Now turn your screen brightness all the way downDimness matters more than colour. Red keeps your eyes adjusted; a bright red screen still undoes it.
Install Sweep to your home screenRuns offline afterwards, which matters where the signal is bad.
A newer version is readyFinish your sweep first — reloading now discards this session's checkmarks.
Done properly, a hands-on search finds things a consumer detector cannot — it does not depend on a device transmitting. It still has a ceiling: something recording to a memory card, powered down, behind a pinhole at an awkward angle can survive a careful sweep. Finding nothing is reassurance, not proof.
Pick the tier that fits the time you actually have. Doing the short one properly beats starting the long one and abandoning it halfway.
Stand where you'd be undressed, turn once, and list what has a clear view of you. Then handle the three things most likely to be it: the smoke detector, the clock, and whatever is plugged in facing the bed.
Steps 01–05 and 10. Covers the survey, the hands-on inspection and both dark passes — the parts that find things — and skips the network, radio and audio steps.
All ten steps including reading as you go, and the radio step if you brought a detector. It's quicker the second time; most of the first run is reading.
The order is the point — doing the dark passes first wastes them, because you won't yet know where to look hardest.
Tell someone where you are, close the curtains, get the room bright.
Find what has a clear view of the bed and shower, then handle each of those things.
Lens reflections by flashlight, then infrared through your front camera. You'll need the room genuinely dark.
Wi-Fi scan, listening devices, what to do if you find something, and sending yourself the record.
The full sweep assumes a room you control and twenty minutes or more. Most places you'd worry about give you neither — you can't kill the lights in a fitting room or move the furniture in a restroom stall. So these aren't shortened sweeps. Each one leads with the way to not need a sweep at all, because avoiding the exposure beats searching for the camera every time.
Everything here stays on this device. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing sends itself. You hand the record off deliberately, at the end. What's stored, exactly.
Use your phone's own camera app, not this page. A photo taken in the Camera app lands in your camera roll carrying EXIF metadata — the model, the timestamp, often the location — and it survives the phone dying. A picture captured inside a web page carries none of that and is worth much less later. Take the photos, then log them here.
Off unless you turn it on. Read the notice before you do.
Written as you go, and saved to this device after every entry.
These apply from the first minute, not just at the end. You may find something on step 02.
Hold the phone so the light sits as close to your eye line as you can. A lens only throws its reflection straight back along the beam.
Front cameras on many phones can see the infrared LEDs a camera uses for night vision. Calibrate first: point a TV remote at the front camera and press a button. A purple or white flash means it works.
The most common mistake is not knowing what you're hunting. A lens returns a small, hard point that snaps on and off as you move. A reflection off chrome or glass smears and slides.
The sweep code, the timeline, evidence logging and the hand-off controls live under Record in the top bar.