eMessenger vs AXIS Camera Station Pro & 5
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
eMessenger
This app transforms mobile devices into mobile command centers for emergency alerting and response management. It integrates facility alarms for comprehensive situational awareness, enabling real-time threat information delivery for faster, more efficient responses.
- Mobile command and control centers
- Intuitive dashboards for situational awareness
- Color-coded alerts from disparate systems
- Receive and initiate detailed alerts
- Escalate alerts and response management
- Approximate location data for alarm sources
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Description: SARA’s eMessenger Mobile is an advanced alerting capability of Status Solutions’ Situational Awareness and Response Assistant (SARA), an automated alerting engine that provides integrated alarm monitoring, alerting/mass notification and reporting. SARA’s eMessenger Mobile turns Apple iPhone and iPad devices into mobile command and control centers for emergency alerting and response management. All life safety, security and environmental controls within a facility can be integrated with SARA for a single point of alarm management and therefore complete situational awareness. And with situational awareness comes the ability to deliver information about potential threats in real time to virtually any communication device – especially mobile ones equipped with SARA’s eMessenger Mobile – for faster, more efficient response, especially in an emergency. Organizations can retire obsolete communication technologies, such as pagers, and expand their use of mobile devices for greater flexibility and situational awareness in the palms of users’ hands. Responders then can deal with an unfolding event more quickly, initiate alerts and associated response plans more effectively, and escalate/notify others as necessary – all from one interface. Therefore, SARA’s eMessenger Mobile is critical to and unique in risk management because it: +Turns mobile devices into command and control centers with intuitive dashboards for situational awareness and response management +Delivers color-coded alerts from disparate alarm systems across a single facility, multi-building campus or large enterprise +Allows users to receive and initiate detailed alerts, including the nature of an alarm plus location data +Escalates alerting and response management by enabling key individuals or select groups of responders to be notified in a single touch +Provides approximate location data so clinicians and staff can locate an alarm source more quickly Command and control on the go and the ability to read, hear, see, do and then analyze information for real-time situational awareness is what SARA’s eMessenger Mobile makes possible for any organization.
AXIS Camera Station Pro & 5
Access and manage your video surveillance and access control systems remotely. View live feeds, search recorded events, and respond to alerts. Control doors, manage intercoms, and utilize advanced camera features for comprehensive security oversight.
- Mobile access to multiple systems
- Timeline visualization for recorded events
- Live view with selectable streaming profiles
- Two-way audio and intercom communication
- Access control for doors
- Notifications for immediate actions
- PTZ control and 360 camera dewarping
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Mobile app for AXIS Camera Station Pro & 5 - Powerful and flexible video management and access control. Main features: • Mobile access to multiple systems • Quickly find and view recorded events with timeline visualization • Export of recordings • Notifications to take immediate actions • Live view with selectable streaming profiles • Two-way audio from camera in live view • Respond to calls from Axis network intercoms • Support for action buttons to play pre-recorded audio messages, control I/O, etc. • Mechanical and digital PTZ pre-sets for fast navigation • 360 camera dewarping • Custom views with support for camera, split and folder views • Scheduling of notifications from local and port-mapped systems • Access control features such as locking/unlocking doors, overriding/resuming schedules, and monitoring door status Setup: Requires AXIS Camera Station version 5.38 or later. Setup information at www.axis.com/products/axis-camera-station Release notes at www.axis.com/ftp/pub_soft/cam_srv/ACS_iOS/latest/relnote.txt
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: eMessenger at 4.0 against AXIS Camera Station Pro & 5's 2.9. eMessenger also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). AXIS Camera Station Pro & 5's advantage is review sentiment (25% vs 0%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
eMessenger holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AXIS Camera Station Pro & 5 has 107 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of eMessenger's written reviews are positive against 25% of AXIS Camera Station Pro & 5's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
