Alfred Home Security Camera Reviews

by Donny Bergers Father

I downloaded AlfredHomeSecurityCamera on Sunday for a few hours. And after a couple of hours the phone i was using for the camera got extremely hot. On top of the free version of AlfredHomeSecurityCamera . It showed a low quality mode and hd was available after the upgrade was purchased. I updated both phones to the latest ios and upgraded AlfredHomeSecurityCamera like it suggested to get the hd quality. The hd quality ended up not being much better than the low quality. I even moved my phone to a different spots farther away and closer and it still had terrible quality. Save the few dollars and invest in an actual security system. Ontop of this all i already checked to make sure both video qualities were hd and the same. The developers emailed me back a few days later acting like im a idiot. I will not recommend any of there apps or anything they have partners with to anyone except the garbage company cause thats exactly where they belong. As for the fellow reviewers you cant say that something thats constantly running does not create any heat. So you all are b-sers

by Ffbirv26

I’ve used AlfredHomeSecurityCamera for a while, much longer than I should have. It CONSTANTLY has connectivity issues and the camera goes offline. This completely defeats the purpose of a camera, since you can’t get it back online remotely. They’ve told me before it was likely a network issue, but our network is perfectly fine, and strong. Currently, within AlfredHomeSecurityCamera , when checking the “camera status,” it says it’s online, “signed in successfully,” and “everything looks great!” However, the camera is NOT active. It is showing “This camera is offline.” It’s been doing this specifically for about a week now. When I got home from my last shift, I reset/turned off AlfredHomeSecurityCamera and phone, then set it all back up. It was working. Even recorded a couple motion clips (which usually NEVER works for more than a day after fixing everything). Then I get to work and the first time I try viewing the camera... this BS. I’m done with AlfredHomeSecurityCamera. I’m going back to Manything. I don’t remember near as many complications with that app. And it certainly recorded clips better, including just “sound” clips (if it’s dark and can’t pick up video). This is ridiculous and I feel like they’ve just become money hungry over time, making less options available for the free version, and more crashing.

by Analogthoughts

One star because the one thing AlfredHomeSecurityCamera is supposed to do, it can’t. If you depend on this to monitor anything while away, don’t bother. AlfredHomeSecurityCamera is great if you’re constantly home and can be repeatedly reconnecting the camera device to AlfredHomeSecurityCamera , otherwise it’s totally pointless. I’ve gone through all of the suggested steps to improve stability of connection and despite having zero issues with anything on my end, it won’t stay connected for more than several hours at best. This means I get recordings of 1/3 of the time I’m away from home. I did pay thinking maybe the paid version would somehow be more secure, and it absolute is not. Serious shame because when working properly AlfredHomeSecurityCamera is great and has potential- but this issue has been around for as long AlfredHomeSecurityCamera (this was my third attempt using AlfredHomeSecurityCamera). TLDR- Don’t bother unless playing around with it for free.

by KDaniels1229

...30 seconds of movement is most often broken up into 3-6 different videos. It’s never consistent. A 30 second video which is rare is the most you’ll get out of 1 motion detection. When it’s broken up into several different videos it omits a significant amount of time, thus losing valuable audio. With audio every second counts. Unfortunately, a very damning phone conversation was missing a whole lot of audio. Is it worthless? Not entirely. Could it be better? Absolutely! Do the faults improve with a paid subscription? I’m not going to risk finding out. Also, purchasing a paid version would definitely blow my cover. Is there another app like this? Not that I can find. Not with the high amount of reviews that Alfred has. To me a high amount of views shows popularity and promise. I also see that the developer responds to poor reviews. I appreciate that kind of accountability.

by Barthalomus

UPDATE: The developer seems to blankety reply with this copy/paste response that is below. My network is fine, I’ve been testing it and have no problems with anything else. I am very careful to not hit the home button or anything, and I’ve tried both with and without using that power saving lock button. It works for a few hours, and at random AlfredHomeSecurityCamera stops broadcasting with no error on either end - the camera phone still thinks that it’s working as far as I can tell, it is no crashed or anything. If you’re going to reply, please read the whole review properly - docking another star.

