UniFi Protect vs softdays
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UniFi Protect
Access your camera security system from your mobile device. Stream live feeds, manage devices, and download recordings. Offers cloudless storage and customizable alerts for residential and commercial users.
- Adopt and manage Protect devices
- Stream low-latency livestreams
- Download localized recordings
- Cloudless recording storage
- Timelapse footage scrubbing
- Personalized security notifications
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UniFi Protect brings the full functionality of our web-based camera security application to your mobile device. Adopt and manage your Protect devices, stream low-latency livestreams, and download localized recordings directly to your phone. Designed for residential and commercial use, UniFi Protect also allows you to: - Maintain complete data privacy with Cloudless recording storage. - Quickly scrub through hours of Timelapse footage to pinpoint the exact moments you're looking for. - Personalize security notifications based on a wide variety of individual, vehicular, and atmospheric-based detections.
softdays
A simple, private journal for reflecting on positive moments. Capture daily thoughts with optional emojis, revisit past entries, and enjoy gentle reflections generated privately on your device. No ads or tracking, just a quiet space for your memories.
- Simple daily journaling
- Optional emoji additions
- Offline access
- Private on-device reflections
- Evening reminders
- Edit past entries
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only what you need. softdays is a simple, quiet journal for noticing what went right. write a sentence or stay a little longer. one entry a day becomes a collection of moments worth keeping. * a few words are enough open today, write your good thing, and save. add an optional emoji to make the moment yours. no character limit, no account to create. just a little room for your day. * your days, worth remembering revisit past entries, add a memory to a missed day, or edit what you wrote. there is no need to keep up. your journal is here whenever you return. * see the good take shape after seven saved entries, softdays brings the themes in your journal together in a gentle, generated reflection. reflections are created privately on your device by Apple Intelligence, and require a supported device. * a softer way to end the day choose an optional evening reminder to pause and notice something good. * private by design write and revisit your journal offline. entries stay on your device and sync through your private icloud database when available. your words are never sent to the developer or a third-party service. no ads, tracking, or third-party analytics.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: UniFi Protect at 78K against softdays's 2. UniFi Protect also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.4). softdays's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, 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.
softdays holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UniFi Protect has 78K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
UniFi Protect ships an update every 3 weeks, softdays every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UniFi Protect | softdays |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (78K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 78K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 270 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ubiquiti Inc. | Cheng Media |
Customer experience
UniFi Protect
softdays
Bugs and requests
UniFi Protect
Reported bugs
5 issues- Geofencing not working as expected
- Doorbell audio/video not syncing properly
- Frequent disconnections from cameras
- Playback issues and video not loading
- Notifications not reliable or timely
Requested features
5 requests- Add option to snooze/silence notifications
- Improve video scrubbing and playback controls
- Integrate with Apple HomeKit
- Add custom notification sounds
- Enhance multi-view and layout options
softdays
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
UniFi Protect
No in-app purchases
softdays
No in-app purchases









