Limited beta · Q3 2026

A license-plate watch network
you control.

Point any IP camera at your driveway, gate, or lot. PlateHunt reads every plate that passes and SMSes you in seconds when a plate on your watchlist appears anywhere on the network. No subscription to your data. No selling to police. Just answers when you ask.

Try the reader in your browser → Reserve $9 lifetime

How it works

1 · Plug in a camera

Any RTSP camera works — a $40 Reolink, an old Hikvision, your existing Ring NVR. Run our Docker stack on a $200 mini-PC. Five minutes.

2 · Add a plate

Watchlist your teen's car, your fleet, your repo order, your missing pet's owner's truck. Pick how you want to be alerted: SMS, email, webhook.

3 · Get pinged in seconds

The plate gets read locally (your video never leaves your network), the hit gets relayed to PlateHunt cloud, and your phone buzzes if it matches.

Real things people would actually use this for

Parents of teen drivers

"My kid said he was at the library. The library has no camera. My driveway cam has one. So does my mom's." — every parent of a 16-year-old

HOAs & small property owners

Daily log of every plate that entered the lot. Flag the white pickup that showed up at 2:47am three nights running.

Licensed PIs & repo agents

Skip-list scales across every node. The car you're looking for could turn up at a customer's apartment complex five states away.

Small fleet operators

Where did the work truck go after-hours? When did the driver get home? Without GPS dongles in every cab.

Lost-pet posters

Post your missing dog's photo. Network nodes within 5 miles get a one-time alert. Community good, no subscription required.

Stolen-car recovery

Report once. If any node spots the plate within 30 days, the host gets a $500 reward. We file the police report packet for $99.

Pricing

Free

$0
  • 1 camera
  • 3 watchlist plates
  • Email alerts only
  • Edge mode (self-host)

Parent / HOA

$19/mo
  • 3 cameras
  • 10 watchlist plates
  • SMS + email alerts
  • 30-day sighting history

PI

$199/mo
  • Unlimited cameras
  • 50 watchlist plates
  • Chain-of-custody log export
  • Cross-network alerting
  • License-number verification required

Repo / Fleet

$499/mo
  • Unlimited everything
  • Webhook + API
  • Geofence + speed alerts
  • Multi-seat team access

Get early access

First 100 paying customers get $9/mo lifetime on Parent tier. Tell us which kind of plate you'd watch first — we'll prioritize that vertical.