Leave your device.
Just step away.
Stealward turns the Mac, iPad, or iPhone you leave behind into an anti-theft watchful guard. The moment something's wrong, you get an alert on the device you carry, and a live, end-to-end encrypted view is one tap away.
Made for public spaces like cafés, libraries, and airport lounges. Works with Mac, iPad, and iPhone on macOS, iPadOS, and iOS 26 or later. No extra hardware.
You shouldn't have to choose between losing your seat andlosing your device.
Stealward is a third option. Arm the device you're leaving, and it keeps watch over itself, your bag, and everything around it — so you can step away with a little more peace of mind.
You slip up to refill your water — your MacBook stays on the table, guarding itself and your backpack beside it.
You step outside to take a call — your iPad stays at your seat, watching your book, your bag, and even the drink beside it.
Too much luggage to wheel to the restroom, so you leave it by your chair — your iPad watching every bag.
How it works
Three steps, start to finish.
Frame it, arm it, walk away
Position the device to see what you're leaving, then arm. Its camera, sensors, and AI watchdog watch over the device and the belongings beside it at once.
You get updated and alerted
A Live Activity keeps the session's pulse on your Lock Screen, and the moment something's off you're alerted on the device you carry.
Review and rewind
Scrub back through everything that happened, whether the session is still live or already ended. Replay any moment or save it for later.
What it does
A quiet guard, watching every way at once.
Watch live,wherever you are.
Open the live view on any device, or pin it as picture-in-picture and keep working while it floats in the corner.
Real-time and end-to-end encrypted: you see what's happening in well under a second, and our servers only ever see ciphertext. Fast and private, not one or the other.
An AI that says what it sees.
While a session is live, an AI watches the camera frames for trouble around your belongings and alerts in plain words. "A hand reached toward your bag." "Your Starbucks coffee is missing."
It senses tampering, too.
Motion, power, and network sensors catch a bump, a lift, a pulled cable, a dropped connection. If the device goes dark entirely, you know within seconds.
Locked to everyone else.Loud if provoked.
While armed, no one else can use the device.*The screen stays on a quiet cover, not your apps or files.
Tamper with it anyway and Stealward can blast loud music to turn heads, while alerting you on the device you carry.
*On Mac, we do our best to keep anyone else from using the device and stay on guard, even when someone closes the lid. On iPhone and iPad, follow the in-app steps to turn on Guided Access for the strongest protection.
When something's wrong
You'll knowright away.
The moment something's off, you're notified on the device you carry, both as a notification and a live activity that keeps the session's pulse on your Lock Screen.
Tap any alert and the private, end-to-end encrypted live view is milliseconds away.*
Illustrative.*On a good connection.
Every session, on the record
A log of exactly what happened.
On the roadmap
More on the way.
Forgot to arm it?Do it from your phone.
Walked off and left your Mac wide open? Reach back from another device to arm it, or start a session, without turning around.
Justclose the lid.
Time to leave the café but your AI agents are still running? When Claude Code or Codex is at work, Stealward notices on its own, and the moment you close the lid it starts a session that keeps your Mac awake. When the work finishes, it ends the session and lets the Mac sleep again. Just close the lid and check the status from your phone.
Coming-soon features are in active development and subject to change.
Privacy
Private by design,from setup on.
Stealward is privacy-first at every layer, starting before you even arm.
You have an account, but it isn't tied to your email, phone number, or name. There's little to collect, and less to breach.
Recorded video, audio, and thumbnails are end-to-end encrypted.*Only your own devices can open them. Not Stealward, and not the clouds we run on.
*To spot threats, the AI watchdog sends still frames to our model provider while a session is live. That provider runs with zero data retention and never trains on images from Stealward. You can also choose to opt in to share frames with us, to help improve detection. Read the fullPrivacy Policy.
Step away with a little
more peace of mind.
No extra hardware. Arm the device you leave, keep the one you carry.