Danale IoT vs Smonet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Danale IoT
Remotely monitor and manage your network video devices like IPC, DVR, and NVR from anywhere. Enjoy live viewing, recording, and device control with cloud storage and alarm notifications.
- Remote monitoring and management
- Live video viewing
- Snapshot and recording
- Pan-Tilt control
- Cloud storage support
- Alarm message push
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Under WIFI or 3G network environment, you could monitor and manage your IPC/DVR/NVR devices anytime and anywhere. 1. Plug-and-Play, easy to use 2. Free to watch, snapshot, record and Pan-Tilt control online videos 3. Support cloud storage service and alarm message push function 4. IPC/DVR/NVR, variable network devices supported
Smonet
This app provides 24-hour mobile remote video surveillance. It features a concise interface with multiple preview options, real-time video streaming, and controls for PTZ cameras. Users can also capture and preserve video recordings.
- 24-hour remote video surveillance
- Real-time video preview
- QR code scanning
- PTZ camera control
- Video capture and preservation
- Concise and fashionable interface
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Smonet—24-hour mobile remote video surveillance client. Interface style is concise and fashionable, multiple preview forms, real-time preview video stream, QR code scanning, PTZ control, video capture, video preservation... More Functionality, waiting for you to find, quickly download it!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Danale IoT at none against Smonet's 13. Danale IoT also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 30 months) and ratings volume (516 vs 36). Smonet's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Smonet sells 13 one-off in-app purchases. Danale IoT asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.9 for Danale IoT against 1.9 for Smonet. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Danale IoT has 516 ratings behind it against 36, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 11% of Danale IoT's written reviews are positive against 3% of Smonet's.
Danale IoT ships an update every 2 months, Smonet every 30 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Danale IoT | Smonet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (516 ratings) | 1.9 (36 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 10.7% of reviews — better | 3.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 516 — better | 36 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 30 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 444 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Danale Inc. | 皎 王 |
Customer experience
Danale IoT
Smonet
Bugs and requests
Danale IoT
Reported bugs
4 issues- App not compatible with latest iOS updates
- Login/registration process not working
- Recorded videos not playing back properly
- Motion detection not triggering consistently
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to view multiple cameras simultaneously
- Implement fast-forward option for recorded videos
- Improve motion detection sensitivity controls
- Allow automatic overwriting of old recordings
Smonet
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Danale IoT
No in-app purchases
Smonet
- Past 3-day Event Video 30 day$4.99
- Past 3-day Full Video 30 day$4.99
- Past 7-day Event Video 30 day$5.99
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- Past 7-day Full Video 30 day$8.99
- Past 3-day Event Video 90 day$9.99
- Past 3-day Full Video 90 day$13.99
- Past 7-day Event Video 90 day$16.99
- Past 7-day Full Video 90 day$25.99
- Past 7-day Event Video 180 day$31.99
- Past 3-day Event Video 360 day$36.99
- Past 7-day Event Video 360 day$59.99
- Past 30-day Full Video 90 day$79.99
- Past 30-day Full Video 360 day$299.99
