Lorex Cirrus vs Speco Cloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lorex Cirrus
Access live video feeds from multiple cameras remotely. Receive instant alerts for detected activities and review recorded footage. Manually record video, take snapshots, and manage your security system settings.
- Live remote video viewing
- Instant push notifications
- Playback recorded video
- Manual video recording
- Snapshot capture
- Security system setup and control
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With Lorex Cirrus: -View live remote video from multiple cameras -Receive instant push notifications -Play back recorded video to review detected activities -Manually record video -Take snapshots to send from your device -Set up and control your security system Compatible with select Lorex Security Systems and select HD Wire-free solutions.
Speco Cloud
This AI-powered cloud video surveillance app offers hardware-free solutions for businesses with multiple locations. It provides secure off-site storage, camera health alerts, live monitoring, and advanced object detection capabilities.
- AI-powered cloud video surveillance
- Hardware-free solution
- Secure off-site cloud storage
- Advanced camera health checks and alerts
- Live video monitoring
- Object detection (people, vehicles, animals)
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Speco Cloud provides AI-powered cloud video surveillance for multi-location enterprises, restaurants, retailers, schools and many other industries. Speco's Cloud subscriptions offer 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 add-on allows customers to enable sophisticated people, vehicle, animal and other object detection with any Speco Cloud-enabled cameras. Download the app and login with the account provided to you by your authorized Speco Dealer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Lorex Cirrus at 3.6K against Speco Cloud's 25. Lorex Cirrus also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 11 months). Speco Cloud's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Cloud holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lorex Cirrus has 3.6K ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Lorex Cirrus ships an update every 5 months, Speco Cloud every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lorex Cirrus | Speco Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (3.6K ratings) | 4.8 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.6K — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LOREX TECHNOLOGY INC. | Components Specialties, Inc |
Customer experience
Lorex Cirrus
Speco Cloud
Bugs and requests
Lorex Cirrus
Reported bugs
5 issues- Cameras going offline randomly
- Push notifications not working
- Recordings not saving properly
- Blank screens when accessing cameras
- Compatibility issues with iOS 18 update
Requested features
6 requests- Add option to disable motion alerts
- Improve camera zoning functionality
- Provide remote reboot capability
- Allow selecting multiple cameras for playback
- Add time stamp scrubbing in playback
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- Improve app navigation and usability
Speco Cloud
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lorex Cirrus
No in-app purchases
Speco Cloud
No in-app purchases
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