Home Security Camera WardenCam

The concept is great, especially the ability to upload recordings to Google Drive. But the implementation is disastrous. While an app of this kind is supposed to offer peace of mind, it does the complete opposite: it crashes, crashes, and crashes some more, even on very recent Android versions. Bottom line, it's never there when you need it.

Waste of money, upgraded to the $5.99 plan, it took awhile to remove the ads from first phone. The second and third phone viewer, never got it to remove the ads. Followed every step per their Q&A and still having ads issues. Emailed them never got a response. They got the money, they don't care if ask. Got the alfred instead, it works! No issues, easy set up, no more headaches. I want my money back Wardencam. Is a war trying to make it work. Move on, don't spend your money here.

I recently wrote a review for five stars. It does everything you would want in a surveillance app, however, the only problem I have, is that it starts a new recording after every minute or so. I had over 90 notifications. What I'm looking for is constant recording. If you guys could fix that. It would make the app amazing. I didn't delete the warden app. Now you guys are my backup until you guys fix that problem.

App is good! Has bugs. Paid version still has ads although not as overbearing. Control phone will lose connection to video if you put in background. To change apps, need to exit then restart control app. There is no ad free version.

Ads are annoying but that is why they advertise you to watch a 30 second app, maybe more, to have 30 minute of experience without ads, like what Spotify did to their free customers. It's pretty straight forward and using your Google account and free cloud storage which is handy. It's pretty good I guess.

Hello. Thank you for the wonderful Wardencam app. I use it with pleasure. I'm writing to you because since the last update, the push notifications from the motion sensor no longer work. What can I do to enable motion sensor notifications?

Using pro version. Good app. Has some bugs. Switching from viewer to camera mode hangs the app across all my devices, running on Android 7 to 12. Needs drastic improvisation.

I have used the security app Warden Home Security Camera (WardenCam) a few other different times through-out the many yrs I've first seen in Google Play Store. And since then I've never used any other kind, I have tried pretty much all of them that works the best is (WardenCam) the best one is the one for (Apple Iphone 12 Mini).....

I've been using WardenCam for at least 4 years and it's by far the superior app compared to it's competition. However, with the influx of inexpensive ip cameras, staying ahead of the game by adding the ability to connect them to WardenCam would keep it superior to it's competition. I've seen a couple of apps that are similar in function to WardenCam that have added that ability. However, they're overall app is not nearly as nice as WardCam. It would be worth a price bump or upgrade fee.

Pretty easy to set up for an old guy 63... Was a pain to figure out how to get the upgrade on all my old phones, but I got it done... And just like with most wifi dependnt devices especially cameras you get frozen pics and restarts, but the backup recordings dont seam to have frozen or dropped recordings... I would buy it again if I had to, you cant really beat the cost for what you get with the pro verson. I gave it 4 stars cause I think the talk part of it needs work, Its never worked for me.

I like the app but I bought the lifetime service and sometimes it doesn't connect my phones to the account and it limits the time you can use them as cameras and like now my viewer isn't showing me as a paid user and shows ad's I hope that its fixed soon and I will change my rating

While it works as expected, on a fast enough phone, recorded video are still sometimes a bit lacking. Also due to low FPS, sometimes you miss exactly that what you wanted to see in the motion detected stored video. But otherwise, it's ok.

Honest review after using pro app for 3 months, pros and cons, Pros: one time payment for life time no subscription fees Free storage on google drive Motion detection for a long period Phone does not get very hot during motion detection Night mode is good Recorded video player is awsome and easy to use, you can watch all videos that are recorded without downloading them from the app Cons: no notifications for motion detection Connecting to it is slow Periodic monitor does not work

Having had youths banging my door to the point it opened, I installed this on my phone and an old phone. The movement detection picked up the movement and over 2x 20 second clips I was able to send footage to their school and get the youths identified. Easy to set up and use with good quality capture.

Used to work great, but now no notifications. Checked all settings and should work. I open the app (viewer) and new motion videos are there. Made sure up-to-date on camera and viewer, and rebooted both. Notifications stopped working. Samsung Note 9 & Android 10.

