Put your brand in the frame.
OverlayCam composites your logo, frame and name onto your webcam, blurs or replaces the room behind you if you want, then publishes the result as a real macOS camera. Anything that can pick a camera can pick this one.
Try it — these are the same layers the app draws.
Background blur
Step away
Brand color
1.5.0 · 3.1 MB · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon and Intel (universal)
It isn’t a filter.
It’s a camera.
Most branding tools live inside one app, so the work stops when the meeting moves somewhere else. OverlayCam registers a camera extension with macOS instead.
That means your branded picture is a device the system knows about. No plugin per app, no screen sharing a window, nothing to reconfigure when the client sends a Teams link instead of a Meet one.
Camera
- FaceTime HD Camera
- HD Pro Webcam C920
- OverlayCam
How it looks in any video app’s camera list.
Five things to set, and nothing you have to fight.
- Logo
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Drop in a PNG and park it in any of the four corners. Width, margin and opacity are sliders.
Transparent backgrounds composite cleanly over the picture, so a logo made for a light deck still works on video.
- Frame
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A solid border, a gradient, or a single bar along the bottom — in your colors, at your thickness.
Round the corners and the frame fills them, so the video is cropped rather than peeking through. Thickness, corner radius and opacity are yours.
- Name and role
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A lower third with your name, a second line and an optional company, in seven styles from a solid band to a bare rule.
Park it left or right, set the text, background and accent colors, then size it and lift it off the bottom edge. It never mirrors, so it reads correctly to everyone else on the call.
- The room behind you
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Blur it, or replace it with an image of your own — an office, a studio, anything you like.
Your Mac finds the person in the picture and changes only what is behind them, so you stay sharp. A replacement can be softened too, which is what sells it: no real lens holds your face and the wall behind you both in focus. It all happens on the machine, and nothing is sent anywhere to do it.
- Be right back
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Step away and the call sees a card in your colours, with whatever message you type, instead of the chair you left behind.
Your camera actually stops — the green light goes out — so this is privacy rather than a picture held over the lens. Each preset carries its own card, and you can change the message while it is up.
One set per client.
A preset is everything above, saved under a name: the logo and the corner it sits in, the frame and its colors, your name and title, the background. Not a color swatch — the whole look.
They sit in a list down the side of the app, in whatever order you drag them into. Click another one and the camera changes with it, so showing up as a different brand for the next call takes a click rather than a rebuild. The logo is stored inside the preset, not as a link to a file that can move out from under it.
Brand presets
- elepea
- Northwind
- Meridian
- Atlas
Each one carries its own logo, frame, name and blur.
Running in about two minutes.
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Install the camera extension
OverlayCam registers a camera with macOS. You approve it once in System Settings, the way you would a driver.
- 2
Build your overlay
Add a logo, pick your colors, type your name. The preview is the exact picture everyone else receives.
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Pick OverlayCam in your video app
The camera starts with the app, and sits in the camera list beside your webcam in Teams, Meet, Zoom or Slack. Leave OverlayCam open for the whole call.
Take it for a spin.
Signed and notarized by Apple. Free while it is in early release.
3.1 MB disk image
Something broken, something missing, or just a question? Write to overlaycam@elepea.co — it reaches the person who builds it.
- Requires
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Runs on
- Apple silicon and Intel (universal)
- Install
- Drag to Applications, then approve the extension once
Not today?
Tell me what OverlayCam would need to do, and I will let you know when it does it.