Your home camera without the servers watching.
Your old phone, your smart camera. No subscription.
Farscope turns an old phone into a private security camera. Nothing leaves your devices unless you choose to share it — no corporate server in the middle, no monthly fee to keep it working.
Unlock your way out of corporate surveillance and subscription models for a one-time fee of €24.99 — €29.99 once early access ends.
Alfred Camera raised its US price 20%, from $29.99 to $35.99 a year.
Alfred also introduced a Legacy Status lock-in: cancel or miss a payment, and your old rate is gone for good — any future resubscription follows 2026's higher pricing. Farscope works differently. Pay once, own it, no renewal, ever.
Setup in minutes. No account required.
You need two phones — one becomes the camera, one becomes the viewer. An old drawer phone works perfectly.
Install on two phones
Download Farscope on the phone you want to use as a camera and on your everyday phone. Both Android at launch — an iPhone version is planned for the future, announced when it's ready.
Pair with a QR code
Open Farscope on your viewer phone to show a QR code, then scan it with the camera phone. No account, no email, no cloud sign-in required.
Watch live — clips stay on your device
Your camera phone streams to your viewer. Motion and sound clips are recorded and stored on the camera phone itself — not uploaded to Farscope cloud storage. When you review a clip, it transfers between your own devices.
Leave home? Try it free, then unlock.
At home on Wi-Fi it's fully free with up to 2 cameras. Away from home, you get a live preview — enough to see remote viewing work before you buy. After that, Owner Pass unlocks away-from-home viewing and up to 5 cameras total. One payment of €24.99 during early access. No renewal, ever.
Your footage stays on your own devices unless you choose to share it.
Most camera apps are built around cloud video storage. Farscope is designed around device-owned footage: clips are recorded onto the camera phone, and live viewing is built for private check-ins between your own devices. Remote viewing may use secure relay help when needed, but Farscope does not store your video.
What you give up when you pay monthly.
Alfred has 70 million users because the concept works. But the business model has turned against those users.
Comparison made June 2026 — Alfred's pricing and policies may have changed since.
- ✕Tracks your location and links it to your identity
- ✕Your video routes through their cloud servers
- ✕Removed free playback in 2024 without warning
- ✕Raised prices in 2026, locked legacy users in
- ✕$29.99–$35.99/year minimum, billed forever
- ✕Aggressive ads on the free tier
- ✓No location tracking. No identity linking.
- ✓Private device-to-device viewing, with secure relay help when needed.
- ✓Free tier features stay free. No bait and switch.
- ✓One price. No lock-in. No future price hikes.
- ✓€24.99 once during early access. Own it. Done.
- ✓Zero ads. Zero tracking. Zero subscription.
| Feature | Free Test | Owner Pass — €24.99 launch price |
|---|---|---|
| Live view on home Wi-Fi | ✓ | ✓ |
| Away-from-home viewing | Remote preview | Unlocked |
| Clips stored on your device | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ads | None | None |
| Camera phones | Up to 2 | Up to 5 |
| Motion & sound clips | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clip library | 48 hours | Longer history as v1 rolls out |
| Higher-quality video | — | Where supported |
| Zoom tools | — | V1 roadmap |
| Recording tools | — | V1 roadmap |
| Archive & protect clips | — | V1 roadmap |
| Gallery exports | Limited | Expanded in v1 |
| Video stored on servers | Never | Never |
| Monthly fee | None | None |
Pay once. Own it forever.
Start free on your home Wi-Fi network. Upgrade to unlock full cellular remote access globally with a one-time structural pass.
- ✓Up to 2 old camera phones connected
- ✓Local live view on home Wi-Fi
- ✓Motion and Sound clip detection triggers
- ✓48-hour local timeline & clip library
- ✓Away-from-home preview before you buy
- ✕Full away-from-home remote viewing
- ✕Higher-quality video and zoom tools
- ✕Recording, archive and export tools
- ✓Up to 5 old camera phones connected
- ✓Local live view on home Wi-Fi
- ✓Motion and Sound clip detection triggers
- ✓Longer local timeline history as v1 rolls out
- ✓Away-from-home remote viewing unlocked
- ✓Higher-quality video where supported & zoom tools
- ✓Recording, archive and export tools as v1 rolls out
- ✓Support indie privacy-first engineering
Price returns to €29.99 once Farscope leaves early access. Your single upfront purchase keeps things simple — no cloud subscription to maintain, ever.
I'm a single dad. I used an app to keep an eye on my kids while I went to the market, to see them come back home from school, to watch them play outside while I finished work during home office days.
It did the job. Then came the ads. Then came a subscription I didn't really agree to — just to see my own living room and patio?
I don't want that footage on someone else's server. Not my kids. Not my partner. Not my home.
I already have Netflix, my phone plan, Adobe, the gym. I built this so I wouldn't add another one.
Your video stays on your phones. You pay once. That's it.
Got questions? We have clear answers.
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Android beta is in final testing. First invites are coming soon.