Virtual camera for Mac
CamHold loops a clip of you listening, freezes, hides or degrades your camera in Zoom, Meet, FaceTime and Teams. One shortcut and you are gone: you get up, your picture stays.
Mac only.
Others see your live cameraYou, in real time.
Runs in your browser only. Nothing is sent.
Works where you already take calls
and any app that lets you pick a camera
Made for real life
Turn on Loop and go answer it. The call keeps seeing you there, listening closely.
LoopFreeze, walk to the kitchen and come back. To the call, the video just stalled.
FreezeHide instantly and sort it out in peace, off camera.
HideDegrade on purpose: the picture gets worse like a weak connection and nobody catches the details.
DegradeFeatures
One mode at a time: live, frozen, looping or hidden. On top, as many effects as you like.
Record a few seconds of yourself listening. CamHold plays the clip back and forth in place of your live camera, with a soft crossfade in and out, so you still look present after you step away.
Hold the last frame, as if the video had stalled, while you step away.
Cut the feed instantly. Go black, or show a picture of your choice.
Fake a weak connection: the image gets worse little by little, blurred or pixelated, at three levels, and recovers the same way. It stacks with Freeze and Loop.
Put words on your video: type a note, drop it anywhere on the frame, let it scroll.
Always one click away
No hunting for a window mid-meeting. CamHold lives where your hand already goes.
Every mode and effect, with a live preview, without opening a window.
⌥⌘F freeze, ⌥⌘L loop, ⌥⌘H hide, ⌥⌘B degrade, ⇧⌥⌘L record a new clip. They work with any app in front. Your hands never leave the keyboard.
A Freeze control next to Wi-Fi and brightness, on macOS 26.
Flip your image back when an app insists on showing it backwards.
Freeze and Hide draw the frame once and hold it. Your CPU says thanks.
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German and Japanese.
How it works
A short guide explains each macOS request before it appears: nothing pops up until you click. You approve the camera extension once.
In Zoom, Meet, FaceTime or Teams, choose CamHold as the camera.
Loop, Freeze, Hide or Degrade, from the window, the menu bar or a shortcut. One sentence always tells you what the others see right now.
Privacy
Everything is processed on the device. No account, no analytics, no network requests: nothing is sent anywhere, and live video is not recorded. The only video CamHold keeps is the short Loop clip you record, and it never leaves your Mac.
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Open it, use it. No sign-up, no login.
No third-party SDKs, ads or trackers.
The app makes no requests. It works offline.
Live video is not recorded. The Loop clip exists only if you record it: it stays on your Mac, is replaced by the next recording and can be removed in the app.
Pricing
No subscription, no renewal, no catch.
$0Forever
One-time purchaseLifetime
Download for free and unlock inside the app.
FAQ
To the call, your camera is still on and sending video as usual. With Loop it sees a clip of you listening, played back and forth, with a soft crossfade in and out. With Freeze the picture holds on the last frame, as if the video had stalled.
You record a short clip of yourself listening: a 3-second countdown, then up to 8 seconds, video only, no audio. Loop plays that clip back and forth in place of your live camera. With no clip yet, pressing Loop records on the spot and then starts. ⌥⌘L toggles Loop, ⇧⌥⌘L records a new clip.
An effect that fakes a weak connection. Switch it on (⌥⌘B) and the image gets worse little by little, over a few seconds, and recovers the same way when you switch it off. It has three levels (Light, Medium and Strong) and two styles (Blurred or Pixelated), and it stacks on top of Freeze and Loop instead of replacing them.
Zoom, Google Meet, FaceTime, Microsoft Teams and any other app that lets you pick a camera. Just choose “CamHold” from the list.
Nothing is sent: CamHold makes no network requests. Live video is processed on your Mac, in real time, and is not recorded. The only recording is the Loop clip, made only when you ask for it: it is kept only on your Mac, replaced by the next recording and can be removed in the app.
CamHold installs a camera extension, which is what creates the virtual camera. macOS asks for your approval once, in System Settings, and the setup guide explains each request before it appears.
The free version adds a small “CamHold — free” mark to the video. One purchase removes it forever and unlocks the Marquee.
No. It is a one-time, lifetime purchase made inside the app.
A Mac running macOS 14 or later. The Control Center control is available from macOS 26.
The meeting goes on. You decide what it sees.
Free to download · macOS 14 or later · No account
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