Last updated: August 5, 2026
STICam is a free Android app that turns your phone into a webcam for a Windows PC you own. This page explains what the app does — and does not do — with your data.
The short version: STICam has no developer-operated cloud backend. Camera video goes only to the Windows PC address you choose. Read the version note below if you installed the original v1.0.0 Android release.
- Android v1.0.0: the bundled upstream MediaPipe Tasks 0.10.35 runtime can send API performance and utilization metrics to Google. Google states that MediaPipe does not send the image/video input itself. The metrics are not received by the STICam developer. See Google's MediaPipe Tasks Privacy Notice.
- Android v1.0.1 and later: the release build selects MediaPipe's bundled no-op statistics logger and excludes Google Data Transport and Firebase. These builds send no MediaPipe metrics.
Android v1.0.1 is the current remediated release. Android v1.0.0 remains an affected version. This disclosure stays here so users can distinguish old and remediated builds.
- Streams camera video from your phone to a Windows PC over your local Wi-Fi network or a USB cable, using an IP address you type into the app.
- Runs on-device face tracking (MediaPipe) so the shot stays framed on you. Landmark processing happens entirely on your phone; only the resulting camera video is sent to the Windows PC you choose.
- Optionally applies on-device AR filters (face effects).
- No account, sign-in, or registration.
- No STICam analytics service, crash reporting, advertising SDK, or developer-operated cloud backend.
- No camera frames, video, or face landmarks are sent to Google by MediaPipe.
- No data is sent to the STICam developer.
Every feature works without internet access because streaming is local. On v1.0.0, blocking internet access also prevents MediaPipe's metrics transport; v1.0.1 removes that transport from the APK.
| Permission | Why STICam needs it |
|---|---|
| Camera | To capture and stream video to your PC. |
| Network / Wi-Fi state | To connect to your PC over your local network. |
| Foreground service (camera) | To keep streaming while you switch to another app, like Zoom or Discord. |
| Notifications | To show the ongoing-stream notification Android requires for foreground services. |
| Wake lock | To keep the phone's processor awake during an active stream. |
STICam v1.0.1 and later does not request microphone, storage, location, contacts, or advertising-ID permissions. The original v1.0.0 APK declared storage permissions that were not needed by its user-facing features; those declarations were removed in v1.0.1.
Video and control traffic sent between your phone and PC over Wi-Fi are not encrypted or authenticated. Use Wi-Fi mode only on a network you trust. USB mode uses an ADB reverse tunnel between your phone and your own PC and does not expose the listener to Wi-Fi.
This is a documented design limitation. The full security model is in SECURITY.md.
STICam does not knowingly collect personal information from children. The STICam developer does not collect personal information from users. The v1.0.0 MediaPipe metrics behavior is described separately above.
Future changes will be posted at this same URL with an updated "Last updated" date.
Questions about this policy: hello@idham.dev
Project home: https://github.com/idhamdotdev/STICam