Fastest
24 min
8 cameras
example trip
The real app
Screenshots from the current build.
Penguin is a navigation app that shows the surveillance on your drive and routes you past less of it. Built for iPhone.
Not on the App Store yet. No sign-up list, no email capture — check back here.
131,654cameras mapped
743map tiles
Aug 13, 2026last updated
From the Penguin tile index, August 2026.
Every trip, Penguin computes three ways to get there and counts the cameras on each.
24 min
8 cameras
example trip
27 min
2 cameras
example trip
32 min
0 cameras
example trip
You pick the trade every trip.
The top operators in the national data, by camera count.
From OpenStreetMap surveillance data, August 2026.
Screenshots from the current build.
Penguins survive by huddling. So does this map.
Community sync ships after the iPhone app. Here is what it will do.
Spot a camera the map missed? You'll drop a pin, and it'll join the dataset.
You'll confirm a mapped camera is still there as you drive past it. Stale pins will get flagged.
Every report and confirmation will make the map better for every penguin on it.
A privacy app that spies on you is a bad joke. Here is exactly how Penguin works.
There is nothing to sign up for. Open the app and drive.
Routes, history, saved places — none of it leaves the device.
The app fetches one coarse tile at a time. The server can't tell a street from a city.
Camera avoidance is computed on-device. No server sees where you're going.