Hosted Cloud Video vs Camect Viewer
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.
Camect Viewer
Access live and recorded video from your smart camera hub. Receive instant notifications for detected activity and review alerts directly within the app. Initial setup requires a separate hub configuration.
- Live video streaming
- Recorded video playback
- Activity alerts and notifications
- Remote camera access
- Hub integration
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Camect Viewer connects you to the cameras on your Camect smart camera hub. Receive notifications from your cameras when interesting activity occurs, and click through to review the alerts, or to access live or recorded video. Please note that Camect Viewer does not currently allow you to configure or activate a Camect hub. Before you can use it, please activate and configure your Camect hub by following the instructions at camect.com/welcome.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Camect Viewer at 100% against Hosted Cloud Video's 71%. Hosted Cloud Video's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (488 vs 6). 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.
Hosted Cloud Video holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. 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 Camect Viewer'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, Camect Viewer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 30, 2026 and September 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hosted Cloud Video | Camect Viewer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (488 ratings) — better | 4.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 488 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Camcloud Inc. | Camect Inc |
Customer experience
Hosted Cloud Video
Camect Viewer
In-app purchases
Hosted Cloud Video
No in-app purchases
Camect Viewer
No in-app purchases
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