Apple Continuity Cam versus Camo Pro: competition, complementary or both?

Allan Tépper
1 min readJun 14, 2022

Is Apple’s Continuity Cam competition to Camo Pro… or will Continuity Cam make Camo Pro even better? I suspect both!

In February 2022, I published my initial review of Camo Pro, which I called “the software CCU for your phone camera” which turns it into a webcam for your macOS or Windows computer. Last week at WWDC, Apple announced its new Continuity Cam as part of the upcoming macOS version, to be called Ventura. I see some overlap between the raw Continuity Cam and Camo Pro, but I also see many differences. At first, Continuity Cam might be seen as a competitor for Camo Pro (albeit with many pros and cons), but Continuity Cam could potentially add new capabilities to a future version of Camo Pro, after macOS Ventura is released. Ahead, I’ll compare the two as if they were competitors. I’ll applaud Apple for spelling Ventura properly (after misspelling both El Capitán and Monterrey). Then I’ll speculate how a potential future version of Camo Pro could combine the best of today’s Camo Pro with the special features added by Continuity Cam as a macOS Ventura service. READ THE FULL ARTICLE FREE…

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Allan Tépper

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