CloudDVR vs HOTKam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CloudDVR
Access and manage your DVR recordings remotely. View live feeds, capture footage, and playback recorded video and GPS tracks from your vehicle's DVR directly on your mobile device.
- Remote DVR preview
- Capture video and photos
- Operate DVR remotely
- Playback GPS track
- Manage phone files
- Monitor car GPS track
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CloudDVR is designed for DVR with 4G mobile network. [DVR]: Preview video from DVR camera, capture video or photo, operate DVR, playback map track of car. [Phone Files]: Files in cellphone, list files downloaded from DVR, including loop/locked and captured files, click to playback, select to share/delete. [Me]: Manage DVR thought cloud server, monitor or playback GPS track of your car.
HOTKam
This application connects to dashcams for driving and parking recordings. It enables collision photography, alert message pushes, and cloud storage for recordings. Users can view and manage files in real-time and receive notifications.
- Driving and parking recordings
- Collision photography and recording
- Cloud storage for recordings
- Real-time file viewing and management
- Message push alerts
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An APP client software for driving recorders; Supports driving and parking recordings, and can realize collision photography and recording, as well as push alert messages. The recording supports cloud storage; Supports real-time viewing and management of recording files on the App side, receiving message push, etc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HOTKam at 5.0 against CloudDVR's 2.6. HOTKam also leads on review sentiment (23% vs 13%). CloudDVR's advantage is ratings volume (25 vs 2). 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.
HOTKam holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CloudDVR has 25 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of CloudDVR's written reviews are positive against 23% of HOTKam's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CloudDVR | HOTKam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.0% of reviews | 23.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 150 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | SHENZHEN PROLINK NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD. | Shenzhen VeePai IoT Intelligent Technology LLC |
Customer experience
CloudDVR
HOTKam
In-app purchases
CloudDVR
No in-app purchases
HOTKam
No in-app purchases