ORIGINAL: I have an old iPhone 4s setup as a camera. It is freshly factory reset, cellular turned off (WiFi only), nothing else running on it, a perfect WiFi connection, etc. AlfredHomeSecurityCamera stops broadcasting every so often, at least twice a day. AlfredHomeSecurityCamera is not crashing, and my internet connection/WiFi is perfect. When I go to the 4s, AlfredHomeSecurityCamera is still running and has no indication that it has failed... but it is not broadcasting. Restarting AlfredHomeSecurityCamera fixes it, but I’m not home all the time so this isn’t a good solution.

My wife and I both watch the camera from time to time (watching our new dog). She has her own account that I share the camera to. We’re not able to view it at the same time.

I was thinking of purchasing premium, but I don’t think I want to invest in this.

by Repairman632

Bug fixes are fine but whatever else is being done that has caused the bugs in the first place needs to stop. AlfredHomeSecurityCamera was great when I first got it but the number of times the entire app or separate features have stopped working is becoming an issue. We shouldn't have to babysit AlfredHomeSecurityCamera and have to close and reload it or delete and reinstall it to keep it running properly. When it's running it's really great, simple UI, correct price point for annual use of premium version and all that, but I truly can't imagine that more features and bells and whistles and GKW are in demand vs. a simple, robust app that just keeps working without annoying the crap out of its users. Remember, K I S S. Keep it simple, stupid! Complexity is not your friend. Your customers are.

by MK UltraMega

AlfredHomeSecurityCamera is ok but kind of useless as it stops recording after it’s triggered by motion way way to early to be effective at any kind of surveillance. There should be an option for the user to choose minimum recording time after motion triggers start recording or at very least, let it keep recording for 30 seconds after the last motion was detected.

Reply to developer: Notifications are great but when you get 900 notifications in 5 minutes, they become pointless. For security, having a longer recording of things that may be suspect is far far more important than having a ton of notifications. Can the cops use notifications to catch a bad guy who broke in to your house? Nope! But they can use a video of the offender or crime! If the video is cut extremely short and doesn’t capture most of the criminal activity, then what good is AlfredHomeSecurityCamera doing for security! You have to understand priorities of law, especially when you market AlfredHomeSecurityCamera as a security monitor. Point being, notifications are far far less important than actual video of potential offenders/offenses. Especially when 90% or more of the notifications are false alarms triggered by birds or passing cars etc.

by Prtnsrv

AlfredHomeSecurityCamera gives you a wireless, remote view through most old iOS phones. It is able to record on motion and save to a remote location for later viewing. That is the positive. Unless you are able and willing to check that the camera/phone is constantly connecting properly, it is nearly useless. If you expect this to be your constant, reliable second set of eyes, don’t waste your money. The three times in the last month that I really needed to review footage of a recording, the camera had disconnected itself. And when you are off site, you can’t reconnect. It wasn’t till a day or so had past that I had any knowledge that it wasn’t recording. You have to physically go and turn AlfredHomeSecurityCamera back on on the camera device when you lose connection. Really hard to do when you aren’t there to reconnect it. Until AlfredHomeSecurityCamera is able to remotely reconnect, or at the very least alert you when AlfredHomeSecurityCamera is disconnected, I won’t be using it anymore.

by Jenuinely_Me

I have used AlfredHomeSecurityCamera off and on for almost two years. I don’t like the recent upgrades that limited the amount of time movement is recorded. AlfredHomeSecurityCamera used to stop recording at a certain point and pick right back up because it defected there was still movement, not any more. The kids can leave the view of the camera, it stops recording but does not pick them back up when the walk back into the view of the camera, they made it through the living room into the kitchen. Both rooms are in the view. This was not just once, it’s a lot. Many times it will pick up a person walking in OR out of view BUT it dies not catch both.
I have Alfred set up on a tablet that is next to the router and always plugged in charging, I’m not sure why I get logged out so often and it takes forever to get logged back in.
The Alfred app was better and more reliable before all of these changes.
I purchased a one month subscription to the premium for $3.99 to see if that makes a difference and restores the dependability of AlfredHomeSecurityCamera , so far I have to say it does Not.
I have a 45 second recording, when I watched it, I found that it only recorded movement for 15 seconds, the rest of the recording was still frame, no movement at all.
If I do not see dependability like it used to have I will start looking for another security app and cancel my premium subscription to Alfred. I am crossing my fingers, I liked the Alfred app.