eMessenger ships an update every 2 months, AXIS Camera Station Pro & 5 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | eMessenger | AXIS Camera Station Pro & 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (11 ratings) — better | 2.9 (107 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 107 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Status Solutions | AXIS Communications AB |
Customer experience
eMessenger
AXIS Camera Station Pro & 5
Bugs and requests
eMessenger
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
AXIS Camera Station Pro & 5
Reported bugs
121 issues- Camera view turns magenta/pink
- Cannot see cameras with latest update
- Title bar takes up too much space
- Cannot access IOS app with same credentials
- No secure entry app
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- App crashes when opening certain cameras
- Constant motion alerts in app
- Time increments disappearing
- Motion viewing skips entire days of data
- Updates purge systems and passwords
- Cameras never load after update
- Never connects to anything
- Connection timed out error
- Apps don’t connect to servers
- Does not accept configured port number
- No works on iPhone 13 Pro
- Continually asked to check port number
- Doorbell notification doesn’t work on iPad on WiFi
- Playback unavailable on iPhone
- Playback does not function after update
- Time increments disappearing
- Motion viewing is horrible
- Updates lose settings
- Cameras never load
- Never connects
- Cannot add local server using Apple app
- Unable to access servers
- Constant motion alerts
- Poor build, so many bugs
- Apps don’t connect to servers
- Does not accept configured port number
- No works in iPhone 13 Pro
- Wouldn’t connect
- Doorbell notification broken
- Not reliable
- Playback unavailable on iPhone
- Playback does not function
- Keeps deleting saved cameras
- Slow playback
- No speed control during playback
- Playback recorded video issue
- Load speed slow
- No support for MPEG
- App crashes
- Playback controls broken
- No audio from cameras
- Slow to connect
- Forgets preferred stream quality
- No PTZ control
- Lacking PTZ and IO control
- No support for 3rd party cameras full screen
- Dewrap no longer works after update
- Cannot access recordings
- Cannot see taped videos
- Recordings still not showing
- Time increments disappearing
- Motion viewing is horrible
- Updates lose settings
- Cameras never load
- Never connects
- Cannot add local server
- Unable to access servers
- Constant motion alerts
- Poor build
- Apps don’t connect
- Does not accept configured port number
- No works on iPhone 13 Pro
- Wouldn’t connect
- Doorbell notification broken
- Not reliable
- Playback unavailable on iPhone
- Playback does not function
- Keeps deleting saved cameras
- Slow playback
- No speed control
- Playback recorded video issue
- Load speed slow
- No support for MPEG
- App crashes
- Playback controls broken
- No audio from cameras
- Slow to connect
- Forgets preferred stream quality
- No PTZ control
- Lacking PTZ and IO control
- No support for 3rd party cameras full screen
- Dewrap no longer works
- Cannot access recordings
- Cannot see taped videos
- Recordings still not showing
- Time increments disappearing
- Motion viewing horrible
- Updates lose settings
- Cameras never load
- Never connects
- Cannot add local server
- Unable to access servers
- Constant motion alerts
- Poor build
- Apps don’t connect
- Does not accept configured port number
- No works on iPhone 13 Pro
- Wouldn’t connect
- Doorbell notification broken
- Not reliable
- Playback unavailable on iPhone
- Playback does not function
- Keeps deleting saved cameras
- Slow playback
- No speed control
- Playback recorded video issue
- Load speed slow
- No support for MPEG
- App crashes
- Playback controls broken
- No audio from cameras
- Slow to connect
- Forgets preferred stream quality
- No PTZ control
- Lacking PTZ and IO control
- No support for 3rd party cameras full screen
Requested features
14 requests- More features and capabilities
- Better search features for video playback
- Support for ACS secure entry capabilities
- Ability to add users
- View live events with video
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- Manual record button
- Mac App Store availability
- Secure Entry integration
- Video download
- Show bandwidth, FPS from camera to app
- Group cameras into views
- Add Audio support
- Add Video export to mobile
- Manual server name entry
In-app purchases
eMessenger
No in-app purchases
AXIS Camera Station Pro & 5
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is eMessenger free?
Is AXIS Camera Station Pro & 5 free?
Which has better reviews, eMessenger or AXIS Camera Station Pro & 5?
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