Speco Blue 4+

Edit - lots of bugs and issues with iOS 17. Consistently crashing. I don’t understand why developers aren’t fixing high priority items.

The app itself works on my iPhone 14 pro max. I’m using the NRL series with 4 blue series cameras. There are a few things that this app is missing and could use refinement. This app has a lot of potential by implementing refinements that I’m sure most users want. The general functionality (playback, notifications, live view) all work but it’s missing features and designs that other company’s are implementing. You can edit only basic settings of the NVR from this app. It is missing the functionality to edit other settings. If you want to edit other settings, like intrusion perimeter, you need to do it directly on the NVR. Please put all the setting configurations in this app as it is on the NVR. The UX/Ui needs work. Some things are simple but it could easily get refined to a design that competitors are implementing (Dahua, Ubiquiti, Nest). Speco blue can become much more user friendly by doing some UX/Ui refinements. For some reason the connection of the NVR sever losses signal in the app randomly (not often, but enough to raise concern). I think this is a kink that needs to get refined within the app to improve the connection.

On balance, this is a useful app and it serves its purpose as a portal for security camera monitoring. That said, it is in desperate need of some refinement in order to keep up with the times. On the new iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max the dynamic island obscures some features on the upper user interface, this just needs some tweaks to improve the experience. On the iPad the issues are bigger. The app is unusable on iPad OS 16 if you have stage manager turned on for multi-tasking. Any attempt to window Speco causes it to cease functioning completely. The app also really struggles with switching from portrait to landscape mode on iPad and frequently requires me to undock the iPad from the Magic Keyboard and spin it myself to get the screen to return to proper orientation. An iPad specific version that better makes use of increased screen real estate would be wonderful. This would be a great app if these maddening bugs could be ironed out!

There were a few issues when I first used this app. However, after the last update, the app has been incredible. Very easy to add the camera system in and very user friendly compared to other camera system apps I have used before. Thanks to Speco for putting a good product on the market again!