The IP camera system’s mobile apps have become the staple of home and office monitoring, allowing users to stream their security camera live footage on their mobile devices at any time and from any place. However, with so many apps on Google Play and Apple Store, it’s hard to distinguish which ones are among the best apps for home security. 

In this article, we’ll present you with three mobile apps for IP Cameras that will allow you to take full advantage of all the capabilities your IP cameras offer. So, without further ado, let’s dive right in. 

tinyCAM Monitor

tinyCAM Monitor is constantly hailed as one of the best mobile apps for IP cameras for several reasons. The app features a fantastic, carefully designed, and quite intuitive user interface with an astonishing number of functions and features. 

Admittedly, we’re discussing a third-party IP camera app, which basically means that the app is designed to connect to and operate a wide variety of home surveillance products made by different brands. In fact, it’s capable of detecting, setting up, and connecting to over 10,000 different IP camera models—it actually features an automatic scan function that makes the setup process more streamlined. 

tinyCAM Monitor app allows customizable multi-camera views, allowing you to choose from any of the 17 alternative layouts, which automatically rotate to portrait or landscape mode along with your device. Besides offering a wide camera brand coverage and plenty of functionality, tinyCAM Monitor is a successful exercise in IP camera system app responsiveness and stability, which makes its use much more satisfying. 

It’s worth noting that the tinyCAM Monitor app comes in both free and paid versions, with the former having more limited capabilities, which still suffice for typical home users. However, more advanced users would have to pay $5, which is, considering what the app has to offer, money well spent. 

IP Cam Viewer Pro

Many hail this app as being among the best on the market, but it’s not for everyone. For example, the user interface isn’t really intuitive and resembles those apps from the early era of smartphones. However, if we look past the non-intuitive UI design, the app works just as advertised, and besides supporting ONVIF, IP Cam Viewer Pro has automatic detection and setup for over 1,700 IP camera devices . 

Unfortunately, some camera models aren’t detected by the IP Cam Viewer Pro app, and it’s currently unknown whether the app is in active development or not. IP Cam Viewer Pro doesn’t rely on subscription services like most surveillance apps nowadays; instead, the paid pro-version of the app is obtainable as a one-time purchase. 

The free version of the app, however, is ad-supported, so expect to see some annoying content while trying to see that IP camera notification. It’s also worth noting that the app lacks advanced motion detection methods and relies on in-camera motion detection. 

Alfred

The Alfred app is among the most popular apps for video surveillance; it’s free, it has more than 70 million downloads on Google Play alone—we couldn’t find any listing for the App Store—and it’s rather efficient for the reasons we’re about to mention. 

The app initially allowed users to utilize their old smartphones, tablets, or computers as at-home cameras; however, it outgrew its initial use after the developers launched their own residential surveillance hardware last year. 

The app’s design is really user-friendly, even for those that are completely inexperienced with home surveillance products. It’s also very responsive and stable, though at the expense of live stream quality—while the company’s hardware captures 1080p, the app only streams in 720p. It also doesn’t connect to any third-party IP cameras, but given the accessible price point of its own hardware, that shouldn’t be an issue. 

Summary

We presented you with some of the best mobile apps for your IP surveillance or security system, which allows you to monitor your home or office from wherever you are, and for as long as you have internet access. 

It’s important to note that the number of good-quality third-party freeware apps is decreasing as residential surveillance hardware becomes more accessible to the general pub