Guard Viewer vs Heiman Home
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Guard Viewer
Access and manage your surveillance products remotely. View live or recorded video from network cameras and NVRs, receive alarms, and control cloud devices directly from your mobile phone.
- Remote surveillance access
- Live video streaming
- Recorded video playback
- Alarm notifications
- Cloud device management
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Guard Viewer is a mobile surveillance client app. With this app you can access surveillance products(Network Cameras,Network Speed Domes,NVRs) through network and view live or recorded video, receive alarms and manage cloud devices using your mobile phone.
Heiman Home
This app enhances home security by providing remote alarm notifications for elderly and children, and alerts for dangerous situations like gas leaks or fires. It also offers intelligent scene modes for automated device control, simplifying daily routines and improving safety.
- Remote alarm triggering for family assistance
- Real-time alerts for CO, smoke, and temperature sensors
- Intelligent scene mode for one-click device control
- Device linkage for automated actions
- Enhanced home security monitoring
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1. When the elderly and children needed help, they could trigger a remote alarm remotely by using a security remote control, notifying other family members to help them. 2. It can remotely receive alarm messages from carbon monoxide detectors, smoke detectors, and temperature sensors in the home, immediately knowing whether there is a high temperature situation caused by carbon monoxide leakage, gas leakage, or open flames in the home, and being aware of dangerous situations in advance to improve the level of home security. 3. Intelligent scene mode and device linkage mode can be set, such as setting sleep mode. Before lying down in bed to sleep, all light bulbs, home TVs, curtains, etc. can be turned off with one click. Set the device linkage mode so that when you come back at night and open the door, the living room light bulb can immediately turn on, and the air conditioner and TV can also be turned on, saving users the trouble of turning on various devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Heiman Home at 100% against Guard Viewer's 24%. Heiman Home also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.8). Guard Viewer's advantage is ratings volume (261 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Heiman Home holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Guard Viewer has 261 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of Guard Viewer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Heiman Home's.
Guard Viewer ships an update every 4 weeks, Heiman Home every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Guard Viewer | Heiman Home |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (261 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 24.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 261 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | KeyLife International Technology Limited | Shenzhen Heiman Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Guard Viewer
Heiman Home
Bugs and requests
Guard Viewer
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login issues after recent update
- Inability to delete user accounts
- Time sync problems between app and NVR
- Inconsistent camera detection
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for Apple TV
- Improve notification system
- Introduce bulk management of cameras
- Provide more customization options
Heiman Home
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Guard Viewer
No in-app purchases
Heiman Home
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Guard Viewer free?
Is Heiman Home free?
Which has better reviews, Guard Viewer or Heiman Home?
Do Guard Viewer or Heiman Home have ads?
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