by __MCS__

I have been using the Alfred app for a number of weeks with decent performance. Yesterday the Alfred app stopped saving video “Events”. I have closed and reopened the apps on both my camera device and my viewer device, but the problem persists. I can view the live feed from the camera device on my viewer device and motion detection is enabled, I see the recording icon appear on the live screen on the viewer device, but no new videos are being saved as “Events” for later replay. This is frustrating. Please help resolve this issue. Thank you. Also; I have tried to submit a report about this problem via the Alfred form, but it appears the reports are not being sent. I tried to do this both via AlfredHomeSecurityCamera and via the Alfred website portal to the form. How do I communicate directly with tech support for the Alfred app? The FAQs and troubleshooting tips have not been helpful and I would appreciate being able to communicate directly with a technical support person. Please kindly advise. Thank you.

by Lollipop424

I’ve been using AlfredHomeSecurityCamera for the better part of a year now, and I have to say for my purposes, it’s AMAZING!!! However, recently I’ve been noticing the audio doesn’t record with the “motion detection” and “moments” video. This is insanely frustrating because the subject of my investigation is aware of the camera and the only “proof” I have in most videos is the audio. Sometimes the sound fluctuates too, like it’s strong then muffled. I’ve emailed customer support for help to no avail which is quite frustrating as well.
Also, I saw on some other apps there’s a “sound activated” recording feature….any chance Alfred will add this? AFTER they fix my audio issue first pretty plz!
I’m spite of my audio issues I still highly recommend AlfredHomeSecurityCamera :)

by Nthpete

I haven’t had hardly any trouble with AlfredHomeSecurityCamera or the service. The only thing I wish it did was allow you to share cameras and give those you share cameras with full admin control over said cameras. So, if my wife is annoyed by constant notifications she has to text me and turn off the motion detection. Also, I never get reminders to turn the motion detection on or iff depending on whether I am home or not. I thought that was a free feature. Over all, I am super satisfied with Alfred. One question—why AlfredHomeSecurityCamera name change?!? DIY CCTV is really boring branding TBH. One more thing—there needs to be a way to turn of “phone is not charging” warnings. I am getting them repeatedly and all of them are not necessary. I need one and then I need another when the battery gets to 50 another at 20 and maybe start to nag me at 5%. But there is no reason to bug me every minute or so when I know the phone is plugged in and I am at work. Plus it usually stops charging until the battery level actually drops. Then it starts charging again.

by Books54751

I have a small shop with limited hours. I can now check on the space and inventory using Alfred. Sure there are ads, but they are a small inconvenience for simple security. You can have multiple camera points. I have three old phones with working cameras and wifi. Rather than send the phones to recycling I repurposed them - DIY security cams. The Alfred site stores the moments the phones record for only a limited time, so you must take an active part in the surveillance and review any recordings. Another plus is that you can speak through the system. I've had a non-surveillance opportunity to use Alfred to talk to a family member when they were picking something up from the shop, and I was at home.

by Zamz0505050505

I have had several surveillance cams , spy cams and security.. this is by far the best ! It’s clear , discreet , real time, motion detected , storage , can download ! Also I can get 2 views . Front and back with zoom features ! Night vision ( to an extent ).. Walkie talkie, and flashlight . You can’t beat it. I can hook up as many devices and can have more than one account ! The options are unlimited . As I play around with it .. there’s more I learn . I watch my Cars at night and it runs all night plugged in and it runs off if WiFi! And I leave my son in the car while I shop and I get to watch him in his phone and then I watch another view on mine so I feel safer and so does he. Love it! Highly recommend Alfred!

by BzBDaG21519

Ok so my camera is on Motorola e5+ & for some odd reason every week or 2, my camera &/or viewer device screen is only showing black…. But it is actually is still active, like, it still records if there’s motion but it doesn’t notify me or anything…. Like Um, I could be missing very very important stuff… have you guys figured out why this malfunction comes about & also, when are the next Camera features going to be & im sure it’s not going to be soon or too soon, but when are the facial recognition features or the retina scanning features going to be available to the public!!?! Up the price to maybe $6.99/$7.99 tops ud make bookoo bucks!!! 😆😉🤪

by NEIL'S STUFF(:-))

