Comparison

TDSEE vs Obly

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

Head to head
About

TDSEE

This application provides remote video monitoring capabilities for various smart devices. It offers features like smart tracking, alarm notifications, and two-way audio for comprehensive surveillance in homes, businesses, and warehouses.

Highlights
  • Video monitoring
  • Smart tracking
  • Alarm notification
  • Two-way audio
  • Video playback
  • Remote access
Features
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TDSEE is a super easy-to-use application for smart monitoring. It integrates various features, such as video monitoring, smart tracking, alarm notification, two-way audio, video playback, and so on. Together with the managed smart devices , it can be widely used in homes, enterprises, shops, machine rooms, and warehouses, meeting users' demand for remote video monitoring. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact with our technical support mailto:tendasecurity@tenda.cn. Best regards.

About

Obly

Features
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A link you share says more than where it points. The moment you press "share", a dozen fields are appended to the address: which account pressed the button, from which app, inside which campaign, and to whom the link was handed. They follow the link, not you, which means they follow everybody you send it to. Obly takes them off. FROM ANY SHARE SHEET Share a link the way you already do, pick Obly, and the clean link goes straight on to the person you were sending it to. There is no screen in between and nothing to confirm. You can install Obly and share a link before you have ever opened it. IN THE APP • Paste a link and it comes back clean, already copied. • Every parameter that came off is named, with what it recorded and who it answered to. Nothing is removed silently. • Read a QR code and Obly says what it contains, out loud, in words. It never opens, dials or applies anything by itself: reading is not following. • Carry your settings to another device with a QR code, with no account and no server in the middle. • The rule list keeps itself current: signed, checked, and switchable off. WHAT IT WILL NOT DO A cleaned link that no longer works is a worse outcome than a tracking parameter left on. Obly removes what it knows, from the sites it knows, and leaves everything else alone. A video timestamp, a page anchor, a product variant, a search query: these stay. NO ACCOUNT, NO TELEMETRY A link you paste never leaves the device. There is no account to create, no analytics, no crash reporting, and nothing to opt out of. Two requests are possible, and each is described where it is switched. Once a day, Obly asks obly.link whether the catalogue of tracking parameters has changed, and checks its signature before using any of it: that request carries no cookie and no identifier, it is the same request for everybody, and turning it off keeps the rules this version shipped with. Expanding a shortened link is the other, and it stays off until you turn it on, because it reveals the address to the shortening service. Nothing you paste is ever part of either. The camera is used on one screen, to read a QR code, at the moment you ask for it. Nothing is recorded and no image leaves the device. FREE AND OPEN SOURCE Obly is published by NoobGang, a non-profit association, under the Apache 2.0 licence. The whole thing is readable at github.com/charlie404/obly, including the catalogue of rules: you can check what it removes, and from where, without taking anyone’s word for it.

Screenshots

TDSEE4 screens
Obly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Obly at none against TDSEE's 19. TDSEE's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. TDSEE sells 19 one-off in-app purchases. Obly asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TDSEE versus Obly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTDSEEObly
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (51 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews20.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShenzhen Tenda Technology Co.,Ltd.NOOBGANG

Bugs and requests

TDSEE

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • App crashes on microphone activation
  • Login verification loops and account recognition failures
  • QR code scanning not working
  • Camera shows offline despite being online
  • Video playback shows 'no video' despite recordings existing
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  • Full-screen mode causes image rotation and freezing
  • App freezes when opening multiple cameras
  • Slow or infinite loading when accessing camera feeds
  • Alarm videos fail to load or display
  • App crashes after recent iOS/Android updates
  • Camera connection drops after updates
  • Notifications sent from disconnected cameras
  • PTZ camera controls not functioning properly
  • Image loading stuck on black screen
  • Two-way audio cuts out over mobile data
  • Album/recordings disappear after updates
  • Device turn-off button missing after updates

Requested features

16 requests
  • iPad/tablet optimized version
  • Multi-camera grid/mosaic view
  • Picture-in-picture mode
  • Automated scheduling with day-of-week selection
  • Multiple cloud storage provider options
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  • Desktop/PC application support
  • Fast-forward and frame-by-frame playback
  • Privacy mode/camera disable button
  • Customizable notification sounds
  • Screen timeout prevention option
  • Keyboard shortcuts for quick actions
  • PIN code protection for app access
  • Multi-device simultaneous access
  • Adjustable two-way audio volume
  • Automatic multi-camera display
  • Scene and automation creation

Obly

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

19 purchases

TDSEE

One-time19
  • 7 Days Detection 2 (1 month)$2.99
  • 7 Days Detection (1 month)$3.99
  • 7 Days Detection 2 (1 month)$5.99
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  • 30 Days Detection 2 (1 month)$6.99
  • 30 Days Detection (1 month)$9.99
  • 7 Days Detection (1year)$9.99
  • 30 Days Detection 2 (1 month)$15.95
  • 7 Days Detection (2year)$17.99
  • 7 Days Detection (6 month)$21.99
  • 7 Days Detection 2 (12 months)$22.99
  • 7 Days Detection 2 (6 months)$34.99
  • 7 Days Detection (12 month)$39.99
  • 30 Days Detection 2 (6 months)$39.99
  • 30 Days Detection (2year)$49.99
  • 7 Days Detection 2 (12 months)$59.90
  • 30 Days Detection (6 month)$59.99
  • 7 Days Detection (forever)$59.99
  • 30 Days Detection 2 (12months)$59.99
  • 30 Days Detection (12month)$99.99
None

Obly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TDSEE free?
TDSEE is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Obly free?
Obly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TDSEE or Obly have ads?
Neither TDSEE nor Obly shows ads.

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