VisionCamera is a powerful, high-performance Camera library for React Native. It features:

• 📸 Photo and Video capture
• 👁️ QR/Barcode scanner
• 📱 Customizable devices and multi-cameras ("fish-eye" zoom)
• 🎞️ Customizable resolutions and aspect-ratios (4k/8k images)
• ⏱️ Customizable FPS (30..240 FPS)
• 🧩 Frame Processors (JS worklets to run facial recognition, AI object detection, realtime video chats, ...)
• 🎨 Drawing shapes, text, filters or shaders onto the Camera
• 🔍 Smooth zooming (Reanimated)
• ⏯️ Fast pause and resume
• 🌓 HDR & Night modes
• ⚡ Custom C++/GPU accelerated resizer (Metal/Vulkan)

Install VisionCamera from npm:

npm i react-native-vision-camera
cd ios && pod install

..and get started by setting up permissions!

• Documentation Website
• Documentation LLMs.txt
• Community Discord
• Example App

As VisionCamera V5 is released, VisionCamera V4 is no longer actively maintained. The VisionCamera V4 code has been archived under margelo/react-native-vision-camera-v4-snapshot, and the old documentation page is deployed at https://visioncamera4.margelo.com.

To see VisionCamera in action, check out ShadowLens!

function App() {
  return (
    <Camera
      style={StyleSheet.absoluteFill}
      device="back"
      isActive={true}
    />
  )
}

See the example app

VisionCamera is built by Margelo. We make apps better and faster.

• 🐦 Follow me on Twitter for updates
• 📝 Check out my blog for examples and experiments
• 💬 Join the Margelo Community Discord for chatting about VisionCamera