GuardCMS vs IPmotion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GuardCMS
Access and control your DVR devices remotely from your iPhone. View live feeds, manage alarms, and search playback history with advanced H.264 decoding.
- Remote multiple DVR access
- H.264 decode capability
- Alarm I/O monitoring & control
- PTZ control
- Playback search by time or event
- Audio I/O
- Snapshot
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This application is designed specifically for iPhone users to connect to their DVR device remotely. With the modern state of art technology, practically unlimited number of DVRs can be viewed, monitored and controlled remotely. The main features of this application are: . H.264 decode capability, . Remote multiple DVRs, . Alarm I/O monitoring & control, . PTZ control, . Account manager to access remote DVR, . Playback search by time or event, . Audio I/O, . Snapshot.
IPmotion
Connect your mobile device to IP cameras for live and recorded video playback. Receive motion notifications for cameras with SD card support. Capture snapshots of your camera feeds.
- Connect to IP cameras
- Live video streaming
- SD card video playback
- Motion detection notifications
- Snapshot capture
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IPmotion is a powerful APP designed for connect your mobile device to specific IP Cameras. IPmotion supports push video (motion notification), for those IP Cameras using an SD Card. IPmotion is able to provide live video and playback videos from SD card. Snapshots are also supported on this version.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: IPmotion at 3.0 against GuardCMS's 1.0. IPmotion also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). GuardCMS's advantage is review sentiment (35% vs 0%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). On price, ratings volume, 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.
IPmotion holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 35% of GuardCMS's written reviews are positive against 0% of IPmotion's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
GuardCMS ships an update every 3 months, IPmotion every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GuardCMS | IPmotion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kingdom Communication Associated LTD. | VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM COMPANY |
Customer experience
GuardCMS
IPmotion
In-app purchases
GuardCMS
No in-app purchases
IPmotion
No in-app purchases
