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Onlook
Access your Ring cameras directly from your Mac’s menu bar.
I built Onlook because of a stupid little moment that kept repeating: I'd be deep in work at my Mac, the doorbell would go, and I'd… pick up my phone, wait for the Ring app to wake up, and miss the courier anyway. My cameras were 30cm from my keyboard the whole time.
Onlook puts your Ring cameras in the Mac menu bar. One click: live view of every camera. Click again: full view with two-way talk, so you can tell the courier to leave it by the gate without standing up. Motion and doorbell alerts arrive as native notifications — click one and you're looking at that camera. There's an activity log for replaying clips, and a little privacy lock that pixelates any camera when someone else can see your screen.
Two things I cared about while building it:
🔒 Everything runs locally. Onlook has no servers. You sign in with your own Ring account, your credentials go only to Ring, and video streams straight to your Mac. No tracking, no analytics.
🪶 It should feel like macOS. Download, drag to Applications, done — no dependencies to install. It lives quietly in the menu bar and updates itself.
Onlook is completely free, and it’ll stay that way. No subscriptions, no hidden costs — just a fast, beautiful way to view your Ring cameras right from your Mac.
Honest fine print: Onlook is an independent app, not affiliated with Ring — [and it's been through months of beta testing with real households to iron out the rough edges].
I'd love to hear what you'd want next — [multi-brand support (UniFi?) is also on the list]. Ask me anything! 🚪
Does it work with multiple Ring doorbells and cameras at once, or only one at a time?
About Onlook on Product Hunt
“Access your Ring cameras directly from your Mac’s menu bar.”
Onlook was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 50 upvotes and 22 comments, placing #14 on the daily leaderboard. Bring your Ring devices to your Mac's menu bar. Live views, motion alerts, and instant replay all in one app.
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James
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I built Onlook because of a stupid little moment that kept repeating: I'd be deep in work at my Mac, the doorbell would go, and I'd… pick up my phone, wait for the Ring app to wake up, and miss the courier anyway. My cameras were 30cm from my keyboard the whole time.
Onlook puts your Ring cameras in the Mac menu bar. One click: live view of every camera. Click again: full view with two-way talk, so you can tell the courier to leave it by the gate without standing up. Motion and doorbell alerts arrive as native notifications — click one and you're looking at that camera. There's an activity log for replaying clips, and a little privacy lock that pixelates any camera when someone else can see your screen.
Two things I cared about while building it:
🔒 Everything runs locally. Onlook has no servers. You sign in with your own Ring account, your credentials go only to Ring, and video streams straight to your Mac. No tracking, no analytics.
🪶 It should feel like macOS. Download, drag to Applications, done — no dependencies to install. It lives quietly in the menu bar and updates itself.
Onlook is completely free, and it’ll stay that way. No subscriptions, no hidden costs — just a fast, beautiful way to view your Ring cameras right from your Mac.
Honest fine print: Onlook is an independent app, not affiliated with Ring — [and it's been through months of beta testing with real households to iron out the rough edges].
I'd love to hear what you'd want next — [multi-brand support (UniFi?) is also on the list]. Ask me anything! 🚪