RoadCam vs SmartThermal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RoadCam
This app enhances your driving recorder experience by offering GPS tracking with trajectory playback, integrated video editing, and file management. It also features a community for sharing driving videos and photos on social media.
- GPS driving trajectory playback
- Timeline-based file management
- Video editing and sharing
- Community for sharing videos/photos
- Social media integration
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Roadcam mainly serves driving recorder users, committed to providing more convenient driving recorders for car owners, optimizing and improving the user experience. Lupai provides users with the following unique features: 1. The road camera supports a driving recorder with GPS function, which synchronously displays the driving trajectory of the video when the user plays it. 2. Provides comprehensive timeline based file management, while integrating video editing and sharing functions, 3. Community function, convenient for car owners to share videos and pictures, and can share them on social circles, Weibo, WeChat, QQ, Facebook, Twitter, etc. to provide users with a better social experience.
SmartThermal
Connect your mobile device to observation devices for real-time viewing and recording. Control your observation equipment directly from your smartphone.
- Connect to ThermEyeTec observation devices
- Use smartphone as mobile viewfinder
- Record video and images
- Full smartphone control of observation devices
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Smart Thermal is an application providing connection between your mobile devices and observation devices from ThermEyeTec. With this application, observation devices can not only use a smartphone as its mobile view finder, video and image recorder, also can be fully controlled on a smartphone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SmartThermal at 5.0 against RoadCam's 1.7. RoadCam's advantage is ratings volume (134 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
SmartThermal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RoadCam has 134 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 10% of RoadCam's written reviews are positive against 8% of SmartThermal's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
RoadCam ships an update every 3 weeks, SmartThermal every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RoadCam | SmartThermal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (134 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.2% of reviews — better | 7.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 134 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 清贤 高 | Hangzhou Qingkong Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
RoadCam
SmartThermal
Bugs and requests
RoadCam
Reported bugs
3 issues- Cannot view or download recorded videos
- App loses connection to camera randomly
- Settings reset after each use
Requested features
3 requests- Add support for more languages
- Improve video editing and sharing capabilities
- Allow background recording while using other apps
SmartThermal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RoadCam
No in-app purchases
SmartThermal
No in-app purchases
