Connect to and manage your smart security devices, including video doorbells and cameras. Monitor your home remotely and stay informed about security events.
Amcrest Smart Home by Amcrest
Editor's Choice
🔧 Utilities
4.3(2.2K ratings)
Free
Top Picks for Amcrest Smart Home
Amcrest View Pro by Amcrest
Strong Contender
🔧 Utilities
2.7😞(2.4K ratings)
Free
This application connects with Amcrest IP cameras and HDCVI DVR/NVR systems. It allows users to configure their cameras and view live feeds from any location globally.
What We Love
- 🚀 Fast and responsive
- 🔒 Good security features
- 👍 Easy to set up and use
- 💡 Useful as a baby monitor
Room to Improve
- 🐛 Frequent connectivity issues
- 🐛 Unreliable motion detection and notifications
- 🐛 Buggy and glitchy app
- 👎 Confusing and unintuitive interface
- 🔋 Camera goes offline randomly
Amcrest View Pro 2 by Amcrest
Worth Considering
🔧 Utilities
2.1😞(93 ratings)
Free
Monitor your Amcrest IP cameras, DVRs, and NVRs remotely. This application allows you to view live feeds from your security devices directly on your iOS device, providing peace of mind and enhanced home security.
What We Love
- 👍 Easier to use interface
- 🚀 Improved camera adding process
- 👍 Better than previous version
- 👍 New look is appreciated
- 👍 Works well with GPU option enabled
- 👍 Setup experience much better
Room to Improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App is unreliable and buggy
- 🐛 Playback is terrible (stalling, skipping)
- 🐛 Live view and playback are separate
- 🐛 iPad app doesn't fill screen
- 🐛 Audio is unintelligible
- 🐛 Intercom mode crashes firmware
- 🐛 Messages in Chinese
- 🐛 Cannot find IP address
- 🐛 QR code scanning issues
- 🐛 Remote access not supported
- 🐛 Event recording doesn't work
- 🐛 Login timeout (no remote access)
- 🐛 Clunky and outdated desktop software
- 🐛 Maximum connections exceeded error
- 🐛 Home screen shows incorrect camera images
- 🐛 Poor UI/UX
- 🐛 Cameras seldom connect
- 🐛 NVR fails to log cameras
- 🐛 Recording scheduling is unintuitive
- 🐛 Outdated general interface
- 🐛 Dual 4K resolution cropped on iPhone 16
- 🐛 Lack of Mac OSX support
- 🐛 Primitive user interface
- 🐛 Fails to connect to cameras
- 🐛 Latest update made system unusable
- 🐛 No live view or playback after update
- 🐛 New version is unstable and buggy
- 🐛 Does not recognize all cameras
- 🐛 Manual device adding required
- 🐛 Forces password change on adding camera
- 🐛 Motion detector playback doesn't work
- 🐛 Events don't show up on iPhone event list
- 🐛 Cannot add NVR via P2P on iOS
- 🐛 App doesn't work if not on local Wi-Fi
- 🐛 App doesn't work at all
- 🐛 Customer support provides runaround
- 🐛 Push notifications work but no live view/playback
- 🐛 App doesn't work for remote viewing
- 🐛 App doesn't work for local viewing
- 🐛 App is a mess compared to old version
- 🐛 Old app is better
- 🐛 No P2P Gateway import feature
- 🐛 Not user friendly
- 🐛 Smart motion detection not working
- 🐛 App crashes with 4K cameras without GPU option
- 🐛 App doesn't connect to streams
- 🐛 App is worse than before
- 🐛 Push notifications not working
