Frequently asked questions

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. The 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.

Today, yes — a direct connection needs both devices on the same network (or otherwise able to reach each other directly). Cross-network pairing is on the roadmap. You can still use Blank Screen with no phone at all.

Current Chromium browsers: Chrome, Edge and Brave. Firefox and Safari on the desktop are not supported because the extension APIs used differ. On phones: Chrome on Android, Safari on iPhone/iPad.

Yes — Blank Screen accepts a solid color, an image, a short video loop (up to 8 MB, kept on your device only), or plain text. Everything is stored locally in the extension.

No. There is no watermark, no time limit and no trial countdown on the free tier. The feed is a clean stream.

Using a virtual camera is a normal, mainstream thing — OBS and similar tools do it. What matters is honesty: many sites ban deliberate deception, and we do not design for evading identity checks or proctoring. Read our full position on responsible use.

Remove the extension from your browser and everything is gone — settings live on your device, and there is no account to delete. The phone page keeps no data either.