Great Secure Baby Monitor
We have an autistic child who is now 8 y/o. We started using this app when she was brought home from the hospital and we’ve been using ever since because she needs a little more monitoring than the average child. We have been using a Foscam POE PTZ camera the entire time with no issues. What’s great about using the POE is the camera is secure and not sending wireless data/images of my daughter’s bedroom. The standard wireless (not Wi-Fi, wireless) baby cameras all share the same frequencies so one of the monitors can access other cameras if it’s close enough. Lots of videos online of people accidentally picking up their neighbors’ baby feeds. If you want and have the technical abilities, you can also access this from outside your home if you know how to access your network. I highly recommend it.
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Great App
As long as you have a little bit of an understanding of how to connect to and setup an ip camera it is absolutely awesome. I’ve been using it as my primary baby monitor for 6 years now. I use an Amcrest ptz camera as the monitor, in case you want a recommendation. Even taught myself to setup a vpn to my home network so I can see the kids while I’m out of town. I didn’t like the idea of opening a port to a webcam in my kids room so I went big on the encryption and security. Probably overkill but it works great. One thing I wish I could see added is the ability to watch the video while doing something else on your phone. The audio monitor does run in the background so that’s good. I withheld 1 star just for that one feature. Probably harsh but it should be an easy fix.
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Simply the best
We have tried countless, standalone devices and different apps. This is by far the most flexible and adjustable. I even just bought a very expensive, smart monitor and ended up returning it because I didn’t feel it offered the flexibility this app brings.
Lifesaver
I’ve been using this app for several years across multiple children. Both my wife and I have purchased every addon as this was so much cheaper than a dedicated baby monitor. I can even watch the cameras while doing yard work or going on a close walk, as I can vpn home!
It’s amazing. I love this app! So easy to integrate an Amcrest camera, while not bricking my home monitoring solution.
5-stars!
Although two suggestions I’d love to make.
- Support the latest Picture in Picture from iOS (will pay for this upgrade!)
- also, going from this app to music has bugs. It’ll stop the music from playing and if you switch to the music app it appears the background monitoring stops. So monitoring while trying to squeeze in an exercise has some issues at the moment. I have to flip back to this app and the resume music via the pull-down menu.
It’s amazing. I love this app! So easy to integrate an Amcrest camera, while not bricking my home monitoring solution.
5-stars!
Although two suggestions I’d love to make.
- Support the latest Picture in Picture from iOS (will pay for this upgrade!)
- also, going from this app to music has bugs. It’ll stop the music from playing and if you switch to the music app it appears the background monitoring stops. So monitoring while trying to squeeze in an exercise has some issues at the moment. I have to flip back to this app and the resume music via the pull-down menu.
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Fantastic app
This app works so well and is so much better than the default amcrest app. I especially love that I can monitor in the background. Gave 4 stars only because my camera, amcrest ASH21-B-V3, isn't officially supported. I get video and audio by selecting any other amcrest camera but cannot use the camera controls and so I have to go to the default app to do so. But monitoring with this app is seamless. The only feature from the default app I like is the privacy me where the camera turns off and points to itself so nothing can be viewed of it were hacked. Then it remembers the position to return to when privacy mode is of turned off. Would be a cool feature.
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Excellent monitoring app
Works well with my foscam Wi-Fi cameras. Only issue I have is the sound that the cameras hear squelch when in the app at my home. Have to turn down the volume on my phone to view cameras
love it when it works
This app has been great to access the camera from either my phone or my husbands, or to leave an iPad with the app for a sitter. However in the last month or so the app randomly doesn’t work for hours at a time and I have to use the camera software instead which is frustrating when I paid for this app and it s regularly failing.
