Comparison

Funnel vs CamRelay

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Funnel

Quickly capture thoughts, tasks, notes, photos, sketches, and songs to your favorite apps. Integrates with popular productivity tools and offers convenient widgets for instant access.

Highlights
  • Capture tasks to multiple to-do apps
  • Send notes and photos to PKM apps
  • Capture sketches and calendar events
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets
  • Shortcuts and Share Sheet support
  • Built-in document scanner
  • Song capture via Shazam integration
Features
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Funnel allows you to effortlessly capture your thoughts and moments to various apps and services. The inspiration to capture something quickly comes from ideas written by David Allen, in his book Getting Things Done. Features: ======= • Capture tasks to Reminders, Todoist, OmniFocus or Things with due dates in natural language. • Capture notes and photos to a variety of popular note taking and personal knowledge management apps. • Capture sketches and calendar events • Beautiful Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets • Shortcuts Support • A built in document scanner. • Use Shazam to capture your songs directly to your apps. • iCloud Sync for your Destinations • A timeline showing your recent captures • A selection of delightful app icons to pick from. • A lock screen widget to easily access Funnel from your lock screen. • Drag and drop images or text from other apps into Funnel. • Once you capture something with Funnel, Funnel also provides you with a link to easily switch to the newly captured item. • Long press the Funnel icon for quick home screen actions. • Integration with the iOS Share Sheet (currently within the Funnel app only) • Dynamic Island/Live Activities Support • Control Center Widgets Creating Destinations: ================ To link Funnel to your note-taking or task management apps, navigate to the 'Destination' Tab, select 'Add New Destination', and choose an app from the provided list. After adding a Destination, you can click on it for further customization. You can also define templates that get appended or prepended along with your capture. Your Destinations and the order of your Destinations are all synced to your private iCloud account. Funnel offers 30 captures for free, and then requires a subscription or a lifetime purchase. All Yearly Subscriptions come with a 1-week free trial. Enjoy Funneling! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

CamRelay

Features
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CamRelay turns your old iPhone or iPad into a private baby monitor, pet camera, or room monitor over your local Wi‑Fi. Watch the live view from another phone, tablet, or computer in the same network, without creating an account or sending your video to the cloud. Use CamRelay to: Turn a spare iPhone or iPad into a baby monitor. Check on pets while you are in another room. Watch a bedroom, nursery, living room, entryway, or office. Reuse an old device instead of buying a dedicated camera. Features: Live camera streaming over local Wi‑Fi. Open the live view from another device in the same network. Simple setup with local link. Works well with spare or older iPhone and iPad devices. Private by design, with no account required. Ideal for baby monitoring, pet watching, and room supervision. Why CamRelay: No complicated setup. No mandatory sign-in. No cloud dependency for the core local viewing experience. A simple way to give a second life to your unused Apple devices. Private home monitoring made simple with the devices you already own.

Screenshots

Funnel4 screens
CamRelay3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: CamRelay at 3 against Funnel's 1. CamRelay also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Funnel sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and CamRelay sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Funnel versus CamRelay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFunnelCamRelay
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (47 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings47 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB3 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperNoteSight Labs ApSLuan Cu Xuan

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Funnel

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime: Early Discount$39.99
  • Lifetime$49.99
1 purchases

CamRelay

One-time1
  • CamRelay Pro Lifetime$6.99

Questions

Is Funnel free?
Funnel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CamRelay free?
CamRelay is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Funnel or CamRelay have ads?
Neither Funnel nor CamRelay shows ads.

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