Meridia Cameras vs PT Field
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meridia Cameras
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Models Supported: (nvr) Blackjack Blade™ Blackjack Cube LX™ Blackjack Cube™ Blackjack E-Rack™ Any server running DW Spectrum™ IPVMS Features: • Remote Monitoring for Multiple Sites • Unlimited Sites Support • Create Unique Layouts with Different Cameras from Different Sites for the Ultimate Surveillance Experience • View up to 16 Channels per Screen, with up to 128 Channels Open at One Time • View the Same Channel in Live and Playback Simultaneously • PTZ Camera Control • Capture Event Image Snapshots • E-mail and Text Notifications with Image Attachment • Server Location Services Powered by Google Maps™ – Locate All Your Systems Quickly and Easily by Their Geographical Location • Pinch-to-Zoom Digital Zoom Support • Welcome App Tour Tutorial and Complete Help Menu for “On-the-Go” Help • Password Protected for Complete Security over Your Surveillance and Data • Reorganize Screen Order for Supreme Convenience
PT Field
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PT Field is the technician app for Protection Technologies. It puts your assigned work, the parts staged for it, and your time on every job in one place — built for the van, the riser room, and the basements where signal disappears. Requires a Protection Technologies account. Access is issued by your office. YOUR DAY See every job assigned to you, on a timeline or as a list, for today, tomorrow, or any date. Each card shows the customer, site, scheduled window, and current job status, so you know where you're going before you open anything. GET THERE The job map plots your day's sites and hands off to turn-by-turn directions. Tap a pin or swipe through your stops. EVERYTHING ABOUT THE JOB Open a job for the scope of work, site access notes, the full address, and tap-to-call site contacts. Review the task checklist, staged materials, attachments, and the running note history from the office and the warehouse. TIME ON THE JOB Clock in when you start and out when you finish. Your timer keeps running if the app closes or the phone restarts, and your hours land on the job card the office bills from. The Timesheet tab shows today's total and the clock history behind every job. PARTS, START TO FINISH When the warehouse stages material for your job, you're notified. Check off each item as you load it, and flag a wrong count to the warehouse before you leave the counter. At the end of the day, report what you installed, what's coming back, what was damaged, and what's still on your truck — the app won't let the numbers disagree. CUSTOMER EQUIPMENT Search the site's asset register by type, name, or serial. Log a device you installed with the fields that device type actually requires, attach it to the job you're on, and review its service history. WORKS WHERE THE SIGNAL DOESN'T Clock-outs, parts pickups, and end-of-day reports are saved on your phone and delivered when you're back in range. Nothing silently disappears, and the app tells you plainly when something couldn't refresh instead of showing you an empty screen. BUILT AROUND YOUR PERMISSIONS What you see follows the security group your office assigns you. Technicians see their own work; leads see more. LOCATION PT Field asks for location the first time you clock into a job. While a job clock is running and the app is open, it sends your location to your company's CRM about every 90 seconds so dispatch knows where crews are. Clocking out stops it. Signing in, viewing your schedule, or opening the job map does not share your location
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PT Field at every 3 days against Meridia Cameras's every 6 months. Meridia Cameras's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Meridia Cameras ships an update every 6 months, PT Field every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meridia Cameras | PT Field |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Protection Technologies, LLC. | NYC Rhythm LLC |
In-app purchases
Meridia Cameras
No in-app purchases
PT Field
No in-app purchases









