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Workout Live is a simple iOS app to view live workout data (heart rate, calories) from Apple Watch.

No ads, no profile tracking, no registration and completely free.

I just wanted to watch my heart rate on the phone screen while doing the workout. There are some apps which can do it but with subscription and too many features I don’t need. The best case would be that the built-in Apple Fitness app has this feature, but it hasn’t. So, I decided to spend my weekend writing this app. I use it just during workout. For analysis or viewing histories, I use the built-in Health or Fitness app.

I am not sure if most of those people who care about privacy is also technically able to self host a server. But this maybe an option too.

I am working on something like that. Use computer vision to detect anomaly. If you are interested you can subscribe a newsletter to get notified when the feature is out at ai-cam.app

A server has more compute power but only needed if the problem to solve requires such power. In my last company I developed a visual search system (similar to Google Image Search) and for that use cases a powerful server is required. But for the problems this app try to solve like human detection or facial recognition, a mobile device is very capable of. In the last 2-3 years the new phones also has integrated AI chip, which make the task easier.

I am personally using an expensive Nest IQ cam (cost around 300 USD) and some cheap IP camera in parallel with this AiCam app. For me the physical security camera are good to install outside my house or where I do not care if the video footage may be leaked or hacked.

But I have some use cases which I did not find any security camera suited for it, it also the reason why I developed this app:

- I want to monitor my sleeping room, but I trust no security camera brands.

- I want to integrate the camera into my home automation system and use event like person, animal detected to trigger some workflows.

- I want to detect more complex events like unfamiliar faces, fire, baby crying and not just simple motion or sound to avoid false alarms. This is the main point why a phone is more suitable, because most smartphones have required compute power to do all the AI work offline.

- Also a mobile phone have some additional advantages like you mentioned (integrated battery as UPS), cellular network as a backup to send alert when power or internet is down.

All in all it depends on what features are you expected from a security camera.

Thanks for your suggestion. But are these functionalities not better implemented on a desktop computer? A mobile phone is limited in compute capability but very portable, so it easy to use it for occasional situation like when traveling, or when you only need a security camera for a short time and do not want to invest much.

Those from Eufy are physical cameras. Their mobile app is used to control their camera. But this one "ai-cam" is a mobile app which use phone camera and do not require another physical camera. Also the smart alerts of "ai-cam" are much more advanced.

An Android version is also planned.