Hosted Cloud Video vs FLOW ID Identity
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.
FLOW ID Identity
Manage your digital identity securely and privately. Share only necessary information for transactions, from online purchases to in-person interactions. Offers password management and age verification.
- Secure digital identity management
- Selective data sharing for transactions
- Password management
- Age verification
- Immutable transaction records
- Contactless interactions
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Privacy that you own! With FLOW ID you represent yourself in the way that you choose. Come live in a world where you can provide only what is required for the transaction! From online to in person, FLOW ID delivers irrefutable digital identity that offers fast, secure, contactless interactions with others without giving up your privacy. FLOW ID is true privacy that’s actually convenient. FLOW ID empowers individuals, businesses and governments alike to quickly share pre-verified identity data - from a license to an account number - to authenticate transactions, all while providing an immutable transaction record that both sides of the transaction will always be able to access. Our identity authentication platform provides identity assurance and privacy across a variety of transactional environments. A sampling of current platform capabilities: eCommerce – One touch onboarding and transaction validation, age verification, identity certainty Financial Services – Fully KYC/AML compliant, seamless onboarding, immutable transactions, passwordless authentication Chain of Custody – Pickup/delivery assurance Age Verification – Anonymous identity proofing for any age restricted product both online and in person covering alcohol, tobacco, CBD, Adult content, etc. Peer-to-Peer – Online dating, online marketplaces, Buy Nothing groups, identity assurance for both sides of the transaction Password Management – Free to our users, FLOW ID provides password management that allows you to share and manage all of your secure passwords in one place with unmatched control Own your Privacy with FLOW ID!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: FLOW ID Identity at 100% against Hosted Cloud Video's 71%. FLOW ID Identity also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Hosted Cloud Video's advantage is ratings volume (488 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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.
FLOW ID Identity holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hosted Cloud Video has 488 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Hosted Cloud Video's written reviews are positive against 100% of FLOW ID Identity's.
Hosted Cloud Video ships an update every 3 months, FLOW ID Identity every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Hosted Cloud Video | FLOW ID Identity |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (488 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 488 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 154 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Camcloud Inc. | Flow ID Inc |
Customer experience
Hosted Cloud Video
FLOW ID Identity
In-app purchases
Hosted Cloud Video
No in-app purchases
FLOW ID Identity
No in-app purchases
Questions
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