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Your Frigate. In Focus.
Kapal is a native Frigate NVR client for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. It connects directly to your Frigate server, with no Kapal account required.
NEW: NOTIFICATIONS
Frigate alerts even when Kapal is closed, built so you'll actually leave them on.
• Quiet at home, sound away. At home, alerts arrive silently. Leave and they make sound again.
• No location tracking. Kapal knows you're home when your iPhone reaches your own Frigate on your Wi-Fi.
• Always alert. Pick cameras, like the doorbell, that always ring.
• Quiet hours. Silent overnight or on any schedule.
• One notification per burst. A busy camera updates one notification instead of buzzing again and again.
• Private by design. Alerts are encrypted for your iPhone. The alert service never receives your password, snapshots, or video.
• Guided setup in about a minute.
LIVE CAMERAS
• An adaptive grid with snapshots or live previews, each camera's last event, camera groups, and adjustable density.
• Full screen live view with zoom, audio, stream selection, and Picture in Picture on compatible streams.
• Birdseye, detection overlays, and zones when available.
• HLS, MJPEG, and supported H.265 / HEVC streams, plus the Universal Video Engine beta with adaptive remote quality.
ACTIVITY, PEOPLE & RECORDINGS
• Review grouped by day, with Mark Reviewed for each day, plus Explore.
• People & Pets: name saved faces with one tap, add photos, and see when each person was last seen.
• Filter by camera, object, zone, name, sub-label, date, or confidence. Inspect snapshots, plates, and clips, and share video or images.
• Kapal+ Timeline: scrub synchronized multi-camera history.
• Kapal+ Motion Search: draw a region, scan a time range, and save presets.
FRIGATE 0.18 & GENAI
• Ask Your Cameras what happened and get a streaming answer from your GenAI-enabled server.
• Summarize Review activity, with concerns flagged by Frigate's AI.
• Switch Config Profiles such as Home, Away, or Vacation without a restart.
• Group related exports into Cases and download a complete incident.
WIDGETS, IPAD & APPLE WATCH
• Widgets for snapshots, latest activity, unreviewed alerts, and a 24-hour summary, on the Home Screen and Lock Screen.
• iPad layouts with a sidebar, multiple windows, keyboard shortcuts, and pointer support.
• Cameras, activity, live views, and complications on Apple Watch.
• Camera links for Home Assistant notifications that open in Kapal.
SERVER STATUS & CONNECTIONS
• Server Status: detector speed, CPU, free space, and camera health on one page.
• Local and remote addresses, HTTPS, VPNs, self-signed certificates, and Cloudflare Access service tokens (beta).
KAPAL+
A one-time purchase with no subscription or ads. Kapal+ unlocks Notifications, widgets, Timeline, Motion Search, Ask Your Cameras, Review Summaries, Config Profiles, Cases, the Apple Watch app, multiple servers, automatic failover, Smart Location Switching, Health Alerts, and PTZ controls. Owners get Notifications and every new Kapal+ feature at no extra cost.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Camera and event data comes directly from your servers, and credentials stay in the iOS Keychain. Kapal is not a cloud NVR. Optional notifications pass through Kapal's alert service, encrypted for your iPhone.
SUPPORT & ROADMAP
Found a bug or playback issue? Reach out through Support. Have an idea? Submit it to the in-app Roadmap and vote on what comes next.
REQUIREMENTS
Kapal requires an existing Frigate NVR installation. Features depend on your Frigate version, permissions, cameras, recordings, codecs, GenAI, and network. Notification setup needs a Frigate administrator account and internet access from your server. PTZ requires an ONVIF camera. Health Alert timing is subject to iOS background execution.
Kapal is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Frigate project.
Hello!
Great idea, could you reach out to support and let me know you submitted this request. I have some questions about the request and camera model(s).
Thank you!
I will look into the timeline features for you and see what is possible with the API. I will do my best!
I'd love this as well, good idea, I will look into for a future release :)
I will look into this, I will have to set it up myself to see what the issues are currently with this setup. Please reach out to support@judeworks.app with specifics if you have them!
If you submitted this please reach out over support@judeworks.app. I made an early TestFlight that might resolve this issue. Thank you!
For a typical Frigate 0.18+ connection, the order is roughly:
Main MSE → Main WebRTC → Main RTSP/VLC → Sub routes → MJPEG
RTSP is therefore preferred over reducing quality or using MJPEG, but not over a healthy primary MSE/WebRTC route. Once RTSP proves reliable, the app can remember it and start there on a later session.