HomeCam for HomeKit App Reviews

Quickest and easiest way to see my HomeKit cameras. My favorite feature is that it has a little red pop up with “motion detected in X room” from my indoor PIR (non-camera) motion sensors. That way if there’s a bump in the night, you can see that it’s just the family walking around the house. One small problem with those red “motion detected” pops though. When you first open the app there are a bunch of false popups while the app is loading. For instance, every time I open the app there is a

This feels like an app developed by someone who was frustrated with Apple’s Home app and decided they had to fix the features themself. My favorite feature is being able to see all of my HomeKit cameras’ live feeds at once.

Like many others, I'm frustrated by the way Apple presents the video cameras in the Home app. This app solves all those problems! I'm able to configure the camera grid and reorder the layout. Now I can view my most important camera first when the app starts. Setup was easy and I don't believe I've ever had to tap the reconnect button. I can hear the camera microphone and even speak using the camera's speaker (my camera manufacturer supports that feature). I liked this app so much that I p

I love this app! This is something that Apple should’ve created begin with. I use this app all day long when working from home during the day. Only thing i could see to make this awesome app even better is to have an ability to support nom-HomeKit cameras via RTSP. There isn’t any app that support both HomeKit cameras and non-HomeKit cameras at the same time. I would gladly paid for that feature. Message to the developer, you did an awesome job!

HomeCam is fantastic. My wife and I recently had twins and wanted a way to use HomeKit Secure Video like a baby cam for security reasons, but we found the Home app to be a limiting factor in using it this way. HomeCam totally solves this. Not only is the app great, but so is the developer's customer service. When I encountered an issue using the widget on my iPhone, the developer got back to me almost immediately with step-by-step guidance. With the developer's ongoing commitment to innovation a

At first I had a problem but the problem seem to have magically disappeared.

This app is SO much appreciated! It is extremely invaluable to me daily.

This app would be a lot better if it supported a snapshot mode where cameras are updated at a user-specified interval. Currently the longest refresh period is 1 minute, which is too frequent and drains battery operated cameras.

The screen turns off unless you keep touching it. Not helpful for baby monitors at night time. Could you fix that?

Love this app. When I get an alert on a cam via Home App I'm more inclined to pop HomeCam open. It's super fast, acquires all my video feeds more or less instantly, and has just the right amount of settings customization to make it adapt to my needs without feeling like a chore to set up. Highly recommended for any HomeKit user with cams.

I wanted a window in my home office. I installed eufy cameras to HomeKit, and set my Apple TV to view through Home. But it kept losing connection, restarting home on Apple TV 3 times always got it back, but it happened many times in a workday. HomeCam solved the problem, and the live view is faster (cars driving by are less jumpy). HomeCam also displays the battery life. So now I have a “window” in my home office.

Great app but I really wish I could customize the camera layouts in the dashboard a bit more than the default layout.

On the Appletv version the is not an option to select and change the home

I have this installed on an iPad, iPhone, and Apple TV. Works pretty consistently across all platforms and has sufficient controls to manage what you see and what various sensors can tell you. I’ve been pretty satisfied to date and I’ve had this for about 6 months or more

This is an awesome application for viewing multiple cameras on one screen. I also like how you can customize it

I wanted to use this as an easy way to quickly monitor a camera on my watch. Unfortunately the aspect ratio of the video feed is way off and the entire video is shrunk into the upper half of my Apple Watch ultra when it actually works. On the iPhone, I can only get 5 of my 7 cameras to show a feed at one time. Not sure if this is due to iOS 16 and watchOS 9 or just a flaw of the app. It still works great on the Apple TV even on tvOS 16.

This app is nice and works well, but it would be a lot more useful if there were more control over automatically refreshing the camers (including an option to only do so manually).

This app would be more flexible and useful if there were a way to simply snapshot each camera instead of constantly cycling through live feeds. As it is, it’s a battery drain (on both ends) to use it in anything but short bursts.

This app would be more flexible and useful if there were a way to turn off auto cycle, or at least set a much longer interval for it.

This app is nice and works well, but it would be a lot more useful if the auto-refresh interval were more configurable (and able to be disabled).

I recently replaced my Arlo cameras with Eufy and use HomeKit to view/manage my system. The HomeCam Today Widget has worked flawlessly so far and this feature makes HomeCam a no brainer. Instant access to live feeds for all my cameras makes the whole system much more usable and useful. This is one of those Apps that provides seamless and essential functionality that Apple did not include in HomeKit.

I'm using this for my Eufy and Nest cam that I connected via Homebridge. I love the autocycle feature so now I need more cameras for outside. I know there's a auto reconnect feature but I wish I could manually reconnect also without closing and reopening the app. This is still better than the default Home app when it comes to cameras on the Apple TV.

Best app. Wish homekit didn’t limit to viewing 2 live while on non-local wifi I don’t know what I would do without this app

Love this app, it’s sleek, simple, and just works. Would be 5 star if I could hide the camera names on the screens. It becomes crowded and blocks visibility as I add more cameras. I couldn’t find a setting to hide it.

Best app. Wish homekit didn’t limit to viewing 2 live while on non-local wifi

This is a great, useful app. The only issue I have is that I'd like to be able to mute individual cameras on the Mac app (and/or have a setting so that the sound defaults to off when you view an individual camera).

Really wish it supported the new widget system. Not sure if that’s a system limitation. I know the old one was more powerful. But If doable that would be amazing even just screen shots that get updated ever so often would be amazing.

Cant fathom why this functionality is not built into the Home app. Would be nice if this app also worked with RTSP cameras. Have to check to see if this has been cross compiled for the Mac, fingers crossed!

Dev responds quick if you have questions. Solid app

Not terribly useful for iOS, unless you are dedicating an iPad to use this app, but this is amazing for Apple TV. Makes my baby monitor camera much more useful.

Just what I was looking for to view all my cameras on my iPhone and Apple TV

I have 4 cameras and the live view works perfectly while on WiFi on all 4 cameras. While I am on celular data, I can only view live stream on 2 of the 4 cameras.

Am i doing something wrong? Using arlo baby cam and i get sound on the phone but not on the tv

So glad I found this app! Great for viewing HomeKit cameras on watch or phone. Couldn’t be happier!

Nice price. Love the Apple TV app since Arlo went belly up. BUT, on the Arlo Ultras it is cutting all the spotlights on when I open the app on Apple TV. Thats the only reason for 3 stars. Hopefully a fix soon.

Connects faster, has Watch support. Great product.

Nice. One thing- wish it would remember the last settings for cycling through cameras so only a single push of the play button can start cycling i stead of selecting every time

Hopefully more support will come on both Anker and App side.

I loved the quick live feed of the older version. Things would move almost real time. The new version has noticeable jerky movement delay that misses things? What happened?

I use this for baby cam and after 10 minute the video is not live anymore. There are no indication that the video has stopped.

A granted HomeKit access and can view my camera in Home app but it continues to prompt me. This app works on all my other iOS devices but not this iPad.

I keep changing the order of the cameras but they don’t stick.

I can see just one camera live the other one's said trouble connecting, but I can see the other one's home in the home app.

I got this for the today view widget but when I view the multiple cameras I set up, they almost always show the wrong camera and most often the same camera shows up on all the streams. Hopefully they get this bug fixed.

Barely works on iOS app and tvOS app doesn’t work at all. Worst 5 beans I’ve ever spent.