HollyView vs SwitchTake
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.
SwitchTake
Streamline your video editing process by making edits and organizing footage as you film. This app allows for intuitive swipe gestures to set in/out points, cut unwanted takes, and create blooper reels. It also helps manage and sequence clips for seamless import into professional editing software.
- Live video editing with swipe gestures
- Set in/out points and cut bad takes
- Create blooper reels
- Organize and rename video clips
- Multi-clip scene director for sequencing
- Generate import files for professional editors
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Join the Video Pre-Editing Revolution. SwitchTake is the ultimate video pre-editing system. Save time and optimize your workflow by making edits and organizing footage as you film. It's natural and easy. With simple swipe gestures, set in/out points, cut bad takes, create a blooper reel, set markers, and much more. EDIT VIDEO SwitchTake is perfect for editing any long take videos such as interviews, talking head shots, events, and much more. MANAGE CLIPS Rename clips, organize media by date/camera, set timeline markers and clip metadata. MULTI-CLIP SCENE DIRECTOR The SwitchTake Scene Director is a powerful tool to order and sequence all of your video clips. While filming give each clip a sequence name, scene number, and other context information. SwitchTake will order your clips and create rough-cut sequences with all the clips cut and combined into unified timelines. VIDEO EDITOR IMPORT Open SwitchTake Timeline on your PC/Mac to easily generate import files to get your videos directly into Premiere Pro, Final Cut, or Davinci Resolve. LIVE VIDEO EDITING * Auto Sync * No Look / Swipe to Edit * Sequence Import * Auto Cut on Silence * Markers * Clip Colors * Blooper Reel * Pause/Resume MANAGE VIDEO CLIPS * Rename Clips * Organize Media by Date/Camera * Set Timeline Markers * Clip Notes/Metadata MULTI-CLIP SCENE DIRECTOR * Multi-Clip Timelines * Tag Clips
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SwitchTake at 5.0 against HollyView's 2.4. SwitchTake also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). HollyView's advantage is ratings volume (73 vs 1). 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.
SwitchTake holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HollyView has 73 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HollyView | SwitchTake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (73 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 162 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 深圳市昊一源科技有限公司 | EZOT, Inc. |
Customer experience
HollyView
SwitchTake
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
SwitchTake
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HollyView
No in-app purchases
SwitchTake
No in-app purchases
