Exacq Mobile 3 vs HonView Touch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Exacq Mobile 3
Access live and recorded video surveillance footage from exacqVision servers. View up to 48 cameras across multiple servers, control PTZ cameras, and manage triggers directly from your mobile device.
- Live video viewing
- Recorded video playback
- Connect to multiple servers
- PTZ camera control
- Trigger monitoring and control
- Video search functionality
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The Exacq Mobile app allows users to view live and recorded video from exacqVision IP and hybrid servers. Connect and view up to 48 surveillance cameras from multiple exacqVision servers through the free exacqVision web service. Control pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras, monitor and control triggers, view and search video, and more from your mobile device.
HonView Touch
Access and manage your Honeywell recorders remotely. This software allows for convenient viewing and control of your recording devices from any location.
- Remote access to recorders
- Recorder management
- View recordings remotely
- Control recording devices
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Exacq Mobile 3 at every 2 months against HonView Touch's every 8 months. HonView Touch's advantage is iOS requirement (8.2 vs 12.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.6 for Exacq Mobile 3 against 1.6 for HonView Touch. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 293 and 150 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 7% of Exacq Mobile 3's written reviews are positive against 5% of HonView Touch's.
Exacq Mobile 3 ships an update every 2 months, HonView Touch every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Exacq Mobile 3 | HonView Touch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (293 ratings) | 1.6 (150 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 6.8% of reviews — better | 4.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 293 — better | 150 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 8.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Exacq Technologies, Inc | Honeywell International, Inc. |
Customer experience
Exacq Mobile 3
HonView Touch
User reviews
Exacq Mobile 3
From 293 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great viewer for IP cameras
- 🚀 Nice user interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Buggy and unstable
- 🐛 Unreliable connection
- 🐛 Pixelated video quality
- 🐛 Difficult to use
HonView Touch
From 150 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Works like a champ (historically)
- 👍 Simple and effective (French review)
- 👍 Good video quality (French review)
Room to improve
- 🐛 App is garbage/trash/worthless
- 🐛 Difficult to connect/connects intermittently
- 🐛 Not user-friendly/clunky/hard to navigate
- 🐛 Slow performance
- 🐛 No regular/timely updates
Bugs and requests
Exacq Mobile 3
Reported bugs
5 issues- Cameras not populating in the app
- Video feeds not loading or timing out
- Inability to login or connect to servers
- Crashing and freezing issues after updates
- Incompatibility with newer iOS and Android versions
Requested features
5 requests- Bring back multi-panel view
- Add ability to delete/change cameras
- Improve search and playback functionality
- Optimize for mobile devices and newer OS versions
- Provide better documentation and user guides
HonView Touch
Reported bugs
55 issues- Failed to connect to security system
- Cannot access/download/watch anything
- Password reset/retrieval not possible
- Does not work with Google Fiber mesh router
- Not receiving motion detection notifications on iOS
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- App constantly crashes, requires reboot
- Notifications stopped working, then alerts cannot be turned off individually
- App is years behind competition, difficult video review
- Time picker in playback mode does not work with iOS14
- Cameras will not load after iOS 14 update
- App crashes frequently upon opening
- Latest update deleted time feature in past footage review
- P2P update not working on app
- Cannot search by times in playback
- New iPhone heats up when watching camera
- App no longer works on iPhone XS-Max iOS14
- Hasn’t worked since upgrading iPhone to iOS14
- Cannot watch previous recordings (time selection)
- App is trash on iPad
- App quit connecting to cameras, requires reload
- Cannot access cameras most of the time, won't connect after reinstall
- App has little or no documentation or usage instruction
- Motion notifications suddenly stopped working
- App does not support live audio
- App takes me back to 1980s disk operating systems
- Last update has buggered everything up, unable to dial in
- Cannot access cameras after last update, timeout errors
- Scrolling between hours in playback no longer possible
- Cameras take a very long time to load
- Live video no longer works
- Motion notifications no longer come through since June 2018 update
- Remote video viewing not working, 'failed to connect'
- Program updated, now only says 'failed to connect'
- Stopped working, cannot connect, cannot see live preview
- App rarely loads live feeds since new update/redesign
- Every other month something goes wrong, requires security company visit
- Will not connect for several days
- Unable to delete favorites
- Push notifications are still broken
- Can’t log in
- App allows real-time viewing but not recording history access
- Works only when at home on WiFi, cannot view away from home
- New updated app has connection problems, no tech support
- Notifications show up but cannot open app to view alarm
- Low light viewing has become atrocious after update
- Privacy policy pages don’t have a way to accept and exit, making app unusable
- Cannot find recorded footage, cameras reload each time screens change
- Update displays only half the screen
- Not working on cellular data after update, works on WiFi
- Have to re-add cameras every time to monitor
- Cannot play back video from cameras
- App hasn’t received push notifications in over a month
- Playback is a failure, glitching when trying to select time/camera
- Stopped working after iOS 10.01 update
- App is riddled with bugs, features don't work
Requested features
11 requests- Update for latest iOS with improvements
- Allow immediate live view on app open
- Improve time picker for playback
- Add audio support
- Improve low light viewing
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- Allow saving video clips to phone
- Provide better documentation/usage instructions
- Modernize app interface (lessons from ADT Pulse)
- Allow deletion of favorites
- Enable push notifications
- Fix privacy policy acceptance issue
In-app purchases
Exacq Mobile 3
No in-app purchases
HonView Touch
No in-app purchases
Questions
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