Comparison

EliteCloud vs Luma View

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

Head to head
About

EliteCloud

Remotely manage your EliteControl security system from your smartphone. Arm or disarm alarms, control gates, doors, and lights. Receive instant, customizable notifications for various events, ensuring peace of mind whether you're home or away.

Highlights
  • Arm/Disarm security system
  • Control doors, gates, and lights
  • Receive push notifications
  • Monitor system status and history
  • Manage users and sites
  • Bank-level encrypted connection
Features
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EliteCloud connects your smartphone to any EliteControl security system from almost anywhere. Arm/Disarm your alarm, control garage doors, gates, lights & more. Receive notifications directly to your smartphone should anything happen when you are at home or away. Notifications are customisable and include alarms, power failure, battery failure, panic, fire, medical and tamper alarms. App Features • Arm/Disarm • Door, Gate & Lighting Control • Push Notifications • Monitoring • Fire • System History • System Status • User Management • Bank Level Encrypted Connection • Up to 100 Users • Control Up to 100 sites • Regular Updates Hardware Required for EliteCloud Smartphone App • ESL-2, ESL, V9 or Runner alarm system • ESL-2 IoT or IoT-MODULE with internet connection • new ECi For more information regarding compatibility & supported products, please contact your preferred security installer.

About

Luma View

Monitor your security cameras remotely with live HD video streaming, event playback, and recording capabilities. Features include smart event search with object filtering, customizable grid views, and audio support. Manage multiple devices and access your footage anytime, anywhere from your tablet or mobile.

Highlights
  • HD live viewing (single/split screen)
  • Synchronized playback (up to 16 channels)
  • Smart Event Search (human/vehicle filtering)
  • Push notifications for events
  • Customizable grid views
  • Snapshot and video recording
  • Two-way audio support
Features
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The all new Luma View app offers powerful features at your fingertips, allows you check on what matters – anytime, anywhere. Watch live video, user-friendly event search, playback, and save recordings, or take a snapshot all from your tablet or mobile device. • Enjoy HD live viewing of a single or split screen (4, 9, or 16 channels simultaneously) in both portrait and landscape modes with convenient pinch to zoom • Synchronize playback up to 16 channels • User-friendly Smart Event Search with human and vehicle filtering • Push message offer quick overview of latest events • Auto switch between high or standard resolution depending on your remote connection • Customize your grid views for multi-device management – Drag and drop cameras where you’d like them, even across multiple DVRs/NVRs • Easily scan timeline and playback to find recordings and events • Instantly capture snapshots or record videos with a tap of your finger • Add snapshots and video to your photo library for safe keeping or to share with family, friends, or colleagues • Listen or speak to whoever is on the other end (Audio support varies by camera model) • Remotely control pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) cameras

Screenshots

EliteCloud4 screens
Luma View4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: EliteCloud at every 5 weeks against Luma View's every 8 months. EliteCloud also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 13%). Luma View's advantage is iOS requirement (12.1 vs 15). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EliteCloud ships an update every 5 weeks, Luma View every 8 months. Both last shipped on October 9, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
EliteCloud versus Luma View: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEliteCloudLuma View
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews32.7% of reviews — better12.9% of reviews
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS1512.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size134 MB104 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArrowhead Alarm ProductsWirepath Home Systems, LLC

Customer experience

EliteCloud

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews52 reviews
Positive32.7%
Neutral3.8%
Negative63.5%

Luma View

Written reviews70 reviews
Positive12.9%
Neutral1.4%
Negative85.7%

User reviews

EliteCloud

From 9 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 User friendly and easy to use
  • 👍 Great system, very pleased
  • 👍 Good value, stable and consistent
  • 👍 Nice upgrade, great app
  • 👍 Works well, solid and easy

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Fails to connect often
  • 🐛 Unreliable connection
  • 🐛 Regularly disconnects
  • 🐛 Slow to connect
  • 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" errors

Luma View

From App Store reviews

What we love

  • ✨ Huge improvement over old app
  • 👍 User-friendly interface
  • 💡 Event snooze function is a home run
  • 🚀 Faster and more user-friendly
  • 🌟 Waterfall view is great

