So sad
I’ve used Manything for years with an old iPad and old iPhone. Worked great; all questions answered quickly.
Now it no longer works because it requires an iOS not compatible with OLDER hardware. Seems pretty illogical. Unfortunately there does not appear to be any alternate options for older iPads.
Now it no longer works because it requires an iOS not compatible with OLDER hardware. Seems pretty illogical. Unfortunately there does not appear to be any alternate options for older iPads.
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Manything
Works fine. My iPad’s battery is old but works well enough for my purposes.
Pay to view
I got the app but didn’t realise I had to pay to watch the footage back can you confirm this is the case?
Once a Gem - Now a Failure
For a few years I found this app to be super reliable but now it just randomly goes offline (every single day). My wifi is strong and steady and my phones are reliable… I’m moving on to a different product.
I would give a 5 but….
App works great- with the exception of the power flickers off or internet. Then you have to physically turn it back on and push the record button. If you try to use this while you’re out of town and that happens you’ve wasted your money. (I did)
Great in a pinch
Needed a live camera set up immediately. Was easy to setup and use.
Save your phone memory space
I used it a lot. Had several cameras for free. Now they want you to pay for multiple yet I can’t connect to the 1 free camera anymore. Terrible
IOS 15
It is strange that an app that is designed for old Apple devices requires IOS 15 or higher. Very limiting!!
Buggy, huge delay, terrible quality
The app is quite a simple concept but for some reason it’s awfully applied. Crashes a lot. Then when it is working, the image quality is slightly better than an oil painting, and with the delay you have between the recording and what you see on the other device, it may actually be an oil painting.
Dog water
Straight trash.
Absolutely convenient!
Needed some surveillance over my dogs and this was exactly what I was looking for. Works very well and isn’t difficult to use.
Unreliable
Crashes a lot funnily enough coincidentally everytime I go on holiday . I pay for it as well going to just buy a decent camera , used it for years but it’s not 100 percent goes on and off line all the time . Frustratingly often when I need it most!
Update !!!
Despite trying other devices I’ve been unable to get a reliable stream so it’s goodbye I’ve purchased some tepo cameras no issues so far . Apple stuff just seems to be unreliable with this system .
Update !!!
Despite trying other devices I’ve been unable to get a reliable stream so it’s goodbye I’ve purchased some tepo cameras no issues so far . Apple stuff just seems to be unreliable with this system .
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Downhill
Inused to use it often for monitoring my dog while traveling in the car. Over time I use it less and less. Even w a good 5g connection i spend more time watching it connect than watching the feed. This has gotten worse over time but now it’s hardly usable
Bluetooth audio doesn’t work
This app would be perfect but when you watch the live video feed, any and all audio switches from your bluetooth audio (headphones, car speaker, whatever) to your phone speaker. So you can’t listen privately in shared spaces. This is a big drawback for me and I’m sure for many other users as well.
Got the Job Done
I set this up in my kitchen to monitor my daughters house party. To make sure things were ok and to make sure things were not getting out of hand. It worked very well. Could see the live feed.
Poor video quality and sound turns off
1. Even though the iPhone has excellent video quality, this app reduces the quality of video.
2. If you are using your iPhone to listen to audio, the audio turns off when you view the live camera feed—even if you are not playing audio through the feed and the feed is on mute.
2. If you are using your iPhone to listen to audio, the audio turns off when you view the live camera feed—even if you are not playing audio through the feed and the feed is on mute.
IT STARTED TALKING WITH MY VOICE!
First time using it, I went to buy food and left the camera pointing towards my bedroom where my dog was sleeping. The first thing I started hearing was a voice saying "Hi Dog, Hi Dog" then i stepped in my room & it went quiet. The scariest part was that the voice was MINE! Very scary & confusion. I do not recommend it since not sure if it was AI.
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Never works when you want
Only works when you don’t need it to. When you want to show someone your camera or try to see if someone is at your house it NEVER WORKS.
Junk App
Live video doesn’t load quick or reliably, motion saved clips rarely play, constant playback error message. App freezes repeatedly. Waste of money for the premium. Switched to AlfredCamera, resolution and functionality work far better than Manything. More money but far more features and continuous recording. Don’t waste your time with Manything.
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Don’t use it
When you open the app, it takes 5 to 30 seconds to connect to the other camera. Once finally connected, it will show you a list of video clips to view. Usually at least a few of them won’t play. I once contacted the developers about this. They said “sorry there aren’t any video clips in the cloud.” Yet I was looking at a few clips that I had not been able to play. And this - clips that record but can’t play because they “don’t exist in the cloud - happens ALL the time.
I theorize that sometimes the camera records and then the recording doesn’t get sent to the cloud and so for many recordings that supposedly are sent to the cloud I’m paying $7.99 a month for 30 days of this, of recording, endless video clips where half of them or more don’t play. Insane. Other apps cost far less. They can’t work any worse than this one.
What’s truly bizarre is that while I had it in my bedroom, to observe what a kenneled dog does while I was gone, it worked fine. Yet when I placed it in the living room to see who was coming and going, it showed a few clips of me coming and going while setting it up. After that during the times when I wasn’t there and someone else was coming and going, none of those clips would play. Today there are about 30 clips of others coming and going, and on hitting “play” it did the usual spinning a gear endlessly then finally told me there’s an error in playback.
So this offers no security whatsoever. It offers zero reliability. It is more expensive than five other apps that do the same thing. If I had to do over, I would try anything else before this. I’m so angry that I’ve wasted so much money with this.
I theorize that sometimes the camera records and then the recording doesn’t get sent to the cloud and so for many recordings that supposedly are sent to the cloud I’m paying $7.99 a month for 30 days of this, of recording, endless video clips where half of them or more don’t play. Insane. Other apps cost far less. They can’t work any worse than this one.
What’s truly bizarre is that while I had it in my bedroom, to observe what a kenneled dog does while I was gone, it worked fine. Yet when I placed it in the living room to see who was coming and going, it showed a few clips of me coming and going while setting it up. After that during the times when I wasn’t there and someone else was coming and going, none of those clips would play. Today there are about 30 clips of others coming and going, and on hitting “play” it did the usual spinning a gear endlessly then finally told me there’s an error in playback.
So this offers no security whatsoever. It offers zero reliability. It is more expensive than five other apps that do the same thing. If I had to do over, I would try anything else before this. I’m so angry that I’ve wasted so much money with this.
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