Home Field is a growing family of apps for Ring. Each one takes something your cameras already record and turns it into something you can actually use. Two are live today, the third is on your TV, and three more are on the way.
Every Ring clip, saved to your own cloud storage.
$1.99/mo per camera
7-day free trial
See how Vault works →
A text the moment a coyote, bear, bobcat or deer walks into your yard.
$1.99/mo per camera
7-day free trial
See how Coyote Cam works →
Every Ring camera, live on the biggest screen in the house.
$1.99/mo per camera
7-day free trial
See how Big Screen works →
Never miss a ding. Your family and neighbors get the call until someone answers.
$1.99/mo per camera
See how Relay works →
Know the moment the freezer warms up or the basement floods.
$6.99/mo, unlimited sensors
See how Sensors works →
A text the moment a Ring camera stops watching, and again when it is back.
Free for every camera
See how Uptime works →
Ring keeps your clips for 60 to 180 days, then deletes them forever. Vault watches for every motion and doorbell event and streams the clip straight into storage you own: Google Drive, OneDrive, or your own S3-compatible bucket. Clips are organized by camera and date (on Google Drive, under My Drive / Home Field / {camera}). Your video never touches a Home Field server.
Backups use no AI. Vault copies your clips exactly as Ring recorded them, into storage you own.
Claim Kit, a Vault add-on. After an incident, you pick a time window and Vault builds one report from your cameras. For each Ring event in it, Google Gemini looks at up to three stills and writes one neutral sentence about what is visible: how many people, vehicles, or animals, clothing colors, and plain actions such as "walks to the door."
What it never does. It never guesses who someone is, or their age, sex, or race. It never describes faces, reads license plates or house numbers, or calls anyone a suspect. A filter checks every sentence: an accusing word withholds it, and anything shaped like a plate is blacked out. If the stills are too dark or blurred, the report says "Unclear."
What stays untouched. The original video files go into the report as Ring recorded them, with a fingerprint (SHA-256 hash) for each.
Coyote Cam reads every motion event your Ring cameras record and names the animal in it: coyote, bear, bobcat, mountain lion, deer, wild hog, raccoon, fox and more than a dozen others. When it spots one you care about, your phone buzzes within a minute — with the animal, the camera, the time, how many, and a link to watch the clip. Built to tell a coyote from the neighbor's shepherd and a bobcat from a house cat, in daylight or night‑IR.
What it does. When a camera you turned on records motion, Google Gemini looks at snapshots from the event and names the animal in them. Coyote Cam checks multiple frames and alerts you only when they agree, and only for an animal you chose.
What it sees. Snapshots from that one motion event. Events Ring already labels as a person or a vehicle never reach the AI. If a person is in the frame, Coyote Cam skips the alert. It never identifies who anyone is and does no facial recognition.
What it keeps. If the snapshot does not show an animal you chose, it is discarded. Your snapshots are used for this check only and never to train any AI model.
Big Screen puts every Ring camera you own on the TV at once. They come up live in one grid, each tile labeled with the camera's name and whether it's online. Open any one full screen with audio. Live video streams from Ring straight to the TV. Our server only sets up the connection, so live video never passes through a Home Field server.
Install it from the App Store on Apple TV, tvOS 17 or later, or from the Amazon Appstore on a Fire TV. Samsung and LG are in the works, and we'll say which, and when, rather than promise a lineup.
The TV shows a pairing code and you claim it from your phone. The TV never holds a password, and you can revoke any TV from your dashboard.
Living Room, Kitchen, the one in the shop. Each pairs on its own and shows up by name, so revoking the right one is obvious.
Big Screen shows what your cameras see right now. Saved clips are Vault's job, and the Vault shelf sits right under the grid.
Relay texts and calls your family and neighbors, in order, until someone taps Got it. They never need the Ring app. Set rules for each camera: a doorbell press, a person at the back door after dark, a package, or a camera that goes offline.
Create an AI alert. Describe the alert you want in plain English, for example "call my neighbor if someone rings the doorbell after 10 PM." AI drafts the rule. You review it, test it, and turn it on. Nothing runs until you approve it.
Connect helper. AI writes the setup steps for sending your alerts to another app you use.
What the AI sees. Only the words you type. It never sees your camera names, video, snapshots, or any Ring data.
Relay texts and calls the first person on your list, then the next, until someone taps Got it.
Family and neighbors on your list get a text and a call. They never install anything.
A doorbell press, a person at the back door after dark, a package on the porch.
When a camera drops off, Relay tells someone instead of leaving a quiet gap.
Know the moment the freezer warms up or the basement floods. Sensors watches your Ring contact, flood and freeze, and temperature sensors, then texts and calls your list until someone answers, and sends an all clear when things are back to normal.
Create an AI alert. Describe the alert you want in plain English, for example "text me if the freezer gets warmer than 10°F." AI drafts the rule. You review it, test it, and turn it on. Nothing runs until you approve it.
Sensor advice. Tell it what you want to watch, and AI suggests which kind of Ring sensor fits the job.
What the AI sees. Only the words you type. It never sees your sensor or camera names, readings, video, or any Ring data.
A door or window that opens when it should not.
Water on the basement floor or pipes about to freeze.
A freezer warming up before the food spoils.
Your list hears when things are back to normal, not just when they went wrong.
Uptime texts you when a Ring camera goes offline and stays offline, so a tripped breaker or a Wi‑Fi problem never leaves a door unwatched for days. It waits 10 minutes before it alerts you, or any time you pick from 5 minutes to an hour. When the camera is back, Uptime tells you how long it was down.
