Guvcview is compatible with all V4L2 camera devices, using the Linux UVC driver and based on luvcview for video rendering.

These are: mirror, invert, negative, mono, pieces and particles, which can be combined by selecting more than one.

[13][14] In reviewing Guvcview in February 2011, Jack Wallen wrote in Ghacks, "Recently I have had to do some video tutorials.

"[8] Jim Lynch, writing on Linux Desktop Reviews in May 2011, was less enthusiastic about the application's inclusion in Lubuntu, "I actually like Cheese so I can’t say I’m real thrilled about it being replaced by guvcview, but it’s sort of six of one or half dozen of the other when it comes to these two programs.

"[12] Hectic Geek reviewed the application in September 2012 and concluded "...I didn’t have any issues with it and successfully recorded videos (you can manually disable audio input) and took pictures, added few funny effects … all is good with guvcview...."[7] The application is rated as 4.5/5 on SourceForge.