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Best baby monitor app
I have been using for 5 years after my $200 Samsung monitor quit working. Once it is set up it has worked amazing. I ended up hardwiring my cameras and that helped a lot with delay. I have 3 cameras on it and it works flawlessly. The one time fee is well worth it
Absolutely Awesome
We have been using this app for over 10 years and love it. Three kids have cameras in their rooms and also our playroom. We can see them all at the same time or just one. You can see, talk, and listen through the app and even pan, tilt, and zoom if your cameras allow it. The best part to me is that the images don’t go to Google, or Apple, or anyone else. There is no third party required. Just us. We use Foscam R2 cameras with pan, tilt, zoom, and night vision. Any available internet connection and I can check on my kids in https security, even around the world.
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Thank you for the updates!
I thought that this app was dead after 2 years with no updates. We have depended on this app daily for the past 5 years. My only other request would be to add a generic RTSP stream URL option so you can use almost any modern camera on the market.
Much needed
The app that came with my Amcrest camera was absolutely useless and their customer support offered nothing, but this app restored every bit of functionality to the cameras that I had hoped would be present when I bought them. A+ and much needed, thank you.
Buy the package- So Worth It
I have 3 Foscam cameras, and they have been worth every penny! This is the best app out there for baby monitoring! I have tried 3 other apps, and this is the BEST one. The only thing is that you HAVE TO PURCHASE the package and get all the features to make this app worth it. We have been using this app for 5 years and it’s been great! Every now and then I have connectivity issues, but I just get out of the screen and restart the app and then everything works again.
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Love it but needs a resolution update for 12 pro max
This app works great and I’ve had it for years with all the add ons. I just got a 12 pro max and when I view a single camera in portrait mode, the camera only takes up about 3/4 of the screen. Landscape mode it expands out correctly, so not a big issue but would be nice if it can be fixed.
Best Available Monitor
This is hands down the best available baby monitor. It’s the only app I’ve seen that allows you to listen to more then one audio stream at the same time. A key feature of you have more then one child! It also plays the audio even when the phone/iPad has the screen locked AND in the background. Please continue to update it!
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Incredible
I pay for few apps but paid for this one and am glad that I did. I love the numbered program movement, relay option, audio timeline, ability to work with a variety of cameras(Foscam), and its price. I have had zero trouble with it and a wired camera. Love it!
Best Baby Monitor App
This app rocks. The ability to set a “squelch” level is key. This lets my wife and I have the monitor on without having to hear the baby’s sound machine or quiet noises he might make, but if he cries, the volume is loud enough and then the audio comes through. We also love the ability to see the sound history so we can tell how well our baby slept, or if he woke up in the middle of the night and made some quiet noises without crying.
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Great app with minor issues on iPad
Really great baby monitor app, probably the best out there. However running on iPad iOS 13 I’ve seen a couple of issues. First, the app doesn’t support landscape mode very well. My iPad is mounted horizontally, the bottom half of the screen (where the controls are) is not visible when in landscape mode, I can’t change PTZ, can’t talk, etc, unless I turn the device into portrait mode. Second, when put into background on iPad iOS 13 then resume, it shows a blank screen but the sound from the camera is still going, at this point the app must be killed and relaunched. This doesn’t happen on my iPhones. Hope these two issues can be resolved. Thank you!
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7 years and running
I've been using this since our first newborn. He'll be 7 in a couple of months. We use it every night and to spy on the kids in the playroomfrom our phones and tablet.
When on vacation we move cameras around and use it to watch the house live (using separate confiig profiles for external URLs).
When on vacation we move cameras around and use it to watch the house live (using separate confiig profiles for external URLs).
Totally worth purchasing
This is hands down the perfect app to use regular IP cameras as full featured baby monitors. The developer does a good job of updating with new models and bug fixes from time to time. This app hands down makes any baby monitor completely obsolete and way overpriced. This is a must have app that we have been using every single night for over 7 years straight.
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Works great, and keeps getting better
This app has consistently worked very well, and since it's helping me keep an eye on my babies, I need to be able to trust it. I use two Hikvision wifi cameras via ONVIF and I have been happy with the performance of the system for over a year now. Setup can be a little tricky, but once you get it going it works great. I've tried other apps and definitely prefer this one. The audio history is great. The only thing I wish it had is a low battery alarm.
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