Sighthound Video vs Amcrest View Pro 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sighthound Video
Access your IP cameras and webcams remotely with intelligent video analysis. This app detects and tracks people, reducing false alerts from motion detection alone. View live feeds, search recorded clips, and receive smart notifications based on custom rules.
- Remote camera access
- People detection and tracking
- Smart alerts and push notifications
- Quick setup and camera discovery
- Video clip search engine
- Live video feeds
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*** Before you sign into the Sighthound Video app, please make sure you have an IP camera or webcam connected to your computer and have downloaded the latest version of the Sighthound Video desktop software (v4.0 or later). Visit the Sighthound website for download instructions and more information. *** Get access to Sighthound Video remotely. Sighthound Video software has been trained to simulate the human brain’s recognition abilities. It doesn’t just detect motion like most other security software - it detects and tracks people. With this app you can view your cameras remotely, be alerted to people who have triggered rules you set, and search through clips of camera activity. You must have installed Sighthound Video on a computer connected to your IP cameras before using this app. Get the software at the Sighthound website if you haven’t already. You’ll soon see that the software’s ability to detect and differentiate humans from animals or other objects greatly reduces the number of false positives and unnecessary alerts sent to users, which can make even the most modern security cameras unusable. Sighthound is the first video security software to work seamlessly on computers, iPads, and iPhones. After installing the software on your computer, it finds most cameras automatically, and you are using the desktop software in seconds. With the Sighthound Video iPhone app, users can benefit from the intelligence of Sighthound away from the home or office. ******* Main Features ******* 1. Quick Setup: Installs in seconds and instantly finds your cameras 2. Clip Search: Search days of video in seconds - it’s a search engine for what your cameras have seen. 3. Live Feeds: See what’s happening at your place on your iPhone or iPad in real-time. 4. Smart Alerts: Receive push notifications of camera activity based on the rules you’ve set ******* Easy Setup ******* Step 1: Make sure you have an IP camera or webcam connected to your computer and download the Sighthound Video desktop software from the Sighthound website Step 2: Enable remote access from Sighthound’s preferences window and create a login user ID and password Step 3: Download the mobile app and sign in using the login user ID and password you’ve created along with the internal IP address If you have any questions about setting up Sighthound Video on your mobile device, please visit the Sighthound website for answers.
Amcrest View Pro 2
Monitor your Amcrest IP cameras, DVRs, and NVRs remotely. This application allows you to view live feeds from your security devices directly on your iOS device, providing peace of mind and enhanced home security.
- Live camera viewing
- Remote access
- Monitor IP cameras
- Monitor DVRs
- Monitor NVRs
- Home security
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The Amcrest View Pro 2 app was specifically designed for our Amcrest IP Cameras, HDCVI DVRs, and NVRs. Watch your cameras live using your iOS device! As a leader in the home security space, Amcrest offers products to help you and your loved ones feel safe, no matter where you are. With the Amcrest View Pro 2 app, it's simple to check in on what you care about, from anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Amcrest View Pro 2 at 107 against Sighthound Video's 11. Sighthound Video's advantage is review sentiment (27% vs 15%) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 8 months). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.1 for Sighthound Video against 2.1 for Amcrest View Pro 2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Amcrest View Pro 2 has 107 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 27% of Sighthound Video's written reviews are positive against 15% of Amcrest View Pro 2's.
