VideoLink vs XMV
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VideoLink
Remotely connect and manage your home's intelligent webcams and video recorders. View real-time video, capture footage, record, and communicate with two-way audio. Receive intelligent alarm notifications for enhanced home security.
- Remote camera connection
- Real-time video viewing
- Video recording
- Voice call and intercom
- Intelligent alarm push
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VideoLink is a tool application for remotely connecting and managing home intelligent webcam, intelligent video recorder and other products. It can uniformly manage security products in the WIFI or mobile network environment, and can realize real-time video viewing, capture, video recording, voice call, real-time intercom, intelligent alarm push and other functions
XMV
This remote monitoring software allows for live video streaming, recording, and playback of footage. It also supports taking snapshots and receiving push notifications for alerts.
- Live video streaming
- Video recording
- Video playback
- Remote video playback
- Snapshot capture
- Push notification service
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XMV is a remote monitoring software with live video streaming, video recording and playback, video remote playback, snapshots and other features, while also supports push notification service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: XMV at 100% against VideoLink's 5%. XMV also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.8). VideoLink's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (40 vs 3). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
XMV holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VideoLink has 40 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 5% of VideoLink's written reviews are positive against 100% of XMV's.
VideoLink ships an update monthly, XMV every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VideoLink | XMV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (40 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 5.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 156 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 强 李 | GenIV Technology |
Customer experience
VideoLink
XMV
In-app purchases
VideoLink
No in-app purchases
XMV
No in-app purchases
