What Browser.camera is
Browser.camera is a set of free camera and microphone tools that run entirely in your web browser: a webcam test, a camera studio for photos and video, live filters, a microphone test, a QR scanner and more. There's nothing to install and no account to create.
The principles behind it
Your camera stays on your device
Modern browsers can process live video and audio themselves: drawing it, filtering it on the graphics card, encoding it into photos and videos, and even running small machine-learning models for background effects. We use those abilities so that your camera feed, photos, recordings and scanned codes never need to leave your device. There's no server that receives video or audio, because the site doesn't need one.
You don't have to take our word for it. Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab and use any tool: you'll see the page and its code load, a few tiny anonymous usage counters, and nothing else.
Show only what really works
Cameras differ enormously. One webcam lets the browser change focus and exposure; another offers nothing. One phone exposes every lens; another only the main camera. Instead of showing controls that silently do nothing, every tool asks your camera and browser what they support and shows only those options. When something isn't available, we say so plainly and explain why.
Measure, don't guess
The webcam test measures the frame rate from frames that actually arrive. The resolution test asks for each size and reports what the camera really delivers. Recording file sizes are calculated from the same bitrate rules the recorder uses. Where we give you a number, it comes from your device or from how the tools are built - not from a marketing sheet.
No accounts, no tracking cookies, no ads
There are no visitor accounts at all. Our analytics are cookieless and aggregate-only: page views per day, the referring website, and anonymous counters such as "a photo was taken". The privacy policy lists exactly what our server receives and what it doesn't.
Who runs Browser.camera
Browser.camera is owned and operated by Karibu Online Limited, a duly registered company. Our privacy policy explains how we protect visitors' privacy.
How the tools work
| Part | Technology | Where it runs |
|---|---|---|
| Camera and microphone access | Media Capture (getUserMedia) | Your browser |
| Filters and adjustments | WebGL 2 shaders, with a 2D fallback | Your graphics card |
| Background blur and replacement | An on-device person-segmentation model | Your device (the model file is downloaded once) |
| Video recording | The browser's built-in encoder (MediaRecorder) | Your device |
| Photo export | Canvas encoding to JPG, PNG or WebP | Your device |
| Local gallery storage (optional) | IndexedDB | Your browser's storage on this device |
| QR decoding | The built-in barcode detector, or an in-page decoder | Your device |
How we write our guides
Every tool page has a guide underneath it: how to use the tool, how to read the results and how to fix common problems. The guides are written for people, not for search engines, and they follow a few rules:
- Accurate to the product. Features, limits and numbers are checked against how the tools actually behave.
- Specific. Real menu paths for Windows and macOS, real formats, real resolutions, real trade-offs.
- Honest about limits. If a browser or device can't do something, the guide says so rather than hiding it.
- Kept up to date. When browsers or the tools change, the guides change too. Each page shows when it was last updated.
Contact
Found a mistake in a guide, a camera that doesn't behave as described, or a browser where something breaks? We'd like to hear about it, so that we can fix it for everyone. Email us at [email protected].