Sighthound Video ships an update every 4 months, Amcrest View Pro 2 every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sighthound Video | Amcrest View Pro 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (11 ratings) | 2.1 (107 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.8% of reviews — better | 14.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 107 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 231 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sighthound, Inc. | Amcrest |
Customer experience
Sighthound Video
Amcrest View Pro 2
User reviews
Sighthound Video
From 11 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ AI-based image recognition
- 👍 Core functionality is good
- 🚀 Speed increased significantly (in one review)
- 🔒 Non-subscription option
- ✅ Alert notifications work well
Room to improve
- 🐛 Significant UX issues
- 🐛 Giant thumbnails make scrolling difficult
- 🐛 Live playback often fails
- 🐛 Alerts have stopped working
- 🐛 No option to choose time of day for clips
Amcrest View Pro 2
From 107 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easier to use interface
- 🚀 Improved camera adding process
- 👍 Better than previous version
- 👍 New look is appreciated
- 👍 Works well with GPU option enabled
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App is unreliable and buggy
- 🐛 Playback is terrible (stalling, skipping)
- 🐛 Live view and playback are separate
- 🐛 iPad app doesn't fill screen
Bugs and requests
Sighthound Video
Reported bugs
44 issues- Live playback spinner never loads
- Alerts have stopped working
- Push alerts do not work on iOS 18
- Notification issues with latest iOS updates
- Video controls don’t work
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- Trying to review historical clips causes a crash
- App is crashing when trying to see rules
- Notifications no longer work after latest update
- Software doesn’t work for notifications
- No type of notification received
- New update is a downgrade
- Landscape view shows only 4 cameras
- Images super pixelated
- iPad audio bugs persist (audio always camera 1)
- New design, same lackluster features
- App crashes whenever checking history
- Latest version repeatedly crashes when trying to enter camera views
- Constant crashes, barely check a clip before it crashes
- Pictures good but freezes and breaks up
- Connected once but never again afterwards
- Login is very iffy, unable to login for extended periods
- Half the time, a camera cannot connect
- Other times, clips won’t play
- iPhone version works better than iPad
- Changing between external and internal still doesn’t work
- Zoom on live and clips shrinks and rotates weirdly
- Video streams no longer work after new server software
- No live view, and video clip playback crashes app
- Cameras not connecting after iOS 11 upgrade
- Does not work with new operating system
- Rules do not function correctly when creating videos
- Alerts do not alert on iPhone app
- Alert videos don't play at all
- Connection issues, can't rush taps between screens
- Loading videos was much faster in previous version
- Takes 10 seconds to load an individual camera
- Unable to view live video outside network
- Cannot create new rules from the app
- Won't load live stream of individual cameras or playback clips
- App is slow and clunky
- Requires IP number of remote computer to work
- App needs to be re-written for automatic IP determination
- Unencrypted connection
- Lacks SSL for remote connection
Requested features
20 requests- Option to make thumbnails small
- Choose a time of day to select clips
- Edit and create rules on the app
- Export clips to camera roll
- Full screen support for iPhone X plus
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- Geolocation integration for turning off internal cameras
- Low quality stream option for live viewing
- Native iPad version or universal app
- Landscape mode support
- SSL support for remote connection
- Zoom into live cameras by pinching and zooming
- Ability to disable/enable custom rules from iPhone
- Picture in Picture support
- Save videos/snapshots to camera roll
- Set window sizes in grid view
- Configure resolution of camera previews in grid view
- Support for larger FaceID devices in full size
- FaceID login support
- Ability to scrub entire recorded timeline
- Support for split screen
Amcrest View Pro 2
Reported bugs
50 issues- Push notifications stopped working
- Playback stalling, skipping, jumping to beginning
- App closes current camera or exits full screen
- Event notifications not provided
- Motion sensor enabled but push notifications not working
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- App will not let user view cameras
- App keeps timing out when viewing live feed or recordings
- App won't add camera, says Device SN doesn't exist
- Cameras seldom connect
- Continually time-out
- NVR fails to log cameras in quick view
- Recording scheduling portion is unintuitive
- General interface is outdated
- Audio is unintelligible
- Intercom mode crashes camera firmware
- Message in Chinese
- Cannot find IP address of camera
- QR code scan failure
- App doesn't allow remote access
- Event recording doesn't work
- Login timeout when not on local Wi-Fi
- Home screen shows incorrect camera image
- Maximum connections exceeded error
- Dual 4K resolution cropped on iPhone 16
- App doesn't work on M1 Mac
- App doesn't work with iPhone
- App doesn't recognize all Amcrest cameras
- App doesn't accept P2P Amcrest camera with serial starting with Z
- No P2P Gateway import feature
- Motion detector playback does not work
- Smart motion detection (human/vehicle) not working
- Events don't show up on iPhone event list unless push notification is clicked
- Unable to add NVR via P2P on iOS version
- App doesn't load cameras after closing and reopening
- App constantly crashes
- App doesn't fill iPad screen
- Turning device sideways resizes image weirdly
- Notifications not working
- App crashes with 4K cameras without GPU option
- App doesn't connect to streams
- App is unstable and has numerous bugs/errors
- App is worse than the first version
- App requires too many taps for simple tasks
- App doesn't support self-search for Amcrest cameras
- App fails to connect to camera
- App renders camera system unusable
- No live view or playback after update
- App is primitive
- App is a mess
- Old app is better
Requested features
12 requests- Add screen lock feature
- Add PTZ set point feature
- Add cloud storage access
- Add ability to show events and jump to them
- Add GPU option for iOS app
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- Add P2P Gateway import feature
- Allow user choice for password change
- Improve Mac OSX support
- Fix dual 4K resolution cropping on iPhone 16
- Improve iPad app scaling
- Add timeline under live view for easier playback
- Fix messages appearing in Chinese
In-app purchases
Sighthound Video
No in-app purchases
Amcrest View Pro 2
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Sighthound Video free?
Is Amcrest View Pro 2 free?
Which has better reviews, Sighthound Video or Amcrest View Pro 2?
Do Sighthound Video or Amcrest View Pro 2 have ads?
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