I love AlfredHomeSecurityCamera. It does not lag at all. When I say not at all I mean it’s two time video and audio. All the others I tried on iPhones have a few second delay among many other issues but Alfred is the best by far. It offers everything I need or want including notifications and motion detection as well as real time video and audio. I only have one small teeny tiny complaint that I wish would be available. I would love to see the battery life on my viewing screen of the phone that I’m using for a camera just incase I don’t have a charger hooked up. Other than that flush all the others bc this ones the best. To the developers thank you so much for a great free app not to even mention the affordable upgrades with even more options. Keep up the great work!!!!

by Megr31

I love AlfredHomeSecurityCamera so much and am so happy I found it. My wife and I were wondering about the best way to keep an eye on our lil puppy while we’re at work and make sure he’s not barking or whining all day. We were looking into buying cameras or expensive pet monitoring equipment when we found AlfredHomeSecurityCamera Alfred. We were able to use our tablets we normally leave at home to easily monitor our little pup for free. We can always see how he is doing from our phones and even talk through the microphone to calm him down or just to check in before we get home. The night mode feature helps us tremendously since he is a black lab and hard to spot sometimes. AlfredHomeSecurityCamera also lets us swap through accounts easily to switch our viewing tablets and lets us know our battery percentage at all times. I’d highly recommend Alfred to anyone with a need to monitor their pet. Also, the motion detection feature along with instant notifications to your phone make it a solid choice for baby and house monitoring as well.

by Schenonelove

I downloaded AlfredHomeSecurityCamera last night after a few days of dealing with an unpredictable ex boyfriend who has aggressive tendencies and attempted to break into my apartment earlier this week.

Last night I was so tired because I hadn’t been able to sleep since I was afraid that he might show up and try again. I thought being able to have sight on my front door while I was in my bedroom might help give me peace of mind and help me sleep. When I woke up this morning I was so relieved that nothing had happened overnight and I got up to go to the bathroom, thankfully I had my phone with me.

While in the bathroom I heard some fidgeting at the door and for a second thought I was loosing my mind. I shut and locked the bathroom door and immediately opened up AlfredHomeSecurityCamera only to see my ex breaking through my front door. I was able to call 911 and get help before anything bad happened and AlfredHomeSecurityCamera caught and recorded the whole thing!

Never in my life would I have thought I’d be in a situation like this and I am beyond grateful for AlfredHomeSecurityCamera! Thank You!

by T.marie74

This is by far the best app I have ever downloaded, I jst recently downloaded it and messed around a little with it to see how it worked and it’s amazing! I have to watch my moms house in a week and my boyfriend works midnights and I hate leaving my animals alone without knowing what’s going on bc I have some anxiety and AlfredHomeSecurityCamera is saving my life, now when I go to my mothers house for a week I’ll be able to check on my animals anytime I want! So thankyou so much for making AlfredHomeSecurityCamera I will be using AlfredHomeSecurityCamera all the time! I’m def getting the premium bc it’s an awesome price for an app this amazing! 5 Stars!!! I would recommend AlfredHomeSecurityCamera to anyone! And I don’t make these kind of reviews very often only when I really find a awesome, well made app like this!

by SCW1313

AlfredHomeSecurityCamera is amazing. Unlimited cameras, and a week of cloud storage all for the minor inconvenience of ads. There are a lot of ads, but to be fair, no other app offers everything they do for free. AND!! It’s pretty cheap to get rid of the ads. As far as value, Alfred offers the most. It wouldn’t work when I had CenturyLink internet, because they interfere with a majority of the surveillance apps.

Wish List:
1. I would like to be able to delete a video that’s on my screen. It’s really frustrating to have to back out a couple screens, click delete, select the one I want to delete (which is hard, since an ad has popped up, so I can’t tell which one I wanted to delete now), then click delete again, then done. Way too many steps to delete videos.

