Hosted Cloud Video vs Security Cloud Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hosted Cloud Video
This app offers AI-powered cloud video surveillance for businesses. It provides hardware-free setup, secure off-site storage, and advanced object detection capabilities with support for a wide range of IP cameras.
- AI-powered object detection
- Hardware-free video surveillance
- Secure off-site cloud storage
- Advanced camera health checks
- Live video monitoring
- Supports wide range of IP cameras
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Hosted Cloud Video provides AI-powered cloud video surveillance for multi-location enterprises, restaurants, retailers, schools and many other industries. The service offers hardware free video surveillance that requires no specialized on-premise equipment and includes secure off-site cloud storage, advanced camera health checks and alerts, recording schedules, live video monitoring and more. The Cloud AI module allows customers to enable sophisticated people, vehicle, animal and other object detection with any camera supported by the platform. The service is an open platform that supports a wide variety of IP cameras from manufacturers such as Axis Communications, Amcrest, Hanwha Vision, Hikvision, VIVOTEK and many others. Download the app and login with the account provided to you by your authorized Hosted Cloud Video reseller.
Security Cloud Camera
Transforms your phone or tablet into a home security camera using your iCloud account. It offers simple setup and secure motion detection, saving captured images to your iCloud Drive for remote viewing.
- Phone/tablet to CCTV camera conversion
- Simple setup
- Secure motion detection
- Image capture and iCloud storage
- Remote viewing via iCloud
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Security Cloud Camera turns your phone or tablet into a CCTV camera. The main advantages of Security Cloud Camera are simplicity and security. To start monitoring with Security Cloud Camera, you need just an iPhone or iPad with access to your iCloud account. Transferring images between devices is possible when devices are logged in to the same iCloud account. After switching on, the application starts motion detection. When the motion is detected, the program takes a picture and the data is sent to your iCloud Drive so your data is safe and only you have access to it. At any time from any computer with internet access you can view the recorded photos via iCloud account.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hosted Cloud Video at 4.7 against Security Cloud Camera's 4.2. Hosted Cloud Video also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 21 months) and ratings volume (488 vs 6). Security Cloud Camera's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and iOS requirement (11.3 vs 13.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Hosted Cloud Video holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hosted Cloud Video has 488 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Hosted Cloud Video's written reviews are positive against 100% of Security Cloud Camera's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Hosted Cloud Video ships an update every 3 months, Security Cloud Camera every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hosted Cloud Video | Security Cloud Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (488 ratings) — better | 4.2 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 488 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Camcloud Inc. | Pawel Mitek |
Customer experience
Hosted Cloud Video
Security Cloud Camera
In-app purchases
Hosted Cloud Video
No in-app purchases
Security Cloud Camera
No in-app purchases
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