EZView UNV vs VIVOTEK Retail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EZView UNV
Access Uniview surveillance products remotely. View live or recorded video, manage cloud devices, and receive alarms directly on your mobile phone.
- Remote access to Uniview products
- View live video
- View recorded video
- Receive alarms
- Manage cloud devices
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EZView is a mobile surveillance app. With this app you can access Uniview surveillance products through network and view live or recorded video, receive alarms and manage cloud devices using your mobile phone.
VIVOTEK Retail
This application helps small to medium-sized businesses analyze in-store customer traffic and evaluate marketing campaign effectiveness. It provides detailed reports and customizable dashboards to understand guest flow patterns and optimize resource allocation. Original surveillance features are also maintained.
- People counting reports
- Multiple chart displays
- Performance comparison
- Customizable report dashboard
- Real-time dashboard sync
- Exportable reports
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VIVOCloud Retail providing even more comprehensive application to SMB owner. VIVOCloud user can now focus on in-store guest flow and use it to evaluate marketing activity performance with world class VIVOTEK in-house counting camera. No need to sign up a new account. With updated NVR model and firmware, VIVOCloud user can directly sign in and build their counting report in this new service. SMB owner can now use counting data to measuring campaign effectiveness, discover key period to place human resource properly, and discover guest flow pattern to manage stock and staff. In the meanwhile, original surveillance feature will be as loyalty as usual, no need to cost huge to build another system. Features * Brand new app to support people counting report * Provide multiple chart display, including digit number, line chart, bar chart and pie chart * Compare between different time, different store and area to evaluate your business performance * Enlarge detail chart to look into your counting data * Build your customize report dashboard and enjoy real-time dashboard sync on multiple platform * Export your key report chart and save it to your album * Quick switch between VIVOCloud app and VIVOCloud Retail app System Requirements * iOS 10.0 or Later Support List Check VIVOTEK website for support list detail
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: VIVOTEK Retail at 5.0 against EZView UNV's 3.2. EZView UNV's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 25 months) and ratings volume (652 vs 2). 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.
VIVOTEK Retail holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EZView UNV has 652 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
EZView UNV ships an update every 3 weeks, VIVOTEK Retail every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EZView UNV | VIVOTEK Retail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (652 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 652 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 25 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Uniview Technologies Co., Ltd. | VIVOTEK inc. |
Customer experience
EZView UNV
VIVOTEK Retail
Bugs and requests
EZView UNV
Reported bugs
5 issues- Cameras randomly going offline
- Playback not working after recent update
- App crashing on launch after iOS update
- Time/date display issues on recorded footage
- Motion detection not triggering notifications
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for 2FA
- Improve motion detection and notification accuracy
- Provide better camera time/date synchronization
- Implement faster and smoother PTZ controls
- Add ability to download recorded footage directly from app
VIVOTEK Retail
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
EZView UNV
No in-app purchases
VIVOTEK Retail
No in-app purchases
