👋 Hey Product Hunt — I'm Peter, the maker of FrostCam. This started with a problem everyone on video calls knows: sometimes you need to step away for ten seconds - grab water, deal with a knock at the door, calm down before a tough moment - but turning your camera *off* makes a whole tile go black and everyone looks up. It breaks the flow and quietly makes it about you. FrostCam is basically a freeze button for your webcam. Hit a shortcut and your video locks on the current frame with fresh timestamps, so to everyone else you just got very still for a second. It looks like you got focused, not like you left. There's also a Loop mode that records a few seconds of you and plays it back on a smooth bounce, so there's natural movement while you're away. A few things I cared about building it: - It's a real virtual camera, so it shows up as a normal source in Zoom, Meet, Teams, FaceTime - anything. No plugin per app. - Everything stays on your Mac. No recording, no accounts, no network calls except Apple's for the purchase. Your face never leaves the device. - No subscription. The closest tool I found charges ~$90/year. FrostCam is free to try, and a one-time $14.99 unlock removes the watermark. (There's a $24.99 "Pro+" tier that's identical - purely a tip jar if you want to support a solo dev.) - Native + universal. SwiftUI menu bar app, Apple Silicon & Intel, macOS 13+. It's a solo indie project and I'd genuinely love your feedback - what modes you'd want, where it'd be useful, anything that feels rough. I'll be around all day answering. 🙏

FrostCam

Pause or loop your webcam in any video call

Pause or loop your webcam in any video call