Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to NOIR
Discreet Security Camera and USB Charger
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites. NOIR launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A new way to look and capture the world you see 😎
2018 · spectacles.com · its alternatives →
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I needed a security camera inside my house, one that would send motion notifications to my smartphone and would allow me to livestream remotely. However, I could not find one that I could trust due to privacy concerns. Many of them upload the plaintext of videos to their servers and none is fully open-source as far as I know. Therefore, I decided to use my spare time to build one from scratch. Called Privastead (as in Private Homestead), it uses OpenMLS for end-to-end encryption (between the camera local hub and the smartphone) and is mostly implemented in Rust (except for part of the…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! A few years ago someone kept trying to steal my motorcycle, so I decided to make a small camera with really long battery life to catch them. The hardware/software is totally open source, but the companion app only supports macOS currently. (I'm a big fan of native apps, and didn't want to block releasing on Linux/Windows support.) I wrote some blog posts about the process: PCB design: https://toaster.llc/blog/pcb Enclosure design: https://toaster.llc/blog/enclosure Image pipeline:…
2024 · toaster.llc · its alternatives →
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EverCam▲313The wirefree security cam with 365-day battery life
2018 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Insta360 X3▲91The waterproof action cam now with massive touchscreen
2022 · store.insta360.com · its alternatives →
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USB Condom▲92A protective barrier between your device and hackers
2014 · crowdsupply.com · its alternatives →
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Full HD screen and video recorder, no watermark with audio
2023 · its alternatives →
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This runs YOLOv8 + bytetrack with Tinygrad detections (depending on user config) are saved and can be sent to the companion iOS app along with a notification, all video processing is done locally, all footage is encrypted before leaving your computer, and the sending notifications + videos part is optional. This uses tinygrad, so it runs well on my apple silicon macs and should be able to run on a lot of hardware (or will be able to when I remove other deps).
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Turn android device to a portable display
2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · sammachin.com · its alternatives →
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BlackPhone▲73A smpartphone that promises secure data transfer always.
2014 · silentcircle.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I previously introduced an open source private home security camera in 2024, which uses OpenMLS for end-to-end encryption: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42284412. It was called Privastead then and it's now renamed to Secluso. John Kaczman found my project from here and has been working on it with me over the last year and half. We've made a lot of improvements to the software, which we would like to share with you: - You can now set this up on your Raspberry Pi in less than 5 minutes with no technical expertise using our easy-to-use GUI deploy tool. We've…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DualCam▲144Record with front and back camera at the same time
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Live stream from your HDMI camera to any device in full HD.
2015 · its alternatives →
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mewcam▲117Webcam video with a transparent bg in front of your apps
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Turn your laptop or mobile device into a motion camera alarm
2020 · motionsecurity.cam · its alternatives →
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