Yi Eye vs iCookyCam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yi Eye
This wire-free home monitoring system allows for easy placement and remote viewing from any angle. Receive instant alerts with video recordings when motion is detected, enabling you to see, hear, and talk to individuals on your smartphone.
- 100% wire-free design
- Remote home monitoring
- Motion detection alerts
- Video recording on motion
- See, hear, and talk remotely
- Long-lasting battery power
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Yi Eye is 100% wire-free of power cords and wiring hassles remote home monitoring system, allowing you to easily place it wherever you want and monitor your home from every angle,it is thoughtfully designed to make peace of mind easy and accessible. As soon as motion is detected, video starts recording and an alert is sent to your smartphone or tablet,so you can see exactly what caused the alert and decide how to respond. you can see, hear and talk with someone on your smartphone within 3 seconds. With Yi Eye, never leave home alone With Yi Eye, never miss a moment again With Yi Eye, be the first to know Let us start to protect your entire home, inside & out, with Yi Eye long lasting battery power smart home security systems
iCookyCam
Connect to a camera device for real-time remote viewing, listening, and recording. Monitor stores, factories, or apartments from anywhere with features like night vision and alarm reminders.
- Real-time remote viewing
- Audio listening
- Photo taking
- Video recording
- Night vision monitoring
- Video playback
- Alarm reminders
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This is an application that can be connected to a camera device for real-time remote viewing, listening, photo taking, video recording, night vision monitoring, video playback, alarm reminder, etc., to help you manage stores, factories, apartments, etc., so that you can control everything from anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Yi Eye at 2.7 against iCookyCam's 2.0. Yi Eye also leads on review sentiment (28% vs 13%) and ratings volume (547 vs 61). iCookyCam's advantage is iOS requirement (8.1 vs 10.0). On price, update cadence, 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.
Yi Eye holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yi Eye has 547 ratings behind it against 61, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Yi Eye's written reviews are positive against 13% of iCookyCam's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Yi Eye | iCookyCam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (547 ratings) — better | 2.0 (61 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 28.3% of reviews — better | 13.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 547 — better | 61 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 | 8.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 建兵 傅 | 维龙 何 |
Customer experience
Yi Eye
iCookyCam
User reviews
Yi Eye
From 547 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 Good picture quality
- 🔒 Secure
- 🚀 Simple setup
Room to improve
- 🐛 Connectivity issues
- 🔋 Poor battery life
- 🐛 Frequent crashes
- 🐛 Unreliable recordings
- 🐛 Buggy app
iCookyCam
From 61 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Good picture quality
- 👍 Easy initial setup (for some)
- 👍 Works well with camera (for some)
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent disconnections/offline issues
- 🐛 Incompatibility with latest iOS versions
- 🐛 Remote connection problems
- 🐛 Unstable network connection
- 🐛 App is primitive/disappointing
Bugs and requests
Yi Eye
Reported bugs
4 issues- Fails to connect to Wi-Fi
- Recordings not saving properly
- App freezes and crashes
- Incompatible with latest iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Continuous recording option
- Longer recording duration
- Remote camera control
- Battery status indicator
- Improved customer support
iCookyCam
Reported bugs
39 issues- Cannot connect to camera outside WiFi range (cellular data)
- iOS 16/latest iOS compatibility issues
- Device not recognized after iOS update
- Screen zoom misaligned
- Motion sensor not functioning after update
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- Recording/photo button shows permission error
- App crashes or becomes unresponsive
- Video download fails
- Alarm images not displayed
- Password resets to default after reboot
- Connection errors during Wi-Fi setup
- Cannot add device after app reinstallation
- Session closes when phone goes to sleep
- Push notifications not working on iOS 13.2
- Date/time setting is off by one day
- Motion control video recording randomly switches to continuous
- Camera freezes and needs reboot
- Recordings do not show up in query function
- Audio and video are not synced in recordings
- Cannot download recordings from camera card to mobile
- Time sync issues after power loss
- Default password does not work
- Camera goes offline frequently
- Cannot connect to router
- Cannot connect to camera
- Motion detection is broken
- Cannot remotely delete videos or format memory card
- Cannot forward or reverse videos during playback
- Link for recording formats not in app settings
- Cannot decide which videos can be downloaded
- Upload errors during Wi-Fi setup
- Thumbnail or video cannot be viewed
- Cannot save recordings when mobile device screen locks
- Cannot read files from SD card on Mac without extra software
- Device shows up on WiFi listing very rarely
- Cannot get past WiFi connect, says incorrect password
- App requires unrestricted access to photos/videos/data
- Cannot connect to camera with default password
- Camera loses connection and cannot be reconnected
Requested features
12 requests- Allow manual control of infrared mode
- Add a flip/mirror function
- Add option for constant screen on
- Improve sound quality/threshold
- Add remote deletion of recorded files
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- Add remote formatting of memory card
- Improve video playback (forward/reverse)
- Add option to select downloadable videos
- Improve app description in Japanese
- Add iWatch compatibility
- Add ability to disconnect cams
- Allow users to make screen sleep setting changeable
In-app purchases
Yi Eye
No in-app purchases
iCookyCam
No in-app purchases
