encoding — original quality, low CPU.
24-hour timeline
Instant scrubbing and variable-speed review across the day.
Clips & export
Cut any time range to a downloadable MP4 and share via link.
Smart retention
Auto-prunes the oldest footage as the disk fills, per camera or globally.
Detection & intelligence
Motion detection
Per-camera, with tunable sensitivity to cut down on noise.
AI events
Smart detection of what matters, filterable by camera and time.
Natural-language search
Find footage and events by describing them in plain language.
Home Assistant integration
Every camera becomes motion, person and vehicle sensors in HA — auto-discovered via MQTT, no YAML.
Access & notifications
Browser access
Works on desktop and phone browsers — no app to install.
Cloud relay
Secure remote access without opening ports or exposing your network.
Mobile push
Get alerted on events via Telegram, wherever you are.
Event feed
A searchable, filterable history of everything that happened.
Scale & platform
Multi-camera
From a couple of cameras to dozens, on one install.
Automatic updates
One click to the latest version — your settings and recordings stay put.
Self-hosted on Linux
Runs as a normal background service on Debian or Ubuntu.
Simple administration
Users, settings, and licensing from a clean web UI.
Privacy by architecture, not by promise.
Most camera companies ask you to trust their cloud. Calyston removes the cloud from the equation — so there's nothing to trust us with.
All your video stays on your machine
Live and recorded footage, camera credentials, users, events, and clips are all local. There is no cloud video storage.
You control what reaches the internet
Always: a periodic license check and an update check. Only if you turn them on: anonymous crash reports, remote access, and Telegram alerts. Never your video or your data.
Even the crash service is self-hosted by us
Not handed to a third party — and every report is stripped of identifying data on your machine before it is sent. You can turn crash reporting off entirely.
Pay once, pay yearly, or don't pay at all.
No monthly subscriptions. One new major version per year. Start free and upgrade whenever you like.
Continuous recording and motion events for a few cameras.
Get notified at launch- Continuous 24/7 recording · 14-day retention
- Browser access, live + playback
- Motion detection & events · 24h event history
For a serious home or small setup that wants the full toolkit.
Get notified at launch- Everything in Community
- Unlimited AI event history
- Motion + AI detection
- Natural-language search — find footage by describing it
- Cloud relay — remote access
- Mobile push via Telegram
All of Pro, paid once — no yearly renewal, ever.
Launch offer — sold only during our first year.
Get notified at launch- Everything in Pro
- Pay once — no renewal required
- 3+ major releases included
Founder Edition
All Pro features forever — a one-time purchase grandfathered across every future version (Pro Forever covers 3+ major releases; Founder covers all of them). 32 cameras, a numbered Founder badge, and the Founders' private Discord with the developer.
Get notified — Founder seats open at launchQuestions, answered plainly.
Is my video sent to the cloud?
Do I need a subscription?
What does "Pro Forever" include?
What cameras work?
What do I install it on?
Can I access my cameras remotely?
Does it work with Home Assistant?
What happens if my plan lapses?
Is it hard to set up?
Keep your footage yours.
Calyston opens in September 2026. Leave your email and we'll send you exactly one message the day it's live — free Community tier, Pro trial, and 500 numbered Founder seats included.
We use your email for one launch announcement — nothing else, and you can ask us to remove it anytime.