CamViewer vs Multiple Camera Viewer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Multiple Camera Viewer
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See all of your home's cameras at once. Multiple Camera Viewer shows the cameras you've set up in the Apple Home app side by side, live, in the layout that suits the moment: a grid, picture in picture, a split screen, or a full-screen tour. THREE LAYOUTS • Grid: one to four columns. Show each camera's whole picture, or switch to fill and every camera reaches the edges of the screen with no black bars. • Picture in Picture: one camera fills the screen and the others float in windows you can drag, resize and snap into place. Double-tap a window to swap it into the main view. • Split: stack cameras side by side or top to bottom, then drag the dividers to give each camera the space it needs. CAMERA TOUR Turn your phone, tablet or Mac into a monitor. Each camera takes the whole screen in turn, every 5 to 60 seconds, with a smooth crossfade. The next camera starts connecting before its turn, so it appears ready to watch. Tap to skip ahead, double-tap to switch between filling the screen and showing the whole picture, and drag or pinch to frame the shot. DOORBELL AND MOTION When someone rings a doorbell camera, that camera gets your attention: it takes the main view in Picture in Picture or a tour, gets a live stream, and is outlined with a "Doorbell" badge. Turn on motion too, and a camera that sees movement is brought forward the same way, without flipping back and forth every time the trees move. Works while the app is open. FRAME EACH CAMERA YOUR WAY Drag to reposition and pinch to zoom on any camera. Each camera remembers its framing, so the driveway stays centered on the driveway. SMART ABOUT LIVE STREAMS On iPad and Mac at home, every camera can stream live. iPhone, and any device away from home (where Apple allows two live streams at a time), keeps the cameras you're watching live and shows the rest as regularly refreshed snapshots. Tap any camera to bring it live. A colored dot on each camera shows whether it's live, a snapshot, connecting or offline. IPHONE, IPAD, MAC AND IPHONE DUO The same app runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. On Mac, resize the window to any shape. On iPhone Duo, your cameras stay on screen as you fold and unfold, and in tabletop mode (half folded, standing on a table) the main camera fills the top half while the others wait as tiles on the bottom half. AND MORE • Live audio from any camera, one at a time • Keep the screen awake while you watch • Show or hide camera names, reorder cameras, and hide the ones you don't need • Built-in stream diagnostics to help troubleshoot a slow or stubborn camera PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking and no analytics. Video goes straight from your cameras to your device through Apple's Home framework, and your layout is saved only on your device. FREE Multiple Camera Viewer is free, made by an independent developer. If you find it useful, there's an optional tip jar in the app. REQUIREMENTS Cameras set up in the Apple Home app. iOS 17, iPadOS 17 or macOS 14 or later.
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Verdict
CamViewer and Multiple Camera Viewer are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 and Multiple Camera Viewer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CamViewer ships an update every 5 days, Multiple Camera Viewer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CamViewer | Multiple Camera Viewer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michel Franciscus Maria Helsdingen | Richard Pak |
In-app purchases
CamViewer
- CamViewer Pro$9.99
Multiple Camera Viewer
- Small tip$0.99
- Medium tip$4.99
- Large tip$9.99
Questions
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