Meari vs IVY Smart
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meari
This app provides a video service platform for monitoring homes and businesses. It allows users to view live and recorded footage, receive motion detection alerts, and share video images for enhanced safety and peace of mind.
- Real-time video streaming
- Playback of recorded footage
- Motion detection alerts
- Time and message reminders
- Video image sharing
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“Meari” is established by Hangzhou Meari which provide a set of video service platform for family and enterprise. You can easily check the real video and playback image of your apartment/villas/shops/factory and office etc site via the "Meari" video service platform; Meanwhile you will received the instant push message via "Meari" alarm system once the motion detected, so you can do accordingly for the safety protection measures. Your family and enterprise be with you, wherever you are. The main function: 1. Real video playing 2. Playback image checking 3. Time & message reminding 4. Share the video image Subscription paid users and privacy agreement: https://apis-us-west.cloudedge360.com/html/audit/storage_server.html https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
IVY Smart
Monitor your home, children, and pets remotely with this smart home application. It allows you to keep an eye on your living space from anywhere, ensuring peace of mind.
- Remote home monitoring
- Child monitoring
- Pet monitoring
- Anytime, anywhere access
- Smart home integration
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IVY Smart App can be used together with smart home products to look after your home, children and pets anytime and anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: IVY Smart at none against Meari's 10. IVY Smart also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (361 vs 44). Meari's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (83% vs 60%). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Meari sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. IVY Smart asks for nothing beyond the download.
IVY Smart holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: IVY Smart has 361 ratings behind it against 44, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Meari's written reviews are positive against 60% of IVY Smart's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meari | IVY Smart |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (44 ratings) | 4.8 (361 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 44 | 361 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 261 MB | 307 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hangzhou MEARI Technology Co.,Ltd. | IVYIOT H.K. LIMITED |
Customer experience
Meari
IVY Smart
In-app purchases
Meari
- cam continious-month duo$19.991 Month
- 4G duo11 Month trial$19.991 Month
- 4G-CLOUD-AI-M2 duo11 Month trial$27.991 Month
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- cam basic 30days-year duo$49.991 Year
- 4G-S duo13 Months trial$55.993 Months
- 4G-CLOUD-S duo13 Months trial$71.993 Months
- 4G-CLOUD-AI-S duo13 Months trial$80.993 Months
- 4G-CLOUD-HY duo16 Months trial$129.996 Months
- 4G-CLOUD-AI-HY duo16 Months trial$159.996 Months
- 4G-Y duo11 Year trial$199.991 Year
IVY Smart
No in-app purchases
