A good concept with poor execution

XMEye is an application that was feature rich on the drawing board but lacked followthrough to complete the design. While it mostly works on my iPhone 6S, it crashes regularly on my iPad.” Given that the last update was June 2015, despite being full of defects, it becomes evident that the developers have no interest in supporting the application.

Pros:

I can view cameras live on my iPhone 6s. Thats about it.

Cons:

The app is unstable and erratic. In most cases, if you switch to another app then back, it fails to re-connect with the camera streams. You have to terminate the application the re-open it again to make it responsive.

There is no fast forward or fast backward functionality. You have to know the exact time that an event happened then find that time in “Remote Playback” and watch at normal speed - not at all useful if you need to search for an event around a timespan.

Switching between live viewing, playback, and other functions is not intuitive. It takes some time to figure out how to find the functions you need.

The application was obviously designed originally in Chinese. The translation to English is horrible. Some labels and instructions make no sense whatsoever. Many configuration settings are so nebulous that there’s no clue as what they do. There’s no help included in the app.

There is no attention to screen real estate. Prompts run off screen, making them unreadable.

Conclusion:

The application works on some mobile devices if your need is to simply view the cameras live. Otherwise, it is a half baked kludge of features that wanted to be functional except the developer decided to rush to market with no intent to make improvements later.

Hank LV about 监控眼, v2.7.05