iCSee

I’ve been using this app for over a decade now for all of my cameras. The free service is pretty good for my perspective, but the upgrades hot and cold. Certain updates games for a better user friendly interphase while others take away features of your equipment. For instance I have a solar camera that with one upgrade two years ago, eliminated my ability to utilize the cameras light. I can’t even sit security, alert to light up the area in case movement happens. Had to buy motion lights. Also, the buffering to open the camera takes longer if it opens at all. It seems to always happen when something alarming happens and I need to see what’s going on. At 2 o’clock this morning I heard a loud thump at my front door only to be stalled in placed by the camera buffering because I couldn’t see before I entered a possible dangerous situation. It still never opened by the way. I used to brag on this apps interphase now I’m definitely contemplating getting cameras to replace it with another..

Cons: The app places intrusive pop-up ads right in your face upon opening the app or opening your cameras. This could literally endanger the life of the user if something were to occur where you needed to see your camera’s relatively quickly. That being said, endangering the consumers for a quick buck is actually really concerning and if the developers need money that desperately—they should’ve used banner ads that weren’t intrusive and going to potentially endanger their users. This is the only reason I gave the app a 4/10 because locking safety behind a subscription paywall after already buying the camera itself is a quite serious issue. Pros: The apps functionality is well made and there is a wide variety of features that you can use to tune up your cameras for different usages. Some of the features include but aren’t limited to: phone notifications for human detection, snapshots of activity discovered on your camera, different types of night vision, motion tracking, precise camera movement, and a few different display options for viewing your camera’s surrounding environments (multiple screens that can be individually looked at, looked at all at once, or you may select the camera viewpoint you desire to look at.) This app would be great for versatility of a camera’s placement as well as befitting for almost any user’s different environmental needs. The app also makes it easy to understand all of its functionalities and the design/layout is quite pleasant.

After hours of trying to get my two new cameras hooked up, I finally realized I had bought the wrong cameras for our router. They were a prime day deal, I don’t remember the 2.5 vs 5g description but either way, we bought the wrong thing. I apologize for the initial review but I will leave it here in case someone else has the same issue. Sorry again, upped the star count. Just bought two of these cameras and neither will recognize my router password. I have had several different cameras like this for years and have tried with these, all of the tips and tricks I’ve done in the past. These still do not recognize my wifi router at all. Kind of useless without that!