Your cameras.
Your iPhone.
No cloud.

Yes, down to the object and the zone. Build named filters like Home, Away and Sleep: turn a camera off, mute particular objects or zones on it, add quiet hours, and set how loud each camera or object is, from Silent to Time Sensitive. An alert a filter holds back never reaches your iPhone, and Held back lists what was kept from you and why. One filter is on at a time, and Shortcuts can switch it, so “don’t alert me for people in the garage when I’m at home” is a Home filter plus an automation that turns it on when you arrive. You can also snooze one camera, one server or every alert for up to 24 hours, from the alert itself, the camera, a widget, Control Center or Shortcuts. See Notification filters and Snooze and mute.

Yes. Fregata Mobile has six widgets: Latest Alert, Cameras, Camera, Alerts to Review, Notifications and Activity, four of which also fit the Lock Screen. For the cameras you choose in Settings › Live Activities, an alert that’s still going on shows as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and in the Apple Watch’s Smart Stack, with its picture, a running clock, Watch Live and Snooze 1 Hour. Control Center controls switch the notification filter and snooze alerts. See Widgets and Control Center and Live Activities.

Yes, on iOS 27. In the Shortcuts app, add an automation with the Notification trigger, choose Fregata Mobile, and add a camera, object or zone name, such as “Front Door” or “Person”, so it runs only for those alerts. The shortcut can do anything Shortcuts can, like turning on a porch light in the Home app. See When an alert arrives.

Yes, on iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence. Turn on Describe alert pictures, and your iPhone writes a one‑line description of each alert’s picture itself. Nothing is sent anywhere, and there’s no Ollama, OpenAI or Gemini to set up. You can rewrite the Description prompt, set the caption’s length and test it on your latest alert. Like any AI, it can be wrong. When Frigate’s own GenAI describes the review, that description takes over. See AI descriptions.

Yes. The app, its notifications, widgets and Live Activity, and the Apple Watch app are in English, Spanish, French and German, following your device’s language. Frigate’s object names appear as Frigate’s own web UI translates them.

Yes. Import the .p12 or .pfx file under Advanced in the server’s Connection settings, and the app presents it whenever that server asks: for live view, recordings, the pictures in alerts and on Apple Watch. Each server can have its own. A certificate installed in iOS Settings with a profile isn’t used, because iOS keeps those for Safari and Apple’s own apps. See Client certificate.

Yes. Scrubbing loads only the preview frames around your finger, and none ahead in Low Data Mode. On Fregata NVR, recordings step their quality down by themselves, and live view opens at a lighter quality away from home and shows what you’re watching, like 720p · 1.5 Mbps. See Extras on Fregata NVR.

Yes. Each server sends its own alerts, you switch between them with a tap, and they sync to your other devices through iCloud. See More than one server.

Yes. Search your footage in plain words when Frigate’s semantic search is on, send false positives to Frigate+ from Explore, and read Frigate’s GenAI summaries with each review. See Explore and search.

No. Fregata Mobile is made by 3rd Bit Labs LLC. It works with Frigate, and isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by Frigate, Inc.

Yes. Settings › Server Status, named after your server if you’ve named it, shows what Frigate’s System page does: detection and AI enrichment speed over the last 20 minutes, every camera’s frame rate, CPU, GPU, memory and storage, and any problems Frigate would warn about. It has live logs, and an admin can restart Frigate. The app asks first, then follows the restart until every camera is streaming again. See Server status, logs and restart.

Yes, when Frigate has ONVIF set up for it. Live view shows the PTZ controls Frigate’s web interface does: hold an arrow to pan and tilt, zoom and focus, go to a saved preset, or turn on tap to move and tap the picture to point the camera there. On Frigate 0.18, dragging a box zooms in on it. Any account can use them, and an administrator can turn autotracking on and off. See Move a PTZ camera.

Yes, on cameras Frigate has two‑way talk set up for: live view shows Talk wherever Frigate’s web interface shows its microphone button. It’s a conversation, with echo cancellation, so you hear the camera while you talk. Your voice goes to go2rtc’s WebRTC port, 8555, so it works at home, over a VPN or with that port forwarded; through a tunnel alone, such as Cloudflare Tunnel, you can watch but not talk, as in Frigate’s web interface. See Talk through a camera.

Yes. Pick any camera to see it on your wrist, alerts come with a Live button, and complications show what’s waiting to be reviewed. Your servers come from your iPhone, so there’s nothing to sign in to on the watch. See Apple Watch.

Yes, on a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26: the iPad app runs there, from the Mac App Store, with live view, recordings, Review and Explore. Alerts don’t come to a Mac, though. The notification relay sends them only to a device that can prove it’s running the real app, and Apple offers that proof on iPhone and iPad but not on a Mac, so your alerts go to your iPhone or iPad. See Compatibility.

Yes. Every new build of Fregata Mobile goes to a public beta on TestFlight, Apple’s app for testing apps, before it reaches the App Store. To join, open the beta’s invitation on your iPhone or iPad. The beta takes the App Store version’s place, and you can go back to the App Store version whenever you like. See Join the TestFlight beta.