HollyView vs Crystal Vision
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HollyView
This app facilitates real-time wireless video transmission for monitoring and analysis. It allows users to doodle on images, record and share videos, and manage device firmware and diagnostics.
- Real-time monitoring
- Image analysis
- Photo doodling
- Video recording
- Firmware updates
- Device diagnostics
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HollyView is a wireless video transmission app by Shenzhen Hollyland Technology, enabling real-time monitoring, image analysis, photo doodling and sharing, video recording and sharing, firmware updates, and device diagnostics.
Crystal Vision
View and record HDMI camera footage on your iOS device. Adjust video parameters like resolution and frame rate. Requires compatible wireless video transmission hardware.
- View HDMI camera footage
- Record footage and images
- Set video parameters (resolution, rate)
- Wireless video transmission support
- iOS device compatibility
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Crystal Vision is an Application that needs to be used with the CVW wireless video transmission hardware. Crystal Vision allows you to view camera footage on the iOS device from any HDMI camera. Crystal Vision allows you to record footage and image using our hardware, from any HDMI camera. Crystal Vision allows you to set the parameters of video such as resolution, rate.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Crystal Vision at 3.5 against HollyView's 2.4. HollyView's advantage is ratings volume (73 vs 2) and review sentiment (15% vs 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.
Crystal Vision holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HollyView has 73 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 15% of HollyView's written reviews are positive against 0% of Crystal Vision's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
HollyView ships an update monthly, Crystal Vision every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HollyView | Crystal Vision |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (73 ratings) | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 162 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 深圳市昊一源科技有限公司 | Shenzhen Crystal Video Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
HollyView
Crystal Vision
Bugs and requests
HollyView
Reported bugs
40 issues- App not recognizing phone/iPad connection
- No feed when manually connecting
- App only works on older devices
- Black screen on iPad/Mac
- App won't connect after update
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- Firmware update fails
- Constant glitching and freezing
- WiFi issues
- Record button placement issue on iPhone SE
- New interface is clunky
- Cannot import LUTs
- App requires precise location
- No stream on iPhone 14
- M1 MBP not supported
- Stream address abnormal error
- Invisible text in stream setup
- App goes back to connect page
- Black screen after connecting
- Prompted to join HLD_null network
- Showing 'check input' error
- Random inbuilt LUT bug
- Screen goes black when applying installed LUTs
- App crashes and reboots iPad
- App quits randomly and reboots iPad
- Struggles with distance outdoors
- Prompts in Chinese characters
- Black bar over video stream
- App not working on iPhone 11 Pro Max
- App only shows signal strength, blank screen
- No internet connection error in WiFi option
- Check input source error on iPhone
- Resolution is 480p not 1080p
- App crashes constantly
- WiFi disconnects and app crashes
- Scanning QR code leads to system settings
- Manual code entry doesn't work
- Fix LTE WiFi issue
- App cannot connect when location/cellular disabled
- LUTs have strange purple coloring
- Laggy on iPad
Requested features
7 requests- Make auto brightness optional
- Hide iOS application bar
- True display out support
- Add remember serial number feature
- Allow deleting preset LUTs
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- De-squeeze option
- Add advanced functions like LUTS or contrast
Crystal Vision
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HollyView
No in-app purchases
Crystal Vision
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is HollyView free?
Is Crystal Vision free?
Which has better reviews, HollyView or Crystal Vision?
Do HollyView or Crystal Vision have ads?
Which is updated more often, HollyView or Crystal Vision?
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