Remote capture
Shoot from the app or with the space bar. Every photo lands automatically in the folder you choose.
Free for everyone
Your camera, straight to your screen.
Tetherspot connects your camera over USB to your computer, tablet or phone. Shoot remotely, see every photo full size the moment you take it, develop it with your Lightroom and Luminar presets and upload it straight to Prentspot.
Free. Really.
No subscription, no trial, no watermark and no account needed. Tetherspot is free to use for everyone: photographers, studios, schools and events. You only sign in, with your Prentspot account, if you want to upload to Prentspot.
- No cost
- No account needed
- No watermark
- Unlimited shooting
Shooting
Everything for a smooth shoot
From the first test shot to the last frame, you see what your camera sees and what you’ve captured, straight away.
Live view
Look through the lens on your screen. Rotate the image by hand; Nikon Z cameras follow how you hold them.
Exposure control
Set shutter speed, aperture, ISO, exposure compensation and white balance from your screen, with the shooting mode and battery at a glance.
Save it your way
Keep JPEG, RAW or both, with your own file names ({title} for the shoot name, {name}, {seq}, {date}, {time}). Existing files are never overwritten.
Review instantly
Zoom, a filmstrip of the whole folder and keyboard browsing. RAW files (CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, DNG …) show via their embedded JPEG.
Extra screens for your client
Show the photo or live view fullscreen on one or more extra monitors, for a client or a studio screen.
Made for every screen
A side panel on desktops and landscape tablets, thumb-reach controls on a phone in portrait. Swipe to browse, pinch to zoom.
Light, dark, English and Dutch
Follows your system’s theme and language, or pick your own. Photos always sit on a neutral dark background.
Develop
Develop like in Lightroom
The develop panels follow Lightroom’s, with the same ranges. Everything is applied live on the GPU to the preview, the filmstrip and the extra screens, without touching your files. Hold the compare button to see the original.
- Light
- Color
- Presence
- Tone curve
- Color mixer
- Color grading
- Detail
- Effects
- LUT
Start from a standard preset (As Shot, Vivid, Warm, Cool, Black & White, Matte) or save your own next to them.
Presets
Bring your Lightroom and Luminar presets
Import the presets you already have and your looks are ready during the shoot. Export your own presets, with the LUTs they use, to a file for another device.
Adobe Lightroom
.xmp presets (Lightroom Classic 7.3 and later, Lightroom CC, XMP sidecars too) and .lrtemplate (older Lightroom).
Luminar
Luminar Neo packs (.lnpc) and Luminar AI / Luminar 4 packs (.ltc), including their LUTs.
LUTs
Any .cube LUT (3D or 1D) as a preset, with adjustable strength. Or load one in the LUT group.
Whole packs
Import ZIP files with any mix of these formats in one go.
Settings without an equivalent in Tetherspot (profiles, masks, calibration, lens corrections, and Luminar’s AI tools and creative effects) are left out, and the import tells you which.
Prentspot
Every photo straight into your Prentspot gallery
Sign in with your Prentspot account, pick or create a gallery, and every new photo is uploaded as it arrives. Your clients see their photos while the shoot is still going.
- Upload JPEG, RAW or both
- Keep locally, only upload, or both
- Your password is never stored; the sign-in lives in your system’s keychain
Cameras
Works with the major brands
Tetherspot speaks the camera makers’ USB protocols (PTP) itself, so you don’t need any software from the manufacturer.
Canon EOS
EOS DSLRs and the mirrorless EOS R and EOS M series.
Capture, settings and live view
Nikon
DSLRs and the mirrorless Z series.
Capture, settings and live view
Sony Alpha
Alpha cameras in the PC Remote USB mode.
Capture, settings and live view
Other PTP cameras
Cameras that speak standard PTP, such as some Fujifilm, OM System/Olympus, Panasonic and Pentax models: capture and download.
Capture and download
Support follows the camera makers’ documented protocols. Not every model has been tested yet, so details can differ per camera.
Connecting
- Set your camera’s USB mode to PTP, “PC Remote” (Sony) or “PC connection”.
- Android: connect the camera with a USB OTG cable or adapter.
- Windows: the camera needs the WinUSB driver, for example via Zadig.
Download
Download Tetherspot
Latest version 0.5.2 (build 65)
Windows
Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit
Windows SmartScreen warns? Choose “More info”, then “Run anyway”.
Linux
x86-64
Make the AppImage executable (chmod +x) and run it.
Android
Android 7 and later
When installing, allow your browser to install apps.
macOS and iOS Coming soon
Versions for Mac, iPhone and iPad are in the works.