Webcam Mirror - Use Your Camera as a Mirror Online

How to use this tool

1. Click "Start Mirror" and allow camera access.
2. Use the Mirrored switch for a familiar mirror self-view; turn it off for a view closer to how others see you on a call.
3. Adjust zoom, grid, brightness, and contrast, choose another camera from the selector, or use Full Screen.
4. Click Snapshot to download the current frame as a local PNG. It keeps horizontal mirroring but excludes brightness, contrast, zoom, and grid effects.
5. Click "Stop" to turn off the camera.

Uses for an online webcam mirror

• Check your hair, makeup, or outfit before a video call.
• Use as a secondary monitor-level mirror while working at your desk.
• Full-screen mode turns your monitor into a large mirror.

Your camera feed stays local

The live camera preview is rendered in this browser tab with the getUserMedia API. The live stream is not recorded or uploaded. If you click Snapshot, the tool captures the current frame and downloads a PNG on this device; Toolcroft does not receive that image.

Snapshot keeps the horizontal mirror orientation shown in the preview. The downloaded pixels do not include the CSS brightness or contrast adjustments, zoom, or grid overlay; those change only the live preview.

Mirroring vs. flipping

A horizontal mirror (left–right) creates the reflection you see when looking at a physical mirror. This tool currently offers horizontal mirroring only; vertical flip and rotation controls are not available.

In video conferencing, Zoom mirrors your self-view by default (so you see yourself as in a mirror) but transmits the unmirrored feed to other participants. This is why writing or text visible in your background may appear reversed to you but correct to others.

Zoom, Teams, and Meet self-view note

Each video conferencing platform handles self-view mirroring differently:

• Zoom: mirrors self-view by default; can be toggled off in settings.
• Google Meet: also mirrors self-view; others see the unmirrored feed.
• Microsoft Teams: mirrors self-view; this is the standard behaviour.

This means your own face always looks slightly unfamiliar to you in calls - you are accustomed to seeing the mirrored version (from your bathroom mirror), not how others actually see you.

Fullscreen as a large mirror

Press F11 (Windows/Linux) or enter fullscreen via your browser menu to expand the mirror to fill your entire screen. This works particularly well on desktops and with a phone’s front-facing camera. Some browsers require a user gesture to enter fullscreen; clicking the fullscreen button in the tool handles this automatically.