Record a few seconds of yourself and loop it through a virtual camera. Grab a coffee, rest your eyes, answer the door, and still look present. Your audio never stops.
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A few seconds of you looking present, recorded earlier. Match your pose, then one hotkey starts the loop.
The loop holds your camera while you grab a coffee. Your audio still passes through.
Line up once more and drop back into your real camera. No one saw the seam.
CamLoop lives in your menu bar. Record a few seconds of yourself, pick CamLoop as your camera once, and a single hotkey swaps your live feed for the loop and back. A glance at the icon tells you live or looping.
Two things matter when you step away mid-meeting: doing it fast, and doing it so it reads as you, not a frozen app.
One global hotkey flips between your live camera and a looped clip, with no menus and no fumbling, even with CamLoop in the background. A second tap brings you right back.
“Simulated lag” plays your clip with gentle freezes, micro-stutters, and a catch-up jump, generated live so it never repeats. It scales to the clip length, and you choose exactly which artifacts to use. It reads like a normal rough connection, not a frozen app.
Hit record, sit naturally for a few seconds, and stop. CamLoop captures a clean clip and a ghost of the first frame helps you line up so the loop starts without a jump.
CamLoop never uploads your video and never records or routes audio. Clips live in a local folder on your machine; the camera loops while you keep talking. Optional, anonymous diagnostics can be turned off in one click.
Give CamLoop a name of your choosing and that is what shows in your meeting app’s camera menu, instead of “CamLoop”. Set it once in Settings and it is the name you pick from every time.
Plays forward then reverse, so the loop never has a visible seam, for any pose.
On-device frame morphing and a pose-alignment studio for a flawless, invisible cut.
A glance at the menu-bar icon tells you live vs. looping, and a toast confirms every switch.
When you return, CamLoop watches the camera and switches the instant the image is clean and exposed, so viewers never catch a dark frame.
Bring in an existing video, or export a clip to reuse it across machines.
Keep a go-to clip at the top of the list so it’s one tap away in any meeting.
| What you get | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Disappear & return from the menu | ✓ | ✓ |
| Seamless ping-pong loops | ✓ | ✓ |
| Saved clips | 1 clip | Unlimited |
| Clip length | 10 seconds | No limit |
| Global hotkeys (customizable) | – | ✓ |
| Simulated lag | – | ✓ |
| AI morph & alignment studio | – | ✓ |
| Seamless go-live (clean cut) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Import / export & pinning | – | ✓ |
| Custom virtual camera name | – | ✓ |
“Remember, no big movements. Just look whipped.” Keanu’s advice to the bus passengers in Speed, which also seems applicable here.u/phillymjs · r/SideProject
The stutter injection so it doesn’t read frozen is the real wedge. Most folks loop a clip in OBS Virtual Camera and get caught instantly.u/Interesting_Meat8980 · r/SideProject
Love this idea, cuz my boss isn’t gonna like it.u/JustAnother_User404 · r/SideProject
Wow, I love this. Great job, I would have never thought of this.u/Apart_Beyond_3463 · r/SideProject
Real comments from CamLoop’s launch thread on Reddit.
Yes. CamLoop only loops your camera. Your audio passes straight through, untouched. You can keep talking the whole time, or mute yourself like normal.
Any macOS app with a camera picker. CamLoop appears as a virtual camera called “CamLoop,” so Zoom, Google Meet, Slack, Microsoft Teams, FaceTime, OBS and others can all select it.
No. Your clips are stored in a local folder on your Mac and never leave it. CamLoop doesn’t record or route audio either. Optional, anonymous diagnostics help us fix crashes and can be switched off in Settings. See the privacy policy.
Tap the same hotkey again, or click “Switch back to live camera” in the menu. You return to your real feed instantly, with no need to touch your meeting app.
The free tier is yours forever, no card required. Pro starts with a 7-day trial with no card, and you can cancel the subscription anytime. Checkout and billing are handled securely by Lemon Squeezy.
Download CamLoop, record one short clip, and you’ll never be trapped in front of the camera again.
Free forever for the basics · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · Notarized by Apple