PV Cam Viewer vs Suncam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PV Cam Viewer
Control and view remote video cameras and recorders. Access live previews, record footage, and take photos directly from your device. Download recorded videos and images to your local storage for easy access.
- Direct Wi-Fi connection
- Live preview
- Record footage
- Photo shooting
- Download videos and images
- Multi-mode local recording
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Security & surveillance control app. Support direct Wi-Fi connection to access preview, record, photo shooting to a remote video camera or digital video recorder. Also allow user to download videos & images to a local device. Features: 1. Easy operation user interface 2. Support multi-mode local recording 3. Support Wi-Fi connection for P2P and real-time remote surveillance 4. Support remote videos & images download
Suncam
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Suncam tells you where the light will be, before you get there. Drop a pin on the map. Suncam draws the exact bearing of sunrise and sunset, the moon's path, and lays out the day: dawn, golden hour, blue hour, dusk. Drag the timeline with your thumb and the sun line sweeps across the map in real time, and you watch the light move over the landscape, hour by hour. THE TERRAIN THAT STEALS YOUR LIGHT A 9:30 PM sunset means nothing if a ridge puts you in shadow at 7. Suncam reads the elevation all around your spot within 20 km and works out when the sun actually disappears. In a valley the gap runs into hours, and no ephemeris table will show it to you. THE SUN'S PATH IN YOUR VIEWFINDER Raise your iPhone: the day's arc overlays the real landscape, coloured by moment of light. You see where the sun will land behind those trees, when it will strike that wall. One tap while aiming at the sun calibrates the compass, and the drawn disc lines up with the real one. THE SUN ON YOUR AXIS Aim at a lighthouse, a summit, a rock arch: Suncam finds the days of the year when the sun rises or sets exactly on that line from your spot. If it never does, it tells you so. THE FULL MOON, RIGHT ON TIME The lunar calendar shows each day's phase and the moonrise time at your spot. Suncam also finds the rare evenings when a nearly full moon rises on the horizon during golden hour: the one moment when moon and landscape expose in the same shot. And the timeline follows you to the end of the night. YOUR SPOTS, ORGANISED Search a harbour, a summit, a beach. One star keeps it, one folder files it. Every spot stays visible on the map, at any zoom. ACCURACY YOU CAN CHECK Sun and moon positions are computed on the device, from the algorithms of Jean Meeus and NOAA. The times were compared against US Naval Observatory ephemerides from the tropics to the Arctic Circle: the difference is measured in seconds. Because everything is computed locally, the app works with no connection. Only the terrain analysis needs one. WHAT YOU PAY 7 days to try everything, then a single purchase. No subscription, no renewal, no account to create. Your spots stay on your iPhone. Built for photographers, Suncam also serves hikers, climbers, gardeners, and anyone who needs to know where the sun will fall.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PV Cam Viewer at none against Suncam's 1. PV Cam Viewer also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). Suncam's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price and ads 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. Suncam sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PV Cam Viewer asks for nothing beyond the download.
PV Cam Viewer ships an update every 2 months, Suncam monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PV Cam Viewer | Suncam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (30 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 13.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 淑容 李 | Teddy Verneuil |
In-app purchases
PV Cam Viewer
No in-app purchases
Suncam
- Suncam, full access$8.99









