Speco Cloud vs VI Mobile Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
VI Mobile Plus
Access live and recorded video from any camera on any server. View and control PTZ cameras, manage access control for doors, and review server statistics. Stream high-resolution footage with advanced codecs and customizable layouts.
- Live H.264/H.265 stream viewing
- PTZ camera control
- Recorded video playback
- Access control for doors
- Facility map integration
- Server statistics viewing
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VI Mobile Plus is a video management system app that allows authorized "on the go" users to access live and recorded video from any camera on any server. Users can view and control PTZ cameras, view full resolution and high frame rates with H.264 or H.265 codecs. The app imports all settings from a single address providing users access to individual cameras or in groups of cameras in pre-defined layouts. Users can save or email snapshots, view recorded images by alarm or specific times and view thumbnails images on facility maps. User access is controlled by the Video Insight Server with robust integration with Active Directory/LDAP users and groups. Access Control allows you to lock and unlock doors, and view entry and alarm history for the doors on your system. Features: -View live H.264 and H.265 streams from your cameras. -Keep aspect ratio of high resolution images -Rewind video from live view -Dynamic image sizing for bandwidth and device capabilities -Support for public and private IP addresses -Option to use unique login credentials for each server providing federated login -Improved recorded video playback, including easier access to motion events and random access to a video file at a specified date and time. -View multiple cameras in Server defined layouts. -Automatically load Facility Maps with thumbnail images of cameras -View Server Statistics such as CPU and memory utilization, and available disk space. -Lock and unlock doors. -View entry and alarm history for doors. We recommend you use this app with the following devices: - iPhone 6S and newer - iPad Air 2, iPad 2017, iPad 2018, or newer - iPad Mini 4 or newer - any iPad Pro Requires Video Insight Enterprise Server version 7.0 or greater. It is recommended that you use server version 7.3.0 or greater.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Speco Cloud at 4.8 against VI Mobile Plus's 2.3. Speco Cloud also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). VI Mobile Plus's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 11 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Speco Cloud holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 14 respectively.
Speco Cloud ships an update every 11 months, VI Mobile Plus every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Speco Cloud | VI Mobile Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (25 ratings) — better | 2.3 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Components Specialties, Inc | i-PRO Americas Inc. |
Customer experience
Speco Cloud
VI Mobile Plus
In-app purchases
Speco Cloud
No in-app purchases
VI Mobile Plus
No in-app purchases
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