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A macOS virtual camera that moves camera control out of your meeting apps and into the menu bar. Switch between your real camera, a black frame, or any image you’ve set in advance—like a “be right back” screen—with one shortcut, and it applies everywhere at once. 14-day free trial, buy once.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I built Simple Virtual Camera because I kept losing the same 20 seconds in every
meeting.
Someone rings the doorbell. I need to step away. And every app hides its camera
toggle somewhere different — Zoom bottom-right, Meet behind a three-dot menu,
Teams somewhere else again. By the time I found it, the moment had passed.
So I moved the control out of the meeting apps entirely. Simple Virtual Camera is
a macOS virtual camera that sits in your menu bar with three modes:
• Off — streams a black frame, the call stays connected
• Camera — passes your real camera straight through
• Image — shows a registered image or GIF
You pick it once as your camera inside Zoom / Meet / Teams / OBS, and from then on
you switch from the menu bar or a global shortcut (⌃⌥⌘0 / 1 / 2). It applies to
every camera app at once. You never open a meeting app's settings again.
The part people seem to like most is the third mode. Instead of going dark, you can
show "be right back" or "on a break" as an image. It says far more than a black tile,
and it lightens the room a little.
A few details:
• Native menu bar app, no Dock icon, macOS 13+, Apple Silicon and Intel
• Developer ID-signed and notarized by Apple
• Localized in 7 languages (EN / JA / ZH / KO / ES / FR / DE)
• 14-day full-feature trial, no card, no account
• One-time purchase — not a subscription. Two Macs per license.
Happy to answer anything about the CoreMediaIO extension side of it — getting a
virtual camera to behave on modern macOS was most of the work.
— Yuta
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About Simple Virtual Camera on Product Hunt
“Switch what your camera shows, from your menu bar”
Simple Virtual Camera was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #24 on the daily leaderboard. A macOS virtual camera that moves camera control out of your meeting apps and into the menu bar. Switch between your real camera, a black frame, or any image you’ve set in advance—like a “be right back” screen—with one shortcut, and it applies everywhere at once. 14-day free trial, buy once.
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