Comparison

TP vs Ream

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TP

This cloud-based service allows you to remotely monitor your home, office, or pets through your smartphone. View live video streams from your cameras anywhere, anytime over the internet. Easily set up, add multiple cameras, and share video clips with others.

Highlights
  • Cloud-based video monitoring
  • Remote camera access
  • Live video streaming
  • Quick setup and registration
  • Add multiple cameras
  • Video sharing
Features
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Stay connected with your concern TP-LINK tpCamera is a cloud-based video monitoring service that makes it easy to stay connected with whatever you care most such as places, people and pets. View your cameras anywhere and anytime With TP-LINK tpCamera App installed on your smartphone, you can easily view your cameras anywhere and anytime over the Internet. For more information, go to www.tplinkcloud.com. Features 1. Quick setup and registration, register once to get setup forever 2. Add more cameras, stream live video from more locations 3. Friendly live interface, the simplest way to monitor your home or office 4. Free sharing, keep everyone informed with simple video sharing Capture the color in your life with TP-LINK tpCamera and Cloud Cameras

About

Ream

Features
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Scan a page. Get a real PDF. Ream turns your iPhone into a scanner and a full PDF toolkit — and doesn't rent them to you by the month. Point the camera at a document and Ream straightens it, cleans it up and saves it as a PDF. Merge documents, pull pages out, reorder them, rotate them, rename them, share them. All of that is free, and nothing Ream makes ever carries a watermark. One payment of 99¢ unlocks the rest, forever. MAKE SCANS SEARCHABLE Ream reads the pages and lays an invisible text layer over the scan, so you can search, select and copy from a photographed document — and find it again from the library search later. Recognition runs on your device: no upload, no page limit, no per-page charge. COMPRESS Get a PDF under an upload limit, and see the honest before-and-after. If flattening the file would make it bigger, Ream tells you instead of doing it. SIGN Draw your signature once and drop it on any page. The rest of the page is redrawn exactly as it was, so signing a contract doesn't turn it into a picture of a contract. REDACT PROPERLY The text under the black box is removed from the file, not just covered over. Redact something, then search the document for it — it is gone. LOCK WITH A PASSWORD Encrypt a document before you send it. Ream keeps no copy of the password and has no way to recover it. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE Ream contains no network code at all. No account, no server, no subscription, no analytics, no ads. Your documents stay on your iPhone, and the privacy label says no data collected because it is literally true. FREE FOREVER Scanning, importing from Photos and Files, merging, splitting, extracting pages, reordering, rotating, renaming and sharing — free, unlimited, unwatermarked.

Screenshots

TP4 screens
Ream4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TP at none against Ream's 1. TP also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Ream's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 months). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ream sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TP asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TP ships an update every 3 months, Ream daily. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
TP versus Ream: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTPReam
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (823 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings823 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTP-Link Systems Inc.Aryaman Ravi

In-app purchases

None

TP

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Ream

One-time1
  • Ream Pro$0.99

Questions

Is TP free?
TP is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ream free?
Ream is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TP or Ream have ads?
Neither TP nor Ream shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TP or Ream?
TP ships an update every 3 months, and Ream daily. Most recently, TP was updated on October 18, 2026 and Ream on October 11, 2026.

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