fracam.app
live camera · macOS 15+

Your camera, fractured into hundreds of real windows.

Windows are born where you move, hold on your face and fade. Your desktop stays visible in between. Live, in one click — no TouchDesigner, no After Effects.

Apple Silicon · nothing leaves your Mac · free trial

Every window is a real macOS window.

Someone under my first reel asked whether I was working on ransomware.

No. Every piece you see is a real macOS window the app opens and closes, hundreds of times a second, exactly where you move. The grey traffic lights are what macOS draws on an inactive window. The title gets cut with the system ellipsis. Nothing is drawn on a canvas.

Which is why it looks like your Mac has been taken over, and why no filter can fake it.

What for

Two reasons people open it.

Short video

A clip that stops the scroll, in a minute.

Pick a look, move, record. Vertical 9:16, your face held in the safe zone, nothing else on screen. The visual people spend a night building in TouchDesigner — live, from your camera, different every take.

ReelsTikTokShortstalking headintro
Music

Shoot a music video on your desktop.

Windows are born on the kick, the voice, the hi-hats, and gather on the beat. Record yourself to your track with a transparent background and drop the pieces into your clip — footage of you, cut by your own music.

snippetSpotify Canvasclip layerlive setstream
Looks

One frame, computed once. Any number of windows.

Looks run on the GPU for the whole frame, so the window count never slows them down. Mix them: each window with its own.

Night Vision
Night Visiongreen phosphor, grain, vignette
CRT
CRTscanlines, bloom, curvature
1-bit Dither
1-bit Dithertwo colours, ordered dots
Blob Tracking
Blob Trackingboxes and labels on what moves
Datamosh
Datamoshthe last frame flows after you
Depth Map
Depth Mapa neural net sees depth
CCTV
CCTVpeople and objects, named
Glyphs
Glyphsthe picture as coloured characters

Windows that live with the music.

Born on the kick, the voice, the hi-hats. Gathered on the beat: tempo and downbeat are found by themselves. Source: the microphone, anything your Mac plays, or the video itself. Change the look with a clap.

Each instrument gets its own windows — you decide which.

Pick a look per role. Clap, talk, play something: the desktop answers with that role's windows in that look. With a folder of stems from your DAW each track knows exactly what it is. Coming in 1.0.

Collage Trail

Your pictures, following you.

A look that leaves a trail of pictures where you moved: your own folder, emoji, a Telegram sticker pack. Big ones near you, dust at the edges of the trail. Drop any picture on this page — it joins the trail on the desktop right now.

Record

Record right here. Keep only what you want.

One key. A countdown. The panel, the HUD and the cursor stay out of the file.

Hover a format — the desktop becomes that stage. The bar records a few seconds; the file lands by the Dock.Tap a format — the desktop above becomes that stage. The bar records a few seconds; the file lands in the Dock.

Coming in 1.0. Today: any screen recorder.

Export

Cut for where it goes.

One recording, framed for each place: the safe zones of Reels and TikTok, a Canvas loop, the whole desktop for YouTube. Pick one — the file from the Dock opens in that frame.

Coming in 1.0. Today: crop in CapCut or Final Cut.

What it would take otherwise.

FiltersTouchDesigner / AEFracam
LiveyesTD yes · AE noyes
Learningnonedays to weeksnone
Beyond the framenono, one canvasthe whole desktop
Follows soundnobuild it yourselfkick, voice, beat
Looks likeeveryone elseyoursyours, every take
Pricesubscription$600 · $22/mo + pluginsonce

I saw this effect, could not find anything that makes it, and wrote it myself. One person, one Mac, a few months, 305 tests.

It is odd on purpose. If it is for you, you will know in the first ten seconds.

— Anton

13looks, one frame, any number of windows
0bytes of camera leave your Mac
6 mscamera to screen
Price

Free to play. Pay once to work.

The free version is the whole app, forever: every look, the sound mode, every preset. Recordings carry one small extra window named fracam#1 — a credit, not a stamp. Buying removes it and unlocks the transparent and green backgrounds, the vertical 9:16 stage, the projector and preset sharing. Updates in 1.x included.

Questions
Does it need a fast Mac?

Any Apple Silicon Mac. On small ones the app lowers the window count and camera resolution by itself; you can set both.

Does anything leave my Mac?

No. Camera and microphone are processed on the Mac. The app only downloads optional neural models and sticker packs you ask for, and checks for updates.

Can I use it in Zoom or OBS?

In OBS, yes: capture the screen. A virtual camera is planned later.

Windows?

Not now, and no date. The licence is per person, so a Windows version would be included if it is made. Leave your email on the download page if you want one.

Who plays — Fracam
Kick →
Bass →
Voice →
Hi-hats →
Fracam.mov
1080 × 19200:06