About iSpy

I started writing iSpy back in 2007 after finding a superb open source c# .net project called AForge. I spent a while looking around for decent, free motion detection and recording software but didn't have much luck finding any with the capability that AForge provides - so I decided to write it myself. The motivation for writing it was that I had a healthy but sceptical interest in ghosts and UFO's - and I figured that if people had some decent software to use with all those webcams and microphones out there, and if there was something weird happening, iSpy was sure to find it!

As iSpy has matured more applications for the technology have become apparent - most obviously security. Existing security and surveillance software is typically expensive, dated and limited with closed source and poor control over sensitivity, lacking in features, virtually no audio support and restrictive limits on data usage. I put all my effort into tackling these problems right from the start. iSpy was written with an enormous feature set that is continually added to whilst using standardised code to connect to the vast majority of web cams and IP cameras available today.

The original aim of creating iSpy to be as sensitive to movement and sound as possible means that it makes an awesome camera security system. There are so many applications for iSpy and people are using it in so many different ways that i'm constantly amazed by the stories I hear - from whale watching, to storm monitoring, meteor showers, protecting top secret documents and yes, even the odd UFO!

Whilst iSpy has so far not managed to find any definitive evidence of UFO's or Ghosts - although it's recorded a lot of strange stuff! - i'm still sceptically hopeful :) Please let me know if you record anything of interest.

Donating cash to support future development - features and bug fixes - and to help pay for hosting charges would make a real tangible difference to the project. If you are interested in contributing in other ways - code enhancements, bug fixes or marketing opportunites i'd love to hear from you!

Sean Tearney

iSpy uses adapted open source code from the following projects:

AForge.NET
Accord.net
NAudio
FFMPEG
Flowplayer
nVLC
Tesseract-OCR
TesseractDotNet
iSpy recommends:
XIMEA - Machine Vision Cameras

Available Languages

iSpy is available in :

English, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Deutsch, ελληνικά, Español, Française, Hrvatski, Italiano, Magyar, Nederlands, Русский, Polski, Português, 中文 (繁體) and 中文

Translator Credits:

Brazilian Portuguese: Fernando Paladini - pCreations.
German: Stefan Wiber
Spanish: Alipio
French: Franck

iSpy is cloud hosted on Azure.

Testimonials

Thank you all so much for all the great feedback about iSpy, it really does help to keep me motivated! Most of the feedback below can be corroborated in the forums.

This software is a masterpiece! thanks
You have an awesome software!!! Thank you!!!
Dude! Your software kicks ass. Congratulations.
This is an incredible application. I recently switched over from zoneminder and don't foresee switching back.
I LOVE your product!
You have a fantastic program! Thank you for providing the nerds wet dream of a surveillance program :-)
In over 20 years in the computer industry I have never donated to support "free" programs. I must say you are the first and deserve every bit of it and a lot more if I could afford it. iSpy is everything I needed in security software and it works better than anything I have paid a premium for in the past. Keep up the great work and I hope others see the value in your supperb efforts and compensate you for it as well.
I have to say it is the best software by far which I have seen.
To state that I am extremely impressed at the amazingly fast response and fix/release turnaround would be an understatement.
I'll be recommending it to everyone i know, because after using almost everything available, the only program that comes close is visec, which is so expensive id rather get robbed, and this is the ONLY software, that actually DOES, what it claims to do keep it up!
How did you make it so damn simple and easy??? I bought a F-Link Camera DCL-930. Great camera, great features, easy set up BUT lousy software. In searching for software, I found your site from a camera review on Amazon where you software was highly recommended by a buyer of another camera. What he said was factual to the max so I went to your site, read and said YES, this as to be it. And right I was..... I also wrote D-Link and told them they should use your software as yours was simple, easy and right on. Thank you, John Piquette
I was truly amazed at the accuracy and power of the motion detection. Thank-you.
Hi, I just downloaded iSpy and I am totally amazed!
I tried Zoneminder, but iSpy really just blew it out of the water :)
Excellent software. You nailed it..!!
Brilliant product
Sean, Let me start off by saying I love what I've seen from iSpy so far. I love it so much I'm learning C# just to work on it.
This is an excellent and most useful product, excellent work!! 10/10
This is some awesome software, and it blows the old security software at my work out of the water.
Firstly, can I say how excellent your software is!...
Clearly an excellent bit of software.. much better interface and features than others ive tried.
This is a great piece of FREE sofware.
Thank you for making this great application
Thanks again for making this open source application and keep up the good work.
Thanks for developing such a great product!
Thanks for a good home owners security monitoring software.
Very nice product, best I have seen in a long time. Thanks!
Thanks for the awesome help!
Btw, great software. I've been looking for a replacement for Zoneminder and this application shows great potential.
I have been using this program for a few days now and "hats off" to you for a great program.
Firstly, thanks for a very useful and easy to use software package...
Thanks for the increase in stability over the last couple of weeks. Someone has been working very hard.
Fantastic!!
Love the program. Thanks for the latest release.
Thanks for that cool open source project
Great job on the program by the way, keep up the good work.
Thanks for this cool software
I've installed this a few days ago. Works great!
I’ve just discovered that you can have multiple cameras on each machine as well, excellent. Thanks very much, this is such a great tool.
I can say it is much better than zoneminder linux and much better than other cctv systems i know also very expensive ones
iSpy is an absolutely astonishing program! Not only it's free but it also works better than many pricey analogues.
We want to thank everyone who contributed to this wonderful product.
This software seems to blow Logitech's out of the water.
I have not used another webcam security software to date and I don’t see that I would have any reason to. Everything is working flawlessly.
I am handicapped, I use my Ispy to keep an eye on my house. If I hear a noise I simply look at my monitor and know exactly what is going on. I am on a limited income so I can't afford a large home system. So i picked up some old webcams from yard sales. I made my own usb extension cords out of phone cords. I run six cams on one desk top. Thank you so much for such a wonderful software. P.S. I show off my system to everyone and brag about your software daily. Thanks again King Pakratt
We are very impressed about the development of this software, one more changing from zoneminder to ispy.
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