CStore Essentials vs AvertX Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CStore Essentials
Monitor and manage all your retail stores remotely from your smartphone. Get real-time insights into sales, transactions, and inventory changes, even when you're away.
- Remote store management
- Live transaction monitoring
- Full transaction receipts
- Live department and gas sales
- Add new items
- Change item prices
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Manage all your stores from your phone. Stay on top of everything happening in your store even when you are not present. - View full day reports - See live transactions as they are happing on your register - See full transaction receipts with line voids, full transaction voids and no sale register openings - See live department and gas sales - Add new items and change prices for existing item
AvertX Connect
Access and manage your AvertX ProConnect video surveillance system remotely from your mobile device. Stream live or recorded footage, review alerts, and control PTZ cameras from anywhere. The app offers secure cloud connectivity for easy access and video sharing.
- Stream live and recorded video
- Remote access to ProConnect recorders
- Monitor system and cameras
- Search alert history
- Control PTZ cameras
- Video export and sharing
- Secure login
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Stream live and recorded video anywhere you want with AvertX Connect on your mobile device. Remotely connect to your AvertX ProConnect recorder, and monitor your system and cameras; at work, at home or on the go. Effortlessly connect to AvertX’s Cloud servers to load your list of recorders. Be at ease using and trusting AvertX’s cloud-based software developed in the U.S.A. Key Features: • Search through your alert history • Convenient access from anywhere • Cloud connected video management system • Control of PTZ capable cameras • Listen to recorded audio • Video export and sharing • Secure login requirements, to protect your system • Easy-to-use search filters and timeline It's suggested to use this app on a secure Wi-Fi network. Streaming high-quality videos over cell networks can use up a lot of data and use up your device's battery quickly. Requirements: • Compatible with AvertX ProConnect recorders only For more Information: visit https://www.avertx.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CStore Essentials at 2.8 against AvertX Connect's 2.1. CStore Essentials also leads on review sentiment (40% vs 18%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). AvertX Connect's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 30 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
CStore Essentials holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 68 and 103 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of CStore Essentials's written reviews are positive against 18% of AvertX Connect's.
CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, AvertX Connect every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | AvertX Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (68 ratings) — better | 2.1 (103 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews — better | 18.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 68 | 103 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Excentus | Knox Ave LLC |
Customer experience
CStore Essentials
AvertX Connect
User reviews
CStore Essentials
From 68 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Gets the job done
- 🚀 Barcode scanner is fast
- 👍 Mobile-friendly management
- 👍 Fantastic analytics
- 👍 Fast, easy, and clean interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 App not working well
- 🐛 Poor service and problem resolution
- 🐛 App needs updating
- 🐛 Platform and app suck
- 🐛 Promotions, PLU, fuel, lotto don't work
AvertX Connect
From 103 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Works well on iPad and iPhone
- 👍 App works without issue on 4g lte and wifi
- 👍 Connects quickly and easily
- 👍 Setup was simple
- 👍 Great business tool
Room to improve
- 🐛 App is very glitchy now
- 🐛 Mobile app is broken
- 🐛 Takes forever for cameras to load
- 🐛 App lacks many features
- 🐛 App sometimes crashes
Bugs and requests
CStore Essentials
Reported bugs
18 issues- App doesn't work for a week
- Sign in problem after new app download
- Session expired, infinite relog loop
- Service down for over a week
- Live data doesn't work first hour of sales
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- Live data doesn't work past 12am
- Camera not focusing while scanning
- iOS scan for price change not working
- Live Sales stops updating every few days
- Sales data upload crashes
- Random charges to credit card
- Back office not working every week
- Desktop site and app layout incongruent
- Cost updating iffy, deletes cost
- Adding new items creates 12 UPC digits, causing errors
- App not updated for a year (iOS)
- Screen inaccuracy on iPad
- No optimization for iPhone X
Requested features
11 requests- Ability to change gas prices from the app
- Add ability to scan tags
- Add tender detail in live transactions
- Add departments and categories view
- Add ability to see departments and categories overall
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- Standalone lottery app for nightly reading
- Lottery app for non-gas station stores
- Bulk update for cost price
- Update app for iPhone X optimization
- Update software for iPad compatibility
- Update app to show clock, battery, signal
AvertX Connect
Reported bugs
66 issues- App is very glitchy
- Mobile app is broken after last update
- Unable to access via iPhone after last update
- Cameras take forever to load live or recorded footage
- App crashes when viewing live or recorded footage
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- Latest update brought a new start screen, requiring more clicks to access recorders
- System does not feel stable
- App is slow to connect remotely
- Searching for events is cumbersome and glitchy with random freezes
- No images with push notifications on iPhone
- Dropped support for Apple TV app
- Cameras are infinitely loading/spinning after update
- Orange cloud sign pops up
- App is unusable to view cameras after update
- App not working on iOS 18.6.2, shows blue i icons
- Cannot access any recording
- App not working after latest update, multiple locations affected
- System 'bricked' by AvertX, remote monitoring obsolete
- App crashes on MacBook Pro when selecting a location
- App crashes when expanding the view
- Update stopped phone notifications
- Incredibly slow loading times, even on local network
- Unable to go back after event playback, requires exiting app
- App keeps disconnecting and freezing
- No settings in the app, requires hardwiring to TV
- App never works
- Cannot use analytics on the app
- New update removes filtering by motion type
- App is sluggish after new update
- 90% of the app is not working
- Cannot watch cameras or do almost anything
- App won't open more than once a day, requires phone restart
- Password section not allowing input after logout
- App lags and freezes, requires restarting
- App not working with iOS 15.4, prompts to install app when reviewing events
- Can only view 1 camera in HQ mode, others won't load
- App keeps making users delete and reinstall, requiring re-entry of information
- Login expired error and freezes up
- App sometimes connects successfully, sometimes does not
- Firmware updates mess with things instead of fixing them
- App updates also cause issues
- Fails to read verified password
- Every update breaks something else
- Latest version returns to last viewed time when app switching
- Latest Update Has Long Image Load Time
- Cannot get live view to zoom
- Not able to Log In into account through the App
- Virtual button for enter/go is under the virtual numeric keyboard during 2-step verification
- Can view from iPhone after latest iOS update!
- Haven’t been able to view cameras for over two weeks due to latest update
- Cameras do not connect
- Cannot Load NVR To View Cameras, Saved Clips, etc.
- Loading window comes up forever and times out
- Failed to access NVR
- Cannot access events to view
- Cannot access saved exported clips
- Blue question mark on each camera
- Cannot view all 16 cameras at once on phone app
- Never connect to NVR
- Latest version removed Presets option
- Latest update broke the app
- Cannot view video, live or search
- APP NEVER WORKS
- Cameras don’t load on WiFi or cellular
- Ever since the new update unable to connect at all
- App is poorly constructed and not intuitive
Requested features
14 requests- Revert to previous UI for recorder selection
- Add back filtering by motion type (person, vehicle, etc.)
- Restore person detection search functionality
- Add a slider bar for zoom in/out feature for PTZ cameras
- Add Presets option back to the app
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- Improve UI to be more intuitive and user-friendly
- Add ability to search by a time frame to view events
- Add apps for Roku and FireTV
- Add dark mode option
- Add advanced analytics dashboard
- Include basic settings in the app
- Allow viewing all 16 cameras at once on phone app
- Add timeline search feature to NVR interface
- Improve PTZ zoom functionality with a slider bar
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
AvertX Connect
No in-app purchases
Questions
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