Well after playing with the hikvision/luma, icrealtime and digital watchdog apps I will say I like the digital watchdog app the best. I just wish on load it went right to the camera page and you didnt have to click monitoring first. The axis app doesn't seem too bad from a youtube video I watched.

Overall most of the apps pretty much blow and almost all of them seem to have a lot more 1 star ratings then 2,3 or 4's. I don't see push notifications on them either. I do see mention of text notifications on the digital watchdog dvr. I figure many of them probably support this but maybe not.


idk leaning toward digital watchdog. They also have an apple tv app with is nice. Trying to think if there is any other mainstream brands I'm forgetting.