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FrostCam is a macOS virtual camera that lets you freeze your webcam - or loop a short recording - during any video call. Step away, sneeze, check your phone, or fix your hair without going black mid-meeting. A frozen frame keeps the rhythm of the call; people don't notice, which is the point. Works in Zoom, Meet, Teams, FaceTime and any video app. Everything runs on-device - no recording, no accounts, no cloud. Free to try. One-time Pro unlock, no subscription.
👋 Hey Product Hunt — I'm Peter, the maker of FrostCam.
This started with a problem everyone on video calls knows: sometimes you need to step away for ten seconds - grab water, deal with a knock at the door, calm down before a tough moment - but turning your camera *off* makes a whole tile go black and everyone looks up. It breaks the flow and quietly makes it about you.
FrostCam is basically a freeze button for your webcam. Hit a shortcut and your video locks on the current frame with fresh timestamps, so to everyone else you just got very still for a second. It looks like you got focused, not like you left. There's also a Loop mode that records a few seconds of you and plays it back on a smooth bounce, so there's natural movement while you're away.
A few things I cared about building it:
- It's a real virtual camera, so it shows up as a normal source in Zoom, Meet, Teams, FaceTime - anything. No plugin per app.
- Everything stays on your Mac. No recording, no accounts, no network calls except Apple's for the purchase. Your face never leaves the device.
- No subscription. The closest tool I found charges ~$90/year. FrostCam is free to try, and a one-time $14.99 unlock removes the watermark. (There's a $24.99 "Pro+" tier that's identical - purely a tip jar if you want to support a solo dev.)
- Native + universal. SwiftUI menu bar app, Apple Silicon & Intel, macOS 13+.
It's a solo indie project and I'd genuinely love your feedback - what modes you'd want, where it'd be useful, anything that feels rough. I'll be around all day answering. 🙏
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About FrostCam on Product Hunt
“Pause or loop your webcam in any video call”
FrostCam was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. FrostCam is a macOS virtual camera that lets you freeze your webcam - or loop a short recording - during any video call. Step away, sneeze, check your phone, or fix your hair without going black mid-meeting. A frozen frame keeps the rhythm of the call; people don't notice, which is the point. Works in Zoom, Meet, Teams, FaceTime and any video app. Everything runs on-device - no recording, no accounts, no cloud. Free to try. One-time Pro unlock, no subscription.
FrostCam was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Productivity (655.7k followers) and Meetings (6.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 156.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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