Mobile Camera Viewer vs mCamView2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mobile Camera Viewer
View live and archived video streams from surveillance cameras connected to a server. Access your security footage remotely from your mobile devices.
- Live video streaming
- Video archive playback
- Connects to Camera Server
- Remote access
- Surveillance footage viewing
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Mobile Camera Viewer allows you to watch live video and video archives from surveillance cameras connected to Camera Server.
mCamView2
View live video from plug-and-play IP cameras on your mobile devices. Access recorded footage remotely and control camera functions like pan and tilt. Receive event logs and temperature monitoring alerts.
- Live IP camera viewing
- On-screen pan/tilt control
- Remote SD Card/NAS/Dropbox playback
- Time Lapse video playback
- Event log and push notifications
- Temperature monitoring
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mCamView2 is the innovative software for viewing the video of plug n play IP Cameras on iPhone/iPod touch/iPad. It is simply enough to just key in the ID/password of the IP camera to see the video from your mobile devices anywhere, anytime. Besides the live video viewing, on-screen pan/tilt control are also supported. The latest features: 1. Time Lapse video playback 2. SD Card/NAS/Dropbox playback remotely 3. Event log 4. Share video to other App 5. Temperature monitoring 6. Hardware video decode for better performance 7. improved video finger zooming 8. Push notification
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Verdict
Mobile Camera Viewer and mCamView2 both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 47% of Mobile Camera Viewer's written reviews are positive against 33% of mCamView2's. mCamView2's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 10 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 — 5.0 for Mobile Camera Viewer against 5.0 for mCamView2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 47% of Mobile Camera Viewer's written reviews are positive against 33% of mCamView2's.
Mobile Camera Viewer ships an update every 10 months, mCamView2 every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Mobile Camera Viewer | mCamView2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 47.1% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 148 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mobile Video Solutions Inc. | Tzu-Lung Chang |
Customer experience
Mobile Camera Viewer
mCamView2
In-app purchases
Mobile Camera Viewer
No in-app purchases
mCamView2
No in-app purchases
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