Introduction

Time to say goodbye to these annoying old video meetings. Changing your background can be fun, but sometimes you need more to make things come alive. Write Snap Camera, a free app from the company behind Snapchat.

Snap Camera lets you use fun lenses from Google Met to Zoom in video calls and livestreams, and everything in it is free.

Backgrounds and filters are not the only way to improve your meeting. For useful zoom strategies, from setting up a meeting reminder to remembering everyone’s name on the call.

Now, ready to change your face, background or just add a little fun? Here’s how you can set up a snap camera and snap it well.

How to set up your Snap Camera and start using Snap Camera

First things first, you need to download Snap Camera. Don’t worry, it’s free. Click or click here to download for PC or Mac.

Once you download it, open the Snap Camera app and you’ll see yourself in the camera viewer. From here you can browse the filters or search for some filters you want to use. More on that below.

Now it’s time to open your favourite video app and sync everything. Snap works with the most popular video chat and streaming platforms, including Camera Zoom, Google Hangouts, Google Meet, Skype, OBS (open broadcaster software) and Twitch.

Find the video settings option in the program of your choice and select “Snap Camera”.

Select your filter

Now go to the fun part: choose the type of lens you want to use. This is the hardest part of all the options – just like you can see in Snapchat. You can try everything from awkward hairstyles to cat masks and even dinosaur cameos.

You can use them whenever you jump into a video chat To use the filter, click on it and it will grab. To close it, just click it again. And to turn off the Snap camera at once, just close the app. It’s really that fast and easy to use.

To turn off the filter for good, go back to the video settings of your selected program and change the camera you are using to your standard webcam again.

But if you like fun lenses so much that you want the filters available every time you turn on your computer, open the Snap Camera app and go to the Settings menu in the upper-right corner. Toggle to turn on snap camera at system startup.

Want to get a better look you can expect? Watch the video below to see the snap camera work.

Using these new Snap camera lenses can help bring some life back to your meetings We do not recommend donating dog’s ears for a critical review with your boss, but they can be useful for your next office happy time, chat with kids or meet up with friends. And hey, maybe your boss will like dog ears.

Still not sure which video conferencing platform is best for you? You’re lucky – we did the research for you.