CStore Essentials vs Live Eye Surveillance
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
Live Eye Surveillance
Gain insights into daily business activities with incident reports, statistics, and flagged transaction videos. Receive real-time alerts with video evidence and request specific footage for incidents. Access 24/7 support directly through the application.
- Incident reporting and statistics
- Flagged transaction video review
- Real-time push and transaction alerts
- Video and picture evidence requests
- 24/7 in-app customer support
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Get insights into your businesses' daily activities such as incidents reported, report statistics, flagged transaction videos, etc. Get push button and transaction alerts with video evidence in real-time. Request video/picture evidence of the incidents for your business. Contact our 24x7 support from within the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Live Eye Surveillance at 4.4 against CStore Essentials's 2.8. Live Eye Surveillance also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 30 months) and review sentiment (50% vs 40%). CStore Essentials's advantage is ratings volume (68 vs 5) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). 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.
Live Eye Surveillance holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CStore Essentials has 68 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of CStore Essentials's written reviews are positive against 50% of Live Eye Surveillance's.
CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, Live Eye Surveillance every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | Live Eye Surveillance |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (68 ratings) | 4.4 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 122 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Excentus | Live Eye Surveillance |
Customer experience
CStore Essentials
Live Eye Surveillance
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
Live Eye Surveillance
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
Live Eye Surveillance
No in-app purchases
Questions
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