HebbeWatch turns a spare Mac into a private camera for your home. Watch the live feed from your phone — and see the whole day's sound as a waveform, so you never miss a single barking spell.
The bars run all the way back to the moment you left — red spikes are the loud moments. Tap one to hear it.
Why it's nice
Not a security system. A calm, one-glance way to check in on a dog who hates being alone.
Open a private link on your phone and see the room live. Tuned to sip data, so it works fine on cellular without Wi-Fi.
A cumulative waveform — not a 10-second snapshot — covering every minute since you left. Scan hours at a glance and spot every episode.
Loud moments glow red. Tap any spike to jump straight to that moment's recorded audio and hear exactly what happened.
Every run records audio plus a photo a minute into ~/Documents/HebbeWatch — so you can review it later, even after you close the app.
Each install gets its own unguessable link that survives restarts. No accounts, no app store, nobody else can find it.
Lives in the menu bar, keeps the Mac awake while watching, and quietly updates itself. Start and stop recording with one click.
Three minutes
No setup, no router fiddling, no account.
Grab the app, drag it to Applications, and open it. Allow camera & microphone when macOS asks.
Leave the Mac where your dog hangs out. On first launch it sets up its own private link automatically.
Copy the live link from the menu bar, open it on your phone, and head out. Check in whenever you like.
HebbeWatch is for watching your own home and your own dog. The feed only goes to your private link — it isn't shared, indexed, or stored on anyone else's servers, and the recordings stay on your Mac.
Ready when you are
One small download. Works on any modern Mac.