ReachUC vs Speco Blue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ReachUC
This app unifies business communication features, bringing your desk phone capabilities to your mobile and desktop devices. Manage calls, messages, and more from a single platform.
- Unified communications
- Desk phone features on mobile
- Desk phone features on desktop
- Business communication management
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ReachUC is a unified communications client that brings all the features of your business desk phone to your mobile phone and desktop.
Speco Blue
Access and manage Speco Technologies' NR and HR recorders remotely. View live feeds, playback recordings, take snapshots, and receive event notifications. The app also allows for local recording and two-way audio communication.
- Live video streaming
- Playback recorded video and audio
- Snapshot capture and sending
- Local video recording
- Event push notifications
- Remote recorder settings adjustment
- Two-way audio communication
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Use Speco Blue to access Speco Technologies' NR and HR models of recorders for the following: - Live view of all channels - Playback of previously recorded video and audio - Take and send snapshots of any channel - Record video to your local device - Receive push notifications of events and tap to directly view on Speco Blue - Change certain remote settings of your recorder - 2-Way audio communication - Analytics search of recordings from NR recorders
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Verdict
ReachUC and Speco Blue both sit at 2.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 47% of Speco Blue's written reviews are positive against 30% of ReachUC's. Speco Blue also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
Speco Blue holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 103 and 101 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of ReachUC's written reviews are positive against 47% of Speco Blue's.
ReachUC ships an update every 4 months, Speco Blue every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ReachUC | Speco Blue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (103 ratings) | 3.1 (101 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.2% of reviews | 46.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 103 — better | 101 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 115 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | REACH UC LLC | Components Specialties, Inc |
Customer experience
ReachUC
Speco Blue
User reviews
ReachUC
From 103 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great business mobile app
- 👍 Works wonderfully on VoIP
- 👍 Great Communication App
- 👍 Useful VOIP App
- 👍 Awesome app for business
Room to improve
- 🐛 Won't clear notifications
- 🐛 Cannot check messages after update
- 🐛 Random texts from others
- 🐛 Calls disconnect patients
- 🐛 Transfer failed, hangs up clients
Speco Blue
From 101 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 🚀 Fast and responsive performance (when working)
- 💡 Two-way audio communication
- 💡 Analytics search feature
- 💡 Snapshot feature
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes
- 🐛 Inconsistent performance
- 🐛 Clunky and hard to navigate design
- 🐛 Doesn't work on iPad
- 🐛 Buttons cease to function
Bugs and requests
ReachUC
Reported bugs
21 issues- Notifications not clearing
- Cannot check messages after update
- Receiving random texts from others
- Calls dropping
- Transfer failed message
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- App goes offline
- Disconnections while checking messages
- Double calls
- Call quality issues
- Bluetooth/Carplay delay
- Calls coming through when app is closed
- Calls not completing
- SMS messages not coming in
- Keyboard not going away
- No microphone permissions
- Phone issues after receiving calls
- Calls only accepted half the time
- Poor reception
- Messages need to be sent twice
- Cannot scroll through past messages
- Calls failing to reach app
Requested features
6 requests- Voicemail feature
- Option to log off
- Dark mode
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Fix call history showing in iPhone history
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- Full screen on iPad
Speco Blue
Reported bugs
29 issues- Menu comes and goes at will
- Buttons to view camera or review past footage cease to function
- Defaults to unviewable substream settings
- App keeps crashing on iPhone 14 Pro and 13
- Connection of NVR server loses signal randomly
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- Constantly crashing, not able to connect, unexplained logouts
- Bugs and issues with iOS 17, consistently crashing
- App crashes immediately when trying to add a location on iPhone 15 Pro
- App crashes every time you turn to landscape mode on iOS 17
- Can't access camera during business on new iPhone 15 Pro Max
- App keeps freezing and crashes if you go to landscape mode
- Logs you out anytime then you have to reset all over again
- When watching a camera, it downgrades resolutions
- Event notifications not working with iOS 16.5.1
- App is not compatible with iPad operating system 16.3
- Cannot play back anything, playback shows black screen with 'camera not connected'
- Playback is sketchy and sluggish, implodes every few minutes
- App is unusable on iPad OS 16 with Stage Manager
- App struggles with switching from portrait to landscape mode on iPad
- App icons in the top left and right corners are hard to access due to stretched view on iPhone 14 Pro Max
- New update dislikes auto resolution function where app lowers camera viewing resolution
- App crashes any time I try to view more than five cameras
- App is the biggest battery drain ever
- App does not work well on iPhone 13
- App crashed after less than 2 months
- Cannot get app to work to view live feed and recorded
- Cannot see anything with the new orange colors on intelligence view playback
- App will not connect to the NVR after a power outage until you reboot NVR, generate a new QR code and reconfigure app
- Nothing works when needed most
Requested features
14 requests- Allow admin access from app for editing settings and receiving motion notifications
- Improve default substream settings for Speco profile
- Allow changing notification sound
- Implement full setting configurations in the app (like on NVR)
- Improve UX/UI design to match competitors
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- Make app work in landscape mode on iPad
- Create an iPad-specific version that utilizes screen real estate
- Remove auto resolution function
- Optimize for new iPhones (dynamic island)
- Allow viewing notifications in the app without push notifications
- Improve fast forward speed in playback
- Fix playback slowing down
- Allow viewing more than five cameras without crashing
- Reduce battery drain
In-app purchases
ReachUC
No in-app purchases
Speco Blue
No in-app purchases
Questions
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