Watching live cameras

A channel marked with a red “LIVE” badge is broadcasting right now. When a camera is offline, you'll see an offline screen along with — if available — recent recordings, clips, and the channel description. Live streams naturally carry a small delay relative to real time.

You can change quality in the player (e.g. 1080p/720p/auto). “Auto” mode matches quality to your connection. On mobile connections, choose a lower quality to reduce data usage.

In the player you can turn on fullscreen and — in supported browsers — Picture-in-Picture, so you can keep watching while browsing other pages. The player keeps a 16:9 aspect ratio.

Click “Follow” to add a channel to your followed list and get notified when it goes live. You manage notifications and their channels in account settings.

You can use chat during live streams. Some channels require logging in or following, and slow mode may also be enabled. Chat etiquette is described in our Community Guidelines.

You can turn interesting moments into clips and share them with a link. The availability of clips and recordings (VOD) depends on each channel's settings.

LookCam works in the browser and in the iOS and Android apps. On your phone you can watch streams, use chat, and see your followed list; in supported setups you can also cast to a TV.

If the picture won't load or keeps buffering, check out the Getting Started section, or contact support.