Soliom Pro

This a good app with one complaint. Finding live mode is not very intuitive. My wife and I both have to hunt around for the live view. Seems like default is viewing recordings. Put a button for Live view and I’ll give it 5 stars.

Important to note, to save or send videos, you must allow FULL Access to your photos which raises red flags. To use the AI feature for my bird camera, I had to sign up for $2.99/mo (now increased to $6.99!). The AI is not accurate. It falsely identifies birds as hawks, parakeets and species I’ve heard of because they aren’t in this region. It also falsely tells me it sees a person, pet, vehicle. At $2.99 it was a fun novelty. The user interface is clunky and should play videos in succession without going back a screen and selecting another. Only 1 app login allowed at the same time, so using on 2 devices requires signing out of one then into the other. Stupid.

So this app is used to interact with the camera bird feeder. It takes video of birds and then gives you the option to save those videos to your phone so you can share them with friends. This should ONLY require “Limited Access” permissions on IOS, which allows the app to store videos in your photos library. However, when you grant this permission it still won’t let you save the photo and keeps prompting you to give it FULL access which is not necessary just to save the videos. Giving full access is giving this random Chinese company access to your entire photo library. Every photo and video stored on your phone. It can add, modify, delete, anything it wants. Since it’s an app on your phone, it can even send all of your pictures and videos back to its manufacturer. This is a HUGE red flag and massive security issue. I refused to grant that level of access to my personal life to a bird feeder and returned it. Pay attention to the permissions you are granting this thing folks.