IPCamPlus vs HDSmartlife
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IPCamPlus
Access and manage your NVR, DVR, and IP cameras remotely. View live feeds, control PTZ cameras, trigger alarms, and review recorded footage. Receive push notifications for motion and alarm events.
- Remote live monitoring
- PTZ camera control
- Two-way audio communication
- Motion and alarm event notifications
- Remote playback of recordings
- Digital zoom and focus
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IPCamPlus is the remote video application for NVR, DVR, and IP camera products. Features include remote live monitoring, digital output triggering, digital input alarm detection, camera motion detection, PTZ camera control, two-way audio communication to a camera, remote focus for auto focus camera, digital zoom. Remote playback feature can search recording for NVR or DVR. SD card recording of an IP camera can be searched and viewed. Motion and alarm events can be notified via Apple Push Notification Service. By clicking on the event, the event can be easily reviewed. PTZ features include preset recall, pan, tilt, and zoom for a PTZ, auto pan for patrol mode. More features such as camera groping views and matrix view with user authentications are supported.
HDSmartlife
This application allows users to stream video from their cameras. It provides essential video streaming capabilities for connected devices.
- Video streaming
- Camera integration
- Live feed viewing
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HDSmartlife camera app with video streaming features.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: IPCamPlus at 33% against HDSmartlife's 0%. IPCamPlus also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). HDSmartlife's advantage is rating (1.4 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). 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.
HDSmartlife holds the better App Store score, 1.4 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HDSmartlife has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of IPCamPlus's written reviews are positive against 0% of HDSmartlife's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
IPCamPlus ships an update weekly, HDSmartlife every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IPCamPlus | HDSmartlife |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 1.4 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 | 8.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shih Wei Wan | Hiren Daswani |
Customer experience
IPCamPlus
HDSmartlife
In-app purchases
IPCamPlus
No in-app purchases
HDSmartlife
No in-app purchases
