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Meet Reolink cameras
Reolink is one of the most popular home surveillance brands — cameras with no mandatory subscription, local storage and crisp 4K footage. ReoMac was built to give them a viewer worthy of your Mac: native, instant and 100% local.
- 🌍 110+ countries
- 🏠 Millions of homes and businesses
- 🗂️ Local storage, zero subscription
- 🍎 Native viewing in ReoMac
Who is Reolink
A smart-camera maker built on a simple promise: security with no hidden fees.
Reolink (Reolink Innovation Inc.) has been around since 2009 and is today one of the most recognizable names in consumer surveillance. Its cameras and recorders are used in millions of homes and businesses across more than 110 countries, and the tagline "Be Prepared, Be Ahead" captures the brand's philosophy: give people a simple way to keep an eye on what matters to them.
What sets Reolink apart is its local-first approach: footage goes to a microSD card, an NVR recorder or a Home Hub — with no mandatory cloud and no monthly fees just to access your own video. That's exactly the value ReoMac is built around: your cameras are your business, and your footage doesn't have to travel through anyone else's servers.
Reolink camera families
From wire-free battery cameras to wired PoE systems with a recorder — Reolink has a model for almost any scenario. ReoMac focuses on giving them all one shared, native viewer on your Mac.
Battery and wire-free cameras
The Argus and Go series — set up cable-free in minutes. Go models connect over 4G/LTE where there's no WiFi. P2P-based connectivity — perfect for ReoMac.
Solar powered
Most battery cameras pair with a Reolink solar panel that keeps them charged with no outlet — the camera runs for months hands-free.
PoE (wired) cameras
The RLC series — a single network cable carries both power and video. Steady streams from 4K to 12MP for round-the-clock recording to an NVR.
WiFi cameras
The E1 series and ColorX models — compact plug-in cameras that join your home WiFi. Many of them pan and tilt.
PTZ (pan and zoom) cameras
Altas, TrackMix and the RLC-823A — they pan 355°, tilt and zoom, and some track movement on their own. ReoMac drives PTZ with a virtual pad.
Dual-lens cameras
The Duo and Argus 4 series combine two lenses into one wide, panoramic frame up to 180° — fewer cameras, more coverage.
Video doorbells
Reolink video doorbells (WiFi and PoE) with a view at the door and two-way audio — plugged into the same ecosystem as the rest of the cameras.
Floodlight cameras
Floodlight models pair bright LED lights with a camera — deterring intruders while lighting the scene for full-color footage at night.
NVR and Home Hub
RLN recorders and the Home Hub gather footage from multiple cameras in one place, encrypted and cloud-free — the heart of a local Reolink system.
What Reolink cameras can do
The brand is known for a handful of features that genuinely change surveillance quality — from color at night to recording from before an event begins.
ColorX — color at night
A bright f/1.0 lens and a large sensor deliver full-color footage after dark with no spotlight and no infrared — and on battery cameras they save power, too.
Smart detection
AI analysis tells a person, a vehicle and an animal apart, cutting down on false alerts. Newer models even detect packages left at the door.
Pre-event recording
Cameras in the Altas series capture up to 10 seconds of footage before motion triggers them — no more "clipped" recording starts typical of battery cameras.
Auto-tracking
PTZ and dual-lens models (TrackMix, Altas PT Ultra, RLC-823A) pan and zoom on their own to keep the subject in frame.
Crisp 4K and beyond
Resolutions from 2K through 4K/8MP up to 12MP — enough detail to read a plate or recognize a face, even after zooming in.
Local storage, zero subscription
microSD up to 512 GB, a Home Hub with AES-256 encryption or an NVR recorder — your footage stays with you, with no monthly cloud fees.
Reolink Altas PT Ultra
Reolink's battery flagship — and the camera ReoMac was born around. It combines pan, full-color night and pre-event recording in a single, wire-free unit.
- Resolution
- 4K UHD · 8MP
- Pan and tilt
- 355° / 90° with auto-tracking
- Night vision
- ColorX — full color, no spotlight
- Battery
- 20,000 mAh · up to ~500 days*
- Pre-recording
- up to 10 s before an event
- Connectivity
- dual-band WiFi 6 · P2P
- Storage
- microSD up to 512 GB or Home Hub
Like every Reolink battery camera, the Altas PT Ultra exposes no standard RTSP/ONVIF streams — it connects solely over its own P2P protocol to save battery. That's exactly why you need a client that speaks its language. ReoMac does it natively. (* Battery life depends on recording settings — figures are approximate, per Reolink.)
Where ReoMac comes in
Reolink makes great cameras. ReoMac gives them the viewer your Mac deserves — native, lightweight and 100% local.
Reolink battery cameras — Argus, Go, and especially the Altas PT Ultra — use neither RTSP nor ONVIF. They speak only their own P2P protocol, addressed by UID, so they don't waste battery on a constant stream. For most surveillance apps, that simply means "camera not supported."
ReoMac speaks that language down to the bone. It connects to the camera directly — on your local network or over P2P — and turns its stream into smooth playback on your Mac, with no cloud, no account and no intermediary servers. Not a single frame of footage leaves your network.
Direct by UID
ReoMac connects to the camera by its identifier — working even with battery models without RTSP/ONVIF, like the Altas PT Ultra.
Native Swift, not Electron
Built for Apple Silicon, the app launches in a blink and uses a fraction of the CPU and RAM of a typical browser-based client.
Full PTZ control
Pan, tilt and zoom Altas or TrackMix cameras with a virtual pad — straight from the viewer's control bar.
100% local
Footage, recordings and credentials stay on your Mac and in your network. In line with Reolink's own "no subscription" philosophy.
ReoMac is an independent project and is not affiliated with or sponsored by Reolink Innovation Inc. Reolink, Argus, Altas, TrackMix and the other model names are trademarks of their respective owners. Technical specifications come from official Reolink materials and are subject to change.
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