WINK Mobile Apps

Three free apps for iOS and Android. Two of them connect to a WINK system that you run, and show you the cameras your account is allowed to see. The third shows public cameras to anybody.

There is no sign-up inside any of them, no advertising, and nothing that tracks you between apps or between sessions.

See the Apps How They Handle Your Data

What They Are For

Most of the people who use our software are not sitting at the operations centre desk. They are at an intersection, on a platform, in a patrol car, or at home at two in the morning being asked whether something on a camera is worth getting dressed for. The apps exist for that, and they are built on the assumption that the connection is a mobile one and the screen is small and probably in bright sun.

Every app connects to a server, not to us. We do not host your video, we do not proxy it, and we have no account system of our own that you have to sign up for. Your credentials come from whoever administers the system you are connecting to, and the app sees exactly the cameras that account is permitted to see, with the same rules that apply on the desktop.

WINK View

The live viewer. Listed on both stores as WINK View, and the successor to the app this site has called WINK LiveView.

WINK View is for watching cameras live. You add the WINK servers you have access to, and every camera from every one of them appears in a single list rather than making you switch between apps or accounts. It streams HLS over HTTPS only.

Your servers

  • Add as many servers as you need: WINK Archiver, WINK Forge or WINK Media Router
  • Test the connection before saving it
  • All cameras from all servers in one list, grouped by server and by group

Live video

  • Camera grid with live snapshots and online, offline and maintenance status
  • Search by name, description or group, and filter by server or group
  • Full screen live view with picture in picture, and previous and next camera
  • AirPlay on iPhone and iPad

Camera wall

  • Several cameras at once, drawn from any of your servers
  • Layouts for phones and tablets, in portrait and landscape

Map

  • Cameras on a map, tap a pin to watch it live

Security

  • HTTPS connections only
  • Passwords held in the iOS Keychain or Android encrypted storage
  • Optional app lock with Face ID, Touch ID or fingerprint
Live video only. WINK View does not play back recordings. For recorded playback, seeking and export, use the WINK Archiver app below.
Download WINK View on the App Store Get WINK View on Google Play

WINK Archiver

The companion app for the WINK Archiver video recorder.

Where WINK View shows you what a camera is looking at now, the Archiver app is for what it was looking at earlier. It plays recorded video with a timeline you can drag, exports a clip as a file or a share link, and lists the detections the recorder raised so you can jump straight to the moment one of them happened.

Live video

  • Every camera at a glance, with online status and recent snapshots
  • Full screen live view with automatic HD and SD stream selection
  • Take and share snapshots

Live wall

  • Layouts for 1, 2, 4, 6, 9 or 12 cameras at once
  • Focus layouts with one large camera and smaller tiles alongside
  • Choose and order the cameras on your wall

Archive

  • Recorded video from any camera with a scrubbable timeline
  • Time range by preset or exact start and end times
  • Thumbnail strip to jump straight to the moment you need
  • Mark in and out points, or pick a single moment, and export as an MP4 download or a seven day share link

Activity

  • Browse the detection events the recorder raised, and jump to the recording
What it needs. A WINK Archiver recorder and an account on it. The app does not create accounts and there is no sign-up: your administrator issues the server address and the login. See the product page for what the recorder itself does.
Apple App Store Get WINK Archiver on Google Play

Available on Google Play now. The iOS build is with Apple for review.

WINK Public Eye

Live public cameras. The citizen facing side of WINK Public Eye.

Public Eye is the one app here that is not for operators. An agency that already shares cameras with the public through Public Eye can point residents at this app instead of a web page: the roads before you leave, a look in on a city, several cameras open at once. It streams the same feeds the public web portal does, so nothing is exposed through the app that was not already public.

Cameras

  • Hundreds of live cameras, grouped by road and area
  • Search by name, road or location
  • Live snapshots on every camera card, refreshed as you browse

Map

  • Every camera on a map, tap a pin to watch it live

Live video

  • Full screen live view with picture in picture
  • Previous and next camera, and jump to its place on the map
  • AirPlay on iPhone and iPad

Camera wall

  • Several cameras at once, in layouts for phones and tablets
What it needs. An account provided by WINK Streaming. If you are an agency that wants its own cameras in a public app, start at the Public Eye page.
Download WINK Public Eye on the App Store Get WINK Public Eye on Google Play

What All of Them Do the Same Way

The three apps are separate programs with separate jobs, but a few things are deliberately identical across all of them, because they are the things a security team asks about before it will approve an app on a work phone.

They talk only to your servers

An app communicates with the server addresses it is configured with and with nothing else. Video, images, camera details and detection events pass between your device and your system. None of that reaches us.

No advertising and no tracking

There is no advertising, no analytics and no profiling in any of them. None of them asks for your location or uses an advertising identifier. All three are free and none has an in-app purchase.

Credentials stay on the device

Your password is held in the iOS Keychain or in encrypted storage on Android, and it is removed when you sign out or uninstall. Each app offers an optional app lock using Face ID, Touch ID or your device's fingerprint unlock, which the operating system handles end to end. The app never receives your biometric data.

Crash reports, and nothing else

If an app crashes it sends us an anonymous report so we can fix the fault. It carries the technical detail of the failure and never your video, images, camera names, server addresses or credentials. Our privacy policy sets out exactly what is in one.

Getting an Account

None of these apps has a sign-up screen, which surprises people often enough to be worth stating plainly. WINK View and the Archiver app need a server and an account on it, and both of those are created by whoever administers that system inside your organisation. If you have lost access, that administrator is the only person who can restore it. We cannot, because the account is not ours.

If you are evaluating rather than already a customer, the contact page is the place to start, and we will set up a demonstration system for you to point an app at. Every WINK app on Google Play is listed on our developer page.

See One Running on Your Own Cameras

We will connect a demonstration system to a few of your streams so you can judge the apps on your own video rather than ours.

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