A text when a camera stays offline, and another when it is back.
A camera that keeps dropping off sends one alert, not one every few minutes.
7-day and 30-day uptime, and every recent outage with how long it lasted.
Each camera's uptime for the week, by email every Monday.
Home Field builds software that takes something you already have — a camera, a screen, a picture — and makes it useful. Each app stands on its own.
Vault, Coyote Cam and Big Screen. Save every clip to your own cloud storage, know the moment a coyote, bear or deer shows up, and watch every camera live on your TV.
See the Ring apps → WindowsMake anything on your screen useful. Capture any window or part of one, then understand it, extract it, research it, and act on it.
See Screenshot Sense →See more in every picture. Educate it, decorate it, style it, shop it. In development for iPhone.
Coming soonA preview of Doorbell takeover, the module that follows Big Screen onto the TV. Press play.
Vault, Coyote Cam and Big Screen are the first three, with Relay, Sensors and Uptime right behind them. Each new app takes one more thing your Ring cameras already do and makes it worth something, and the next ones build on the TV that Big Screen already lit up.
Apple TV was version one and Fire TV followed it into the Amazon Appstore. A Samsung build already runs and LG is close behind it. We name a platform when it works on real hardware, not before.
When someone rings, the front camera takes over the TV so you can see who it is without reaching for your phone. It hands the screen back when they leave.
A nightly reel of everything your cameras saw: motion, people, vehicles, and who came to the door. Watch it on the TV or get it in your inbox.
Coyote Cam proved the pattern: point good detection at footage you already pay for, and a camera starts answering questions. More apps in that shape are in the works — tell us what your yard keeps arguing about.
Clips stream straight into your Google Drive, OneDrive, or S3-compatible bucket. Zero video ever sits on Home Field servers.
Ring watermarks all media served to apps. You'll see it in every screenshot here, because it's real.
Connects through Ring's official developer platform with your existing subscription.
The cameras you own, the TV you own, the storage you own. Home Field just connects them.
Stop scrubbing through forty notifications. Recap assembles the day into one clean timeline: what moved, who came by, what got delivered, and anything that broke the usual pattern.
One glance at the rental's TV before bed: every camera live, every one of them quiet, all eight online. The whole property answers in half a second. That's the entire point.
Two boxes walked off the porch last year. Now every delivery clip lands in my Drive before the truck leaves the street, named and dated, ready to send.
Morning motion on her porch means coffee's on and all is well. No indoor cameras, no creepy check-in calls. Just her yard, quietly in the corner of ours.
Ring deleted the one clip we actually needed, sixty-one days after the fact. Never again. Every clip since March is in our Drive, organized by camera.
Secure sign-in through Ring's official developer platform. Home Field never sees your Ring password.
Choose which devices to back up and where clips should land: Google Drive, OneDrive, or an S3-compatible bucket. Toggle any camera, any time.
Clips flow into your storage from the moment you connect. Add a TV whenever you want one: Big Screen puts a pairing code on the screen and you claim it from your phone.
Yes. Ring requires an active Ring plan to use any app from the Ring Appstore, including Home Field. If your cameras record today, you're set.
Vault, Big Screen, and Coyote Cam are free for the first 7 days. The trial starts when you add the app in the Ring Appstore and rolls into a paid subscription after that unless you cancel. Cancel from the Ring app: menu (≡) → My Apps → Home Field.
Into a Home Field folder in your own storage, organized by camera and date. You choose Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or an S3-compatible bucket (Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, or Amazon S3). On Google Drive we use the narrowest Google permission that exists, so Home Field can only touch files it created. On OneDrive, clips go to Home Field's own app folder, Apps / Home Field. With S3-compatible storage, you give Home Field an access key limited to one bucket. Either way, we never touch anything else you store.
No. Clips stream from Ring directly into your storage. Nothing is stored on our servers, and we couldn't watch your footage if we wanted to. That's not a policy, it's the architecture.
Ring adds a watermark to all media it serves to third-party apps. Every app on the Ring Appstore has it. We'd rather show it to you honestly than hide it in marketing shots.
Apple TV, on tvOS 17 or later, and Amazon Fire TV. A Samsung build already runs and LG is close behind it, but neither is in a store yet. Join the launch list and we'll tell you the moment yours is supported.
No. Big Screen shows a pairing code on the screen and you claim it from your phone or laptop. No password is ever typed on a remote, and the TV never holds one. Revoke any television from your dashboard and it stops working immediately.
Live viewing draws battery on any camera, in any app, including Ring's own. Big Screen keeps live sessions open only while the app is on screen, and closes every session when you close it or switch apps, so your cameras can go back to sleep. Choose which cameras appear from your dashboard to keep battery cameras off the grid.
Where it helps, and only there. Coyote Cam uses Google Gemini to name the animal in a motion snapshot. Vault backups and Big Screen use no AI. Your data is never used to train any AI model, and we do no facial recognition. Read How Home Field uses AI.
Everything already saved in your storage stays yours forever. Disconnecting Home Field also deletes all of your data from our systems immediately, as required by Ring's developer program.
One email when an app goes live, and nothing else. Tell us which TV you watch on and you help decide which one we build next.
Start with Vault today. Your first week is free, and every clip it saves is yours for good.
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Short videos of what the apps catch: a coyote at the back fence, the clip saved before it disappeared, a tip for your cameras. Pick a network to see our latest post there.
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