baseus Security vs CYVIO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
baseus Security
Access live video feeds and motion detection recordings from your home security system. Review footage remotely from your phone, ensuring peace of mind and the ability to check in on your property anytime, anywhere.
- Live video streaming
- Motion detection recording
- Remote access from phone
- Review security footage
- Anytime, anywhere access
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baseus Security app provided live video and motion detection recording service,just access from your phone to review your home security anytime, anywhere.
CYVIO
Monitor your home security remotely with live camera feeds and recorded footage. Interact with family or deter intruders using two-way talk, and receive instant alerts for motion or unusual sounds. Enjoy features like night vision and 360-degree panoramas for comprehensive surveillance.
- Remote live camera view
- Multi-device control
- Super HD video playback
- Night vision and smart lights
- Two-way audio communication
- Real-time motion/sound alerts
- 360-degree panorama generation
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Enjoy a smarter and safer home security with CYVIO App. Key features of CYVIO App: 1. Remote access for camera’s live view with internet connected when you want. 2. Allows to add multiple devices and control them in only one App. 3. See pictures and watch videos from the cameras with super HD resolution. 4. Get colorful night pictures and control smart night lights given by the cameras. 5. Play lullabies to interact with the babies at anytime and anywhere you want. 6. Interact with your family members or warn intruders with the two-way talk. 7. Push real-time notifications when human motion or abnormal sound is detected by the cameras. 8. Helps to generate 360-degree panorama for easy rotation of the pan-tilt cameras. 9. Allows to access the cameras locally to view the images and videos recorded by the cameras. 10. Easily monitor your home security with the user-friendly features on the App interface.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CYVIO at 100% against baseus Security's 29%. CYVIO also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5). baseus Security's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). 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.
CYVIO holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 127 and 66 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of baseus Security's written reviews are positive against 100% of CYVIO's.
baseus Security ships an update every 3 weeks, CYVIO every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | baseus Security | CYVIO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (127 ratings) | 4.8 (66 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 127 — better | 66 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 209 MB | 215 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 深圳市倍思科技有限公司 | Eyze(Hongkong)Co., Limited |
Customer experience
baseus Security
CYVIO
Bugs and requests
baseus Security
Reported bugs
50 issues- App does not register well
- Cannot zoom photos
- Slow app performance
- Notifications are too late to view events
- Recordings happen randomly
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- Cannot see footage stored until a couple of minutes
- Service is down
- Cannot see cameras
- Cannot add cameras back
- Cameras not functioning after update
- All devices disappeared after update
- Cannot connect a homestation anymore
- Cameras disappeared from account
- App instability for displaying cameras
- Layout is a bit wrong
- Back button disappears when accessing camera
- App very slow to respond to live footage
- Live footage often times out
- Cannot connect remotely from external Wi-Fi
- Cannot watch remotely
- Only works on local network
- No internet access
- Device does not work in Russia
- App does not work on mobile internet in Russia
- App does not warn about Russia region limitation
- Cannot turn camera on/off after last update
- Time is incorrect on one camera
- Camera and app do not work in Russia
- Not warned about Russia region limitation by sellers
- Not recording traffic until it's almost gone
- Reports come much too late
- Cannot connect to TV
- App glitches
- Camera glitches
- Base station stopped seeing cameras
- Tech support unresponsive
- Cannot connect to home network
- No feedback from support
- Lost time
- Start page showed only 2 devices on iPad
- Had to awkwardly shift device order on iPad
- Only portrait mode on iPad
- No landscape mode on iPad
- App not supported in Russia
- Registration not possible after installing app
- Password requirement error despite meeting criteria
- iPad does not convert to full screen like mobile
- Notifications stopped working for all devices
- Have to manually change mode of each camera
- No way to change mode across all devices
Requested features
10 requests- Add filter to view cameras
- Unified view for all cameras
- Ability to connect to TV
- Remote viewing
- Support for Russia region
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- Support for Bangladesh region
- Full screen streaming on iPad
- Landscape mode for iPad
- Option to switch modes across all devices
- Function to detect when devices are not in HomeStation network and switch to notification mode
CYVIO
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
baseus Security
No in-app purchases
CYVIO
No in-app purchases