I upgraded to the pro version and it won't connect to the cell phone that I'm using for the survalance camera. Just says loading for several hrs. Wish I could get my money back

Not recording to Dropbox, even though I've selected that option. NO SUPPORT FROM DEVELOPER, THEY SIMPLY DO NOT REPLY. JUST TAKES YOUR MONEY AND RUN.

This app works as a security camera app, however, after five days of using it, it's giving me a damn trial message. Since when does using a security camera become a subscription service??? This sucks, because I'll be at work, and I can't see what the hell is going on over at home... Why don't they make it so you can watch the ad on the phone you're watching the camera from, and it'll let your camera work again?

I give up. It's just not reliable enough for unattended use. I don't blame the developers. Android is just not a good OS for this use case. It doesn't "get out of the way" enough. Anytime anything takes over the screen, this app loses connection. It also doesn't restart after a reboot. You need a way to remotely control the Android UI to keep this working if you are remote. This app might work as a baby monitor, where you can just walk into the room and restart the app, but not as security cam.

Have only used briefly, but works great. Very impressed at the ease of setting up and functionality.

Nice app it has a storage limit option fix that bug please ... Easy to use good app helped a lot for a old phone video sequrity app

Seems to work very well. A suggestion would be to have motion record add about 10 more seconds to the start and finish areas of the file. Sometimes the subject is just out of view, but stil making sound that is important to capture, but by that time motion record has finished capturing the video. Other than that, I can't find heavy fault with anything else in this app. I'm currently using it to monitor the front door by using an old mobile phone to record through the peephole (bad neighbors)

I've downloaded several apps to turn my old phone into a security camera and I couldn't get any of them to work. I downloaded this one and honestly I think my 5 year could have set it up. It was truly that simple. The rest of the ones I downloaded were way too technical with having to know ip addresses and port numbers and such. Didnt have to know anything for this one. It's cut and dry. Simple. Downloaded it. Its awesome. Plus the picture is good too!!

It is a neat idea be I really want to use it, but it keeps on uploading multiple versions of the same files to Google drive, filling it up with megabytes of unnecessary data and killing my drive space. Its not occasional. It's constant, rendering the app extremely difficult to use, as you can't find your videos in the hundreds of copies. (note - I've found that using Dropbox doesn't have the issue).

The concept. Ok. Execution not good. Very hard to setup . Kept saying I have free version after purchasing it. I then logged out and back in after the purchase on each and every device to change it to pro. Even that was only successful after many attempts. it is almost impossible to monitor in real time. It just buffers and my line speed at home is 100 mbps upload and download. The motion detection is pretty much all that really works. But the app is laggy and slow. And I have a s8 which is fast

It is a really good app and it works as described. I only have two things that I would change. When I have it set on 1080p the motion events are super laggy. Granted the phone being used as the camera is basically a toaster lol so I run it on 480p. The other is that the motion detection clips are too short so I end up with a billion clips to sort through even set on medium. Wish they were in longer intervals. Besides that, great job developers and thank you for all of your hard work.

When the app works and you can stream your video using another phone, it works fine. Most of the time, it doesn't work. The app is very inconsistent and super slow to load up the live stream or cloud videos. The web viewer also doesn't work and I only see a black screen after I logged in. This feels like a beta version and not production ready. You get what you pay for.

Sometimes the app is great and other times it gets so buggy that it will not detect motion. When it does detect motion it will send notifications to check but when I check nothing shows up. Also, there are times I'll receive notifications and the recordings will show up...but they're from 2 days ago. Other times the two devices I use as cameras will stay stuck at buffering. The only way I've found to temporarily fix this is to uninstall and reinstall the app. This only works sometimes.

the cameras stay connected much better than they used to. Two issues I have. First, these things pick up everything. I wish it was smarter to detect only human movement instead of some snow blowing. Second, their encryption is supposedly an in house solution, not an open software encryption. I'm not convinced there's even any encryption in the first place because it took multiple emails to get a response. be leery, don't point cameras inside.

It is wonderful app. I couldn't imagine that an app make an abandoned cell phone so brilliant CCTV IP camera. It is mind blowing. In my house I have two IP cameras. It is equally excellent and no less than the professional cameras. Picture is crystal clear. Only problem is due to internet connection and speed make trouble. Otherwise it is unperall. All the more free cloud storage. Thanks to the developer.