Free browser extension
VirtualCam is a Chrome extension that gives any website a working camera: your phone by QR, or a clean Blank Screen — in two clicks. No drivers, no desktop app, and your video never touches a server.
100% free · Peer-to-peer encrypted · No account The phone page (VirtualCam Camera) pairs with the extension on your PC. Phone pairing works best when both devices share the same Wi-Fi.
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The problem
A call starts in ten minutes. The site checks for a camera — and finds nothing. Your phone has a perfectly good one, but the apps want installs, accounts, and cables.
How it works
Phone as Camera, or a Blank Screen feed — color, image, video loop or text. Choose per site.
One switch. The site that asked for a camera now sees your feed — live, with sound if you allow it.
One reload and the site picks the camera up. The green badge means it is working.
Watch it happen
Two modes
Scan the QR with your phone — its camera becomes the site's camera. Flip between front and back while live. Works on iPhone Safari and Android; the Android app adds one-tap reconnects.
A clean custom feed instead of a camera: any solid color, an image, a short video loop, or text. Useful for tests, privacy, or sites that refuse to start without a camera.
Phone pairing
VirtualCam shows a QR code. Your phone's camera app scans it, you tap Allow, and the phone becomes the site's camera. No accounts, no installs on your PC — and the video travels directly between your devices, encrypted.
Same Wi-Fi works best. Put the PC and the phone on the same network. Guest networks with client isolation, hotel/office networks and VPNs can block the direct connection — the FAQ has the details.
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Pairing window (demo)
Privacy and security
The connection between your phone and your browser is direct and encrypted (DTLS-SRTP — the same encryption standard as every video call). Our connection service only introduces the two devices. It cannot see, store, or forward a single frame.
Where it works
The core product — any website in Chrome. Store listing in review.
Details →Uses the phone web page — no install, works in Safari.
Details →Installable client with native haptics and auto-rejoin.
Details →The app is ready; the store listing is next.
iPhone users are covered by the web page.
VirtualCam works inside the browser only — we say so up front.
Details →VirtualCam works inside the browser. Desktop applications (Zoom desktop client, OBS) are not covered — we prefer to say that plainly.
Tested with
Tested by hand against these sites' browser versions. If a site refuses the feed, tell us — the extension fails soft and never breaks the page.
Last full compatibility pass: extension v0.1.0, November 2026.
Switching from another tool? The honest, dated comparisons: vs DroidCam · vs Iriun · vs Camo
Features
Choose on or off per website. Your choice is remembered.
The badge and the in-page marker always show when the camera is active.
One page checks the service, permissions and the device — before your call.
Follows your system, switch any time. Everything is themed.
Wi-Fi blip or sleep? The phone and the site reconnect by themselves.
Returning to the phone page within ten minutes is a single tap.
Pricing
No paid tier, no unlocks, no account. This website shows ads — that is the entire business model — and the extension itself contains none.
1080p phone streaming and cross-network pairing are planned — free when they ship, funded by the ads on this site. Progress lives in the roadmap.
FAQ
No — and we say that plainly. VirtualCam replaces the camera inside the browser (Chrome, Edge, Brave) and works with websites: Google Meet in the browser, Zoom in the browser, Jitsi, and similar. Desktop applications need a system-level camera driver, which is a different kind of product.
No. In Phone mode the video travels directly from your phone to your browser over an encrypted peer-to-peer connection — our server only introduces the two devices and never sees a frame. In Blank Screen mode the feed is generated locally. Nothing is recorded, stored, or forwarded.
Yes — the phone web page (phone.makewebcam.com) works in iPhone Safari: open it, allow the camera, and pair with the code from the extension. A native iOS app is not planned right now because the web page already covers iPhone.
Yes — every feature is free: Blank Screen, phone pairing, per-site rules, the test page. There is no paid tier and no account. This website is funded by ads; the extension itself contains none.
The ads on this website (Google AdSense) are the entire business model. The extension has no ads, no timers and no watermarks — and no paid tier to remove them.
A website can always choose to draw attention to what its own page shows, and VirtualCam shows a small marker so you know it is active — we think hiding it would be wrong. The feed itself is a normal camera stream; VirtualCam is not designed to defeat identity checks, proctoring, or verification.
The site automatically falls back to your Blank Screen feed, so your call keeps working. When the phone comes back, the feed switches back to the camera. You will see a calm notice when it happens.
Install the extension, pick a feed, reload the site. That's the whole story — and everything stays free forever.
The phone page pairs with the VirtualCam extension on your PC — best when both devices share the same Wi-Fi.
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