GV vs Webcam Widgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GV
Access live video feeds, playback recordings, and receive event notifications from connected GV-VMS and GV-Recording Servers. Monitor security systems remotely from any iOS device.
- Monitoring
- Live view
- Remote playback
- Notification alarm
- Query Heatmap
- POS/Counter Chart
- 360 View mode
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GV-Notify allows you to search events of all connected GV-VMS and GV-Recording Server. Using GV-Notify, you can receive notifications, look up events, access live view and play back recordings from any iOS mobile devices. Features - Monitoring - Live view - Remote playback - Notification alarm - Query Heatmap - POS/Counter Chart - 360 View mode
Webcam Widgets
Display live images from the web directly on your Home Screen. Track weather, charts, or any live image feed with customizable widgets. Share images easily with friends.
- Customizable Home Screen widgets
- Live image updates from web URLs
- Track weather, charts, and webcams
- Share images from widgets
- Supports JPEG, JPG, and PNG URLs
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ImageTracker lets you add image widgets to your Home Screen with live images from the web which update with realtime information. You can use it to track a weather cameras, various charts and figures, or anything live image you can think of! ImageTracker is the spiritual successor of SlothCam, the original webcam app for Dashboard, MacOS, and iOS, and it offers similar features to SlothCam, but in a modern Home Screen Widget format. With this app you can create widgets using any live image from the web (jpeg, jpg, png URLs). Whether it’s a satellite image of the Earth, a real-time weather forecast, space weather charts showing aurora data, or a live webcam feed, this app allows you to create dynamic widgets with live content from the web. To install a Home Screen Widget, tap and hold on your Home Screen until the icons jiggle and press + to add a widget. Once you add the widget, you can tap it while in Home Screen edit mode and add a custom URL to the widget. Features: •Customizable Widgets: Place any image URL into a Home Screen widget on your iPhone or iPad or Mac. •Live Updates: Widgets refresh periodically to display the latest data, ensuring your information is always current. •Versatile Use Cases: Ideal for displaying weather maps, NASA satellite images, live webcams, space weather charts, aurora borealis data, and more. Any image published to the web can be used! •Easily share images from widgets with friends. ImageTracker is free to use. Purchasing the app removes the in-app ad banner and the nag message that appears on the widget, and allows you to customize widgets with title text for each webcam image. Privacy Policy: https://catspaw-systems.com/PrivacyPolicies/ImageTrackerPrivacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Webcam Widgets at 100% against GV's 50%. Webcam Widgets also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 8 months). GV's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Webcam Widgets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GV asks for nothing beyond the download.
Webcam Widgets holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Webcam Widgets has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of GV's written reviews are positive against 100% of Webcam Widgets's.
GV ships an update every 8 months, Webcam Widgets every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GV | Webcam Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.9 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GeoVision inc | Catspaw Systems LLC |
Customer experience
GV
Webcam Widgets
In-app purchases
GV
No in-app purchases
Webcam Widgets
- Purchase App$5.99