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes on open/launch
  • 🐛 Constantly crashing
  • 🐛 Unreliable
  • 🐛 App changes settings
  • 🐛 Completely breaks and won't open

Bugs and requests

EliteCloud

Reported bugs

89 issues
  • 🐛 Fails to connect
  • 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" errors
  • 🐛 Regularly disconnects
  • 🐛 App crashes
  • 🐛 Stops communicating with keypad
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  • 🐛 Locked out of app
  • 🐛 Does not work with multiple iPhones
  • 🐛 Recent update shut down app
  • 🐛 "Failure to connect" consistently
  • 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" after firmware upgrade
  • 🐛 "Server offline" errors
  • 🐛 "Disconnected from server"
  • 🐛 "Trouble" light with "Line"
  • 🐛 "App keyboard not working"
  • 🐛 "Unable to type or scan code correctly"
  • 🐛 "Bad alarm" goes off for no reason
  • 🐛 Offline alerts when no internet issue
  • 🐛 Constant problems, keeps disconnecting
  • 🐛 "Trouble" problems switching off remotely
  • 🐛 "Connection issues" shows unhealthy
  • 🐛 "Server communication errors"
  • 🐛 "App doesn’t work" incorrect status
  • 🐛 "Controls keep disappearing"
  • 🐛 "Arming" shows disarmed on app
  • 🐛 "Connection issues" logs you out
  • 🐛 Brief blue tick for executed actions, easy to miss
  • 🐛 Struggles to connect despite strong wifi
  • 🐛 App fails to connect, then works when active, fails again after screen lock
  • 🐛 Cannot connect since iOS 17
  • 🐛 Reboots needed for keypad beeping
  • 🐛 Lost connection
  • 🐛 Issues with multiple sites
  • 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" after firmware upgrade
  • 🐛 "Failure to connect" 99.99% of the time
  • 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" yet works when connected
  • 🐛 "Failure to connect" 100% of the time since iOS 17
  • 🐛 "Server offline" more times than can count
  • 🐛 "Disconnected from server" constantly
  • 🐛 "Unreliable" makes me re-login a lot
  • 🐛 UI glitching, wouldn't disarm
  • 🐛 "Poor app" regularly crashing
  • 🐛 "Fail to connect often"
  • 🐛 "Cannot connect at all"
  • 🐛 "Connection is still connection"
  • 🐛 "App doesn’t work"
  • 🐛 "Arming" shows disarmed on app
  • 🐛 "Connection issues" continuously logs out
  • 🐛 "Internet Connection" for 15 days app could not connect
  • 🐛 "Time wasters" server offline
  • 🐛 "Scam company" no support
  • 🐛 "Worse than ever" nothing but problems
  • 🐛 "Elite cloud" too many issues
  • 🐛 "Mr" unstable connection
  • 🐛 "Trouble" problems switching off remotely
  • 🐛 "Basic functionality works, but lacks practical features"
  • 🐛 "Connection issues" shows unhealthy
  • 🐛 "Locked out of app" after cancelling subscription
  • 🐛 "Minor bugs fixed?" recent update shut down app
  • 🐛 "Still not working properly" fails to connect
  • 🐛 "Disappointed" will not work with two iPhones
  • 🐛 "Unreliable" app crashed
  • 🐛 "Slow" very slow to connect
  • 🐛 "Connection issues" shows unhealthy
  • 🐛 "Warning! Scam company" do not support
  • 🐛 "Worse than ever" nothing but problems
  • 🐛 "Elite cloud" too many issues
  • 🐛 "Mr" unstable connection
  • 🐛 "Trouble" problems switching off remotely
  • 🐛 "Not good!" terrible app
  • 🐛 "Fails to Connect" since iOS 17
  • 🐛 "Constant problems" keeps disconnecting
  • 🐛 "Routinely won't connect"
  • 🐛 "Cloud reliability" not reliable
  • 🐛 "I can’t open the app"
  • 🐛 "Online" drops in and out
  • 🐛 "Time wasters" server offline
  • 🐛 "Network issues" disconnected from server
  • 🐛 "Issues with adding alarm" keyboard not working
  • 🐛 "Needs for programming options" trouble light
  • 🐛 "Unreliable" makes me re-login
  • 🐛 "Poor app" crashing
  • 🐛 "Fail to connect often"
  • 🐛 "Almost Perfect!" needs panic button
  • 🐛 "To many server communication errors"
  • 🐛 "Internet Connection" could not connect
  • 🐛 "App doesn’t work" incorrect status
  • 🐛 "Controls keep disappearing"
  • 🐛 "Arming" shows disarmed on app
  • 🐛 "Connection issues" logs you out

