Comparison

Arlo Secure vs Riverkin

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Arlo Secure

Manage your smart home security system, including cameras and video doorbells, from anywhere. Receive alerts, view live feeds, and access 24/7 live security experts for enhanced protection. Customize activity zones and schedules for personalized security.

Highlights
  • Remote system control
  • Live video streaming
  • 24/7 live security experts
  • Customizable activity zones
  • Interactive motion alerts
  • Emergency Response feature
Features
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Control your Arlo smart home security system with one, easy-to-use app. Use the Arlo Secure App to protect your home, inside and out, with Arlo’s award-winning home security system, video doorbells, cameras, and floodlight. Protect your everything and personalize your entire home security system. With the Arlo Secure App, you can control multiple locations at once and quickly arm or disarm your system with one tap. Get round-the-clock protection with 24/7 Live Security Experts that will monitor your home, so you don’t have to or use one tap Emergency Response to quickly get police, fire, or medical help to your home.* Easily customize your security by creating smart activity zones to reduce unwanted notifications and set schedules to arm or disarm your system. See important details from your home security camera system with up to 4K resolution, 12X zoom image capabilities, and color night vision. When motion is detected, receive interactive notifications on your phone and watch an animated preview, call a friend, activate a siren, or initiate Emergency Response.* With an Arlo Secure plan and an Arlo camera, video doorbell, or floodlight camera, you can view 30 days of video history, receive notifications that tell you when a person, package, vehicle, or animal has been spotted with advanced AI Object Detection. Disclaimers: *Emergency Response (available in the United States only), Object Detection and Video History require an Arlo Secure paid plan after trial period. **4K resolution, 12X zoom image capabilities, color night vision, and Emergency Response features vary by camera model. Privacy Policy: https://www.arlo.com/en-us/about/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://www.arlo.com/en-us/terms-and-conditions.html

About

Riverkin

Features
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Riverkin draws your family as a river. Everyone stands at the year they were born and every line runs from parents to children, so a whole family reads in one look: who came when, who overlapped, who is still here. Someone in your family has usually done the typing already. Riverkin keeps a family in a single file. Send it by AirDrop, mail or message, or hold your screen up to the phone across the table and let it read the codes. Opening a file adds the people you were missing and fills in the dates you did not have — and where two copies disagree, it asks you rather than quietly overwriting anything. EVERYONE AT THEIR YEAR Drag along the years and the river shows who was alive in that one. Turn the phone sideways for the whole family on a single screen. Each branch of the family has its own colour, and a person's page is tinted with the colour of their own line. HOW YOU ARE RELATED Say who you are, and every person carries their tie to you: your first cousin two generations younger, your half-sister, your stepfather, your partner's aunt. None of it is stored. Every tie is walked from the parents each time it is shown, so it stays right the moment you correct something. BIRTHDAYS Today tells you whose birthday it is and what is coming in the next fortnight, with ages worked out for you. Reminders arrive on the morning itself. MORE THAN ONE FAMILY Keep your mother's side and your father's side as separate families and switch between them. Step-parents and the families they bring with them have a place too. EVERYBODY, FOUND Search a name, a town, an e-mail address or a year. Call, message, mail or find your way to anyone whose details you have written down. YOURS ALONE Riverkin runs entirely on your phone. There is no account to make, no sign-in, nothing uploaded and no server anywhere — it does not use the internet at all. Lock it behind Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode, and it covers itself when you swap apps. IN ENGLISH AND IN DUTCH Every screen, every date and every word for a relative, including the ones English runs together and Dutch keeps apart. On iPhone and on iPad.

Screenshots

Arlo Secure4 screens
Riverkin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Riverkin at none against Arlo Secure's 10. Riverkin also leads on ads (none vs shown). Arlo Secure's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and chart position (#10 vs unranked). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Arlo Secure sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Riverkin asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Arlo Secure ships an update weekly, Riverkin every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Arlo Secure versus Riverkin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArlo SecureRiverkin
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (428K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews56.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings428K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#10 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size819 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArlo Technologies Inc.Ram Steenhaut

Bugs and requests

Arlo Secure

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Camera firmware issues causing malfunctions
  • App freezing and logging users out unexpectedly
  • Inconsistent motion detection and recording
  • Syncing issues between multiple devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Customizable notification sounds and volumes
  • Ability to view recordings from specific cameras
  • Improved geofencing and automation features
  • Better integration with smart home platforms

Riverkin

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Arlo Secure

Subscriptions10
  • Smart Aware Single$9.991 Month
  • Basic Single$9.991 Month
  • Basic Unlimited$14.991 Month
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  • Smart Aware$19.991 Month
  • Smart Secure$29.991 Month
  • Plus Single$95.991 Year
  • Basic Single$99.991 Year
  • Basic Unlimited$149.991 Year
  • Smart Aware$219.001 Year
  • Premium$299.991 Year
None

Riverkin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Arlo Secure free?
Arlo Secure is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Riverkin free?
Riverkin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Arlo Secure or Riverkin have ads?
Arlo Secure shows ads; Riverkin does not.
Which is updated more often, Arlo Secure or Riverkin?
Arlo Secure ships an update weekly, and Riverkin every 3 weeks. Most recently, Arlo Secure was updated on November 5, 2026 and Riverkin on October 29, 2026.

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