This time we are going to teach you how to use your mobile as a webcam. Yes, as you read it: you can turn your smartphone into a webcam in just a few simple steps. We will explain: How to use phone camera as webcam!
Surely you are thinking, why turn my mobile into a webcam if it already has a front camera and I can make video calls from it? Well, it is not always the best thing to do. Take, for example, a remote job meeting or job interview. The front camera of our smartphone does not favor us much, do not you think? That is why, comfortably, we can use our laptop or desktop PC and use our phone as a webcam. For this, we need very little. Find out Factory Reset Protection: Protecting Personal Data On Android
How to use phone camera as webcam?
DroidCamX Wireless Webcam Pro (Android)
It is the first method to be able to use a mobile phone as a webcam on the computer. It can be done both through Wifi and by connecting the device to the PC using a USB cable. If you are interested in speed, your choice is the second (by USB).
Download the DroidCamX application on your mobile. It is one of the most popular applications to use a cell phone as an IP camera or Wireless webcam, although it works perfectly with a USB cable. To do this, what better than downloading through Google Play:
In the same way, we must install DroidCam for PC from the following link (in the case of being Windows)
Both on Android and on the computer, we will proceed with the automatic installation of both the app and the program. It is very simple. You just have to follow the instructions.
- We open DroidCam on Android until we see a Wi-Fi IP and its corresponding default port.
- We open the program on the PC (DroidCam Client) and choose the connection that interests us the most: USB cable or Wifi.
- Right there, we can choose whether to use our mobile as a full webcam or only to transmit audio (or only video).
- If we choose wifi, we must put the IP and the port that we have on our mobile in the boxes of the computer program.
- If we choose with USB, we just have to connect the smartphone.
- Once one thing or the other is done, we will see what is seen by the mobile camera on our computer.
- Within the same client (DroidCam PC), you have extra options to adjust brightness, rotate the image and much more.
Kinoni EpocCam (iOS and Android)
Now we are going for an application that will allow us to use our iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch as a webcam. In the same way that before we used DroidCam for Android, now we choose Epocam for iOS (although it also has its version for Android).
Its use is very simple and intuitive, but we will explain it to you step by step just in case. Download the app to turn your mobile into a webcam in the App Store or Play Store.
- We install the application like any other.
- Download Kinoni (EpocCam) drivers for PC. We install them by following the .exe instructions.
- Make sure that both your computer and iPhone / iPad / iPod are connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
- We open EpocCam Viewer on our computer. A black screen will appear (like that of a multimedia player) and then the image of a pc and a mobile phone. For now, only the PC will be active.
- Now, we open the app in iOS, and you will see how the cell phone image is activated as well.
- And nothing else, now we can use the mobile camera as a webcam.
And you, have you already tried any of these methods? What do you think? Do you know any other application to use a webcam mobile? We are waiting for you in the comments!