2. Fix the sensitivity. Low and medium barely ever pick up anything, while High picks up so much that I can’t tell if anything really happened.

3. I REALLY wish AlfredHomeSecurityCamera worked with the older Apple devices. I think they are back at iOS 6? PLEEEEEEEASE!!!

4. On the iPad to have 2 rows in portrait and 3 rows in landscape on the home page. It would be great if all of my cameras could show up on one page.

by --D.

AlfredHomeSecurityCamera is OK. I do pay for the subscription, but I think I’m going to buy some actual cameras and subscribe too a different service.

Ultimately, the limiting factor for me was that fact that my old phone (used as a camera) can’t stand up to the long-term use. Leaving it plugged in and operating 27/7 has caused me to go through two batteries (they get physically bloated). The phone OS also gets all gummed up with miscellaneous updates and notifications and this and that, and eventually AlfredHomeSecurityCamera shuts down or the phone goes to sleep or something. To make this really work for me, I’d have to find a way to strip the phone of itS OS, and install JUST the Alfred app.

It’s not really a problem with AlfredHomeSecurityCamera or the service, it’s a problem with the entire concept. I would recommend AlfredHomeSecurityCamera for occasional use—set it up while you go on vacation. I would not recommend AlfredHomeSecurityCamera for continuous, long term use over months and months.

by Dougs4Given

I have had AlfredHomeSecurityCamera for quite a while and it used to work OK.I use it as a security camera out my front window. It definitely is a plus with the motion detection, recording who is coming to my front door when I am not home.

Although I have one big problem.

It has always been light sensitive but for some reason lately No matter if I have The sensitivity on high or low, all day long up to 60 times in just a few minutes it is recording the light changes on the outside constantly. It was not that bad before but now it is super bad and irritating because I have to go through all of the videos to see if anyone came to my door with all the false recordings. I still like AlfredHomeSecurityCamera but I don’t know what to do about this major problem that is so irritating.

by Adomcc

Now that iPhone auto off fester has been address and the phone stays on, and I very happy to recommend AlfredHomeSecurityCamera is absolutely the BEST of several monitoring apps I have purchased, evaluated, and works to operational statement and commitment! I highly recommend this apps. Note: I also use the apps to monitor my homes in both USA and the Philippines, works very well even surviving through numerous power outages (cell on battery b/u) and recovery, once the internet is back up! Nice cider here with just one more request!!! Please add a iwatch patch that will allow monitoring Alfred (any lease get immediate motion detect alarms notification) while the watch and alfred(cell) is on the same network. This feature is needed while
Around the house while in other areas without using the Cel phone. Thanks again, and folks, sign up for premium, well worth it! BTW I use a second cell as the sender..

by Nichollspete

I haven’t had hardly any trouble with AlfredHomeSecurityCamera or the service. The only thing I wish it did was allow you to share cameras and give those you share cameras with full admin control over said cameras. So, if my wife is annoyed by constant notifications she has to text me and turn off the motion detection. Also, I never get reminders to turn the motion detection on or iff depending on whether I am home or not. I thought that was a free feature. Over all, I am super satisfied with Alfred. One question—why AlfredHomeSecurityCamera name change?!? DIY CCTV is really boring branding TBH. One more thing—there needs to be a way to turn of “phone is not charging” warnings. I am getting them repeatedly and all of them are not necessary. I need one and then I need another when the battery gets to 50 another at 20 and maybe start to nag me at 5%. But there is no reason to bug me every minute or so when I know the phone is plugged in and I am at work. Plus it usually stops charging until the battery level actually drops. Then it starts charging again.

by Cpf Stifler

Ok first off to all you people that can’t describe anything in life without any other word besides “amazing” just lose yourself and get some vocabulary skills! AlfredHomeSecurityCamera is definitely the best one for a security app to use with an old WiFi cell phone. I was using the presence app in the past which crashed every 5 mins and had to reset it. This one so far is flawless. It’s still connected after a week. I love the ability to be able to talk to people when they are in your house. This one is the top one to download! 5 stars. It’s not “omg amazing”. Christ I read that stupid overused word by you teens on here 12 reviews in a row. Knock it off.