Observed arrival · 2026-10-16
NosyPup keeps an eye on a room through your Mac
A $29 macOS app that uses a Mac’s camera for person detection and sends a photo and short video to the owner’s Telegram bot.
○Open
⊠Login
$Paid
†Ads
✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
ƒJS
- For
- Mac users monitoring a room via Telegram
- Worth noticing
- The Mac must stay open and awake; the page explicitly says the app is not a certified alarm.
Field notes
Setup asks users to position an open, awake Mac, optionally mark a detection area, and create a private Telegram bot with guided BotFather steps. The page says detection runs locally, the bot key stays in macOS Keychain, and the app uses neither audio nor face recognition. It also notes that alerts depend on internet access and Telegram, and that the app is not a certified alarm.
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