Requested features

8 requests
  • 💡 Per-mode notifications
  • 💡 Geofencing automation for arming/disarming
  • 💡 Sensor history logs
  • 💡 Show garage door open/closed status
  • 💡 Panic button option in the app
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  • 💡 Ability to activate Face ID
  • 💡 Schedule arming/disarming times remotely
  • 💡 More programming options in the app

Luma View

Reported bugs

75 issues
  • Crashes on open
  • App changes settings
  • App breaks and won't open
  • Issues with showing recordings or playback
  • Misses footage
Show 70 more
  • Cannot consistently access recordings
  • Continuously quits working on iPhones
  • Notifications not working
  • Cannot see live feed
  • Constantly glitching
  • Notifications stop working
  • Constantly stops working
  • Requires deleting and reinstalling to fix
  • Broken on iOS 26
  • Crashes on Apple devices
  • Clients cannot access cameras
  • Needs update for iOS 26
  • Always offline
  • Reload every time it's used
  • Have to uninstall and install every 3 months for alerts
  • Crashes before loading screen
  • No sound for notifications
  • Doesn't always record
  • Sound not very clear
  • App crashes
  • App won't open
  • App crashes all the time
  • Does not work with iOS 26/iPhone 17 Pro
  • Freezes on startup screen and closes
  • Can't connect
  • Won't launch
  • App does not work with latest iOS
  • App does not launch
  • Incredibly slow
  • Periodically crashes
  • Intrusion alerts stop working
  • Terrible bug for a surveillance system
  • Does not work with iOS 26
  • Black screen with logo then crashes
  • Broken
  • Doesn't work at all
  • Fails to record notifications
  • Doorbell cam issues
  • App hasn't worked from the start
  • No iPad version
  • Difficult to navigate
  • Cannot access desired video point
  • Always something wrong
  • Not very reliable
  • App makes cameras useless
  • Notifications not working
  • App icon notification numbers never reset
  • Connection drops every time app is opened
  • Fails to connect
  • Cannot see cameras
  • Monthly connection issues
  • Barely functional
  • Clunky app
  • Cameras disappear for no reason
  • Rarely functional
  • App skipping
  • Freezes for 3-4 seconds
  • Opening app and seeing cameras is super slow
  • Cameras constantly falling off connection
  • Add Favorite Button missing
  • Sends motion detection messages but devices offline
  • Recent update messed everything up
  • Connection failed in June, can't login in July
  • Forgot password link not sending email
  • New version blows up with 16 channel DVR
  • Connection failed half the time
  • Needs updating
  • Not able to be put on Mac or PC
  • Cannot cast to TV
  • Cannot view on Mac or PC

Requested features

16 requests
  • Distinguish between people, animal, car, package
  • Facial recognition and saving
  • Ability to search by name
  • Search with a single word
  • Add skip ahead function
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  • Add x2 speed option
  • Add iPad version
  • Add Mac or PC version
  • Add ability to cast to TV
  • Add Favorite Button
  • Add dark mode
  • Improve user interface for average user
  • Add ability to distinguish between event types (people, animals, cars, packages)
  • Implement facial recognition
  • Allow searching by name or keyword
  • Add x2 playback speed

In-app purchases

None

EliteCloud

No in-app purchases

None

Luma View

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EliteCloud free?
EliteCloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Luma View free?
Luma View is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do EliteCloud or Luma View have ads?
Neither EliteCloud nor Luma View shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EliteCloud or Luma View?
EliteCloud ships an update every 5 weeks, and Luma View every 8 months. Most recently, EliteCloud was updated on October 9, 2026 and Luma View on October 9, 2026.

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