Turn any spare phone, tablet or laptop into a motion-triggered security camera in 60 seconds. No app to install. No hardware to buy. No footage on our servers — clips save straight to your own Google Drive.
If you can open a website, you can set this up.
On your spare phone, open madbatter.co.za/cam in the browser and allow camera access. That's the whole installation.
Prop the phone facing your door, driveway or shop counter. Plug it in, tap Arm camera, and the screen dims to near-black.
When something moves, DriveCam records a 30-second clip automatically. Review clips any time — they're yours, on your device and your Drive.
Without the subscription-hungry hardware.
Smart frame analysis records only when something actually moves — no hours of empty footage.
Footage never touches our servers. Clips stay on your device and in your own Google Drive.
Any phone from the last 8 years works. The best security camera is the one you already own.
Wake-lock keeps the camera alive with the screen dimmed to near-black. Just leave it plugged in.
It's a web page. No app store, no updates, no permissions beyond the camera itself.
Google Drive auto-upload and WhatsApp alerts are next — with AI that knows a person from a cat.
DriveCam does all its work — watching, detecting, recording — inside your own device's browser. Your clips upload directly from your phone to your Google Drive. There is no DriveCam server that stores, processes or even relays a single frame of your video.
Free for one camera, forever. Upgrade when you want alerts on WhatsApp.
During the beta, everything currently available is free. Plus pricing is indicative and may change before launch.
No. DriveCam runs entirely in the browser you already have — Chrome on Android, Safari on iPhone. Open the page, allow the camera, and you're monitoring.
Right now, clips are saved on the camera device itself and can be downloaded with one tap. Auto-upload to your own Google Drive is the next feature shipping — your footage will live in your Drive account, under your control, never on our servers.
Keep the phone plugged in — it's stationary anyway. While armed, the screen dims to near-black to minimise power use and avoid drawing attention.
It works in whatever light the phone's camera can see. A hallway lamp or stoep light is enough. True infrared night vision needs hardware phones don't have.
Motion detection and recording happen on the device, so clips keep being captured offline. Uploads and alerts resume when the connection returns.
Yes — the single-camera experience is free and will stay free. Paid plans will cover the features that cost real money to run, like WhatsApp alert delivery and multi-camera dashboards.
Free, in your browser, in the next 60 seconds.
Start your camera