Bluelane vs Speco Blue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bluelane
Effortlessly share your live location and travel route with others via a simple web link. No app installation or account creation is required for viewers. Ideal for safety, travel, and keeping loved ones updated on your progress during activities or commutes.
- Real-time GPS location tracking
- Shareable web links for live tracking
- No app or account needed for viewers
- Route history and viewer statistics
- Export routes to GPX format
- Offline tracking capabilities
- Add pins and photos to routes
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Let them follow along. Share your live location and route with one simple link. Heading home, meeting friends or out for a weekend ride? With Bluelane Pro, send a link and let the people who matter follow your progress on a map. They can watch in their browser on a phone, tablet or computer, without installing an app or creating an account. KEEP MORE THAN THE DESTINATION • Record walks, runs, bike rides, road trips and everyday journeys with GPS. • Revisit saved routes with distance and duration in your route history. • Mark places and add photos along the way with Pro. • Import GPX files, and export your own routes with Pro. • Start and stop recording from Apple Watch, connected to your iPhone. START FREE. GO FURTHER WITH PRO. Record up to 5 routes in any 7-day period for free, with access to your route history. Bluelane Pro adds unlimited recording, live location and route sharing, map pins with photos, and GPX export. Pro requires a subscription. YOU CHOOSE WHEN TO SHARE Start sharing when you're ready. Anyone with your link can view the route, including people it is forwarded to. Stopping recording ends new location updates; the existing shared route remains viewable. Record routes even without an internet connection. Live sharing requires internet, and updates resume when your device reconnects. Terms and Conditions: https://bluelane.io/tos Privacy Policy: https://bluelane.io/privacy
Speco Blue
Access and manage Speco Technologies' NR and HR recorders remotely. View live feeds, playback recordings, take snapshots, and receive event notifications. The app also allows for local recording and two-way audio communication.
- Live video streaming
- Playback recorded video and audio
- Snapshot capture and sending
- Local video recording
- Event push notifications
- Remote recorder settings adjustment
- Two-way audio communication
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Use Speco Blue to access Speco Technologies' NR and HR models of recorders for the following: - Live view of all channels - Playback of previously recorded video and audio - Take and send snapshots of any channel - Record video to your local device - Receive push notifications of events and tap to directly view on Speco Blue - Change certain remote settings of your recorder - 2-Way audio communication - Analytics search of recordings from NR recorders
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bluelane at 4.3 against Speco Blue's 3.1. Bluelane also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (71% vs 47%). Speco Blue's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Bluelane sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Speco Blue asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bluelane holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 119 and 101 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Bluelane's written reviews are positive against 47% of Speco Blue's.
Bluelane ships an update fortnightly, Speco Blue every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bluelane | Speco Blue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (119 ratings) — better | 3.1 (101 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.2% of reviews — better | 46.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 119 — better | 101 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 7 sols media d.o.o. | Components Specialties, Inc |
Customer experience
Bluelane
Speco Blue
User reviews
Bluelane
From 119 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and share
- 🚀 Real-time tracking accuracy
- 🗺️ Good map integration
- ✅ Works as advertised
- 🔋 Efficient battery usage (in some modes)
Room to improve
- 💰 Subscription model unpopular
- 💸 Price increase criticized
- 🔋 High battery consumption (in some modes)
- 🐛 Tracking pauses in background
- 📉 Loss of old routes after update
Speco Blue
From 101 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 🚀 Fast and responsive performance (when working)
- 💡 Two-way audio communication
- 💡 Analytics search feature
- 💡 Snapshot feature
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes
- 🐛 Inconsistent performance
- 🐛 Clunky and hard to navigate design
- 🐛 Doesn't work on iPad
- 🐛 Buttons cease to function
Bugs and requests
Bluelane
Reported bugs
16 issues- Share live tracking requires payment after purchase
- App no longer saves maps
- Tracking pauses when running in background
- New version lost old routes
- Apple Watch tracking requires iPhone nearby
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- App keeps shutting off, has to be resumed
- Marked locations too easy to accidentally click and can't remove
- Tracking stops even with 'always' permission
- Tech-support unavailable
- Live tracking pauses when running in background (recent update)
- Location visible after sharing stops
- Hangs after switching to another app, no background tracking
- Loses large parts of track when data connection is not present
- Does not show current speed
- No bugs found (but user asks about storage)
- Screen lock out issue for OTR drivers
Requested features
19 requests- Ability to print screen info
- Download GPX files from website
- Mark points of interest on map
- Download maps
- Google Maps integration
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- Add speed to screen/map
- Metric system option
- Exportable track data stats (pace, speed, etc.)
- See geolocation in relation to tracker
- Notification when tracking ends
- Ability to talk to user while tracking
- Proximity alerts
- Street View integration
- Expiration on tracking function
- Icon glow when tracking is on
- Record position and add comments
- Disable screen lock out
- Import custom maps
- Dedicated, persistent tracking URL
Speco Blue
Reported bugs
29 issues- Menu comes and goes at will
- Buttons to view camera or review past footage cease to function
- Defaults to unviewable substream settings
- App keeps crashing on iPhone 14 Pro and 13
- Connection of NVR server loses signal randomly
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- Constantly crashing, not able to connect, unexplained logouts
- Bugs and issues with iOS 17, consistently crashing
- App crashes immediately when trying to add a location on iPhone 15 Pro
- App crashes every time you turn to landscape mode on iOS 17
- Can't access camera during business on new iPhone 15 Pro Max
- App keeps freezing and crashes if you go to landscape mode
- Logs you out anytime then you have to reset all over again
- When watching a camera, it downgrades resolutions
- Event notifications not working with iOS 16.5.1
- App is not compatible with iPad operating system 16.3
- Cannot play back anything, playback shows black screen with 'camera not connected'
- Playback is sketchy and sluggish, implodes every few minutes
- App is unusable on iPad OS 16 with Stage Manager
- App struggles with switching from portrait to landscape mode on iPad
- App icons in the top left and right corners are hard to access due to stretched view on iPhone 14 Pro Max
- New update dislikes auto resolution function where app lowers camera viewing resolution
- App crashes any time I try to view more than five cameras
- App is the biggest battery drain ever
- App does not work well on iPhone 13
- App crashed after less than 2 months
- Cannot get app to work to view live feed and recorded
- Cannot see anything with the new orange colors on intelligence view playback
- App will not connect to the NVR after a power outage until you reboot NVR, generate a new QR code and reconfigure app
- Nothing works when needed most
Requested features
14 requests- Allow admin access from app for editing settings and receiving motion notifications
- Improve default substream settings for Speco profile
- Allow changing notification sound
- Implement full setting configurations in the app (like on NVR)
- Improve UX/UI design to match competitors
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- Make app work in landscape mode on iPad
- Create an iPad-specific version that utilizes screen real estate
- Remove auto resolution function
- Optimize for new iPhones (dynamic island)
- Allow viewing notifications in the app without push notifications
- Improve fast forward speed in playback
- Fix playback slowing down
- Allow viewing more than five cameras without crashing
- Reduce battery drain
In-app purchases
Bluelane
- Weekly Pro Subscription$4.997 Days
- Monthly Pro Subscription$9.991 Month
- Quarterly Pro Subscription7 Days trial$29.993 Months
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- Annual Pro Subscription7 Days trial$47.991 Year
Speco Blue
No in-app purchases
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