Comparison

Sumpple SmartCam vs CicadaTAK

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

Head to head
About

Sumpple SmartCam

This application allows users to view and manage security cameras. It offers direct purchasing from manufacturers with competitive prices and guarantees fast delivery, comprehensive after-sales support, and warranty services.

Highlights
  • View security cameras
  • Manage security cameras
  • Direct manufacturer purchasing
  • Competitive pricing
  • Fast delivery
  • After-sales technical support
  • Replacement warranty
Features
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Sumpple Cam Sumpple.com is a leading security field company committed to offering you an unsurpassed shopping experience, high quality products, rapid delivery, and stellar customer service. At Sumpple.com, most products like wifi baby monitors, ip video cameras, security alarms, P2P cameras and others we sell here are directly purchased from qualified manufacturers and we guarantee you the competitive prices in the industry. Whether you are a home owner, small to medium-sized business, installer, dealer, or contractor, you are sure to enjoy shopping on Sumpple.com. We believe our continued growth depends on relentlessly pursuing continuous improvements and passionately working to exceed your expectations every time you order from us. Sumpple.com is here for you, and we'd like to keep you involved in our product line decisions. If you hear of something you think we should sell, let us know. We always appreciate hearing customer feedback, whether about a specific product you've ordered or about your customer service experience. When you purchase directly from Sumpple.com, you are not only buy a camera, but also the value-added services of 24 - 48 hour shipping from our warehouse, complete after-sales technical support as well as our replacement warranty and return services. Sumpple.com does not provide support or warranties on behalf of any Sumpple cameras purchased directly from China and sold on Amazon, Ebay, Aliexpress, Newegg or others through other resellers. Thank You & Best Regards, The Team at Sumpple.com

About

CicadaTAK

This app transforms your phone into a live tactical display for areas without cell service or internet. It connects to custom-built mesh radio nodes to create a self-healing network for real-time location sharing, encrypted chat, and push-to-talk voice communication.

Highlights
  • Live tactical display without cell service
  • Self-healing mesh network with custom radio nodes
  • Real-time teammate location and breadcrumb trails
  • Encrypted team chat and photo sharing
  • Push-to-talk voice communication
  • Offline map browsing and layer downloads
  • Node setup and management from the app
Features
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CicadaTAK turns your phone into a live tactical display for places with no cell service and no internet — backcountry, disaster response, large properties, search grids, event perimeters. It is the companion app for CicadaTAK mesh nodes: 900 MHz radios you build yourself from a fully documented hardware recipe (parts list and instructions at cicadatak.com). Nodes form a self-healing mesh that reaches over a mile per hop and relays through every teammate, so coverage grows as the team spreads out. Your phone joins a node's WiFi and the radios do the rest. WORKS WITH ATAK AND iTAK • Nodes speak Cursor-on-Target in both directions — positions, chat and markers pass between this app and ATAK or iTAK devices on the same node • No TAK server, no data plan, no setup beyond joining the node's WiFi • Run this app, run ATAK, or run both side by side on one team LIVE TEAM MAP • Teammates update live with callsigns, colors and breadcrumb trails • A position that stops being current turns grey and shows its age instead of vanishing, so you always know how old the picture is • Offline maps — download aerial, topo and street layers onto the node and use them with zero internet • Drop markers, draw geofence zones, measure distance and bearing, save routes ENCRYPTED TEAM CHAT • End-to-end encrypted with your team passphrase — the key never leaves your team • Share photos from camera or gallery, carried over the radio, never through a server • Delivery receipts, canned quick replies, and roll call for fast accountability PUSH-TO-TALK VOICE • Live streaming PTT to the whole team — real voice traffic, not recorded clips • Tuned to stay intelligible on marginal links LONG-RANGE LoRa BRIDGE • Nodes fitted with LoRa hardware bridge to Meshtastic radios, carrying positions and text far beyond the main mesh • Three privacy modes, from open interoperability to fully dark RUN THE NETWORK FROM YOUR POCKET • Set up a new node from the app — no laptop, no terminal • Live topology graph of every radio link, colored by measured throughput • Node list with signal, battery and hardware status; one-tap ping for round-trip time • Trade speed for range across the whole team at once, with automatic revert if a node doesn't come back • Update node firmware over the air YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • No accounts, no sign-up, no cloud, no analytics • Everything travels phone to your own radio to your teammates' phones • There is no server in the path, so there is nothing for us to see IMPORTANT • Full functionality requires CicadaTAK node hardware. Without a node the app runs in Standalone Mode: your own GPS on the map, offline map browsing, and every screen navigable — mesh chat, PTT and team positions activate when you connect to a node. • Nodes operate in the 902–928 MHz license-free ISM band on the United States channel plan, which is also licence-exempt in Canada,Mexico, and Australia. No radio license required. • Build your nodes at cicadatak.com — an open, fully documented hardware build on an open-source radio and mesh foundation.

Screenshots

Sumpple SmartCam2 screens
CicadaTAK4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sumpple SmartCam at Free against CicadaTAK's $2.99. Sumpple SmartCam also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.1). CicadaTAK's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0). On ratings volume, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Sumpple SmartCam is free to download; CicadaTAK costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CicadaTAK holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Sumpple SmartCam versus CicadaTAK: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSumpple SmartCamCicadaTAK
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer小冬 李Merbella Studios Inc

Customer experience

Sumpple SmartCam

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CicadaTAK

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sumpple SmartCam

No in-app purchases

None

CicadaTAK

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sumpple SmartCam free?
Sumpple SmartCam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CicadaTAK free?
CicadaTAK costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sumpple SmartCam or CicadaTAK?
CicadaTAK is rated higher. Sumpple SmartCam averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while CicadaTAK averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Sumpple SmartCam or CicadaTAK have ads?
Neither Sumpple SmartCam nor CicadaTAK shows ads.

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