Microphone & camera
MicCamWatch
Publicly available
See which applications are using your computer’s microphone or camera.
The goal
Make microphone and camera activity easier to understand by showing the available observations and their limits, rather than promising universal monitoring.
An open-source tool written in Rust, with a terminal dashboard and native interfaces. It reads operating-system metadata without recording audio or capturing camera images.
Key features
- Microphone and camera activity monitoring, with application identification when the operating system provides sufficient evidence.
- A terminal dashboard, native windows and system-tray or menu-bar controls.
- Diagnostics covering permissions, collector health and the actual scope of monitoring.
- Local observations, without audio recording or camera-image capture.
Explore further
This page provides the overview; source code and technical documentation are available as additional resources.