HomeHawk vs baseus Security
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HomeHawk
Easily set up a wireless home monitoring camera system inside and outside your house. View live streams, receive motion alerts, and communicate via two-way audio from your smartphone or tablet. No monthly fees are required for monitoring and notifications.
- Easy setup wizard
- Real-time camera streaming
- Micro SD card recording
- Motion detection areas
- Two-way audio communication
- Motion detection alerts
- Alert event log
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Panasonic HomeHawk makes it quick and easy to create a powerful, wireless network of Home monitoring camera system in and outside the home. And monitor all from your smartphone and tablet with one simple app. https://panasonic.net/cns/pcc/support/homehawk Main Features General Functions - Easy setup wizard - No monthly service fees – monitoring, notification Camera Functions - Cameras display real-time streaming - Automatically record video to Micro SD cards in Access Point - Select motion detection areas for specific recording and notification - Camera enables 2-way communication - Receive alerts when camera detect motion - View alert event log
baseus Security
Access live video feeds and motion detection recordings from your home security system. Review footage remotely from your phone, ensuring peace of mind and the ability to check in on your property anytime, anywhere.
- Live video streaming
- Motion detection recording
- Remote access from phone
- Review security footage
- Anytime, anywhere access
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baseus Security app provided live video and motion detection recording service,just access from your phone to review your home security anytime, anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: baseus Security at every 3 weeks against HomeHawk's every 3 months. baseus Security also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). HomeHawk's advantage is ratings volume (2.3K vs 126). On price, rating, review sentiment 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for HomeHawk against 4.5 for baseus Security. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HomeHawk has 2.3K ratings behind it against 126, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 23% of HomeHawk's written reviews are positive against 30% of baseus Security's.
HomeHawk ships an update every 3 months, baseus Security every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HomeHawk | baseus Security |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (2.3K ratings) | 4.5 (126 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.8% of reviews | 29.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | 126 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 149 MB | 193 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +17 |
| Developer | Panasonic Holdings Corporation | 深圳市倍思科技有限公司 |
Customer experience
HomeHawk
baseus Security
User reviews
HomeHawk
From 2.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great video quality
- 👍 Easy setup
- 🔒 No monthly fees
- 🚀 Convenient window mount
- 👍 Continuous recording mode
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent connectivity issues
- 🐛 Choppy video playback
- 🐛 Unreliable notifications
- 🔋 Drains battery quickly
- 🔒 Privacy concerns with location tracking
baseus Security
From 126 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly
- 🚀 Quick synchronization
- 👍 Easy setup
- ✅ Works well
- 👍 Good concept
Room to improve
- 🐛 App is sluggish and slow
- 🐛 Recordings are random and unreliable
- 🐛 Live footage times out frequently
- 🐛 App instability and layout issues
- 🐛 Cannot connect to TV
Bugs and requests
HomeHawk
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes frequently
- Cameras randomly go offline
- Firmware updates break recording functionality
- Incompatible with latest iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Option to block specific areas for privacy
- Faster video playback speeds
- Support for 4K or higher resolution
- Desktop/web app for viewing cameras
- Ability to schedule notification silencing
baseus Security
Reported bugs
50 issues- App does not register well
- Cannot zoom photos
- Slow app performance
- Notifications are too late to view events
- Recordings happen randomly
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- Cannot see footage stored until a couple of minutes
- Service is down
- Cannot see cameras
- Cannot add cameras back
- Cameras not functioning after update
- All devices disappeared after update
- Cannot connect a homestation anymore
- Cameras disappeared from account
- App instability for displaying cameras
- Layout is a bit wrong
- Back button disappears when accessing camera
- App very slow to respond to live footage
- Live footage often times out
- Cannot connect remotely from external Wi-Fi
- Cannot watch remotely
- Only works on local network
- No internet access
- Device does not work in Russia
- App does not work on mobile internet in Russia
- App does not warn about Russia region limitation
- Cannot turn camera on/off after last update
- Time is incorrect on one camera
- Camera and app do not work in Russia
- Not warned about Russia region limitation by sellers
- Not recording traffic until it's almost gone
- Reports come much too late
- Cannot connect to TV
- App glitches
- Camera glitches
- Base station stopped seeing cameras
- Tech support unresponsive
- Cannot connect to home network
- No feedback from support
- Lost time
- Start page showed only 2 devices on iPad
- Had to awkwardly shift device order on iPad
- Only portrait mode on iPad
- No landscape mode on iPad
- App not supported in Russia
- Registration not possible after installing app
- Password requirement error despite meeting criteria
- iPad does not convert to full screen like mobile
- Notifications stopped working for all devices
- Have to manually change mode of each camera
- No way to change mode across all devices
Requested features
10 requests- Add filter to view cameras
- Unified view for all cameras
- Ability to connect to TV
- Remote viewing
- Support for Russia region
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- Support for Bangladesh region
- Full screen streaming on iPad
- Landscape mode for iPad
- Option to switch modes across all devices
- Function to detect when devices are not in HomeStation network and switch to notification mode
In-app purchases
HomeHawk
No in-app purchases
baseus Security
No in-app purchases
