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Fregata Mobile is a free, native app for both Frigate and Fregata NVRs: Frigate 0.17 or later, or Fregata on a Mac. It shows your cameras live, lets you scrub through recordings, and sends alerts with the picture and then a short video, on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. It talks to your server directly: there’s no Fregata account, and your video never passes through us.

What you need

Section titled “What you need”
  • An iPhone or iPad on iOS or iPadOS 26 or later. The Apple Watch app needs watchOS 26.
  • Frigate 0.17 or later, or any version of Fregata.
  • Your NVR’s address, and a username and password for it. An administrator account lets the app set up alerts for you.

AI descriptions and running a shortcut when an alert arrives need iOS 27. Everything else works on iOS 26. See Compatibility.

Start here

Section titled “Start here”
Install Fregata MobileJoin the free TestFlight beta. The Apple Watch app comes with it.
Connect your serverThe welcome walkthrough, step by step: addresses, sign-in, administrator or viewer.
Set up alertsLet the app make the changes Frigate needs, or follow the steps yourself.
Away from homeTailscale, Cloudflare Tunnel and Access, or a reverse proxy.

The app at a glance

Section titled “The app at a glance”
  1. Cameras ⌄: switch between camera groups and notification filters.
  2. Layout: grid, list or column.
  3. A camera: tap to watch it live.
  4. Recent Alerts: tap one to open its recording.

The app has four tabs:

  • Cameras: every camera, with what it last saw. Tap one for live view, and its History button for recordings.
  • Review: everything your cameras noticed, as alerts and detections. See Review.
  • Explore: every object Frigate tracked, with search in your own words. See Explore.
  • Settings: your server, and how alerts reach this iPhone. See Settings at a glance.

Alerts, your way

Section titled “Alerts, your way”

Alerts are where most of the choices are, and most of them change only your own iPhone:

How alerts workThe picture, the video that replaces it, the actions, and late or missed alerts.
Choose which alerts reach youFilters, snooze, quiet hours, Focus and turning a camera off: which to use when.
Notification filtersHome, Away and Sleep, per camera, object and zone, with levels and quiet hours.
Write your own alert wordingTemplates and variables, with examples.

Something wrong?

Section titled “Something wrong?”
Alerts don't arriveThe checks in order, and the usual causes.
Can't connectEvery connection message, and its fix.
Live video problemsReduced quality, the fallback picture and stalling.
Getting helpGitHub Discussions, email, and sending a report.

For anything about your Frigate server itself, such as camera setup, zones, recordings or storage, the Frigate documentation is the place to look.