CamView Smart vs papalook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CamView Smart
This application connects to P2P IP camera series for remote viewing. It allows users to monitor their cameras from their mobile devices.
- P2P IP camera connection
- Remote viewing
- Mobile monitoring
- Camera series support
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This app is specially built for P2P IP camera series.
papalook
This app allows you to remotely preview and manage your IP cameras. It offers a new user interface and software architecture for an improved experience, enabling quick camera setup, configuration, live video viewing, and access to recordings from anywhere.
- Remote IP camera preview
- Camera configuration
- Live video streaming
- View recordings
- Quick camera addition
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Papalook APP provides remote preview and management your ip cameras. All-new design the user interface and software architecture of the APP,to provide you better user experience.With "papalook",you can add your IPC(IP Camera)in minutes,config your IP Camera,get live view and view recordings. With "papalook"APP,you can: 1.Quickly add the camera; 2.Config your IP Camera,such as time,alarm,recordings; 3.View live video from IP camera anywhere,anytime; 4.View recordings in IP Camera;
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: papalook at none against CamView Smart's shown. papalook also leads on rating (3.5 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (41 vs 2). CamView Smart's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 8 months). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.
papalook holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: papalook has 41 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CamView Smart ships an update every 3 months, papalook every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CamView Smart | papalook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.5 (41 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 6.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 41 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 561 MB | 156 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 宗强 刘 | yingqi xie |
Customer experience
CamView Smart
papalook
In-app purchases
CamView Smart
No in-app purchases
papalook
No in-app purchases
