Mobile.eye vs CamViewer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mobile.eye
This app transforms any wall into an augmented reality canvas. Place text notes in a real-world location and save them to revisit later. It's ideal for reminders, checklists, or spatial memory aids.
- AR canvas on any wall
- Place and save text notes
- Revisit notes on-site
- Local and account sync options
- Spatial memory aid
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Launch app → tap Guest → AR canvas is available without login/registration. Mobile Eye turns any wall into a reusable AR canvas. Scan a wall, drop text in place, and save it to revisit later on-site. 30-second script: “Ever wish you could leave a note in a real location and see it again exactly where it belongs?” “With PlaneTracker, point your camera at a wall, the app locks onto it, and you place text in AR instantly.” “Save it locally or sync it to your account so you can return later and pull it back up on the map.” “Perfect for reminders, on-site checklists, room labels, project notes, or quick spatial memory.” “PlaneTracker. Your real-world notes, anchored in place.”
CamViewer
View all your IP cameras live and side-by-side without cloud accounts or subscriptions. Connect directly to your cameras over RTSP within your local network. Upgrade for unlimited cameras, recording, and snapshots.
- Multi-camera grid view
- Fullscreen playback
- Synology NAS recording playback
- Customizable stream quality
- Network camera scanning
- Configuration import/export
- Privacy-focused local network streaming
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All your IP cameras in one app, side by side and live. No cloud account, no pairing, no subscription: CamViewer talks straight to your cameras over RTSP, and your footage never leaves your own network. FREE TO USE: PRO TO UNLOCK MORE Start viewing up to 4 cameras for free. Upgrade to CamViewer Pro for unlimited cameras, recording, snapshots, and all premium features. MULTI-CAMERA GRID VIEW View multiple cameras simultaneously in an adaptive grid layout. Drag and drop to reorder cameras exactly how you want them. Swipe between pages to monitor even more. Each stream is hardware-accelerated for smooth, low-latency playback. FULLSCREEN EXPERIENCE Tap any camera to go fullscreen. Pro users can record video clips, take snapshots to their photo library, and use pinch-to-zoom. A stats overlay shows resolution, bitrate, and frame rate in real time. PLAYBACK WITH A SYNOLOGY NAS Sometimes you do not want to know what is happening now, but what happened an hour ago. If you run a Synology NAS with Surveillance Station, CamViewer reads its recordings directly: pick a camera, pick a day and drag to the moment you are after. Your footage stays on your own NAS, nothing goes to a cloud. SHARP WHERE IT MATTERS Choose high or low quality per camera. Give the big tiles the full stream and the small ones a light substream, so a wall of cameras stays smooth and your network stays quiet. BUILT FOR A WALL DISPLAY Leave an iPad on the wall and let it run. The screen stays awake, and the blue buttons fade out after a delay you choose, so there is nothing to look at but your cameras. A tap or a swipe brings them back. CAMERA MANAGEMENT Add, edit, delete, and reorder your cameras with ease. Just enter your RTSP stream URL and you're live. No account creation, no device pairing, just direct connections. WORKS WITH 100+ CAMERA BRANDS CamViewer uses standard RTSP, which means it works with virtually every IP camera on the market: Hikvision, Dahua, Reolink, Amcrest, Axis, UniFi, Foscam, TP-Link, Eufy, and many more. FINDS YOUR CAMERAS FOR YOU Scan your network for ONVIF cameras, or point CamViewer at a go2rtc server and pick the streams you want in one step. The scan asks each camera for a working stream instead of guessing, and tells you plainly when a username, password or path is wrong. IMPORT & EXPORT Back up your entire camera configuration to a .camview file. Restore it on another device or share it with family members. Setting up a new phone takes seconds, not hours. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Your camera feeds go straight from your cameras to your device, within your local network or VPN. To improve the app, CamViewer sends usage statistics without your name or account, such as which features are used, the app version, device model, iOS version and language setting. Your camera images, camera passwords and stream addresses are never sent to us. CAMVIEWER PRO: ONE-TIME PURCHASE - Unlimited cameras (free: up to 4) - Video recording & snapshots - Playback of recordings (Synology Surveillance Station) - Picture-in-Picture while you use other apps - Stream statistics overlay - Pinch-to-zoom in fullscreen - License plate overlay (with server) Pay once, unlock forever. No subscription. Terms of Use: https://camviewer.app/#terms Privacy Policy: https://camviewer.app/#privacy REQUIREMENTS - IP cameras with RTSP support - iPhone or iPad on the same local network as your cameras (or connected via VPN) - iOS 17.0 or later
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mobile.eye at none against CamViewer's 1. CamViewer's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). 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. CamViewer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mobile.eye asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mobile.eye against 5.0 for CamViewer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Mobile.eye ships an update every 2 months, CamViewer every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Mobile.eye | CamViewer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yifan Du | Michel Franciscus Maria Helsdingen |
Customer experience
Mobile.eye
CamViewer
In-app purchases
Mobile.eye
No in-app purchases
CamViewer
- CamViewer Pro$9.99
Questions
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